Commonplace book from the library of J. Carson Brevoort undated

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Commonplace book from the library of J. Carson Brevoort undated

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1722

A commonplace book mainly consisting of poems by authors both identified and unidentified, occasionally accompanied by remarks from the book's creator; Biblical verses; lessons on grammar; notes on currency, and a "general list of the inhabitants in the Province of New York . . . Dated February 16th 1756." A note on the endpaper dated 1890 states that the volume came from the library of J. Carson Brevoort, and attributes it to his wife, Elizabeth Dorothea Lefferts

.21 linear foot (1 volume)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6311649

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Brevoort, James Carson, 1818-1887

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s2fn6 (person)

James Brevoort was a contemporary of the Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall (1821-1871) who led the United States Whaling and Franklin Search Expedition, 1860-1862. From the guide to the James Brevoort collection, 1875, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) The first members of the Brevoort family in America came from Holland prior to 1655 and soon thereafter settled in Bushwick, then a separate village that would eventually be annexed by t...

Brevoort, Elizabeth Dorthea (Lefferts)

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