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Prescott, Benjamin. Letter, 1729 June 23, Groton, Mass., to the honorable John Chandler, Woodstock.

Title: Letter, 1729 June 23, Groton, Mass., to the honorable John Chandler, Woodstock.

Handwritten letter in which Prescott expresses his satisfaction at Chandler's re-election. He also asks Chandler to use his influence to refute allegations made to Governor William Burnet of Massachusetts concerning his (Prescott's) position on several issues, in particular a regular salary for the royal governor.

ArchivalResource: 1 ALS ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52444333 View

Great Britain. Sovereign (1714-1727 : George I). Warrant : London, 1725 May 31.

Title: Warrant : London, 1725 May 31.

Directs Governor William Burnet to swear in Philip Livingston as a member of the Council of New York in place of Gerardus Beckman, deceased. Signed by the King and countersigned by the Duke of Newcastle as secretary of state.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490199 View

Maass, Richard, 1919-1998,. The Richard Maass collection of Westchester and New York State, 1645-1910 (bulk 1770-1783).

Title: The Richard Maass collection of Westchester and New York State, 1645-1910 (bulk 1770-1783).

Collection consists of over three hundred autograph letters, documents, and newspapers which chronicle the early history of New York State from its colonization by the Dutch to the mid-nineteenth century. The collection is, however, particularly rich in materials relating to the Revolutionary War and can provide researchers with multiple perspectives on significant events and individual military campaigns. For example, the Battle of White Plains is amply documented in the collection through correspondence from participants and observers, as well as in contemporary newspaper accounts. The arrangement of the collection, for the most part, has followed Maass's own organization. With a few exceptions, each item has been listed and described individually in the finding aid. Any additional information that has been provided by Maass regarding a specific document has been retained and placed in a folder which has been filed immediately behind the folder containing the document to which it relates. Almost every folder for each item in the collection contained a one to two page description of the document, as well as other ancillary materials such as transcriptions and/or translations of documents by Maass. These folders also occasionally contained provenance information. Any additions to the collection are to be processed as separate accretions. In addition to autograph letters and historical documents, the Maass Collection contained a small amount of printed materials. These chiefly consisted of over thirty different early American, British, and French newspapers, dating mainly from the eighteenth century, which have been organized as a separate series (Series V).

ArchivalResource: 12 linear ft. (20 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476113644 View

Burnet, William, 1688-1729. [Document] 1721 Dec. 6, New York / W. Burnet.

Title: [Document] 1721 Dec. 6, New York / W. Burnet.

Inventory of the estate of Johannes Swame, of Richmond County, New York.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175301317 View

Burnet William signed legal oath taken by Theophilius Elsworth, 1723

Title: Burnet William signed legal oath taken by Theophilius Elsworth 1723

Legal document concerning the power or attorney for the estate of the late John Dunmore of Barbados.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/8029 View

Burnet, William, 1688-1729. Document signed : New York, 1726 Mar. 29.

Title: Document signed : New York, 1726 Mar. 29.

Being the administration of the estate of John Scott granted to his son, the widow having renounced the same.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270536641 View

Royal Society (Great Britain) letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900, 1662-1900

Title: Royal Society (Great Britain) letters and communications from Americans, 1662-1900 1662-1900

This collection includes letters to and from Americans (including South America and the West Indies) and letters about America selected from the Society's manuscripts (Classified Papers, Letter Books, Letters and Papers, Royal Society Letters, Miscellaneous Correspondence, and other official groups) and from collections of private papers (Sir Charles Blagden, William Buckland, John Canton, Sir John F. W. Herschel, Sir Edward Sabine, and others). The documents range in time and character from John Winthrop, Jr., "A Description of the Artifice & Making of Tarr & Pitch in New England" (1662), to letters from Sir Thomas Edward Thorne to his wife describing the American West, where he was on a surveying party in the 1880s.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.H.S.Film.1-ead.xml View

Alexander, James, 1691-1756. Records and accounts, 1719-1747.

