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Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900. Samuel Smith Purple collection, 1865-1882.

Title: Samuel Smith Purple collection, 1865-1882.

Correspondence of Samuel Smith Purple, M.D., relating to genealogy, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, which he edited. Fourteen items are undated.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (82 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727025434 View

De Peyster family. Papers, 1677-1881.

Title: Papers, 1677-1881.

Correspondence, deeds, accounts, leases, indentures, bills, powers of attorney, wills, releases, promissory notes, receipts, and bills of lading of the De Peyster and related families (15 v. in 8 boxes, 1677-1881), particularly Abraham (1774-1824), Eve, Robert G.L., James, Frederick (Sr.) and Frederick (Jr.) De Peyster.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/477011062 View

Columbia University. University Archives. Columbiana Manuscripts, 1572-1986 [Bulk Dates: 1850-1920].

Title: Columbiana Manuscripts, 1572-1986 [Bulk Dates: 1850-1920].

The Columbiana Manuscript Collection is an artificial collection of correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, class work, essays, administrative documents, minutes, and other documents related to various aspects of Columbia University and people associated with Columbia over the years. The majority of this collection is comprised of primary documents written by or for students, alumni, faculty, administrators, staff, trustees, and honorary degree recipients.

ArchivalResource: 38 linear ft. (25 linear ft. of bound volumes, 17 manuscript boxes, 1 half-sized document box 1 over-sized box 1 card box 2 over-sized folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711755096 View

De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882. Papers, [ca. 1829-1839].

Title: Papers, [ca. 1829-1839].

Correspondence, affidavits, testimony, bills, orders of sale, etc. kept by De Peyster as Master in Chancery, New York (ca. 1829-ca. 1839). Parties represented in the collection include: Matthew Clarkson, Frederick De Peyster, Eagle Fire Company of New York, Merchants Fire Insurance Co., Gerard Morris, New York Bowery Fire Insurance Co., Henry Rankin, Daniel Robert, and the Union Insurance Company.

ArchivalResource: 14 boxes (ca. 3,600 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663705 View

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1809-1946. 1820-1840, 1862-1863 (bulk).

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1809-1946. 1820-1840, 1862-1863 (bulk).

These manuscripts span the years 1807 to 1946 and are comprised of correspondence of the artist, his wife and descendants, and others; a subscription book for the double elephant folio and octavo editions of Birds of America, 1826-ca. 1845; and other miscellaneous papers. The correspondence is divided between John James Audubon and his wife, Lucy Bakewell Audubon. Topics covered in the artist's correspondence, 1807-1841, includes the collection of specimens, the engraving and publication of his work, descriptions of birds, and financial matters. The bulk of Lucy Bakewell Audubon's letters are dated 1862-1863 and deal with the sale of the original watercolors of the Birds of America to the New-York Historical Society; a few personal letters to her granddaughter are included. The remaining letters are family correspondence and assorted letters about Audubon and his work.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476442560 View

Burroughs family papers, 1824-[ca. 1837]

Title: Burroughs family papers, 1824-[ca. 1837]

Documents of the Burroughs family of Newtown, most concerned with Thomas Burroughs, including a letter from F. DePeyster to Thomas Burroughs regarding the estate of Joseph Burroughs, 1831; and a real estate indenture involving Thomas Burroughs and his wife Sarah with William Kouwenhoven, Charles Roach, and Charles Jayne. Other documents include additional real estate indentures, letters, bills, and receipts.

ArchivalResource: ca. 70 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155478398 View

Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

Title: Autograph File, D, 1586-1975.

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 9.5 boxes (4.7 linear ft.)

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Home for Disabled Soldiers (New York, N.Y.). Minute book, 1863-1866.

Title: Minute book, 1863-1866.

Minutes of the Board of Trustees and copies of a few other documents concerning the beginnings of the Home for Disabled Soldiers in New York City (1863-1866). Trustees included Theodore Roosevelt, James Lenox, Benjamin H. Field, Frederic De Peyster, Andrew Warner, Frank Moore, Gen. Daniel Butterfield, and others. The final minutes in this volume report that a committee was being formed to look further into the feasability of the home after trustees heard discouraging news about similar projects. Inserted are several loose sheets with address and attendance information for the trustees.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (40 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58757716 View

Tontine Coffee-House. Record of ships arriving at New York, 1812-1815.

