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Shaler, Nathaniel, 1775-1814. Shaler family papers, 1809-1935.

Title: Shaler family papers, 1809-1935.

Correspondence (1810-1880), appointments (1815-1829), passports (1809-1814), financial papers (1814-1823), indentures (1819-1859) for transfer of land in Kentucky, patent, biographical sketch, genealogy, broadsides, portraits, and clippings. Chiefly the papers of Nathaniel Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, William Shaler, and Richard Southgate. Correspondents include Henry Clay, James Monroe, and Jonathan Russell. Includes documents signed by Andrew Jackson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Robert Smith.

ArchivalResource: 47 items.1 container.

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Shaler family. Papers, 1797-1903.

Title: Papers, 1797-1903.

The papers of William Shaler, United States agent in Mexico, consul general to the Barbary States and Cuba, and Nathaniel Shaler, captain of a privateer during the war with England, 1812-1814, reflect American diplomatic relations in the early nineteenth century, particularly foreign interference with American commerce, seizure of American Vessels by Algerian, Spanish, and Neapolitan ships, the part played by the United States in the Mexican, Cuban and Florida controversies, the War of 1812, naval battles, privateering, Algerian negotiations and the resulting peace treaty. Included are: accounts; cargo and shipping papers; miscellaneous records of the Shaler family; "Journal of the Mission to Algiers," 1817, signed by the secretary of the commission, Charles O. Handy; autograph letter to William Shaler from Commodore O. H. Perry, of the Java, 1817; copy of an account of a naval battle with an English frigate, 1814, by Nathaniel Shaler; letter to William Shaler from Vincent Gray describing the burning of the city of Washington by the British, and the battle of New Orleans, 1815; correspondence, 1797-1833; miscellaneous papers, documents, accounts, cargo and shipping manifests, 1798-1867, including the military papers of Captain N. T. Shaler, 1862-1867, and the passport of Nathaniel S. Shaler, 1903.

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Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1793-1943.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1793-1943.

Miscellaneous deeds, military papers, receipts, broadsides, bonds, appointments, programs, and other items pertaining to people and events in Lewis County. Of note are deeds signed by William and Ann Constable for Townships 3 and 4 in the Macomb Purchase issued to Nathaniel Shaler, 1795-1801; an 1812 letter by Asa Hotten of Lowville describing call for local men to march to Sackets Harbor; manuscript lecture on the Castorland colony by Franklin B. Hough, 1867; diploma of Romeyn B. Hough, 1908; undated prospectus of the Rome & Carthage Railroad; assessment roll for Lyons Falls, 1818; and papers of Vincent Le Ray de Chaumont including letter to Nelson J. Beach regarding a legal matter, 1831, deeds, 1837, and circulars in German and French advertising his land in Northern New York for settlement, 1849. Among the signers of documents are Samuel Adams and Daniel Tompkins.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1 cubic ft.

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