Papers, 1760-1879.

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Papers, 1760-1879.

Includes correspondence, legal documents, scrapbook of engineering clippings, lectures, and genealogical notes of the Brevoort family of New York City and Brooklyn. Majority of the material relates to family activities in Manhattan. Also included are a pamphlet relating to the opening of 11th Street in Manhattan and a 1791 petition for a cemetery in New Utrecht.

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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...

Brevoort family.

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James Carson Brevoort was a civil engineer and holder of many public offices in Brooklyn. He was first president of the Long Island Historical Society and established residence in Brooklyn after 1845. From the description of Papers, 1760-1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155460196 ...