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Clinton Family Papers, 1776-1806

Title: Clinton Family Papers 1776-1806

Army officer, governor of New York, and public officials. Chiefly correspondence (mainly transcripts and drafts) of George Clinton and James Clinton relating to military engagements during the Revolution, drafting of the Articles of Confederation by the Continental Congress, and land transactions in New York; orderly book of James Clinton containing orders given during the expedition against the Iroquois; and various commissions, land grants, and resolves.

ArchivalResource: 55 items; 1 container plus 1 oversize; 0.4 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VII, Miscellany, 1764-1792

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VII, Miscellany, 1764-1792

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 7 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72++ 1898). Portraits: Washington Irving, George Washington, Roger Sherman (with autograph), James Duane (with autograph), George Clinton, General Putnam, Joseph Reed, Anthony Wayne (2), George Sackville Germain (Viscount Sackville), Simon Fraser, Arthur St. Clair (2), Joseph Brant (Indian name, Thayendanegea), Baron Friedrich Adolph von Riedesel, John Dyke Acland, William Duer, Horatio Gates, James Wilinson, Marquess Lafayette, Lafayette (3), Benjamin Lincoln, Red Jacket (Indian name, Sagoyewatha), Barry St. Leger (2), John Stark (2), John Murray (Earl Dunmore), Count Polaski, Benjamin Franklin (2), Charles Marquis of Cornwallis, and Sir Charles Grey (Earl Grey). Prints: Hudson Highlands - Near Forts Clinton & Montgomery; Bay of New York; A South View of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in North America; General Burgoyne addressing the Indians at their War Feast, in Canada; View of the Ruins of Ticonderoga Forts on Lake Champlain; Lake George; A View of a Saw Mill & Block House upon Fort Anne Creek, the property of General Steene,...; View of the City and Port, of Philadelphia, on the Delaware, taken from Kensington; Gen. Burgoyne Addressing the Indians; Gezicht van den Waterval van Cohoz; Washington, Lafayette & Greene. Sheltered in a Farm House; A View on Schuylkill, near Philadelphia. Letters: ALS, Arthur St. Clair to Michael Gratz, August 8, 1768; AL(handwritten copy), Friedrich Riedesel to William Phillips, May 14, 1778;ALS, Tadeasz Kosciuszko to Charles Pettit, January 10, 1798; A(aman.)LS, George Clinton to Major Delavan, June 19, 1781; ALS, William Duer to James Greenleaf, December 14, 1794; ALS, Joseph Trumbull to Jared Tracey, January 15, 1778; ALS, Benjamin Lincoln to Charles Pettit, October 4, 1778; ALS, Mordecai Gist to Samuel and John Smith, April 10, 1787; ALS, John Armstrong to Smith Thompson, December 9, 1819; ALS, Lafayette to ?, April 22, 1817. Documents: A(aman.)DS, Muster Roll. [Fragment with signatures of John Golver and Levi Lindley]. Maps: The Burgoyne Campaign 1777; A Perspective View of Lake George; The Country between Crown Point and Albany being the Great Pass from the English to the French Settlements in North America; Communication between Albany and Oswego; Battle of Brandywine.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (61 items).

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Family papers, 1744-1821.

Title: Family papers, 1744-1821.

Military orders, deeds, land grants, correspondence, and other papers of Clinton, 1757-1795, including letters from George Washington. Subjects include defense of the Hudson Valley during the Revolution, loyalty of the Smith family, New Jersey mutineers, raising levies, property transactions, politics, and some family matters. Collection also includes letters, deeds, military papers, wills, and receipts of his father Charles Clinton, Sr., his brother Dr. Charles Clinton, Jr., and his son George Clinton, Jr.; daybook of Dr. Charles Clinton, Jr., giving patients, distances traveled, and medicines, 1764-1785; and other miscellaneous family papers.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 items.

