Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt collection, 1737-1841.

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Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt collection, 1737-1841.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155477104

Miscellaneous deeds, bonds, and accounts for members of the Vanderbilt family of Flatbush. Also includes the arbitrator's report on the boundary dispute between Flatbush and Brooklyn, 1841; and a slave bill from Michael Vreeland to Sejtie Hegeman, 1783.

24 items.

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6875403

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Vanderbilt family.

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Hegeman, Sejtie.

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Vreeland, Michael.

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Vanderbilt, Gertrude Lefferts, 1824-

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The Vanderbilt family originated from the Netherlands and settled in Flatbush, Kings County, New York in the late seventeenth century; Jan Aersen van der Bilt is the first Vanderbilt documented in 1640. The Vanderbilts whose material appears in this collection include Jeremias Vanderbilt (b. 1695), Jacob Vanderbilt (b. 1692), John Vanderbilt (b. 1752), and John Vanderbilt (b. 1794), among others. Jeremias Vanderbilt (b. 1695) was the child of Aris Janse van der Bilt and ...