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North, William, 1755-1836. Letter, 1800 May 14.

Title: Letter, 1800 May 14.

Letter to Stephen Van Rensselaer regarding the upcoming presidential election. North discusses Jefferson's and Adams' chances for election. He also discusses various changes in the cabinet including Timothy Pickering's resignation.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

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North, William, 1755-1836. Letter, 1786, Feb. 5, to Benjamin Walker, Hackensack, N.J.

Title: Letter, 1786, Feb. 5, to Benjamin Walker, Hackensack, N.J.

Financial matters discussed; states that he is going to Carolina.

ArchivalResource: [1] leaf ; 23 cm.

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North, William, 1755-1836. Letter to Col. Walker [manuscript], 1797 May 8.

Title: Letter to Col. Walker [manuscript], 1797 May 8.

Col. William North writes to Col. Walker, New York, that "Adams is a small man & you will see it - he will be led by others, & I think Jefferson bids fair to be his leader..." North mentions New York representative Henry Glen, Walker's horses and requests that Walker get him a number for the Pennsylvania lottery.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804. Orders regarding the death of George Washington and the military's funeral arrangements for their "Patron and Father."

Title: Orders regarding the death of George Washington and the military's funeral arrangements for their "Patron and Father."

Manuscript copy in an unknown hand of the official orders announcing to the United States Army the death of George Washington, and outlining the funeral honors to be observed. Text begins: "Major General Hamilton has received through the Secretary of War the following Order, from the President of the United States. 'The President, with deep regret, announces to the Army the Death of its beloved Chief General George Washington.... [H]e directs that funeral Honors be paid to him at all Military Stations.... Major General Hamilton will give the necessary orders for carrying into effect the foregoing directions." Issued over the name of William North, Adjutant General. Contains dates 1799 December 21 at top of page one, and 1799 December 24 at end of page four, but is written on paper that is watermarked 1802. Docketed on page 4 in hand on Henry Burbeck.

ArchivalResource: 4 p. ; 33 cm.

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U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Title: U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to the United States. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 551 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1392 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VIII, miscellany, 1776-1816

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VIII, miscellany, 1776-1816

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 8 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72 ++ 1898). Portraits: Washington Irving, (Richard) Burgoyne, Harriet Ackland (Christian Henrietta Caroline Acland) (2), Baroness De Riedesel, Richard Varick, Daniel Morgan, Benedict Arnold, Henry Clinton, Francis Rawdon Hastings (Earl of Moira) (2), Enoch Parr, Simon Frazer, Henry Dearborn, Horatio Gates, Richard Howe, Charles Gravier Vergennes, John Hazelwood, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Smith, George Clinton, Lafayette (3), Jedediah Huntington, Benjamin Franklin (2), Henry Laurens, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), James Rivington, Baron Steuben (2), Caron de Beaumarchais, Jean Ternant, Nathaniel Greene, Louis XVI, George III, John Andre. Prints: Battle of Saratoga, September 19, 1777; Battle of Saratoga, September 19, 1777; View of the West Bank of the Hudson River,...20th of Sept 1777; Lady Ackland's Visit to the Camp of Genl. Gates; Surrender of Burgoyne's Army at Saratoga; The Surrender of Burgoyne's Army at Saratoga, Octr. 17, 1777; Saratoga; Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain; The Political Raree-Show: or a Picture of Parties and Politics, during and at the close of the Last Session of Parliament, June 1779 (caricature); The Battle Ground at Germantown; The Battle of Germantown; Crays Ferry; The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania; Schuylkill; Washington's Head Quarters at Valley Forge; Washington's Headquarters, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; [Washington at Valley Forge]; Washington at Valley Forge; Winter Camp at Valley Forge; View from the Hill in Bordentown. Letters: ALS, Tadeusz Kosciuszko to A. Brockhaus, March [?], 1816; ALS, Francis Rawdon Hastings (Earl of Moira) to Mr. Deare, June 8, 1791; ALS, John Burgoyne to Fanny [?], July 22, 1783; A[aman.]LS, Benjamin Chew to Richard Stockton, December 29, 1803; ALS, Anthony Wayne to John Martin, July 7, 1782; ALS[init.], James Lovell to [?], September 10, 1780; ALS, Elias Boudinot to James Cuthbert, May 4, 1776; ALS, James W. Fairlie to Peter T. Curtenius, May 3, 1785; ALS, William North to Benjamin Walker, December 11, 1801; ALS, Jean Ternant to Richard Howley, Gov. of Georgia, January 28, 1780. Documents: ADS, [Receipt for Samuel Tracy, signed by Jedediah Huntington], May 21, 1777. Maps: Plan of the Attack on Forts Clinton & Montgomery by the British forces under SIR HENRY CLINTON. - Octr 1777 (?); Plan of the Position Taken by Genl. Burgoyne on the 10th of Octr. 1777 in which The British Army was invested (?) by the Americans Under the command of Genl. Gates and surrendered to him on the 16th of October the same year.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (70 items).

