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Union Defence Committee of the City of New York. Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

Title: Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1865).

Records, 1861-1885 (bulk 1861-1867), dealing with the work of the Union Defence Committee. The collection includes approximately 1,000 letters, mostly from 1861, in one bound volume and two boxes, one of which also contains a printed summary of Comptroller's warrants; two requisitions books; two check books for the Committee's two accounts with the bank of Commerce in New-York, one dated 1861, the other 1861-1867; a small bank book from the same bank, dated 1861-1867; four large account books, dealing respectively with transactions with the U.S. Fund (almost blank), the City of New York, the Voluntary Fund (mostly listing payments to specific regiments), and relief of families (including a subscription list); a book detailing contributions by the citizens of New York for departing regiments; two volumes of claims for supplies to New York regiments; a volume giving summaries of claims; a ledger detailing payments to individual regiments; a volume recording suppliers' bills; minutes of the Committee, 1861-1862, and of the Executive Committee, 1861-1865; a book of telegrams, and a notebook detailing the Committee's account with the Astor Telegraph Company; a box of papers containing an unbound and unsewn copy of "The Union Defence Committee of the city of New York. Minutes, reports, and correspondence; with an historical introduction," by John Austin Stevens, and related letters and other printed and manuscript material.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (20 v., 3 boxes)

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Wadsworth family. Wadsworth family letters, 1792-1803.

Title: Wadsworth family letters, 1792-1803.

Typescript copies of letters (approximately 40) from James Wadsworth, at various locations in New York State, to Jeremiah Wadsworth of Hartford, Connecticut, concerning land deals and settlement, primarily in Genesee County, New York. Subjects also include Aaron Burr's political ambitions, and negotiations with the British. One letter from Decius Wadsworth to Jeremiah Wadsworth.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64072666 View

Wadsworth, James. Letter, 1808 June 25.

Title: Letter, 1808 June 25.

Letter to Dudley Walsh regarding the payment of Wadsworth's bond to him. Wadsworth purchased some land from Walsh and discusses his difficulties in obtaining funds to make payments on the purchase. Written at Geneseo, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

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Wadsworth, Wedworth, 1782-1860. Wedworth Wadsworth family papers, 1745-1841.

Title: Wedworth Wadsworth family papers, 1745-1841.

Primarily letters to Wedworth Wadsworth and his wife, of Durham, Connecticut, from their son James while James was a student at Yale College, 1837-1841. James also occasionally wrote to his brother William, also of Durham. Also includes letters to Wedworth from Elizur Goodrich and from Wedworth's nephew William Wadsworth; a 1745 letter from James Wadsworth to his son James; and a 1791 letter to James Wadsworth, Jr. from Charles Goodrich.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

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