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

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

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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.

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