Augustus S. Porter papers, 1803-1854

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Augustus S. Porter papers, 1803-1854

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/652681988

This collection contains the papers of Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), and his uncle Augustus Porter (1769-1849). Includes bill of sale of sloop Niagara (1806) and a letter from Pres. Jackson to Edward Livingston offering to appoint Porter Governor of Michigan Territory (1831).

0.5 linear ft. (1 box)

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7943910

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f29rp1 (person)

Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States. Born on March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaw Settlement in South Carolina; though just a boy, participated in the battle of Hanging Rock during the Revolution, captured by the British and imprisoned. He worked for a time in a saddler's shop and afterward taught school before studying law in Salisbury, N.C. In 1788 he was appointed solicitor of the western district of North Carolina, comprising what is now the State of Tennessee. Upon the admission of T...

Lewiston Railroad Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tj6zn5 (corporateBody)

Porter, Augustus, 1769-1849

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65d9g4h (person)

Surveyor and partner with Benjamin Barton in Porter, Barton and Company, a portage and forwarding firm, and first judge in Niagara County. From the description of Reminiscences of events connected with the early settlement of the west, 1848. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 52728188 From the description of Mortgage, 1814 Aug. 25. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33310813 ...

Canandaigua and Niagara Falls Railroad

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6910g16 (corporateBody)

Porter, Augustus Seymour, 1798-1872

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pk1qm1 (person)

Augustus Porter was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, in January 1769, and moved to Canandaigua, New York, in 1800. He visited the Niagara Falls area in 1795 and soon returned with his brother, Peter B. Porter. The Porter brothers were two of the area's first settlers, and they later owned several boats that traveled on the Great Lakes, as well as a saw mill that they built in 1803. Augustus Porter served on the New York state legislature, and in 1807 founded the firm Porter, Barton & Co., bec...

Niagara (Ship)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67992w0 (corporateBody)

Shipping vessel, out of New York, N.Y., mastered by Latham Croft. From the description of Logbook, 1802. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70975490 ...