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Recognizances signed by New York City tavern keepers, 1819.

Title: Recognizances signed by New York City tavern keepers, 1819.

Recognizances, 1819. These are printed forms stating the fine tavern keepers in New York City had to pay if they kept a disorderly inn, allowed gambling on the premises, etc. They carry the signatures (or, in some cases, marks) of the tavern owners and give the location of the taverns. Some are signed by Cadwallader Colden in his capacity as Mayor of New York. Part of the volume was used as a scrapbook in the 1850s, and contains ephemera, poems, and clippings, many on religious or medical subjects.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 220 forms)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58774802 View

Milledoler, Philip, 1775-1852. Papers, 1785-1857.

Title: Papers, 1785-1857.

Correspondence, diaries, accounts, notebooks, sermons, estate papers, legal and financial documents, clippings, and autobiographical and theological writings, 1785-1857, of Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed clergyman and educator Philip Milledoler of New York and New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 2.75 linear ft. (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475861568 View

Stevens family. Papers, 1669-1959 [microform].

Title: Papers, 1669-1959 [microform].

ArchivalResource: 16 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503452 View

Brown family. Brown family : papers, 1799-1846.

Title: Brown family : papers, 1799-1846.

Papers consist of letters written by members of the John Brown family, mostly by Margaretta Brown, wife of the senator. The heaviest concentration of the letters is for the periods 1799-1802, 1818-1819, and 1837-1838. The correspondence deals mainly with family matters. The health and education of their sons, Mason and Orlando Brown, are frequent topics, and there are scattered references to political and diplomatic affairs.

ArchivalResource: 56 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46737478 View

Woolsey family papers, 1750-1969 (bulk 1811-1921)

Title: Woolsey family papers, 1750-1976 (inclusive), 1811-1921 (bulk).

The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business correspondence, ledgers, legal papers, documents relating to land sales in New York and Ohio, as well as family and personal letters. Since he was engaged in the importation of sugar, cotton and hardware, some of his business correspondence is political with discussions of the Jay Treaty of 1794, the problems of piracy, American neutrality in the 1790s and the general politics of the period. Important correspondents are Chauncey Goodrich, Archibald Gracie, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Elihu and Nathaniel Chauncey, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Jedidiah Morse, James Roosevelt, John A. Schuyler, Comfort Sands, John Broome, and Nicholas Bayard. The papers of Theodore Dwight Woolsey contain his writings on Greek language and literature, the Bible, international law and the texts of his sermons.

ArchivalResource: 52 Linear Feet (107 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0562 View

John Rodgers papers 1796-1908 1801-1836 Rodgers, John papers

Title: John Rodgers papers 1796-1908 1801-1836 Rodgers, John papers

The John Rodgers papers contain naval Commander Rodger's professional correspondence from shortly before his first naval commission through the end of his career. The papers provide a wealth of information on nearly every aspect of Rodgers' career, from his blockading and diplomatic activities during the Barbary Wars through his brief tenure as Secretary of the United States Navy.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2502rod?rgn=main;view=text View

New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated. Records, 1785-1849.

Title: Records, 1785-1849.

Meeting minutes, commission reports, financial records, indentures, registers, and miscellaneous records of the New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New York Manumission Society, dating from the year of the Society's organization in 1785 to that of its dissolution in 1849.

ArchivalResource: 11 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58670381 View

Matthias B. Tallmadge Papers, 1715-1868 (Bulk 1800-1820)

Title: Matthias B. Tallmadge Papers 1715-1868 (Bulk 1800-1820)

Matthias B. Tallmadge was the fifth judge for the District of New York and the first judge for the Northern District of New York. His papers include correspondence from the Tallmadge family, as well as many prominent individuals from the period, both related and unrelated to the Tallmadges. The papers also include materials from Tallmadge's tenure in the District of New York and later the Northern District of New York.

ArchivalResource: 2.4 Linear feet; (6 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/tallmadge/tallmadge.html View

American Academy of the Fine Arts. Records, 1802-1840.

Title: Records, 1802-1840.

