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Day, Robert G. Collection, 1741-1829.

Title: Collection, 1741-1829.

This collection includes letters, deeds, account sheets, petitions and maps relating to John Christopher Hartwick and Hartwick Seminary - 1741-1829. The majority of the documents deal with property rights, negotiations and sales between John C. Hartwick, William Cooper, F.A. Muhlenberg and Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, and correspondence regarding Hartwick's estate after his death.

ArchivalResource: 70 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27028274 View

Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah, 1740-1810. Letter 1785 December 17.

Title: Letter 1785 December 17.

Letter to Gerard Bancker, Treasurer of New York State. The letter is signed by Van Rensselaer and Henry Oathout. The letter regards the payment of some bonds. Written at Albany, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407171 View

Van Rensselaer-Fort papers, 1708-1885

Title: Van Rensselaer-Fort papers 1708-1885

The Van Rensselaers and Forts were land-owning families in eastern New York State during the 17th century. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and land papers of the Van Rensselaer, Fort, Van Veghten, and other New York State families. Correspondence, 1729-1885, concerns business, social, family, and personal matters. Also, land papers for various towns and counties, local histories, and materials pertaining to boundary disputes, sale of slaves, servants bonds, and wills.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3136 View

Livingston, Isaiah. Isaiah Livingston promissory note, 1801-1806.

Title: Isaiah Livingston promissory note, 1801-1806.

Promissory note from Isaiah Livingston to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer for fifty dollars, dated Albany, July 8, 1801. Note on verso dated February 14, 1806: "In Supreme Court ... judgement hath been rendered on the within and the damages assessed at sixty-six dollars and nine cents."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713563158 View

Correspondence, 1824-1855, from American scientists, 1824-1855

Title: Correspondence, 1824-1855, from American scientists 1824-1855

This collection consists of correspondence to Bonaparte from American scientists regarding ornithology, zoology, and specimens.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.542-ead.xml View

Massena (N.Y.). Massena, N.Y. collection, 1811-1822. (bulk 1821-1822).

Title: Massena, N.Y. collection, 1811-1822. (bulk 1821-1822).

Eight documents-- lists, statements, memoranda-- relating to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer's land holdings in the town of Massena, in St. Lawrence County, New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (8 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715262075 View

Samuel George Morton Papers, 1819-1850

Title: Samuel George Morton Papers 1819-1850

Through his craniometic studies of human races, the Philadelphia physician Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) exerted a profound influence on the development of physical anthropology in antebellum America, and made substantial contributions to mineralogy, paleontology, and natural history. Relating primarily to Morton's scientific interests, the Morton Papers include insights into Morton's perspectives on education, medical practice, geology and mineralogy, craniology, paleontology, the Wilkes Exploring Expedition (also known as the United States Exploring Expedition 1838-1842), and his two major monographs, the and . Several of the letters were written by Morton in his capacity as corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Also included in this collection are Morton's "Some Remarks on the Infrequency of Mixed Offspring Between the European and Australian Races" (1850), Joseph Barclay Pentland's notes on the aborigines of Peru (ca. 1840?), and newspaper clippings on Morton's death; a diary of Morton's trip to the West Indies, 1834, a set of craniological sketches for use in Crania Americana, and a microfilm of letters in private hands, written to Morton, 1838-1844 Crania Americana Crania Aegyptiaca

ArchivalResource: 2.25 Linear feet; 5 boxes, bound volumes, microfilm

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.M843-ead.xml View

Du Bois, Henry Osgood, 1855-1949. Henry Osgood Du Bois papers, 1803-1944.

Title: Henry Osgood Du Bois papers, 1803-1944.

Personal and family correspondence, poems, genealogical writings, literary manuscripts, clippings, and a few papers, 1803-1944, of Rev. Henry Osgood Du Bois of New York City, and a few other members of the Du Bois and Smith families.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (118 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58781664 View

Survey map of Dartmouth Patent, 1774, Oct. 4.

Title: Survey map of Dartmouth Patent, 1774, Oct. 4.