Title: Records and accounts, 1719-1747.

A volume containing letters, copies of letters, receipts, accounts, and misc. memoranda relating to Alexander's work in behalf of the children of Gov. Robert Hunter and Gov. William Burnet, including minutes kept by Alexander which record travels, meetings, and various transactions relating to the same matter, and some personal affairs. Most entries are dated in the 1740s.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (200 p.) ; 9 x 13 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658532 View

Richard Maass Collection of Westchester and New York State, Bulk, 1645-1910, 1645-1995 (Bulk: 1645-1910)

Title: Richard Maass Collection of Westchester and New York State Bulk, 1645-1910 1645-1995 (Bulk: 1645-1910)

Richard Maass, a Westchester County resident, NYU alumnus and highly successful investment banker, was active in the political and educational affairs of New York and Westchester (Mayor of White Plains in 1974 and Westchester County Historian, 1974-1981). Maass amassed this unique collection of historical documents over a fifty-year period. It contains more than three hundred items relating to the early history of New York State, with a particular focus on the American Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 12.0 Linear feet; (21 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/maass/maass.html View

George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727. LS : London, to William Burnet, 1724 Feb. 7.

Title: LS : London, to William Burnet, 1724 Feb. 7.

Orders the preparation of letters patent for James Alexander as attorney general of New Jersey. Countersigned by John Carteret, secretary of state.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122633544 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VI, miscellany, 1774-1807

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VI, miscellany, 1774-1807

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume VI 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 of: Washington Irving, Benjamin Franklin (2), Israel Putnam, Robert Rogers (2), Benjamin Lincoln, Govenor Morris, John Glover, Thomas Paine, Hugh Percy (Duke of Northumberland), William Alexander (Lord Sterling), Henry Lee (2), Lord Howe, Hugh Mercer, [Thomas Paine], Lambert Cadwalader, King George III, Marquis Cornwallis, Edmund Burke, Tench Tilghman, Henry Knox, Philemon Dickinson, Lord George Germaine, Robert Morris, Anthony Wayne, John Hancock, Horatio Gates, Tadeusz Ko sciuszko, Josiah Meigs. Prints of: East View of Hell Gate, in the Province of New York; Der Einzug der Königlichen Völker in Neu Yorck/L'Entré triumphale de Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck (colored); The Bevrley [sic] Robinson House Garrisons, Hudson River; Incendie de New-York; View from Fort Putnam; Lake George; [Capture of Gen. Lee]; The American General Lee taken Prisoner by Lieutenant Colonel Harcourt of the English Army, in Morris Country, New Jersey, 1776; The Battle Ground at Trenton; Washington Crossing the Delaware; Battle of Assunpink; [Battle of Trenton]; Surrender of Col. Rall [sic] at the Battle of Trenton; [five engravings depicting various scenes from the struggle for independence, with captions in German]; Battle of Princeton--Death of Mercer; A View of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall; View of the Old City Hall, Wall St. in the year 1789; The Jersey Prison Shop; Characteristic Scenery of the Hudson River. Letters of: ALS, Benjamin Lincoln to Gen. Thomas, June 16, 1775; ALS, Nathaniel Greene to William Gibbons, [n.d.]; A[aman.]LS, Col. William Grayson to [?], December 16, 1782; ALS, Joseph Reed to Ralph Izard, December 3, 1782; ALS, Gen. William Heath to Maj. Gen. Phillips, April 16, 1778; Joseph Reed to Gen. Ward, August 24, 1775; Joseph Reed to Council Chambers, September 7, 1781; ALS, Williams Heath to Maj. Gen. Phillips, April 21, 1778; AL, [James Monroe] to [?], [n.d.]; ALS, George Weedon to Maj. Gen. Baron von Steuben, March 4, 1787; ALS, Joseph Reed to Archibald McClean, April 8, 1781; ALS, Robert Morris to Robert Gilmor & Co., December 10, 1789; ALS, John Fitzgerald to [?], October 10, 1781; John Armstrong to [Col. Richard Butter], November 1, 1782; ALS, Benjamin Rush to Orchard Cook, November 11, 1807; ALS, Benjamin Rush to Dr. Peabody, [n.d.]; AL[frag. return address only], Gen. William Heath to [?], February 17, 1781; ALS, Tench Tilghman to [?], December 10, 1781; ALS, Robert Morris to John Nicholson, June 13, 1798; A[aman.]LS John Hancock to Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, June 14, 1791 (also signed by Samuel Phillips and David Cobb). Documents: ADS, [Receipt for sum of six pounds received by Roger Morris from Jacob Knofper], December 8, 1774; ADS, [Petition on behalf of James Reed--John Sprague, agent], [n.d.]; ADS,, [Statements (3) concerning payment of monies due, signed by Benjamin Lincoln], June 16, 1775 and March 25, 1779;D[form]S, [Blank license for a public house, Supreme Executive Council, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, signed by Thomas Mifflin and Charles Biddle], [n.d.]; ADS, [Receipt for payment received by James Chalmers from Charles Cone, signed by James Chanlmer, John Cadwalader, and William Caxton], [n.d.]; A[aman.]DS, [Appointment by King George II of Richard Waldron to office in New Hampshire, signed by William Burnet], May 14, [1728]; AD, [Accounts rendered], Feb. 23, 1777. Map of: Part of New Jersey &c.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (77 items).