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Washington, George, 1732-1799. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1777-1799.

Commander-in-chief, Continental forces, President, U.S.. Letter, 26 May 1777 to B.G. Smallwood discussing the discipline of troops and officers. Washington stresses that orders must be executed; letter, 6 October 1779, to M.G. Greene concerning preparation of small crafts for the defense of New York; letter, 27 Sept. 1780 to Alexander McDougall, commanding officer, West Point, ordering that ten days' provisions be maintained at each outpost as "The Enemy will have acquired from General Arnold a perfect knowledge of the defences ... ". Washington requests immediate notification of any movement against West Point and orders that McDougall's men glean "information of the Enemie's designs"; discharge paper, 19 June 1783, signed by George Washington; orders; observance of General Washington's death, General orders, 27 Jan. 1800 and artillery orders, 5 Dec. 1801, are on the verso of the second leaf.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Letters : to William North, 1786-1790.

Title: Letters : to William North, 1786-1790.

AL, "Au Louvre," 1786 Sep 13; AL, New York, [1788] Aug 20, with signature cut away; two ALS, New York, 1790 Feb 17, and Oct 23, no year; and one ALS, undated. Letters describe his financial affairs, debts, and American lands; his attempts to gain a grant from Congress for his services; and acquaintances and current events. Accompanied by a legal document relating to Steuben's estate, autograph manuscript written in an unidentified hand, signed by Benjamin Walker, 1795 Apr 10.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702148318 View

Worth, W. S. Autograph collection [manuscript] / originally compiled by W.S. Worth. 1803-1865.

Title: Autograph collection [manuscript] / originally compiled by W.S. Worth. 1803-1865.

Correspondents include George Bancroft, Theodoric Romeyn Beck, John Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin Franklin Butler, David Daggett, Samuel Whittelsey Dana, William Alexander Duer, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Samuel Jones, John Laurence, William North, Benjamin Silliman, John Canfield Spencer, Joel Barlow Sutherland, William Peter Van Ness, Abraham Van Vechten, Benjamin Walker, William Wirt. Among the recipients are Henry Clay, Samuel Cooper, Isaac Hull, William Learned Marcy, Morris Smith Miller, Eliakim Parker Scammon, Stephen Van Rensselaer and Benjamin Walker. Topics include Confederate Civil War orders, exchange of Civil War prisoners in Florida in 1865; deWitt Clinton, Rufus King, the Federalist Party and the New York Senatorial elections of 1819; and student defiance at Yale in 1825.

ArchivalResource: 18 items.

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North, William, 1755-1836. Letter, 1802 January 2.

Title: Letter, 1802 January 2.

Letter to an unknown addressee giving a very uncomplimentary description of Dr. Samuel L. Mitchell. Mitchell was a representative and later U.S. Senator from New York State. North writes: "I think you are right not to fill your head with politics. It's a trade few men get an honest living by. You and I would starve by it. Come home and raise cabbages and let Dr. Mitchell and his campatriots raise, or if it please God (I think Mr. Jefferson says 'please God')sink, the credit of the nation."

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578410 View

New York (State). Canal Commissioners. Minutes, 1811 May-1812 Mar.

Title: Minutes, 1811 May-1812 Mar.

Meeting minutes, 1811 May-1812 Mar., of the Canal Commissioners of New York State. Minutes discuss routine committee appointments, the employment of surveyors, reports, and the progress of proposals and applications for funds to construct a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes. Commissioners were: Gouverneur Morris, Stephen Van Rensselaer, De Witt Clinton, Simeon De Witt, William North, Thomas Eddy, Peter B. Porter, Robert R. livingston, and Robert Fulton.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (80 p.)

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Huston, Susannah,. [Widow's pension documents], 1784-1787.