Title: Record of ships arriving at New York, 1812-1815.

Journal, May 4, 1812 - July 11, 1815, kept at the Tontine Coffee-House, listing the arrival of ships at New York, including the vessel's name, master, port of departure, number of days out, and destination when not New York. Sometimes the cargo and consignee are given. The journal also includes notes on the weather and the time of high water, as well as other relevant information, such as intelligence of sighting, captures, and losses of ships, and general news related to the progress of the war and the blockade of New York. There is a printed summons laid in, dated April 11, 1879, naming Frederic de Peyster and William T. Horn as plaintiffs, relating to their claim to the Tontine Coffee-House as sole survivors of the tontine.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (430 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58774183 View

Tontine Coffee-House. Records, 1791-1871.

Title: Records, 1791-1871.

Records, 1791-1871. They consist of one volume of minutes of meetings of the subscribers to the Tontine Coffee-House, 1791, 1793-1804, including the original proposal for the building and the tontine, the minutes of the organizing meeting, and the signatures of the original subscribers, as well as records of dividend payments, 1794-1803; one ledger, 1791-1816; one receipt book, 1792-1816; one account book detailing the expenses of building and furnishing the Tontine Coffee-House, 1791-1793; one account book, 1817-1871, of the Committee of the Tontine Coffee-House (after 1855, the Tontine Building); three volumes recording payments of annual dividends, 1805-1855; two volumes of copies of transfers of shares, usually on the death of the shareholder's nominee, 1797-1870; and three volumes of minutes of the Committee of the Tontine Coffee-House (after 1855, the Tontine Building), 1813-1871. The latest volumes document the winding up of the association in 1870, by Frederic de Peyster and William T. Horn.

ArchivalResource: 13 v. (housed in 12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58774187 View

Sage, Gardner A. [Map of the area later bounded by 13th and 14th Streets, University Place and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / staked out by G.A. Sage.

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 13th and 14th Streets, University Place and 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / staked out by G.A. Sage. [between 1833 and 1850]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 35 x 43 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58662631 View

Tontine Coffee-House Records, 1738-1879 (bulk 1791-1871)

Title: Tontine Coffee-House Records 1738-1879 (bulk 1791-1871)

The Tontine Coffee-House Records consist of documentation of a business association that operated through the use of a tontine for over 80 years. The loose papers include correspondence, receipts, papers concerning the estates of Dr. John Charlton and his wife, accounting statements, records of unpaid dividends, sketches, the Tontine Constitution, lists of nominees and shareholders, wills, records of exchanges of shares, lease agreements, papers concerning heir claims to shares, property records, and declarations of trust. Bound volumes include records of minutes, accounts, share transfers, expenditures, dividend receipts, ship arrivals, and the original plan of the tontine arrangement.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Linear feet; (2 boxes, 13 bound volumes)

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Tontine Coffee-House. Records, 1738-1872.

Title: Records, 1738-1872.

Records, 1738-1872. They include: deeds, leases, accounts, legal opinions (including one by Cadwallader Colden) and other documents relating to the Tontine Coffee-House and the land on which it stood; agreements with Ebenezer Storer and Edward Bardin, tenants of the coffee-house at different times; documents relating to the adjoining property, 120 Water Street; a sketch by John McComb of the Bar Room of the Tontine Coffee-House, and a section of the Coffee Room, with his estimate for proposed alterations; lists of nominees; assignments of shares; three copies of The Constitution and Nominations of the Subscribers to the Tontine Coffee-House (New-York: Printed in the Year 1796), one bearing the signature of Frederic de Peyster and annotated with dates of death of nominees; papers and accounts relating to the estate of George Bright; papers, accounts, and legal opinons (by Richard Harison, John Wells, William Slosson, and Peter Van Schaack) relating to the affairs of John Charlton, his widow Mary, and their respective estates, including some bills for her funeral expenses; an invitation card for a dinner held at the Tontine Coffee-House in 1796 by the Lieutenant Governor. Many of the papers were written by Frederick de Peyster or his son Frederic.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear feet (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58774226 View

De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882. Map of property purchased by Cols. Abr. De Peyster and Nicholas Bayard from Govr. Thos. Dongan in 1689 / copied from the original map appended to a deed of partition, bearing date, Jany. 3d 1718, made betn. said Abr. De Peyster & Saml. Bayard, son of the said Nicholas--which said map is certified by Wm. Bond then City Surveyor & which certificate is also annexed to the aformentn. deed ; Frederic De Peyster Jr. April 15. 1825.

