Papers, 1767-1808.

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Papers, 1767-1808.

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Papers of Dyckman and his wife Elizabeth Corne Dyckman, include letters, ledgers, diaries, accounts, bills, bonds, releases, mortgages, memoranda, agreements, inventories, and Dyckman's records from his service with the Quarter Master General of the British Army; many of the papers relate to his residence in England in 1779-1781, 1782-1788, and 1800-1803, where he was acting on behalf of Sir William Erskine, William Dalrymple, and others in the Quarter Master's office during a public investigation of their financial affairs, and to his efforts to obtain recompense for his work. Other subjects include quartering and supplying British troops during the Revolution in New York and South Carolina, problems of American loyalists after the Revolution, Dyckman's business and financial affairs, marital problems of his sister Catalina and her husband Daniel Hale, agriculture, affairs of the Dyckman family and relatives in Westchester County, and work on Boscobel. Also, sizable correspondence between Dyckman and his wife Elizabeth during his last trip to England, 1800-1803, discussing their feelings at being separated, his counsel and advice to her, their children, gifts he sent home, and the materials he purchased to outfit their home at Boscobel. Other correspondents include Stephen DeLancey, Abraham Cuyler, John Kortright, William Erskine and his son, John Wintle, Jr., George Pollock, William Adam (Treasurer of Ordnance in England), William Cobbett, and Peter Van Schaack.

1.5 cubic ft. (ca. 250 items)

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Kortright, John.

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Hale, Daniel J.

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Van Schaack, Peter, 1747-1832

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Lawyer, non-supporter of the American Revolution, banished from the colonies in 1778, returned to the United States in 1785. From the description of Letter, 1795 February 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122487944 Peter van Schaack was a Loyalist during the American Revolution and moved to Britain during the war, returning to New York circa 1785. From the description of Peter van Schaack correspondence, 1786-1804. (Wisconsin Historical Society Archives). WorldCa...

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Hale, Catalina.

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Pollock, George H.

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Great Britain. Army. Quarter Master General.

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Adam, William, 1751-1839

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British lawyer and politician. From the guide to the William Adam letters, 1800-1831, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Wintle, John, Jr.

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Dyckman, Elizabeth Corne, 1776-1823.

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Delancey, Stephen.

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Cuyler, Abraham, 1742-1810

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