Title: [Widow's pension documents], 1784-1787.

Five manuscript documents pertaining to the petition of Susannah Huston for a pension from the state of Pennsylvania. Huston was the widow of Pennsylvania lieutenant William Huston, who died in 1785 while in military service at West Point. Signers of the documents include Joseph Carleton, secretary of the U.S. War Office (1784); William North, inspector of the U.S. Army (1785); and Joseph Shippen, one of three justices at an Orphans' Court held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1787).

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (5 sheets)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/407124731 View

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806. Papers III, 1777-1807.

Title: Papers III, 1777-1807.

Personal and official papers of Gen. Henry Knox, including letters regarding military supplies, Revolutionary War pensions, and business matters. Included is a 1794 inventory of military supplies sent to Savannah, Georgia when Knox was Secretary of War, and a letter concerning possible hostilities with the Cherokee Indians; a letter from Knox's son Henry Jackson Knox concerning the Jefferson administration and the threat of civil war; and a few of Gen. Knox's legal papers. Correspondents include Maj. William North, Samuel Hodgdon, Clement Biddle, Samuel Thatcher, and Gen. Knox's wife, Lucy Flucker Knox. Also, transcripts of Knox papers in other repositories.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17394671 View

Autograph File, N, 1686-1975.

Title: Autograph File, N, 1686-1975.

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: 2.5 boxes (1.2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01437/catalog View

Seeley, Storrs Henry. William North in Duanesburgh, N.Y. : typescript, 1947.

Title: William North in Duanesburgh, N.Y. : typescript, 1947.

Typescript of an essay on the life and career of Revolutionary War soldier and New York statesman William North of Duanesburgh, New York; written by Storrs Henry Seeley and dated March 1947. Illustrated with the addition of small, mounted photostatic reproductions of prints and photos.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58772383 View

Buckner, George. George Buckner collection, [ca. 1769]-[196-].

Title: George Buckner collection, [ca. 1769]-[196-].

World War II materials of Buckner and his wife, Rhea Riret Buckner, including fliers, ration stamps, advertisements, photographs, newspapers, posters, and postcards; miscellaneous material including stamps and information concerning stamps, photographs of bridges, material relating to oil well and drilling in Ouachita Parish, La., including permits and well logs, and photographs and pictures of New Orleans, La.; letters (1800s) some of which are in French; and coins and paper money, photographs, pictures, correspondence (ca. 1769-1799).

ArchivalResource: ca. 550 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70962548 View

Eustis, William, 1753-1825. Letters, 1779-1829.

Title: Letters, 1779-1829.

Letters written to physician, politician, and diplomat William Eustis and others. Correspondents include Gen. William North and members of the Langdon family. There are indiviual letters from Theodore Sedgwick Sr., Benjamin Lincoln, James Madison, the marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Silliman. Major topics are national politics, the War of 1812, and veterans' affairs. Also, Eustis's diary for the years 1812 and 1816-17, including an account of his daily activities as U.S. minister to the Netherlands.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17609175 View

North William, 1755-1836. Letter, 1790 April 24.

Title: Letter, 1790 April 24.

Letter to Stephen Van Rensselaer regarding the vote on the Bill of Rights in the New York State Assembly. North discusses his views on the matter, and reiterates his federalist politics. The letter alludes to other political matters. The location of the original letter is not noted.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407342 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Edwards, Ogden, 1781-1862. Papers of Ogden Edwards, 1753-1876.

Title: Papers of Ogden Edwards, 1753-1876.

