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Woodhull, Nathaniel, 1722-1776. Letter, 1776 March 4 : to Major General Philip Schuyler..

Title: Letter, 1776 March 4 : to Major General Philip Schuyler..

The letter is a response to the receipt of a list of officers that served in a recent campaign. Woodhull expresses concern that the list is incomplete and concludes with a request for some supplies.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet. ; 22.5 x 37 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244475273 View

Papers, 1685-1800.

Title: Papers, 1685-1800.

Deeds, correspondence, court records, bonds and financial papers, tax assessments, wills, obituaries and other papers of Richard Floyd and other members of the Floyd family, including Arabella, Benjamin, Samuel and Necoll Floyd. Others mentioned include Henry Nicoll, Jonathan and Samuel Thompson, David and Thomas Jones, Peter Hallock, Joseph Satterly and Natthaniel Woodhull. Deeds and other land records relate to properties in the town of Brookhaven including Old Field, West Meadow, Stony Brook and Old Man's (Mt. Sinai), as well as Huntington, Oyster Bay and Wading River. Of note is "My Book for Public Service for 1724" with a record of proceedings in Suffold County Court of Common Pleas, Southampton, Richard Floyd, judge to 1727.

ArchivalResource: .4 cubic ft.

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Onderdonk, Henry, 1804-1886. The capture & death of Gen. Nath'l Woodhull : in a series of letters addressed to Jas. Fenimore Cooper, Esq. / by Henry Onderdonk, Jr. ; New York, 1848.

Title: The capture & death of Gen. Nath'l Woodhull : in a series of letters addressed to Jas. Fenimore Cooper, Esq. / by Henry Onderdonk, Jr. ; New York, 1848.

A series of articles clipped from an unknown publication, documenting an exchange between Onderdonk and Cooper in which they debate the slaying of Woodhull by the hand of De Lancey.

ArchivalResource: 49 p. ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61224190 View

Colonel Josiah Smith collection, 1776-1887.

Title: Colonel Josiah Smith collection, 1776-1887.

Letter from Nathaniel Woodhull to Colonel Josiah Smith concerning Suffolk Militia, July 20, 1776; Smith's diary from July 23-Sept. 7, 1776, including details of the Battle of Long Island; clippings about the diary, 1881-1887.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cubic ft.

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Sabine, William Henry Waldo, 1903-. Papers 1797-1994, bulk 1920-1994.

Title: Papers 1797-1994, bulk 1920-1994.

Correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials including the original typescript of one of his published books, "Second Sight in Daily Life" (1949), with manuscript notes by the author. There are also unpublished book manuscripts including a three-volume collection of English love poems of the seventeenth century compiled in 1951; the original typescript of a parody of Boswell's London Journal entitled "Blabwell's American Journal, 1776," (1985); and "Woodhull : a tragedy of 1776," a shortened version in the form of a story of "The Suppressed History of General Nathaniel Woodhull, President of the New York Congress and Convention in 1776," which was published in 1954. Also included is material relating to the history of the American flag; correspondence and other material on parapsychology, including his article, "A Mystery of History," published in "Light" in 1951; his correspondence with Peter Decker and with The New York Public Library on the publication of Sabine's "Historical Memoirs of William Smith," in his "Eyewitness Account of the American Revolution," series III, 1971. There are also two mimeographed versions of his playscript, "Mary Gibbons: the only play about George Washington & the beautiful girl from New Jersey." 1992-1995 Additions: 138 volumes of his diaries, 1920-1994, have been added, as well as 12 letters from W.A. Craigie concerning new entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, 1 drawing in the style of John Leech, 2 19th century drawings, the manuscript of his "Young John of Gaunt; a poem in fourteen cantos", 22 engraved American portraits, 5 maps of the American Civil and Revolutionary Wars, 3 scrapbooks, World War I to 1976, his commonplace book, 1927-1990, several of his published books, and "The Sheriff's Prisoner", an autobiographical account of his 8 months in Brixton Prison for Obscene Libel on the publication of "Guido and the Girls", along with letters and documents re. this case.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (ca 770 items in 15 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122343359 View

New York Provincal Congress certificate of appointment, 1775

Title: New York Provincal Congress certificate of appointment 1775

A certificate of appointment issued by the New York Provincial Congress, dated August 22, 1775. The certificate appoints the unnamed appointee to a position in the New York Militia. The certificate is blank, listing neither the name of the appointee nor the office to which the appointee is chosen. The certificate is signed at the bottom by Nathaniel Woodhull, president of the New York Provincial Congress.

