Dissosway, Gabriel Poillon, 1799-1868 papers, 1828-1949, 1848-1888 (bulk).

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Dissosway, Gabriel Poillon, 1799-1868 papers, 1828-1949, 1848-1888 (bulk).

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Letters received pertaining to charitable requests, historical information, meeting notices, and quarantine on Sandy Hook, Staten Island, 1849-68; mss. on the emancipation of slaves and the colonization of Liberia, on a trip to the west in 1828, and on the history of Westchester County, New York; clippings of his newspaper column 'Staten Island in the Olden Time', 1865-66, and others pertaining to Staten Island history, 1859-68; and a scrapbook of clippings on religion, slavery, and Liberian colonization, 1850's.

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Dissosway, Gabriel Poillon, 1799-1868.

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Historian, missionary. Dissosway, founder of Randolph Macon College in Boydton, Virginia, in 1830, was a Staten Island resident and historian. From the description of Dissosway, Gabriel Poillon, 1799-1868 papers, 1828-1949, 1848-1888 (bulk). (New York State Historical Documents). WorldCat record id: 155571480 ...