The collection consists of 1 box (approx. 400 items) and 12 volumes from the organization's inception in 1802 to its dissolution in 1840. The records include correspondence, minutes covering the entire period, accounts, subscriber lists, rules and regulations, election reports, lists of paintings, exhibition records, building plans and specifications, constitution, by-laws, act of incorporation, etc. Some of its active members were: Robert R. Livingston, De Witt Clinton, John Vanderlyn, John Trumbull, Rufus King, John Wakefield Francis, David Hosack, Alexander Robertson, William Dunlap, John R. Murray, Cadwallader D. Colden, and William Cutting.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.12 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658695 View

Randel, John. [Map of the area later bounded by 135th and 157th Streets, the Harlem River and Douglas Boulevard, Manhattan, New York, N.Y.].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by 135th and 157th Streets, the Harlem River and Douglas Boulevard, Manhattan, New York, N.Y.]. [ca. 1815]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., on recto of sheet, col. ; 59 x 86 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54761354 View

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Letter, 1822 March 2, Washington, to Thomas Gibbons, Elizabeth Town, N.J.

Title: Letter, 1822 March 2, Washington, to Thomas Gibbons, Elizabeth Town, N.J.

Mr. Colden will not bring the steamboat cause this term due to the absence of Mr. Emmett and the death of Mr. Pinkney. Enclosure: Gibbons, T. Letter [1822] March 12 [Elizabeth Town, N.J.], to [D. Webster, n.p.].

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 fold. leaf 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3117906 View

Rodgers, John, 1773-1838. John Rodgers papers, 1796-1908, bulk 1801-1836.

Title: John Rodgers papers, 1796-1908, bulk 1801-1836.

The John Rodgers papers contain naval Commander Rodger's professional correspondence from shortly before his first naval commission through the end of his career. The papers provide a wealth of information on nearly every aspect of Rodgers' career, from his blockading and diplomatic activities during the Barbary Wars through his brief tenure as Secretary of the United States Navy.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759916811 View

Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769-1834. Autograph letter signed : to Mathew Carey, 1828 Mar. 29.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Mathew Carey, 1828 Mar. 29.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270904380 View

Vroom, Peter Dumont, 1791-1873. Papers, 1820-1893.

Title: Papers, 1820-1893.

Correspondence, diaries, case files, and other papers, reflecting Vroom's career as a lawyer in Schooleys Mountain, Hackettstown, Flemington, Somerville, and Trenton, N.J., state legislator, governor, congressman, U.S. minister to the court of Prussia (1854-1857), and law reporter for the New Jersey Supreme Court (1865-1873), and his activities in the Whig Party and Dutch Reformed Church.

ArchivalResource: 20 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955084 View

Jennings, Annie Burr, 1855-1939,. Annie Burr Jennings collection, 1775-1930 (inclusive).

Title: Annie Burr Jennings collection, 1775-1930 (inclusive).

An autograph collection of approximately forty letters and documents, chiefly dating from the Revolutionary War era. Prominent in the collection are Ashbel Green, James Wadsworth, and George Washington. Among the later writers are Albert Bierstadt, Richard Wagner and correspondents of Annie Burr Jennings.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702167529 View

Gibbons, Thomas, 1757-1826. Letter, 1822 February 21 [n.p.], to D. Webster [n.p.].

Title: Letter, 1822 February 21 [n.p.], to D. Webster [n.p.].

A. Ogden instructed his counsel, Mr. Colden, to enter an appearance. Webster and Wirt will appear for Gibbons with D. Ogden assisting.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. on 1 leaf 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3117920 View

Woolsey family papers, 1750-1969 (bulk 1811-1921)

Title: Woolsey family papers, 1750-1976 (inclusive), 1811-1921 (bulk).

The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business correspondence, ledgers, legal papers, documents relating to land sales in New York and Ohio, as well as family and personal letters. Since he was engaged in the importation of sugar, cotton and hardware, some of his business correspondence is political with discussions of the Jay Treaty of 1794, the problems of piracy, American neutrality in the 1790s and the general politics of the period. Important correspondents are Chauncey Goodrich, Archibald Gracie, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Elihu and Nathaniel Chauncey, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Jedidiah Morse, James Roosevelt, John A. Schuyler, Comfort Sands, John Broome, and Nicholas Bayard. The papers of Theodore Dwight Woolsey contain his writings on Greek language and literature, the Bible, international law and the texts of his sermons.

