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Constable-Pierrepont papers

Title: Constable-Pierrepont papers

Collection consists of correspondence, business records, personal papers, and other materials of the Constable, Pierrepont and Clarkson families and of William Bell. The larger part of the Pierrepont papers is composed of the personal and business letters, 1795-1838, of Hezekiah Pierrepont; letters and papers relating to French Spoilation Claims; some correspondence of his wife, Anna Maria Constable; the accounts of Leffingwell & Pierrepont; papers relating to Hezekiah Pierrepont's speculation in land; notes on the trade with China, India, Pulco Pinang, and the Malay Settlements; the account books of his father, John Pierpont; and correspondence, accounts, land papers, field and plat books of his sons, William C. Pierrepont and Henry Evelyn Pierrepont. This section also includes some letters, accounts and legal papers of later members of the Pierrepont family. The remainder of the collection consists of the papers of the Clarkson Family, the papers, 1806-1856, of William Bell who was a friend and business colleague of Hezekiah Pierrepont, and some accounts of Pfister & Macomb and Wells & Wagenen. The William Bell Papers include letters, account books compiled on trading journeys to the Orient, land papers, accounts, letters and legal papers relating to his estate, poems and other writings, and newsclippings.

ArchivalResource: 52 linear feet (44 boxes, 81 v.)

https://archives.nypl.org/mss/646 View

Porteous, John, d.1809. Papers, 1766-1871.

Title: Papers, 1766-1871.

A collection of business papers, all of which relate to John Porteous and his Herkimer County lands and his activities as an agent for the Johnson family. Included is correspondence of John Porteous, mostly with James and William Constable, 1778-1799. Other correspondents include Joseph Chew, a close associate of the Johnson family and John Ferguson. This correspondence deals with Porteous' mercantile and land operations as well as his activities in the settlement of Sir William Johnson's estate. Also included are journals of Porteous' stores at Schenectady and Little Falls, 1794-1795; bonds issued by Porteous, 1792-1797; Porteous' will and an inventory of his estate, 1807; two of Porteous' memoranda books; several papers relating to Nova Scotia and property titles there; and several copies of "The London Price Current". A single notebook/diary of Dudley Burwell of Little Falls, dated 1855-1871, appears to be somewhat unrelated to the papers, but it does contain abstracts of several of the Porteous documents found elsewhere in the collection, which seems to indicate that Burwell was also in custody of the papers at one point.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145406446 View

Constable, Rucker & Co. Papers, 1778-1800.

Title: Papers, 1778-1800.

Papers, an accounting journal, and a letter book for the firm of Constable, Rucker & Co. (1778-1800).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 42 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58662664 View