James Carson Brevoort letters and miscellany 1864-1890

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James Carson Brevoort letters and miscellany 1864-1890

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7743

Letters from Brevoort, a contemporary obituary, and pages from auction catalogs of Brevoort's library.

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6315214

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Brevoort, James Carson, 1818-1887

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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...