Title: Map of property purchased by Cols. Abr. De Peyster and Nicholas Bayard from Govr. Thos. Dongan in 1689 / copied from the original map appended to a deed of partition, bearing date, Jany. 3d 1718, made betn. said Abr. De Peyster & Saml. Bayard, son of the said Nicholas--which said map is certified by Wm. Bond then City Surveyor & which certificate is also annexed to the aformentn. deed ; Frederic De Peyster Jr. April 15. 1825. 1825 April 15.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 35 x 89 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55047173 View

De Peyster family. Papers, 1695-1896.

Title: Papers, 1695-1896.

Correspondence, deeds, wills, certificates, commissions, and other papers related to the De Peyster family (1695-1896). Among the persons represented in the collection are: Abraham, James, Frederick (Sr.), and Frederic (Jr.) De Peyster. Includes a letter from John Quincy Adams to Frederic (Jr.) thanking him for the receipt of five volumes of the Collections of the New-York Historical Society, dated July 31, 1832.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663529 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId, 1837-1844

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IId 1837-1844

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IId-ead.xml View

Literary Confederacy (New York, N.Y.). Aeronaut collection, 1820-1822, 1877-1878.

Title: Aeronaut collection, 1820-1822, 1877-1878.

Biographical sketches, copies of poems originally written 1816-1832, translations of Classical poetry, and a few original manuscripts, 1820-1822 and 1877-1878, of the members of the Literary Confederacy of New York City.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 500 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58780698 View

Netherlands. The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, translated from the Dutch : manuscript, 1865.

Title: The Constitution of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, translated from the Dutch : manuscript, 1865.

Manuscript translation, ca. 1865, of the 1815 constitution of the Netherlands, with 1840 and 1848 amendments, by C. H. Kuhn of Buffalo, New York. Also included is a letter written by Kuhn presenting the manuscript to the New York Historical Society and addressed to F. de Peyster.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58770809 View

Columbiana Manuscripts, 1572-1986, [Bulk Dates: 1850-1920].

Title: Columbiana Manuscripts, 1572-1986 [Bulk Dates: 1850-1920].

An artificial collection comprised of correspondence, diaries, lecture notes, essays, administrative documents, minutes, and other documents related to Columbia University. Materials were created by or for students, alumni, faculty, administrators, staff, trustees, and honorary degree recipients.

ArchivalResource: 38 linear ft. (25 linear ft. of bound volumes, 17 manuscript boxes, 1 half-sized document box 1 over-sized box 1 card box 2 over-sized folders)

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ua/ldpd_6304207 View

Lee, Charles Carter, 1798-1871. Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Title: Papers of Charles Carter Lee and the Lee family [manuscript], 1768-1931 (bulk 1780-1871).