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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume V, Miscellany, 1764-1792

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume V, Miscellany, 1764-1792

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 5 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72++ 1898). Portraits of: Lord Richard Howe (2), King George II, John Thomas, Israel Putnam (2), Charles (Karl) Wilhelm Ferdinand (Duke of Brunswick), Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), Roger Sherman, Edward Rutledge, George Clinton, James Clinton (2), John Sullivan (2), Arthur St. Clair, Sir William Howe (2), William Livingston, Samuel Adams, John Duke of Marlborough, William Allen, Samuel M. Webb, Christopher Gadsden, Sir Henry Clinton (2), William Moultrie (2), Peter Parker, Charles Marquis of Cornwallis (2), Aaron Burr, Hugh Earl Percy (Duke of Northumberland), Sir William Erskine, William Smallwood, Alexander Hamilton, Joseph Reed, Benjamin Franklin. Prints: New York in 1768; Philadelphia from the Great Tree, Kensington, under which Penn made his Treaty with the Indians; Hancock House, Boston; New York; The Announcement of the Declaration of Independence; [Reading the Declaration of Independence in the Park - N.Y.]; Distinguished Men in the History of New York [Peter Stuyvesant, George Clinton, Philip Schuyler, John Jay, DeWitt Clinton]; Interview of Howe's Messenger with Washington; View of the Hudson Highlands from West Point; View of the Hudson; [Narrows Lake Gorge]; A North View of Fort Johnson drawn on the spot by Mr. Guy Johnson Sir William Johnson's Son; The Stadthuys of New York un 1679; Old Bull's Head (Baker's Tavern); Battle Pass, Valley Grove; Battle Pass; Site of General Sullivan's Defeat, August 27, 1776; Freeke's Mills with Yellow Mills in the Distance, burnt on the 27th of Aug. 1776 while the Americans were retreating across Gowanus Creek; On the East River; Retreat from Long Island Aug. 29. 1776; Suydam House, built by Leffert Lefferts on Bushwick Lane about 1700, occupied by a Company of Hessians in the Revolution. Letters: ALS, John Fellows to John Thomas, Wednesday evening [n.d.]; William Heath to William Phillips, April 9, 1778; William Thompson to James Tilghman, March 29, 1772; Guya Carleton, Lord Dorchester to Alexander Adair, July 13, 1792; Lord Richard Howe to Mr. Villiers, November 22, 1786; Udney Hay to Joseph Wood, October 10, 1780; Udney Hay to Philip John Schuyler, August 23, 1781; Philip John Schuyler to [?] Schauck, July 12, 1792; Lambert Cadwalader to Jasper Yeates, July 9, 1775; Jasper Yeates to Lambert Cadwalader, July 31, 1775; William Atlee to Elias Boudinot, August 18, 1777; William Atlee to Richard Peters, Secretary of the Continental Board of War, August 24, 1777; William Gray, War Office, to Thomas Jefferson, Gov. of Virginia, May 25, 1781. Documents: ADS, Massachusetts. Militia. 7th Regiment. [Muster Roll. Signed by Rufus Putnam and Samuel Darby.], January 1781; ADS, Samuel Winkley [Defendant's plea. Signed by John Sullivan.], April 1784; ADS, [Certification of inspection of muskets. Signed by General William Smallwood.], Jul 5, 1776; ADS, [Authorising paymasters to apply for pay. Signed by Alexander Scammel.]. Maps: Westchester County, N.Y. & Vincinity; Battle of Long Island; Amerika. Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into v. 5 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312.I72++ 1898). Portraits of: Lord Richard Howe (2), King George II, John Thomas, Israel Putnam (2), Charles (Karl) Wilhelm Ferdinand (Duke of Brunswick), Sir Guy Carleton (Lord Dorchester), Roger Sherman, Edward Rutledge, George Clinton, James Clinton (2), John Sullivan (2), Arthur St. Clair, Sir William Howe (2), William Livingston, Samuel Adams, John Duke of Marlborough, William Allen, Samuel M. Webb, Christopher Gadsden, Sir Henry Clinton (2), William Moultrie (2), Peter Parker, Charles Marquis of Cornwallis (2), Aaron Burr, Hugh Earl Percy (Duke of Northumberland), Sir William Erskine, William Smallwood, Alexander Hamilton, Joseph Reed, Benjamin Franklin. Prints: New York in 1768; Philadelphia from the Great Tree, Kensington, under which Penn made his Treaty with the Indians; Hancock House, Boston; New York; The Announcement of the Declaration of Independence; [Reading the Declaration of Independence in the Park - N.Y.]; Distinguished Men in the History of New York [Peter Stuyvesant, George Clinton, Philip Schuyler, John Jay, DeWitt Clinton]; Interview of Howe's Messenger with Washington; View of the Hudson Highlands from West Point; View of the Hudson; [Narrows Lake Gorge]; A North View of Fort Johnson ...; The Stadthuys of New York un 1679; Old Bull's Head (Baker's Tavern); Battle Pass, Valley Grove; Battle Pass; Site of General Sullivan's Defeat, August 27, 1776; Freeke's Mills with Yellow Mills in the Distance, burnt on the 27th of Aug. 1776 while the Americans were retreating across Gowanus Creek; On the East River; Retreat from Long Island Aug. 29. 1776; Suydam House ... occupied by a Company of Hessians in the Revolution. Letters to or from John Fellows, John Thomas, William Heath, William Phillips, William Thompson, James Tilghman, Guya Carleton, Lord Dorchester, Alexander Adair, Lord Richard Howe, Mr. Villiers, Udney Hay, Joseph Wood, Philip John Schuyler, Schauck [?], Lambert Cadwalader, Jasper Yeates, William Atlee, Elias Boudinot, Richard Peters, William Gray, and Thomas Jefferson. Maps: Westchester County, N.Y. & Vicinity; Battle of Long Island; Amerika.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (79 items).

