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Gansevoort, Catherine Van Schaick, 1751-1830. Gansevoort-Lansing collection, 1650-1919, bulk (1800-1899).

Title: Gansevoort-Lansing collection, 1650-1919, bulk (1800-1899).

Collection consists chiefly of papers of the Gansevoort, Lansing and Melville families and reflects the social, business and political interaction between family members and friends and associates of the families. Also included are some papers of members of the Sanford, Van Schaick and other related families. Subjects include business and financial matters, social events, family news, and current events. Melville family papers document the family of Herman Melville (1819-1891), author of Moby Dick and other works. The bulk of these papers consists of correspondence among three generations of both Melville and Gansevoort family members detailing the lives and daily activities of the writers who include Herman Melville and his father, Allan Melvill (1782-1835). Some manuscripts of Melville's writings also are in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 212 linear feet (357 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122378731 View

Lansing, Abraham C. Bond for deed of land, 1813 September 3.

Title: Bond for deed of land, 1813 September 3.

Bond for ten thousand dollars to Derick Lane for a deed of land in Lansingburgh, Renssealer County, N.Y., transferred from the estate of Jacob A. Lansing to Abraham C. Lansing and to his son Cornelius Lansing. Deed explains the division of the land among the heirs of the Jacob Lansing Estate, and is conditional until Cornelius reaches the age of twenty-one. Witnessed by J.V. Laavneveu [?] and W.T. Lansing.

ArchivalResource: 5 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122415689 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Abraham Yates, Jr. papers, 1604-1825, 1760-1796

Title: Abraham Yates, Jr. papers 1604-1825 1760-1796

Abraham Yates, Jr. (1724-1796) was an American politician and pamphleteer. A radical Whig who was elected to New York provincial congresses and conventions, he was chairman of the convention (1776-1777) which drafted the first state constitution, served as a state senator from 1777 to 1790, and was mayor of Albany from 1790 to 1796. He wrote anti-federalist pamphlets with his relative, jurist Robert Yates (1738-1801), under the pen-name The Rough Hewer. Collection consists of correspondence, writings, speeches, notes, estate papers, photograph, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1754-1825, concerns the activities of Abraham Yates as a political figure in New York State. Writings, notes and speeches include essays he wrote on the U.S. Constitution, notes on proceedings in Congress, speeches to the delegates to Congress in 1786, The Rough Hewer manuscript, and notes for histories of New York and Albany. Also, papers relating to the Manor of Rensselaerwyck and the Albany Committee of Correspondence, land and family records, photograph of painting of Yates, and other items such as broadsides and a legal treatise by Thomas Wentworth printed in London in 1663.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 linear feet (5 boxes, 1 v.)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/3405 View