The core of the collection consists of incoming correspondence of Pierpont and Ogden Edwards, with some individuals letters retained, evidently, for their autograph value. Many letters contain annotations identifying famous authors or addressees. The annotations are penned in the same hand as a list of famous historical personages, which appears to be a catalog and/or list of collector's desiderata; the names represented in the Edwards collection are ticked off. include his incoming correspondence and miscellaneous documents documenting Edwards's political and legal career. The correspondents include James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860), William Irving (1766-1821), Eliphalet Nott (1773-1866), Gideon Lee (1778-1841), Edmond Charles Genet (1763-1834), Peter Buell Porter (1773-1844), Stephen Allen, Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell) (1782-1850), William Bristol, Henry Waggaman Edwards (1779 -- 1847), William Alexander Duer (1780-1858), Gulian Crommelin Verplanck (1786-1870), Francis Granger (1792-1868), Samuel Lewis Southard (1787-1842), and William Kent (1802-1861). Some letters discuss the 1824 Presidential elections and the New York politics. Also included are individual documents pertaining to military careers of Ogden Edwards's sons George Pierpont Edwards and Alfred Edwards. include letters from David Dagget (1764-1815), Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743-1804), Aaron Ogden, Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807), Alexander Hamilton, Roger Minot Sherman (1773-1844), Johnson, William Samuel, 1727-1819 and Aaron Burr. The letters discuss local politics, Edwards's legal practice, and his social life. Also included a receipt for 250 pounds for purchasing & fitting out a privateer (October 1776). The rest of the collection are letters retained for their autograph value. This portion consists individual letters by Thomas Gage, Samuel Huntington, Stephen Girard (1750-1831), William Gaston (1778-1844), Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), William North (1755-1836), and Marie Joseph Lafayette, and and indemnification bond to the Overseers of the Poor of Dover Hundred (Delaware, 1761).

ArchivalResource: 45 pieces, also ephemera.1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79070570 View

North, William, 1755-1836. Letters of William North, 1798-1805.

Title: Letters of William North, 1798-1805.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79454742 View

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Correspondence and papers, 1778-1794 (bulk 1779-1781).

Title: Correspondence and papers, 1778-1794 (bulk 1779-1781).

Correspondence and papers, 1778-1794. Most of the items are dated during 1779-1781, when Steuben was involved in efforts to reorganize the Continental Army and commanded the forces in Virginia, attempting to make that state a base of supply for General Nathanael Greene's army. They relate to such matters s the preparation and distribution of his "Regulations," reactions and questions about this work, appointments of inspectors, supply needs and problems, organization and administration of army and militia units, enemy movements and strength, condition of state militia and other army units, British invasion of Virginia, problems with the Virginia militia, his lands in Virginia, founding of the Society of the Cincinnati, etc. Some of his more frequent correspondents were: Col. Jean Baptiste Ternant, Col. William Davies, the Board of War, M. de Franey, Chevalier de la Luzerne, Gen. Nathanael Greene, Gov. Thomas Jefferson, Col. Edward Carrington, Col. George Gibson, Gen. Thomas Nelson, Gen. George Weedon, Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, Louis de Pontiere, Gen. Robert Lawson, Gen. Isaac Gregory, Col. J. Junis, Gen. Mordecai Gist, Maj. Buller Claiborne, Capt. John Pryor, Capt. William North, Col. Benjamin Walker, and Gen. Benjamin Lincoln. The collection also contains lists of engineers and tradesmen, returns of various regiments, returns of supplies, reports of Congress, and other miscellaneous papers.

ArchivalResource: 5.6 linear feet (14 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58779156 View

North, William, 1755-1836. Diary, 1786 Jun. 29-1786 Aug. 24.

Title: Diary, 1786 Jun. 29-1786 Aug. 24.

Diary, 1786 Jun. 29-1786 Aug. 24, kept by William North on a trip taken between Hackensack, New Jersey, and Fort Finney on the Ohio River, near present Cincinnati. Entries record North's impressions, opinions, and detailed observation about the people and places en route, particularly Hackensack, Bethlehem and the Moravians, Fort Pitt, and Fort Finney.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (48 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58772380 View

Letter, 1783 Oct. 12, Garrison on the Schuylkill, to Benjamin Walker.

Title: Letter, 1783 Oct. 12, Garrison on the Schuylkill, to Benjamin Walker.

Military and personal matters discussed; mention made of Martha Washington.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. on folded leaf ; 22 cm.

https://search.library.dartmouth.edu/permalink/01DCL_INST/b81o46/alma991019282839705706 View

Duane, James, 1733-1797. Duane and Featherstonhaugh family papers, 1666-1900 (bulk 1756-1900).

Title: Duane and Featherstonhaugh family papers, 1666-1900 (bulk 1756-1900).

