Constable-Pierrepont papers

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Constable-Pierrepont papers

1762-1911

https://archives.nypl.org/mss/646

Collection consists of correspondence, business records, personal papers, and other materials of the Constable, Pierrepont and Clarkson families and of William Bell. The larger part of the Pierrepont papers is composed of the personal and business letters, 1795-1838, of Hezekiah Pierrepont; letters and papers relating to French Spoilation Claims; some correspondence of his wife, Anna Maria Constable; the accounts of Leffingwell & Pierrepont; papers relating to Hezekiah Pierrepont's speculation in land; notes on the trade with China, India, Pulco Pinang, and the Malay Settlements; the account books of his father, John Pierpont; and correspondence, accounts, land papers, field and plat books of his sons, William C. Pierrepont and Henry Evelyn Pierrepont. This section also includes some letters, accounts and legal papers of later members of the Pierrepont family. The remainder of the collection consists of the papers of the Clarkson Family, the papers, 1806-1856, of William Bell who was a friend and business colleague of Hezekiah Pierrepont, and some accounts of Pfister & Macomb and Wells & Wagenen. The William Bell Papers include letters, account books compiled on trading journeys to the Orient, land papers, accounts, letters and legal papers relating to his estate, poems and other writings, and newsclippings.

52 linear feet (44 boxes, 81 v.)

eng, Latn

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 8351491

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816

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Constable, Anne L. (Anne Louise)

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Truxton, Thomas.

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Constable, James H.

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Constable, Anna Maria.

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Constable, William Kerin, 1752-1803.

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Macomb, Alexander, 1782-1841

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Leffingwell & Pierrepont.

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Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn.

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Pierrepont family.

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Wells & Wagenen.

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Morris, R. J. (Robert John)

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Pierrepont, William C.

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Ingraham, Nathaniel G. (Nathaniel Gibbs), 1760 or 1761-1827

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Bell, William.

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Clarkson family.

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Pfister & Macomb.

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Constable, John, 1939-

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