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Saunders family. Sanders family papers, 1711-1833.

Title: Sanders family papers, 1711-1833.

Account books, day books, and a letter book, 1711-1833, kept by members of the Sanders family of Albany and Schenectady, New York.

ArchivalResource: 11 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475928198 View

Historic Cherry Hill. Philip Van Rensselaer Papers 1775-1798.

Title: Philip Van Rensselaer Papers 1775-1798.

Phillip Van Rensselaer built the Cherry Hill manor house and managed the large Cherry Hill estate. During the American Revolution Philip acted as the storekeeper for the Northern Department of the Continental Army. His papers reflect his activities in the management of the Cherry Hill estate as well as his activities as an important and influential figure in New York State politics and society. The papers also contain a large amount of correspondence and related material generated by Phillip in his capacity as storekeeper. The papers include correspondence, land papers, invoices and receipts, the contract and plans for the Cherry Hill Manor House, diaries and books of account. These papers are useful in documenting the activities associated with the management of the Cherry Hill estate as well as documenting the procurement and distribution of supplies for the Northern Department of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155402382 View

Bayard Patent release.

Title: Bayard Patent release.

Release recorded 1795 in the New York State Secretary of State's Office relating to the indenture of 1765 between William Bayard and Oliver deLancey, Esq., Philip Schuyler, Catherine Lawrence, James Van Cortlandt, Isaac Low, Henry Cuyler, Cornelius Cuyler, and Abraham C. Cuyler concerning lands granted by patent to Stephen Bayard in 1743 situated in the County of Albany on the East side of the Hudson above Saratoga and adjoining the lands granted to John Schuyler, in the area which, roughly, is now Washington County. Great Seal of New York attached; leather seal is stamped with the date 1777.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155409848 View

John Vaughan papers 1779-1781, 1784, 1789 Vaughan, John papers

Title: John Vaughan papers 1779-1781, 1784, 1789 Vaughan, John papers

The John Vaughan papers document British activities in the West Indies during the American Revolution. Covered are Vaughan's incoming letters, dispatches, bills, reports, and memoranda during his command of the Leeward Islands from November of 1779 to March 1881.

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes and 2 loose items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-38vau?rgn=main;view=text View

Van Schaack, Peter, 1747-1832. Peter Van Schaack papers, 1776-1841.

Title: Peter Van Schaack papers, 1776-1841.

Chiefly letters received by Peter Van Schaack after his return to New York together with a few letters of Henry Van Schaack. Correspondents include Loring Andrews, Cadwallader Colden, Abraham Cuyler, James Duane, Edmund Fanning, Jacob Ford, Ezekiel Gilbert, Henry Glen, Richard Harrison, John Sloss Hobart, John Honeywood, Moses Kent, Peter Robert Livingston, George D. Ludlow, Hosea Moffitt, Roger Morris, Thomas Morris, William Powers, Caleb S. Riggs, Theodore Sedgwick, Philip Skene, Robert Troup, John E. Van Alen, John Van Rensselaer, John Watts, Oliver Wendell, and John C. Wynkoop.

ArchivalResource: 53 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981588 View

Papers, 1767-1808.

Title: Papers, 1767-1808.

Papers of Dyckman and his wife Elizabeth Corne Dyckman, include letters, ledgers, diaries, accounts, bills, bonds, releases, mortgages, memoranda, agreements, inventories, and Dyckman's records from his service with the Quarter Master General of the British Army; many of the papers relate to his residence in England in 1779-1781, 1782-1788, and 1800-1803, where he was acting on behalf of Sir William Erskine, William Dalrymple, and others in the Quarter Master's office during a public investigation of their financial affairs, and to his efforts to obtain recompense for his work. Other subjects include quartering and supplying British troops during the Revolution in New York and South Carolina, problems of American loyalists after the Revolution, Dyckman's business and financial affairs, marital problems of his sister Catalina and her husband Daniel Hale, agriculture, affairs of the Dyckman family and relatives in Westchester County, and work on Boscobel. Also, sizable correspondence between Dyckman and his wife Elizabeth during his last trip to England, 1800-1803, discussing their feelings at being separated, his counsel and advice to her, their children, gifts he sent home, and the materials he purchased to outfit their home at Boscobel. Other correspondents include Stephen DeLancey, Abraham Cuyler, John Kortright, William Erskine and his son, John Wintle, Jr., George Pollock, William Adam (Treasurer of Ordnance in England), William Cobbett, and Peter Van Schaack.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 cubic ft. (ca. 250 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155526859 View

Vaughan, John, ca. 1731-1795. John Vaughan papers, 1779-1781, 1784, 1789.

Title: John Vaughan papers, 1779-1781, 1784, 1789.

The John Vaughan papers document British activities in the West Indies during the American Revolution. Covered are Vaughan's incoming letters, dispatches, bills, reports, and memoranda during his command of the Leeward Islands from November of 1779 to March 1881.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. and 2 loose items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758450212 View