Correspondence and papers, 1666- ca. 1900 (mostly 1756 - ca. 1900), of various members of the Duane, Featherstonhaugh, and related families. The major part of the collection is the papers of the New York lawyer, patriot, and land developer James Duane. There are also a substantial number of papers of Duane's son, James Chatham Duane, a lawyer of Duanesburgh and Schenectady, and of his son-in-law George William Featherstonhaugh, a geologist and resident of Schenectady, as well as smaller groups pertaining to Abraham, Anthony, Cornelius, and Mary Duane (wife of James Duane and daughter of Robert Livingston, Jr., third lord of Livingston Manor); and to William North, Hannah E. North, William North Duane, and the latter's mother, Mrs. A.D. Duane. The James Duane papers, ca. 1756-1798, comprise letters, deeds and other land papers, a large group of legal papers, miscellaneous certificates, commissions, bills, memoranda, etc., and pertain to such matters as: his practice of law in New York and New Jersey; relations with Great Britain and political affairs in the colonies prior to the Revolution; New York State's controversy with Massachusetts over the New Hampshire grants, and Duane's own holdings in the disputed area; his activities and interests as New York delegate to the Continental Congress, as the first federal judge for the district of New York, as a New York State senator, and as mayor of New York City; the settling of Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York; affairs of the Livingston family and of Livingston Manor; the settlement of estates; his property holdings in the Hardenburgh, Schuyler, and Franklin patents, and in New York City, Otsego County, Ulster County, and Socialborough, New Hampshire (now Rutland, Vermont); New York State boundaries; military and political events during the Revolutionary War; Indian affairs during the war; etc. Some of his more frequent correspondents were George Clinton, Robert R. Livingston, Horatio Gates, Philip Schuyler, Richard Varick, Walter Livingston, William Cockburn, John Myers, James Chalmers of London, Goldsbrow Banyar, Jacob Cuyler, Isabella Graham, John Jay, Robert Livingston, Jr., John McFarland, John Munro, John Patterson, John Morin Scott, Isaac Vrooman, Peter Van Schaack, and George Washington. Duane's notebooks, 1765-1789, contain daily notes on his activities, land transactions, and improvements at Duanesburgh, his Albany law practice, his service as delegate to Congress, including his expenses, Livingston Manor, a trip with Lafayette to Albany, travelling with Luzerne from Morristown to Philadelphia, depreciation of money, costs of lands withheld by the Vermonters, public roads out of Duanesburgh, etc. His legal papers - briefs, notes, declarations, narratives, arguments, etc. - pertain to such cases as: Ryer Schermerhorn vs. Harmanus Brandt; Rev. Joshua Bloomer vs. Robert Hinckman and Philip Edsal, church wardens of the parish of Jamaica; Peter Du Bois ads.. James Jackson ex dem. Daniel Terboss et al.; James Downes vs. Francis Child; John Elam vs. Adam Fisher; Ryer Schermerhorn, John Glen, et al. vs. Jacob Fonda; William Janeway et al. vs. John Frederick Herring; Johannes Hardenburgh ads. James Jackson ex dem. Daniel Terboss; the Rector of Trinity Church and inhabitants of the City of New York ads. James Jackson ex dem. Cornelius Brower; Rex vs. John Van Rensselaer; John Doe ex dem. Philip Verplanck et al. vs. Ezekiel Griffin; and many others. Many of the Featherstonhaugh papers pertain to George W. Featherstonhaugh's interest in agriculture and husbandry (he was corresponding secretary of the New York State Board of Agriculture), and his business interests, particularly during the 1820s, including the purchase of Wade Hampton's horse, Janus. There are also some letters and papers of his son, James Duane Featherstonhaugh, including technical data probably kept by him while working as a surveyor on the 1843-1845 Maine-Quebec boundary survey. The collection includes six recipe or cookbooks belonging to various members of the Duane family, 1740-1874.

ArchivalResource: 7.5 linear feet (23 boxes)

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Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Letters : to William North, 1786-1790.

Title: Letters : to William North, 1786-1790.

AL, "Au Louvre," 1786 Sep 13; AL, New York, [1788] Aug 20, with signature cut away; two ALS, New York, 1790 Feb 17, and Oct 23, no year; and one ALS, undated. Letters describe his financial affairs, debts, and American lands; his attempts to gain a grant from Congress for his services; and acquaintances and current events. Accompanied by a legal document relating to Steuben's estate, autograph manuscript written in an unidentified hand, signed by Benjamin Walker, 1795 Apr 10.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79602419 View

Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816. [Application seeking federal aid to construct the Erie Canal], 8 Oct. 1811.

Title: [Application seeking federal aid to construct the Erie Canal], 8 Oct. 1811.

