Jacob Morris papers, 1789-1916.

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Jacob Morris papers, 1789-1916.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58783024

Correspondence and papers, 1789-1916, of Jacob Morris and other members of his family. Letters to Jacob Morris during the 1790s, when he was a state legislator, discuss politics; other letters, dating from the early nineteenth century, are mainly concerned with business related to his landholdings in Otsego County (N.Y.). The collection includes deeds, mortgages, surveys, and a tax assessment roll for Butternuts (N.Y.), ca. 1824. Other papers relate to his son, Richard Morris, and include an invitation to Richard Morris to act as pallbearer at James Fenimore Cooper's funeral. Much of the other material relates to Richard Morris's daughter, Euphemia; her husbands, Augustus N. Saltus, August Vence, and John Albert Machado; and her children, Richard Morris Saltus, Anna Lloyd Saltus, and Lewis Morris Johnston Machado. Some family letters discussing her divorce from August Vence are included. John A. Machado's papers include business letters, a few in Portuguese, discussing his trade with other U.S. cities and the West Indies in the 1850s. The collection also contains papers dealing with the Fenno, Upton, and Johnston families. As well as correspondence and papers relating to landholdings, the collection contains legal papers related to litigation about family wills, including the will of Francis Upton, father of Richard Morris's wife Frances Mary; certificates of baptisms, confirmation and marriage; a Portuguese passport; and miscellaneous printed ephemera.

0.8 linear feet (2 boxes)

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Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

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James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. He lived much of his boyhood and the last fifteen years of life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William Cooper on property that he owned. Cooper became a member of the Episcopal Church shortly befo...

Saltus, Augustus Nicholas.

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Vence, August.

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Saltus, Richard Morris.

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Upton family.

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Morris, Jacob, 1755-1844

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New York State legislator and Otsego County pioneer; son of Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence. From the description of Jacob Morris papers, 1789-1916. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58783024 Attorney. Jacob Morris, of Butternuts, Otsego County, New York, served as Brigadier General in the Revolutionary War, a New York State Senator, Clerk of Otsego County, and was a land agent. From the description of Jac...

Machado, Lewis Morris Johnston.

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Johnston family.

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Machado, Euphemia Morris, 1825-1891.

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Machado, John Albert, 1818-1894.

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Morris, Richard, 1782-1865.

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Upton, Francis

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Epithet: MD; of Sloane MS 4061 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x00016e Epithet: Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000506.0x00016c ...

Fenno family.

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Morris family.

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Saltus, Anna Lloyd.

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