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/2100933 View

Mather, Samuel, 1706-1785. Letters, 1689-1790.

Title: Letters, 1689-1790.

Letters of Congregational minister Samuel Mather (1706-1785) to his son Samuel (1737-1813) during the latter's service with Provincial forces at Fort Edward during the French and Indian War; in Quebec as Commissary until the change from military to civil rule and Mather Jr.'s return to Boston (1771); and to him in England and Wales as an American refugee during and following the Revolution. Mather's letters discuss family and local Boston news, the progress of the French and Indian War, reaction to the Stamp Act (1765) and its later repeal, fatherly advice and concern for his son, and disapproval at his choice of loyalties and flight from the U.S. (Cont.) Also, correspondence between Thomas Hutchinson Jr. and Mather Jr. regarding money matters and stipends for refugees; a document on "The Case of Samuel Mather ..., an American Refugee" (1790); and earlier letters to and from Judge Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) and from Cotton Mather. Additional correspondents include William Burnet and Edmund Quincy (1861-1738).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19330849 View

Hunter, Robert, 1666-1734. Robert Hunter papers, 1699, 1710-1744.

Title: Robert Hunter papers, 1699, 1710-1744.

Correspondence and papers, 1699 and 1710-1744, of colonial governor Robert Hunter.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 200 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58782963 View

Burnet, William, 1688-1729. Document signed : New York, 1724 Nov. 3.

Title: Document signed : New York, 1724 Nov. 3.

Concerning the estate of John Harbending and the administrator, David Cozart.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270536635 View

Carteret, John, Earl Granville, 1690-1763. LS : London, to William Burnet, 1723 Jan. 16.

Title: LS : London, to William Burnet, 1723 Jan. 16.

At the request of George Ingoldesby, Carteret asks the governor of New Jersey to see to the payment of back salary due to Ingoldesby's father Richard, late lieutenant governor, and to John Pinhorne, clerk of the Assembly.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122591508 View

New Jersey Historical Society. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1664-1956

Title: Manuscript Group 25, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1664-1956

