Elting and Bevier family papers, [ca. 1677-1879]

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Elting and Bevier family papers, [ca. 1677-1879]

Deeds, surveys, legal and financial papers, letters, memoranda, and notebooks primarily of Roeloff Josias Elting and Nathaniel Bevier; other families represented include the DuBois, the LeFevre, and the Hasbrouck. Of note are undated field books to tracts and lots in the New Paltz patent; undated copybook of Simeon De Witt, Surveyor General of New York State; receipt and agreement concerning the Reformed Church in New Paltz, 1774-1790; register of poor persons applying for relief, 1790; notebook of Roeloff Josias Elting, 1768; letter to General Cantine from William G. Rogers concerning the death of Nathaniel Bevier, 1795; and Elting and Bevier family and business letters, 1773-1824.

ca. .3 cubic ft.

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DuBois family.

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Bevier, Nathaniel.

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New York (State). Surveyor General

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Through an 1819 law the legislature appointed Governor DeWitt Clinton, Surveyor General Simeon DeWitt, Secretary of State John V.N. Yates, Senator Martin Van Buren, Edmund C. Genet, George Tibbits, and Townsend McCoun as commissioners to study and report to the legislature on navigation of the Hudson River. From the description of Maps produced for the Commissioners to Report a Plan for Improving the Navigation of the Hudson River, 1820-1830, bulk 1820. (New York State Archives). Wor...

Bevier family.

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Elting, Jacob.

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LeFevre family.

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Hasbrouck family.

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De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834

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Served as surveyor general of New York State from 1784 until his death in 1834. From the description of Letters : to Augustus Porter and Major Donald Fraser, 1828, 1832. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 57182677 Surveyor; graduated from Queens College (now Rutgers University), 1776; served as Assistant Geographer of the Army, 1778-1780, and as Chief Geographer of the Army, 1780-1783; served as Surveyor General of New York, 1784-1834. From the descrip...

Reformed Church of New Paltz, New York

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Elting family.

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Rogers, William, Gent.

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Elting, Roeloff Josias, d. 1795.

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