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Miscellaneous records, 1796-1957, 1796-1835 (bulk)

Title: Miscellaneous records, 1796-1957, 1796-1835 (bulk)

Payment vouchers for services to the State, 1798-1810, for DeWitt Clinton, Simeon DeWitt, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Livingston, Stephen Van Rensselaer, John Jay, and others; payment vouchers concerning Revolutionary War bonds, canals, the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company, and individual legislators, 1798-1836; correspondence of Samuel Jones, state comptroller, concerning loans, taxes, and assessments, 1799; letters, petitions, receipts, and pay warrants concerning Indian affairs, 1798-1842; letters, legal papers, financial records, and reports concerning railroads, 1838-1895, and the Great Western Turnpike and other roads, 1804-1871; correspondence, reports, orders, accounts, and receipts concerning the militia, 1814-1823; and correspondence and articles concerning the finding and salvaging of these papers, 1954-1957.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155455439 View

Philip Schuyler papers, 1684-1851

Title: Philip Schuyler papers 1684-1851

Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804), a Revolutionary War general and statesman, was a prominent member of the landed aristocracy of upstate New York. He was elected to New York's colonial assembly in 1768, was a delegate to the second Continental Congress, served in the New York State Senate from 1780 to 1784 and 1786 to 1790, and became one of New York's first U.S. senators, 1797-1798. During the Revolutionary War he commanded the Continental Army forces of the Northern Dept. Schuyler was involved in the commercial development of New York and his navigation companies constructed the canals that formed the basis of the Erie Canal system. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, military records, land records, and other papers documenting the military, political and business activities and family affairs of Schuyler. Correspondence, 1761-1804, is with military officers, members of the Continental Congress, committees of safety, and family, and concerns the conduct of the Revolutionary War in the Northern Dept., 1775-1777, and political and personal matters. Indian papers, 1710-1797, contain Schuyler's papers as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Northern Dept. during the war and as agent of New York State. Canal papers, 1792-1803, include correspondence, diaries, reports, surveys, accounts, and other papers relating to the construction of canals in New York. His papers as Surveyor General of New York State, 1773-1788, and public papers, ca. 1775-1796, consist of correspondence, receipts, drafts of legislation and proposals, building plans, and other papers. Financial and legal papers, 1711-1805, estate papers, 1755-1809, and land papers, 1684-1840, pertain to business activities and land holdings. Family papers, 1772-1851, contain correspondence and other papers of Schuyler family members. Military papers, 1775-1777, comprise Revolutionary War materials that were neither generated nor received directly by Schuyler.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear feet (56 boxes, 15 v.); 41 microfilm reels

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2701 View

Genealogical records collection, 1830-1984, 1905-1984 (bulk)

Title: Genealogical records collection, 1830-1984, 1905-1984 (bulk)

Transcripts, abstracts, and extracts, compiled 1905-1984, of genealogical records primarily for New York State taken from church records, cemetery records, registers of marriages, military records, town records, court records of wills and letters of administration, and census records. Of note are records of marriages and baptisms by Reverends Jonathan Benson, Issac Bucklin, and T.M. Cooley for central New York, 1803-1847, and Rev. Abner Wood of Antwerp, N.Y., 1828-1844; diary of Lucy Ann Lewis Horton of Throopsville, N.Y., 1877; reminiscences of Mrs. Deborah Woodworth Tracy about family move from Connecticut to Cayuga Lake area from 1786 to 1789; Silas Lamb's journal containing Justice of the Peace records (Madison County), personal journal entries, and a letter to his son in Wisconsin, 1830-1857; and charts concerning the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company for the years 1792-1821. Original items include 1830 pocket map of New York State; marriage records kept by Rev. J.B. Foote, 1887-1889, for central New York; and daybook of Altitius Burlingame, of Willet, Cortland Co., concerning farm products, cash, and labor from 1834 to 1848.

ArchivalResource: 40 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155450137 View

Bleecker, Collins and Abeel families papers, 1665-1882

Title: Bleecker, Collins and Abeel families papers 1665-1882

The Bleecker, Collins and Abeel families lived in Albany, N.Y. and New York City and were merchants, lawyers and military officers. Collection consists of correspondence, maps, surveys, deeds and land papers, military records, wills, and other papers of the Bleecker and Collins families and of John Abeel of Albany, N.Y. Also includes records of the Western Inland Lock Navigtation Co. and correspondence and notes, 1878-1882, of Mary E. Bleecker concerning genealogy of the Clinton and Genet families.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/317 View

Western canal account books, 1793-1796.

Title: Western canal account books, 1793-1796.

Accounts of corn, peas, and flour delivered for the Western Canal, 11 Feb.-7 Sept. 1793; and account of tolls collected for the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company on boats from Fort Schuyler, Fort Stanwix, , Little Falls, Whitestown. Germantown, Cayuga, Geneva, and other towns, 17 Nov.-17 Dec. 1795, with a section for tolls received for passing the locks at Little Falls, 1796. The keeper of the accounts is unknown.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/213220590 View

Wright, Benjamin, 1770-1842. Collection, 1791-1862; bulk, 1791-1827.

Title: Collection, 1791-1862; bulk, 1791-1827.

Collection consists of correspondence, field books, land survey maps, and other materials related to the life and career Benjamin Wright. Several items relate to the development of canals and commercial navigation infrastructure in Black River and Mohawk River basins in New York State. The Western Inland Lock and Navigation Company and later the Erie Canal are mentioned in some of his correspondence. The survey field books and land survey maps also relate to the subdivision of lands in Jefferson, Lewis, and Oneida Counties of New York State. This collection also includes correspondence of his wife Philomela Wright, and papers related to the military training and service of his son, Benjamin H. Wright.

ArchivalResource: l box (0.25 cubic ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122583134 View

Bleecker family. Bleecker, Collins and Abeel families papers, 1665-1882.

Title: Bleecker, Collins and Abeel families papers, 1665-1882.

Collection consists of correspondence, maps, surveys, deeds and land papers, military records, wills, and other papers of the Bleecker and Collins families and of John Abeel of Albany, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear foot (2 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122576165 View

Western Inland Lock Navigation Company. Letter (draft), 1803.

Title: Letter (draft), 1803.

Draft of letter to the New York State Legislature, requesting an extension on its incorporation charter. Letter states that the company would have to stop operations at Wood Creek if the extension is not approved, but if it had the extra time, it could continue work to Seneca Lake and Lake Ontario. Contained also is a request for the Legislature to take steps to remove settlers from lands previously granted for canal use. Handwriting is that of Philip Schuyler, though document does not bear his name.

ArchivalResource: 7 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122537027 View

Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804. Philip Schuyler letter : New York, to George Huntington, 1803 May 20.

Title: Philip Schuyler letter : New York, to George Huntington, 1803 May 20.

Asks Huntington, on behalf of the board of directors of the canal company, to superintend the improvements in Wood Creek, between the third lock created in 1802 and the lock at Rome, to propose to Mr. Wright that he conduct a survey of the Mohawk River between Schenectady and Rome, and to find out if stone and lime for the construction of locks in Wood Creek can be obtained from Fish Creek, if stone be preferable to wood.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181085071 View