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Sage, Gardner A. Map of Greenwich Place late the farm of George Clinton, esq., decd. as subdivided between his heirs and John J. Astor, Esq. / surveyed and drawn by Bridges & Poppleton ; a copy Geo. B. Smith ; exd. by G.A.S.

Title: Map of Greenwich Place late the farm of George Clinton, esq., decd. as subdivided between his heirs and John J. Astor, Esq. / surveyed and drawn by Bridges & Poppleton ; a copy Geo. B. Smith ; exd. by G.A.S. 1827 Mar. 6.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 53 x 73 cm.

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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Miscellany, 1755-1835

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Miscellany, Volume XI, Miscellany, 1755-1835

Portraits, prints, letters, and documents tipped into Volume 11 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856)

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (84 items)

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Clinton Family Papers, 1776-1806

Title: Clinton Family Papers 1776-1806

Army officer, governor of New York, and public officials. Chiefly correspondence (mainly transcripts and drafts) of George Clinton and James Clinton relating to military engagements during the Revolution, drafting of the Articles of Confederation by the Continental Congress, and land transactions in New York; orderly book of James Clinton containing orders given during the expedition against the Iroquois; and various commissions, land grants, and resolves.

ArchivalResource: 55 items; 1 container plus 1 oversize; 0.4 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

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De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834. Collection, 1778-1834.

Title: Collection, 1778-1834.

An artificial collection consisting of letters, 1780-1834, sent by DeWitt to various persons; documents, receipts and a note signed by DeWitt (including one clipped signature); DeWitt's certificate of membership, ca. 1815, in the Berkshire Agricultural Society; and letters, 1778-1797, received by DeWitt from various prominent correspondents. Accompanying the collection is a letter, August 21, 1779, from Lord Stirling (at "Ramopogh") to Robert Erskine, DeWitt's predecessor as Geographer of the Army, and an undated note by Lafayette for whom the recipient (possibly DeWitt) is not stated.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume XII, Miscellany, 1769-1838