Original printed and signed application addressed to David Holmes and accompanying manuscript exemplification addressed to President James Madison seeking federal aid for construction of the Erie Canal; both dated 8 Oct. 1811 and signed by Canal Commissioners Gouverneur Morris, DeWitt Clinton, Simeon DeWitt, William North, Thomas Eddy, Robert R. Livingston, and Robert Fulton. Included are engravings of full length portraits of Morris, Clinton, Livingston, and Fulton.

ArchivalResource: 1 slipcase (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58770098 View

North, William, 1755-1836. William North correspondence, 1814 August 9

Title: William North correspondence, 1814 August 9

Letter to William Eustis, Duanesburgh, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (1 wallet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/401754450 View

Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828. Printed letter signed by the members of the commission for the Erie Canal : New York, to the Governor of Delaware [presumably Joseph Haslet], 1811 Oct. 8.

Title: Printed letter signed by the members of the commission for the Erie Canal : New York, to the Governor of Delaware [presumably Joseph Haslet], 1811 Oct. 8.

Requesting the governor's support, on behalf of his state, for the Erie Canal project.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p., with address) ; 36.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270611700 View

North, William, 1755-1836. Papers, 1763-1820.

Title: Papers, 1763-1820.

The papers consist chiefly of family correspondence, but also included letters to Baron Steuben and James Duane. The letters to Duane concern lands in the Duanesburgh Patent and Steuben and Montgomery counties. The majority of the letters are from North to his wife and brother, and to Dr. William Eustis, a family friend who served as the U.S. Minister to the Netherlands. The letters discuss personal and financial matters as well as current events.

ArchivalResource: 66 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364351 View

North, William, 1755-1836. Letter, 1790 April 24.

Title: Letter, 1790 April 24.

Letter from William North to Stephen Van Rensselaer acknowledging receipt of his letter and assuring him of his support in upcoming election. Mentions adoption of U.S. Constitution and his position on it.

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407868 View

Williams, John, 1752-1806. Papers, 1767-1841.

Title: Papers, 1767-1841.

The collection consists of approximately 1,500 items (8 boxes). There are three major series: Correspondence, Legal Documents, and Financial Documents. In addition there are five much smaller series: Printed Material; Minutes, Proceedings, etc; Maps, Diagarams and Lists; Literary Productions; and Miscellany. The earliest documents date from 1767-68 and the latest from 1830, but the majority pertain to the 1780's and 1790s.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes. (1500 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122611241 View

Papers of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, 1778-1851 (bulk 1779-1781)

Title: Papers of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben 1778-1851 (bulk 1779-1781)

The collection includes correspondence, orders, memoranda, petitions, indentures, and writings on military topics by Baron von Steuben during his tenure as an officer of the American army, as well as material relating to his estate and memorials.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 Linear feet; (15 boxes [1 oversize], 6 volumes)

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

North, William, 1755-1836. Letter from William North to Colonel Walker, 1795 Apr. 14.

Title: Letter from William North to Colonel Walker, 1795 Apr. 14.

Letter from William North, written at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to Colonel Walker, 34 Cortlandt Street, New York, apologizing for not seeing Walker at the custom house and asking him to pay a bill for him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/180706275 View

ALS : New York, N.Y., to William North, Duanesburg, N.Y., 1788 Sept. 22

Title: ALS : New York, N.Y., to William North, Duanesburg, N.Y., 1788 Sept. 22

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794; ALS : New York, N.Y., to William North, Duanesburg, N.Y., 1788 Sept. 22 Concerns Steuben's business interests and the management of Steuben's and Walker's farms; mentions Steuben's visits with North's family and Benjamin Walker. Address and docket note on integral leaf.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 24 cm..

http://rosenbach.pastperfectonline.com/archive/1F780354-D796-4F1F-8F6F-347332631860 View

North, William, 1755-1836. Letter, 1790.

Title: Letter, 1790.

Letter to Stephen Van Rensselaer regarding the payment of back taxes due in Albany County. North discusses the recent formation of Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties and the new Albany County jail. North discusses the financial difficulties that are facing Albany county as a result of the separation of the new counties from it.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145407019 View

Duane, James, 1733-1797. Letter, [1790].

Title: Letter, [1790].

Letter to his son-in-law Major William North discussing the lease of some land to a young Scotchman, Mr. Edgar. Discusses the condition of the land and his difficulty in determining a price. Included is an engraving of James Duane.

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122578643 View