Papers, 1663-1932.
Title:
Papers, 1663-1932.
Papers include bills, deeds, receipts, commissions, letters, agreements, mortgages, accounts, maps and land surveys, leases, inventories, military records, memoranda, slave documents, wills and estate papers, legal papers, lists, bonds, genealogy, and memorabilia. Persons represented include Philip Van Cortlandt, his son Pierre Van Cortlandt, and Pierre's sons Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. Correspondence, which includes many letters from Pierre (b.1721) to his sons Philip and Pierre Jr., 1777-1803, and a series from Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. to his farm manager William Miller, concerning household goods, land transactions, land rents, mills, ferries, the Revolutionary War, business affairs, finances, family news, political news, the War of 1812, personal estates, water rights at Croton, and farm management. Other items include journal, receipt book, and account book of Pierre Van Cortlandt (b.1721); school records, 1795-1798, and assessment rolls, 1808-1811, for the Town of Cortlandt; account books of Gertruyd Beekman (Mrs. Henry Beekman) with entries on her Cortlandt relatives, 1723-1766; receipts, accounts, returns, reports, and orders from the Revolutionary War and New York militia affairs, 1775-1825; and family correspondence and papers of the related Van Wyck family, 1825-1861.
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ca. 8 cubic ft.
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