Portraits, prints, letters, documents, and manuscripts (with printed version) tipped into Volume 12 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72 ++ 1898) Portraits: Washington Irving (2, 1 with autograph), George Washington, Cornwallis, Lafayette (2, 1 in color), Count de Grasse, Richard Henry Lee, William White, John Brooks, Napoleon, James Madison, John Adams (2), Samuel Osgood (2, 1 with autograph), Walter Livingston (with autograph), George Washington Parke Custis (with autograph), Mrs. Washington, Edmund Randolph, James Wilson (with autograph), John Blair, Robert Hanson Harrison, Fisher Ames, Thomas Jefferson (2), Louis 16th, Governeur Morris. Prints: Ende der Feindseeligkeiten. Die Engländer räumen den Americanern Neu Yorck ein.--1783; Mt Vernon, Residence of Washington; Early Days of Washington; [Martha Washington, Miss Custis, servant]; General Putnam's Escape from the British at Horse-neck; Washington Presiding in the Convention 1787; [Two men, a woman, and a baby in a boat fishing]; East View of Baltimore, Maryland; Sunnyside. Residence of Washington Irving; Inaugeration of Washington at the Old City Hall 1789; Fraunces' Tavern; Washington Taking Leave of His Mother; The First Cabinet. Letters: ALS, John Trumbull to John Taliaferro, May 24, 1838; AL[draft], John Trumbull to the Editors of the American [in defense of Benjamin West], [n.d.]; A[aman.]LS, Henry Knox to Benjamin Lincoln, May 25, 1790; ALS, Tobias Lear to Messers. Adam Stewart & Co., March 19, 1790; AL, Benjamin Franklin to Robert Hare, June 27 [1789]; ALS, Tobias Lear to William Pierce, October 6, 1795; A[aman.]LS, John Jay to William Carmichael, December 1, 1786; ALS, William Pierce to Edward Telfair, Governor of Georgia, January 29, 1786; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to John Trumbull, May 16, 1800; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Mifflin to John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia, April 21-22, 1784; A[aman.]LS, David Humphreys to Stephen van Rensselaer, March 6, 1810; ALS, Sam Nicholson to Arthur Lee, January 9-10, 1778; A[aman.]LS, George Clinton to Aaron Burr, March 27, 1790; ALS, U.S. Board of Treasury to Philip Schuyler [signed by Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, and Arthur Lee], July 17, 1788; ALS, Samuel Osgood to Samuel Holten, May 14, 1782; ALS, Arthur Lee to [?], August 4, 1769; ALS, James Madison Jr. to Auditors of the Public Accounts, Virginia, September 25, 1780; ALS, Henry Knox to William Hull, May 6, 1792; A[aman.]LS, Thomas Jefferson to James Brown, October 20, 1795; ALS, Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth, June 11, 1791; ALS, David Humphreys to Samuel Parker, September 2, 1803; ALS, Samuel Bard to Judge Thomson, February 6, 1812; A[aman.]LS, Alexander Hamilton to Benjamin Lincoln, May 13, 1790. Letters (continued): ALS, Edmund Randolph to Charles Simms, February 6, 1791; ALS, John Rutledge to Henry Lanney, July 18, 1778; ALS, [Virginia. Commission to treat with the Ohio Indians] to Edmond Pendleton [signed by Thomas Walker, Andrew Lewis, James Wood, Adam Stephen, J. Walker], October 20, 1775; ALS, Governeur Morris to Jonathan Dayton, July 8, 1807. Documents: D[printed]S, U.S. Board of Commissioner of the Federal city, Warrant [entitling Samuel Blodget, Jr. to share #319 of loan to City of Washington, signed by Thomas Johnson, David Stuart, and Daniel Carroll], May 18, 1792. Manuscripts: AM[draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM[final draft], "General Washington," [n.d.]; AM, [advertisement for a print of "General Washington Resigning his Commission..."], [n.d.] Printed: "General Washington."

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (74 items).

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De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834. Papers, 1778-1832.

Title: Papers, 1778-1832.

Correspondence, documents, and receipts, signed by DeWitt; together with letters (1779) from Lord Stirling to Robert Erskine and note from Lafayette. Other correspondents include DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Cadwallader Colden, Alexander Hamilton, Rufus King, Gen. Philip Schuyler, and George Washington.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders.

