Pierpont Edwards papers 1764-1826

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Pierpont Edwards papers 1764-1826

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1357

These papers contain legal and financial documents relating to Edwards's business activities and his legal career, most of which was carried on in New Haven. Also included are drafts of his political writings and speeches on the Federalist Party, Connecticut's charter government, and other topics. Most of Edwards's correspondence concerns his land speculation in Vermont, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and especially Connecticut's Western Reserve in Ohio. Major correspondents are William Neilson, John Read, Jr., Aaron Burr, Seth Tracy, Simon Perkins and George Swift. Edwards's correspondence with John Read, Jr. and a number of the legal documents reflect his activities as a special agent appointed to settle Loyalist claims following the Revolutionary War under the terms of the Jay Treaty.

3.5 linear feet (6 boxes, 1 folio)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6351292

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Edwards, Pierpont, 1750-1826

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sg3nb8 (person)

Pierpont Edwards (April 8, 1750 – April 5, 1826) was a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Born on April 8, 1750, in Northampton, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America, Edwards graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1768. He entered private practice in New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British America (State of Connecticut, United States f...

Perkins, Simon, 1771-1844

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68x1989 (person)

Surveyor, soldier, and banker, of Ohio. Perkins was highly instrumental in the settlement of the Western Reserve (Ohio) and in the founding of the city of Akron, Ohio. From the description of Papers, 1801-1919. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 18375963 Simon Perkins (1771-1844) was a surveyor, soldier, land agent, postmaster, and banker who played a major role in the early development of the Western Reserve. Born on September 17, 1771 to Simon...

Swift, George, 1796-1845.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6088jnr (person)

Neilson, William, 1774-1821

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62n7ffv (person)

Read, John, 1769-1854

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67h1t0g (person)

John Read was a lawyer, financier, and philanthropist in Philadelphia, Pa. Born in 1769, he was the son of George Read and Gertrude Ross. He graduated from the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in 1787 and then studied law in his father's office in New Castle, Delaware. Read was admitted to the bar in 1791. In 1789, he moved to Philadelphia and married Martha Meredith. Read was appointed Agent General of the United States under the Jay Treaty in 1794. He served in that capacity until 1809. Read ...

Botsford, Amos, 1744-1812.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61c60x9 (person)

Burr, Aaron, 1716-1757

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60g4xnv (person)

Clergyman and college president. From the description of Deed for sale of land in Fairfield township, Conn., 1738. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452376 Aaron Burr was born on January 4, 1716, to Daniel and Elizabeth Burr in Upper Meadows, Connecticut. He excelled in languages and sciences at Yale College, from which he graduated in 1735. He stayed at Yale for an additional year to study theology, supported by the Berkeley Foundation, during which he became in...

Tracy, Seth.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tk1bsz (person)