The papers of James Kent [microform]. 1779-1854.

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The papers of James Kent [microform]. 1779-1854.

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Correspondence (including family letters), journals of official and personal travels, diplomas, and commissions of James Kent, jurist and legal commentator. Concentrated in the years 1798-1847, the papers reflect Kent's service as judge of the New York Supreme Court and as chancellor of the N.Y. Court of Chancery. Much of the correspondence is with his wife, Elizabeth, his brother, Moss Kent, Jr., his brother-in-law, Theodorus Bailey, and his son William Kent. A letter to Mrs. Alexander Hamilton (1832) includes the draft of Kent's Memories of Alexander Hamilton. Includes reminiscences of Kent, written in 1847 by Simeon Baldwin for Kent's sons; a register of lawsuits entered by the law firms of Livingston and Kent and Livingston and Thompson; and letters of or to John Quincy Adams, Simeon Baldwin, George Bancroft, Nicholas Biddle, William Carroll, Henry Clay, David Daggett, Edward Wverett, William Johnson, Francis lieber, William H. Seward, Daniel Webster, and William Wirt.

ca. 1500 items (on 7 microfilm reels)

Ohio Northern University, Taggart Law Library

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Ohio Northern University, Taggart Law Library

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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The Manuscript Division was one of several "departments" established in 1897 when the Library of Congress moved from the United States Capitol to a separate building nearby. Its staff of four assumed custody of a collection of twenty-five thousand manuscripts which had accumulated throughout the nineteenth century, chiefly through the purchase in 1867 of Peter Force's collection of Americana, the gift in 1882 of Joseph M. Toner's collection relating to George Washington and American medical hist...

Kent, James, 1763-1847

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These maps were compiled over a period of years by Chancellor Kent, a well-known American jurist who was a dominant state supreme court judge in New York throughout the Federalist era. The extensive manuscript annotations are in his hand. These notes are often dated, some as early as the 1820s and others as late as 1840. It is unclear what prompted Kent to assemble this volume, but a possible reason was his interest in missionary activities, often referred to in the notes, which display an intim...