Papers collected by Charles Carter Lee include papers of General Light-Horse-Harry Lee, Major Henry Lee, Charles Carter Lee, and John Penn Lee. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's papers consist mainly of correspondence pertinent to his "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States." Other topics include anti-Federalism, travel to the West Indies and advice to a son. Light-Horse-Harry Lee's correspondents include William Goddard, Christopher R. Greene, Nathanael Greene (copies), Andrew Jackson (copy), Lafayette (copy), Ann Hill Carter Lee, James Madison (copies), Nathaniel Pendleton, and George Washington (copy). Major Henry Lee's papers consist primarily of correspondence written during his residence in Europe in the 1830s. Topics of interest include James Wilkinson's defeat before Montreal, Jacksonian era politics, David Porter in the Mediterranean, Lee's biography of Napoleon and proposed biography of Andrew Jackson, Lee's financial and legal troubles, Lee's literary efforts. Prominent people discussed include James Buchanan, Henry Clay, John H. Eaton, Thomas Jefferson, Amos Kendall, Gales and Seaton, Henry St. George Tucker, and Daniel Webster. There is fairly extensive correspondence with Charles Carter Lee, Major William B. Lewis and Duff Green. Other correspondents include John Armstrong, James Biddle, Charles L. Bonaparate, Daniel Brent, John Carroll Brent, James L. Cathcart, Edward Vernon Childe, John Browne Cutting, Andrew Jackson Donelson, George William Featherstonhaugh, and Robert Selden Garnett. Also Francis Walker Gilmer, James A. Hamilton, William B. Hodgson, Sam Houston, Rachel Jackson, Peter Augustus Jay, Anne R. Lee, Charles Carter Lee, Hugh S. Legaré, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, John McLean, James Madison, John Marshall, John Moore of Paris, Nathaniel Niles, Barry O'Meara, Thomas Ritchie, Meritt M. Robinson, Gilbert C. Russell, Andrew Stevenson, John Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, William Conway Whittle, and James Wilkinson. The papers of Charles Carter Lee constitute the bulk of the collection and contain manuscripts of his literary works and speeches, correspondence, and legal and financial papers. Topics include his student days at Harvard; a reply to George Henry Moore's "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777. The treason of Charles Lee"; scattered political commentary including remarks on William Cabell Rives; and a description of the capture of General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, 1863. Correspondents include William S. Archer, Henry Carey Baird, Nathaniel Burwell, George H. Calvert, David Campbell, Bernard M. Carter, J. H. Chamberlayne, Jr., Robert Young Conrad, E. S. Davis, Frederic De Peyster, Lyman C. Draper, Benjamin Rush Floyd, Letitia Floyd, David Graham, Robert Greenhow, William Wirt Henry, Francis Kinloch, and Benjamin H. Latrobe. Also George Washington Custis Lee, Richard Henry Lee, James Lyons, A. W. McDonald, Louis McLane, James Madison (copy), Hugh Nelson, Beverley Randolph, Charles H. Randolph, Robert E. Scott, Andrew Stevenson, Norborne M. Taliaferro, Martin Van Buren, Peter Van Winkle, Daniel Webster (copy), John Wickham, and William F. Wickham. John Penn Lee papers, consist of miscellaneous printed matter, routinme legall papers and business papers of the law firm of Dillard and Lee, Rocky Mount, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1917 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647915474 View

De Peyster, Frederick, 1758-1834. Captains Frederick De Peyster, Sr. and Frederic De Peyster, Jr. papers, 1741-1836.

Title: Captains Frederick De Peyster, Sr. and Frederic De Peyster, Jr. papers, 1741-1836.

Papers of the De Peyster father and son primarily related to their military careers (1741-1836). Contains receipts, accounts related to forage, correspondence, an orderly book, and printed orders. The elder De Peyster served with loyalist troops during the American Revolution, including service in Nova Scotia, Georgia, and the area of New York City. His son's career was with the 115th Regiment of New York State Infantry of New York City. Also includes miscellaneous papers from various other members of the De Peyster family.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663505 View

De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882. Master's register, 1830-1834, 1837-1844.

Title: Master's register, 1830-1834, 1837-1844.

Registers kept by De Peyster for 1830-1834 and 1837-1844, recording brief notes on cases appearing before the First Circuit Court of Chancery in New York City. Notes include actions taken, fees, and settlements; includes clippings for some of the cases involving court-ordered sales of property, primarily in New York City. Volumes include indexes.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663476 View

De Peyster, Frederic, 1796-1882,. [Map of land patents and purchases in southern Dutchess County, New York].

Title: [Map of land patents and purchases in southern Dutchess County, New York]. [between 1731 and 1766]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 55 x 68 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58757572 View

De Peyster family. De Peyster collection, 1665-1887.

Title: De Peyster collection, 1665-1887.

Collection consists of personal and business correspondence and records of various members of the De Peyster family, particularly Abraham (1657-1728), Frederick (1758-1834), and Frederic (1796-1886). Numerous other members of the De Peyster and related families, their friends, business associates, etc. are also represented. The materials reflect the De Peyster's extensive activity in acquiring, managing, and selling property; a wide variety of business dealings and investments; estate settlements and other legal matters; and the life of a socially prominent New York family.

ArchivalResource: 19.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58663708 View