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Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VIII, miscellany, 1776-1816

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VIII, miscellany, 1776-1816

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 8 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72 ++ 1898). Portraits: Washington Irving, (Richard) Burgoyne, Harriet Ackland (Christian Henrietta Caroline Acland) (2), Baroness De Riedesel, Richard Varick, Daniel Morgan, Benedict Arnold, Henry Clinton, Francis Rawdon Hastings (Earl of Moira) (2), Enoch Parr, Simon Frazer, Henry Dearborn, Horatio Gates, Richard Howe, Charles Gravier Vergennes, John Hazelwood, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Smith, George Clinton, Lafayette (3), Jedediah Huntington, Benjamin Franklin (2), Henry Laurens, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), James Rivington, Baron Steuben (2), Caron de Beaumarchais, Jean Ternant, Nathaniel Greene, Louis XVI, George III, John Andre. Prints: Battle of Saratoga, September 19, 1777; Battle of Saratoga, September 19, 1777; View of the West Bank of the Hudson River,...20th of Sept 1777; Lady Ackland's Visit to the Camp of Genl. Gates; Surrender of Burgoyne's Army at Saratoga; The Surrender of Burgoyne's Army at Saratoga, Octr. 17, 1777; Saratoga; Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain; The Political Raree-Show: or a Picture of Parties and Politics, during and at the close of the Last Session of Parliament, June 1779 (caricature); The Battle Ground at Germantown; The Battle of Germantown; Crays Ferry; The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania; Schuylkill; Washington's Head Quarters at Valley Forge; Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; [Washington at Valley Forge]; Washington at Valley Forge; Winter Camp at Valley Forge; View from the Hill in Bordentown. Letters: ALS, Tadeusz Kosciuszko to A. Brockhaus, March [?], 1816; ALS, Francis Rawdon Hastings (Earl of Moira) to Mr. Deare, June 8, 1791; ALS, John Burgoyne to Fanny [?], July 22, 1783; A[aman.]LS, Benjamin Chew to Richard Stockton, December 29, 1803; ALS, Anthony Wayne to John Martin, July 7, 1782; ALS[init.], James Lovell to [?], September 10, 1780; ALS, Elias Boudinot to James Cuthbert, May 4, 1776; ALS, James W. Fairlie to Peter T. Curtenius, May 3, 1785; ALS, William North to Benjamin Walker, December 11, 1801; ALS, Jean Ternant to Richard Howley, Gov. of Georgia, January 28, 1780. Documents: ADS, [Receipt for Samuel Tracy, signed by Jedediah Huntington], May 21, 1777. Maps: Plan of the Attack on Forts Clinton & Montgomery by the British forces under SIR HENRY CLINTON. - Octr 1777 (?); Plan of the Position Taken by Genl. Burgoyne on the 10th of Octr. 1777 in which The British Army was invested (?) by the Americans Under the command of Genl. Gates and surrendered to him on the 16th of October the same year.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (70 items).

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Miscellaneous correspondence collection, 1765-1935.

Title: Miscellaneous correspondence collection, 1765-1935.

Letters to Zephaniah Platt concerning land purchases and politics from Peter Yates, Melancthon Smith, George Clinton, James Kent, and William Bailey, 1784-1801; Levi Platt to John G. Freligh concerning a religious disagreement, no date; and Platt family letters concerning land, money, visits, and family history, 1785, 1896-1935. John W. Mooers to his father Benjamin concerning his religious conversion, 1825; and a letter to William B. Mooers concerning the removal of Commodore Thomas Macdonough's body from Connecticut to New York, 1909. Benjamin Moore to Amasa C. Moore about a sea voyage, 1831. Two letters of Commodore Thomas Macdonough to Melancthon Smith concerning naval movements and supplies, 1814; family letters of Margaret F.L. Wolfe to her cousin Sue, 1890-1894; letters by Louis Agassiz, 1858, and Horace Greeley, 1864, concerning publishing; and other local letters, 1765-1864.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft.

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