Correspondence and other documents of the following persons, many prominent in New Jersey history: Samuel Aaron, A.J. Auten, Frank Bergen, Elias Boudinot, Joseph P. Bradley, Benjamin Brewster, Viscount James Bryce, James Buchanan, William Burnet, John Calvert, Frederick A. Canfield, Philip Carteret, Joseph R. Chandler, Abraham Clark (1726-1794), Grover Cleveland, William Colgate, Silas Condict (1766-1848), Franklin Conklin, Henry Cothreal, Philemon Dickerson, Amzi Dodd (1793-1838), Zephaniah Drake, Alfred E. Driscoll, William Duer, Thomas Alva Edison, Lucius Q.C. Elmer, Edward Everett, Cyrus W. Field, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Philip Freneau, Jay Gould, Charles J. Guiteau, Edward Everett Hale, Alexander Hamilton, Francis Hopkinson, Josiah Hornblower, Richard Howell, Edward Hyde (Lord Cornbury), J.N. Joralemon, Philip Livingston, William Livingston, John D. Long, Seth Low, George B. McClellan (1826-1885), Alexander Macwhorter, James Monroe, Robert Morris (ca. 1745-1815), and William A. Newell, Charles S. Olden, Cortlandt Parker, James Parker (1725-1797), William Paterson, (1745-1806), William Pennington, Mahlon Pitney, Rodman M. Price, William Rankin, Henry Remsen, and John D. Rockefeller. Other persons represented include Caesar Rodney, John Rutherford (1760-1840), Winfield Scott, Jared Sparks, James Speed, Richard Stockton (1764-1828), Edward C. Stokes, Charles C. Stratton, J.S. Sutter, Daniel D. Tompkins, Joseph Trumbull, Samuel Tucker, George Vail, Elias Van Arsdale, Ralph Voorhees, Peter Dumont Vroom, Theodore Dwight Weld, William A. Whitehead, William Carlos Williams, John Wood, George Wurts, George Wythe, and Isaac Young.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet

https://jerseyhistory.org/0025-2 View

Bond, William, Capt. To His Excellency William Burnet Esqr. Captain General & Comm[andr. in Chief of] his Majesties Provinces of New York and New Jer[sies] and Territorie[s] depending [thereon] in America and Vice Admiral of [????] This Draught of Hudson's River is [Respectfully dedicated] by [Wil]liam Bond Anno 172[1].

Title: To His Excellency William Burnet Esqr. Captain General & Comm[andr. in Chief of] his Majesties Provinces of New York and New Jer[sies] and Territorie[s] depending [thereon] in America and Vice Admiral of [????] This Draught of Hudson's River is [Respectfully dedicated] by [Wil]liam Bond Anno 172[1]. 1721.

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 1 parchment skin, dissected into 3 pieces : ms., col. ; 64 x 212 cm., from skin 81 x 81 cm. or larger. + cloth backing (64 x 212 cm.), 1 text.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55100486 View

Burnet, William, 1688-1729. William Burnet papers, 1720-1742 (bulk 1720-1729).

Title: William Burnet papers, 1720-1742 (bulk 1720-1729).

Three folders (62 items) of mostly official signed documents from Burnet's tenure as governor of New York and New Jersey, including land grants, warrants for letters patent, memorials, leases, receipts, bills, and lists of accounts. James Alexander is a frequent co-signer and correspondent, and the collection also includes several bonds from Alexander to Burnet for fairly large sums of money. A few later documents discuss the distribution of Barnet's estate.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders (62 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706457818 View

Miller, George Julius, 1895-1974. Papers, 1724-1960.

Title: Papers, 1724-1960.

Scrapbooks concerning Perth Amboy, Jewish life, and the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey; card files, notes, and writings on New Jersey colonial history and law; page proofs with marginal notes and corrections; bills, petitions, dockets, and other original court records of the Chancery of New Jersey (1724-1748), and of Middlesex County Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (1744); documents signed by James Alexander, William Burnet, Fenwick Lyell, and Lewis Morris (1691-1746); and material on court cases pertaining to John Bowne, Daniel Coxe, Richard Salter, James Seabrook, and others.

ArchivalResource: 6 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954798 View