ArchivalResource: 52 Linear Feet (107 boxes)

https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4439 View

Bills of exchange, 1801 Sept. 19-1803 Mar. 9.

Title: Bills of exchange, 1801 Sept. 19-1803 Mar. 9.

A manuscript volume of protests filed for non-acceptance of bills of exchange [drafts] by Cadwallader Colden, Notary Public of New York, between September 19, 1801 and March 9, 1803. The bills being printed forms are filled in with information concerning the presentation of the drafts, their non-acceptance, etc. Reverse sides frequently reproduce the substance of the drafts, indicating the amount, the terms, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58659708 View

Turnbull, William, b. ca. 1790. Correspondence, 1813-1821.

Title: Correspondence, 1813-1821.

Correspondence, 1813-1821, consisting of about 28 letters from William and George Turnbull to their sister Ann, with a few letters to their other sisters. Many are written from New York while Ann was away on visits, and discuss gossip and social life in New York. A letter from William Turnbull, dated March 1, 1818, discusses the election of Cadwallader D. Colden as Mayor of New York, and comments "Mrs. Colden will become quite grand." Other letters are written while the brothers were abroad on business. George Turnbull writes one letter from London in 1818, and William Turnbull writes from Gibraltar and Smyrna in 1817, and in 1820-1821. Some letters are written on shipboard, on the brig Aid in 1817, and the brig Minerva in 1820-1821. George Turnbull accompanied William on the second voyage, and there is a letter from him written aboard the Minerva. William Turnbull writes a letter from Smyrna, dated September 1, 1821, describing conditions there after the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58773266 View

Stevens family. Stevens family papers, 1663-1959.

Title: Stevens family papers, 1663-1959.

This collection contains the papers of the Stevens Family, covering the years 1663 to 1959. The papers include business and financial records, legal records, as well as personal papers belonging to various members of the Stevens Family. The bulk of the papers mainly belong to Basil Stevens (fl.1818-1843), Edwin A. Stevens (1795-1868), Francis B. Stevens (d. 1908), Hon. John Stevens (1715-1792), Colonel John Stevens (1749-1838), Richard Stevens (1723-1802), and Robert L. Stevens (1787-1856). In addition to various members of the Stevens Family, documents by or pertaining to other prominent figures in New Jersey, and United States history are included in the papers. They include James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), John Jacob Astor, Goldsborow Banyor, Thomas Bartow, Clement Biddle, Horace Binney, Joseph Bloomfield, Elias Boudinot, David Brearley, Aaron Burr (1756-1836), Philip Carteret, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Cadwallader David Colden, John Colt, John Redman Coxe, and William Coxe, Mahlon Dickerson, Philemon Dickerson, Jonathan Elmer, Lewis Evans, Theodosius Fowler, William Franklin, Robert Fulton, and Moore Furman. Also: Alexander Hamilton, William Churchill Houston, Peter Augustus Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James G. King, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, John Lawrence, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert R. Livingston, William Livingston, James Madison, Robert Hunter Morris, David Ogden, Ferdinand John Paris, Elisha Parker, James Parker, William Paterson (1745-1806), Charles Read, Moses Rogers, Nicholas Roosevelt, Perez Rowley, Richard Rush, Walter Rutherfurd, John Smyth, William Thornton, Robert Treat, and John Waddell.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54032219 View

Stevens family. Papers, 1663-1959.

Title: Papers, 1663-1959.