A survey map of Dartmouth Patent (Warren, Saratoga, and Hamilton Counties, New York) for Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, James Abeel and 45 others.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : manuscript, folded : 82.5 x 54 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145408258 View

Macomb, Alexander, 1748-1831. Letter, 1799 June 14.

Title: Letter, 1799 June 14.

Letter to Stephen Van Rensselaer regarding the payment of a note due to Mrs. Macomb. Van Rensselaer sent Jeremiah Van Rensselaer to Macomb with partial payment. He informed Macomb that he was sending a sloop loaded with wheat out to be sold. The proceeds of this sale would go toward retiring the debt. Macomb acknowledges this information in this letter. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578384 View

Autograph File, V, 1476-1947.

Title: Autograph File, V, 1476-1947.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01445 View

Hamilton Manufacturing Society. Hamilton Manufacturing Society records, 1794-1805.

Title: Hamilton Manufacturing Society records, 1794-1805.

Account books, minutes of the board of directors, memoranda and testimony of company officials pertaining to the financial failure of the company, inventory of the glass works and equipment, statements, accounts and contracts with various individuals involved in the company, and notes on the management of the glass works and its employees, 1794-1805, kept by the Hamilton Manufacturing Society (also known as the Albany Glass-House) in Guilderland, near Albany, New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 60 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58782714 View

Crary, Catherine S.,. Catherine S. Crary papers, 1724-1826.

Title: Catherine S. Crary papers, 1724-1826.

Letters, manuscripts, and documents collected by Crary primarily for use in the writing of her book on American Tories, THE PRICE OF LOYALTY. Many of the items relate to the Continental Army, and especially to the Company of Captain Nathan Peirce in the Green Mountain Boys Regiment of Seth Warner (1743-1784). Also included are letters from John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Indian agent Israel Chapin, William Harris Crawford (1772-1834), Charleston merchant and loyalist John Cruden, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834), Woodbury Langdon (1738/9-1805); and others. Also, documents relating to the commands of Benedict Arnold, John Burgoyne, Lord Cornwallis, David Wooster, and many others; deeds to land in Montgomery County, N.Y. signed by Jeremiah Van Rensselaer (1738-1810), and others; an orderly book belonging to Ichabod Norton; and a journal kept on Gibralter, apparently by the governor, George Augustus Eliott (1717-1790). A volume of muster rolls and troop encampment data of the Army of Great Britain contains copies of letters intercepted from Alexander Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. ( 2 boxes & 3 oversize folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489375912 View

Hart, Henry, of Kingsbury, N.Y. Henry Hart papers, 1782-1793.

Title: Henry Hart papers, 1782-1793.

Letter, promissory notes, and accounts relative Henry Hart of Kingsbury, N.Y., and the administration of his estate. Account of Hamilton McCollister lists numerous people with clams to Hart's estate.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (5 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711609017 View

New York (State). Governor (1777-1795 : Clinton). Charlotte County, N.Y. collection, 1772-1783.

Title: Charlotte County, N.Y. collection, 1772-1783.

Five official documents relating to Charlotte and Tryon counties in New York, from 1772 to 1783, including deeds and land grants, a bond with affidavit, and a sheriff's commission signed by Gov. George Clinton. One land grant from 1772 bears a very large royal seal.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (5 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706462993 View

Hartwick Seminary. Records, 1739-1947, bulk 1796-1928.

Title: Records, 1739-1947, bulk 1796-1928.

The documents reflect the life of John Christopher Hartwick, his work with the Lutheran Synod, his land dealings, the problems of executing his will and establishing the Seminary, the relationship of the Lutheran Synod with the Seminary, the academic and social life of the Seminary and its eventual division into Hartwick Academy, Hartwick Seminary and Hartwick College.

ArchivalResource: 30 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27018117 View

Bonaparte, Charles Lucian, 1803-1857. Correspondence, 1824-1855, from American scientists.

Title: Correspondence, 1824-1855, from American scientists.

