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Riggs, Caleb S. Autograph letter signed : (New York), to Messrs. Le Roy Bayard & McEvers, 1800 Dec. 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed : (New York), to Messrs. Le Roy Bayard & McEvers, 1800 Dec. 30.

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

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Hornblower family. Papers, 1760-1900.

Title: Papers, 1760-1900.

Correspondence, legal papers, court records, sermons, and genealogical material. Persons represented include Josiah Hornblower (1729-1809), British engineer who constructed the first steam engine in America at John Schuyler's copper mine in Belleville, N.J., and served as a member of the New Jersey Legislature (1779-1780) and New Jersey Council (1781-1784); Joseph C. Hornblower (1777-1864), Newark lawyer, who served as chief justice of New Jersey Supreme Court (1832-1846), was active in home and foreign missionary societies, and was the first president of New Jersey Historical Society; and his son, William H. Hornblower (1820-1883), pastor, First Presbyterian Church of Paterson (1844-1871), and professor of sacred rhetoric, pastoral theology, and church government at Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church, Allegheny, Pa. (1871-1883). Includes letters of D.S. Baldwin, John Beatty, John L. Blake, Joseph P. Bradley, Abraham Brittin, Peter Carter, Salmon P. Chase, Samuel H. Cox, William L. Dayton, Benjamin Drew, Richard Stockton Field, Charles Hodge, William Holmes, C.W. Hornblower, Jonathan Hornblower, William Churchill Houston, Thomas D. Hoxsey, John Kinney, Jr., Charles Kip, Nicholas Longworth, Joseph Mico, James S. Nevius, William C. Noyes, David Bayard Ogden, William Pennington, Henry W. Pickering, Caleb S. Riggs, Sylvester D. Russell, Gerrit Smith, Henry Van Dyke, Jr., L.A. Ward, Ira C. Whitehead, William A. Whitehead, and Philip Williams.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft.

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Fitch, John, 1743-1798. John Fitch papers, 1783-1854.

Title: John Fitch papers, 1783-1854.

Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, surveyor's notes, steamboat sketches, drafts of writings, printed matter, and miscellany. The papers relate chiefly to Fitch's development and promotion of the steamboat, though there is also material relating to his earlier surveying work in Ohio. Also includes some papers of architect William Thornton (1759-1828). Correspondents include Joshua Anderson, John James Beckley, Robert Fulton, Josiah Hornblower, Thomas Hutchins, Thomas Johnson, William Samuel Johnson, Jonathan Longstreth, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, Charles Pettit, Edmund Randolph, Caleb S. Riggs, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Say, and William Thornton.

ArchivalResource: 700 items.3 containers.3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981153 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.

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