Correspondence, estate papers, genealogy, photos, and other papers. Correspondents include James Alexander, William Alexander, Lord Stirling, John Jacob Astor, Goldsbrow Banyar, Thomas Bartow, Clement Biddle, Horace Binney, Joseph Bloomfield, Elias Boudinot, David Bearley, Aaron Burr, Philip Carteret, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Cadwallader David Colden, John Colt, John Redman Coxe, William Coxe, Mahlon Dickerson, Philemon Dickerson, Jonathan Elmer, Lewis Evans, Theodosius Fowler, William Franklin, Robert Fulton, Moore Furman, Alexander Hamilton, William Churchill Houston, Peter Augustus Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James G. King, Rufus King, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, John Lawrence, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, James Madison, Robert Hunter Morris, David Ogden, Ferdinand John Paris, Elisha Parker, James Parker (1725-1792), William Paterson (1745-1806), Charles Read, Moses Rogers, Nicholas Roosevelt, Perez Rowley, Richard Rush, Walter Rutherfurd, John Smyth, William Thornton, Robert Treat, and John Waddell.

ArchivalResource: 60 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600781 View

Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

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: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01426/catalog View

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

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)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/tontine/tontine.html View

New-York Manumission Society Records, 1785-1849

Title: New-York Manumission Society Records 1785-1849

This collection contains 11 volumes of records for the New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated (commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society), covering its activities from its founding in 1785 through its dissolution in 1849. Note that the New-York Manumission Society Records have been digitized and can be found here.

ArchivalResource: 1.3 Linear feet; (11 volumes on 2 microfilm reels)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/manumission/manumission.html View

Colden, Cadwallader D. (Cadwallader David), 1769-1834. Autograph letter signed : to William Bartnet, 1800 Apr. 25.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to William Bartnet, 1800 Apr. 25.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270904379 View

Woolsey family papers, 1750-1969 (bulk 1811-1921)

Title: Woolsey family papers, 1750-1976 (inclusive), 1811-1921 (bulk).

The papers document three generations of the Woolsey family. The most prominent figures in the collection are William Walton Woolsey (1766-1839), land owner and merchant in New York City; his son, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), Greek scholar, political theorist and president of Yale College; and Theodore Salisbury Woolsey (1852-1929), professor of international law at Yale Law School, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The papers of William Walton Woolsey contain extensive business correspondence, ledgers, legal papers, documents relating to land sales in New York and Ohio, as well as family and personal letters. Since he was engaged in the importation of sugar, cotton and hardware, some of his business correspondence is political with discussions of the Jay Treaty of 1794, the problems of piracy, American neutrality in the 1790s and the general politics of the period. Important correspondents are Chauncey Goodrich, Archibald Gracie, Eli Whitney, Noah Webster, Elihu and Nathaniel Chauncey, Oliver Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge, Jedidiah Morse, James Roosevelt, John A. Schuyler, Comfort Sands, John Broome, and Nicholas Bayard. The papers of Theodore Dwight Woolsey contain his writings on Greek language and literature, the Bible, international law and the texts of his sermons.

ArchivalResource: 52 Linear Feet (107 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4277859 View

Gouverneur family. Gouverneur family collection, 1775-1851 (bulk 1784-1809).

Title: Gouverneur family collection, 1775-1851 (bulk 1784-1809).

Legal documents pertaining to the Gouverneur family's real estate holdings, especially the disposal of property from the estate of Isaac Gouverneur. Note the certified copy of Thomas Storm's will is water damaged and extremely difficult to read.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (18 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/709967513 View

Wyckoff, William Forman, 1858-1930. [Map of the area later bounded by Wall Street, Water Street, State Street and Broad Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / this map by Bridges ; [reproduction].

Title: [Map of the area later bounded by Wall Street, Water Street, State Street and Broad Street, Manhattan, New York (N.Y.)] / this map by Bridges ; [reproduction]. [between 1880 and 1930]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : photoprint, col. annotations ; 58 x 77 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77878992 View

Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (bulk:1700-1800)

Title: Thomas Addis Emmet collection, 1483-1876 (inclusive), 1700-1800 (bulk)

The portion of the Emmet Collection housed in the Manuscripts and Archives Division consists of approximately 10,800 historical manuscripts relating chiefly to the period prior to, during, and following the American Revolution. The collection contains letters and documents by the signers of the Declaration of Independence as well as nearly every prominent historical figure of the period.

ArchivalResource: 30.83 linear feet; 108 boxes, 21 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/927 View