This collection consists of correspondence to Bonaparte from American scientists regarding ornithology, zoology, and specimens.

ArchivalResource: 1 ; microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173465723 View

Daybook, 1801-1805, 1896-1900.

Title: Daybook, 1801-1805, 1896-1900.

Daybook of an unidentified storekeeper of Claverack, New York (May 1801-May 1805) recording retail sales of such items as molasses, shaving soap, cornel, bran, wheat flour, rye flour, rum, tobacco, nails, fabrics, tea, and beef to various persons in the Claverack area including Henry J. Van Rensselaer, John H. Van Rensselaer, John Heaton, Abraham L. Fonda, Jeremiah H. Van Rensselaer and many others. Includes obituary clippings affixed inside back cover dating from 1896-1900.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (165 p.) ; 7 x 16 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58661847 View

Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842. Letter to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 1798 June 4.

Title: Letter to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 1798 June 4.

Letter to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer concerning some financial dealings in which they are trying to outwit Mayor Peter Yates.

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122601548 View

New York (State). Commissioners for Inquiring into Conspiracy. Voucher, 1778 April 13.

Title: Voucher, 1778 April 13.

Voucher to Gerrard Banker, Treasurer of New York State, requesting him to pay Peter Cantine, Jr. or Egbert Benson 1000 pounds as part of the payment for the commission. Signed by J. Van Rensselaer, Isaac Fonda, John M. Beeckman, and Matthew Visscher, Commissioners. Receipt of the funds is acknowledged on the back of the page. Written at Albany, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122535555 View

John Lansing, Jr. papers, 1781-1870

Title: John Lansing, Jr. papers 1781-1870

John Ten Eyck Lansing, Jr. (1754-1829) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician. He disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1829. The John Lansing, Jr. papers consist mainly of letters received from prominent business and legal figures of the day, including Rufus King, Theodore Sedgwick, Stephen and Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Eilardus Westerlo, and Jellis Fonda. Many letters are from his brother-in-law, Cornelius Ray. Also present are financial and legal documents including wills, indentures, land patents, invoices, and passports relating to members of the Lansing, Livingston, Ray, and Van Rensselaer families

ArchivalResource: .21 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/19033 View

Dudde, John H. Collections, 1739-1878.

Title: Collections, 1739-1878.

They include the business papers of John Christopher Hartwick - 1739-1796, papers of executors and agents of the Hartwick estate - 1796-1812, land transactions - 1795-1801, and records of the Seminary Board of Trustees - 1813-1878.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27028065 View

Yale University. Collection, 1796-1808.

Title: Collection, 1796-1808.

The Yale Collection is composed of letters, accounts and legal briefs relating to the estate of John Christopher Hartwick. Most of the documents seem to have belonged at one time to the Rev. John C. Kunze, the first director of the Hartwick Seminary. The papers document early problems the executors and curators encountered in establishing the institution and in defining the role of the trustees.

ArchivalResource: 71 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27028297 View

Fredenryck, John C. John C. Fredenryck bill to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 1799.

Title: John C. Fredenryck bill to Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 1799.

Bill for goods purchased in both 1798 and 1799 by Jeremiah Van Rensselaer from John C. Fredenryck, especially beef and tallow. Mss note at bottom "8 March 1799 Pd. the above in full."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709966875 View

First Company of the Great Western Turnpike Road. Subscription list, 1799 Mar. 30-1802 Aug. 15.

Title: Subscription list, 1799 Mar. 30-1802 Aug. 15.

Subscription book labeled "Book I" listing subscribers to the Great Western Turnpike Road Company along with number of shares purchased (Mar. 30, 1799-Aug. 15, 1802). Ca. 250 names are listed including DeWitt Clinton, John Jay, John Lansing, Jr., Charles D. Cooper, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, John Tayler, and James Kent.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (7 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58665194 View

Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah, 1740-1810. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer papers, 1757-1855

Title: Jeremiah Van Rensselaer papers, 1757-1855

Includes letters, receipts and accounts.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (1 wallet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/528809535 View