ArchivalResource: 0.06 Linear feet; in one folder

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arms_1977_107_ny_provincial_congress/arms_1977_107_ny_provincial_congress.html View

William H.W. Sabine papers, 1949-1977

Title: William H.W. Sabine papers 1949-1977

William Henry Waldo Sabine (1903- ), an English-born author and editor, emigrated to the U.S. in 1947 and became interested in the local history of Queens and the American colonial and revolutionary eras. Collection consists of papers relating to Sabine's historical projects and an autobiographical manuscript. Research materials concern Sabine's studies of William Smith (1728-1793), an American jurist and Loyalist; Nathaniel Woodhull (1722-1776), an American military officer killed in the Revolutionary War; and Robert Bayard (1739-1819). Also, Sabine's manuscript describing his perception of American social customs in Queens, New York, in the 1940s and 1950s (with photographs).

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (3 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2661 View

Records, 1848-1849.

Title: Records, 1848-1849.

Collection includes minutes of the Executive Committee, drafts of letters appealing for funds for the monument, and a contract between the Association and Cypress Hill Cemetery, Brooklyn.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155451884 View

Sabine, William Henry Waldo, 1903-. William H.W. Sabine papers, 1949-1977.

Title: William H.W. Sabine papers, 1949-1977.

Collection consists of papers relating to Sabine's historical projects and an autobiographical manuscript.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364019 View

Letter, 1776.

Title: Letter, 1776.

Letter to John Sands, July 20, 1776.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155451873 View

Woodhull, Nathaniel, 1722-1776. Autograph letter signed : Harlem, to Col. Josiah Smith, 1776 Aug. 8.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Harlem, to Col. Josiah Smith, 1776 Aug. 8.

Odering him to effect a junction with Gen. Greene on Long Island.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270584011 View

Woodhull, Nathaniel, 1722-1776. DS, 1776 March 13. : In Provincial Congress, New York, to Robert Livingston.

Title: DS, 1776 March 13. : In Provincial Congress, New York, to Robert Livingston.

Sends thanks "for the Offer You have made us of your furnace for the purpose of casting Artillery ..." but another source had been located.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 31 x 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14186835 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

New York (Colony). Provincial Congress. Jacob Ford military commission, 1775 Oct. 20.

Title: Jacob Ford military commission, 1775 Oct. 20.

Appointment of Jacob Ford as captain of Colonel Peter Van Ness' Fourth Company of Military Foot, County of Albany, 20 Oct. 1775. Signed by Nathaniel Woodhull, president, and Robert Benson, secretary, of the Provincial Congress of the Colony of New-York.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71303919 View

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)

Title: Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.

ArchivalResource: 30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/927 View

Woodhull and Sell family papers, 1704-1832.

Title: Woodhull and Sell family papers, 1704-1832.

Papers of the Woodhull and Sell families of Wading River include correspondence, wills, deeds, mortgages, bonds, quit-claims, slave documents and other papers. Land records relate to property owned in Wading River and elsewhere on the north shore of Long Island. Family members mentioned in the documents include Richard, Nathan, James and Miller Woodhull, William and James Sell, and James' sons, James and Wessels Sell. Others mentioned include Jonathan Mapes, Timothy Brewster, Joseph Blydenburgh, Col. William Smith, and members of the Davis, Dayton, Hallock, Hudson and Robinson families.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155562485 View

Woodhull Monument Association records, 1848-1849

Title: Woodhull Monument Association records 1848-1849

ArchivalResource: 0.03 Linear feet; in one folder.

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