Papers, 1700-1919, 1812-1919 (bulk)

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Papers, 1700-1919, 1812-1919 (bulk)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155449706

Collection consists of Davenport family correspondence, 1812-1919, deeds, bonds, receipts, other legal documents, and business papers for the family. Besides Amzi Davenport, there are frequent references made to his son Henry B. Davenport, his grandson Maurice Davenport, and his nephew Benjamin Butler Davenport. Also additional items of Daniel M. Tredwell, and of Amos Lufkin, and the Benedict family, who were related to the Davenports by marriage.

400 items.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6871440

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Lufkin, Amos.

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Davenport, Benjamin Butler.

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Davenport family.

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Amzi Davenport (b.1817), Brooklyn real estate dealer, was founder of the Willoughby Street Academy, and genealogist of the Davenport family. From the description of Papers, 1700-1919, 1812-1919 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155449706 ...

Davenport, Henry B. (Henry Bedinger), 1865-1958

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The Davenport family of Brooklyn descended from the Reverend John Davenport, a Puritan minister who helped found the colony of New Haven and Yale University. Amzi B. Davenport (1817-1894), the son of William Davenport and Abigail Benedict, moved from Connecticut to Brooklyn in 1836. In Brooklyn, he opened the Willoughby Street Academy, served as a deacon of Plymouth Church, and worked in real estate in his later years. Amzi Davenport was also the author of The History and Genealogy ...

Davenport, Maurice.

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Benedict family.

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Tredwell, Daniel M. (Daniel Melancthon), 1826-1921

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Daniel Melancthon Tredwell (1826-1921) was a lawyer, Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn, officer of the Home Title Insurance Company of Brooklyn and, most relevant for this collection, author of local histories concerning Brooklyn and Long Island. He was born near Freeport, L.I. and died in Brooklyn. He was a member of the Long Island Historical Society (now the Brooklyn Historical Society), the Kings County Historical Society and the American Ethnological Society, among other organiza...

Davenport, Amzi, b. 1817.

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