Postal data: posted; postmarked, Hubbardsville, N.Y. and Glens Falls, N.Y., 1905; stamp (one center Thomas Jefferson [inverted]; POST CARD logo.; Postcard type: undivided back; Addressee: [Louis Potter Esq., 7 Birch Ave., Glens Falls, N.Y.] [back]
Recommendation for Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton to appoint Amos B. Merrill of Boston to the position of agent under the "resolves relating to the imprisonment of citizens of this commonwealth in other states" of March 24, 1843. List of...
African American children--New York (State)--New York; African Americans--Education--New York (State)--New York; Public Schools--New York (State)--New York; Schools--New York (state); Slavery--New York (State)--New York
These records cover the latter portion of the African Free-Schools' existence, ending two years before oversight for the schools was transferred to the Public School Society. They relate to classroom observation, student performance, behavior and...
African American children--New York (State)--Richmond County; Registers of births, etc.--New York (State)--Richmond County; Slaves--New York (State)--Richmond County; Slavery--New York (State)--Richmond County; Slaves--Emancipation--New York...
Birth records and deeds of manumission for African American children in the town of Castleton, Staten Island, N.Y. between 1799 and 1827.
Bradstreet, Martha, b. 1780--Trials, litigation, etc.; Bradstreet, John, 1711-1774--Estate; Livius, Elizabeth, d. ca. 1794--Estate; Schuyler, Peter; Morgan, Charles, fl. 1795; Bradstreet family; Real property--New York (State)--New York; Utica...
Papers, 1774-1868, mainly consisting of correspondence and legal documents relating to Martha Bradsteets attempts to regain title to land in Utica (N.Y.), which was originally part of the property of General John Bradstreet, the stepfather of...
Brown, Mary Guion, 1782-1871; Brown, Samuel,b. 1781 or 2; Brown family; Haight family; Hobby family; Knapp family; Lounsbury family; Searle family; Smith family; Young women--United States--Diaries; North Castle (N.Y.)--Social life and...
Diary kept by Mary Guion Brown (1800-1852, bulk 1800-1808). Beginning when she was 17, she records, in considerable detail, the personal and social life of a young girl in Westchester County, N.Y., including daily activities, her efforts to...
Canal Fund; Commissioners; Report; Financing; Revenue; Tayler, John; De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834; M'Intyre, Archibald, 1772-1859; Dox, Gerrit L.; Yates, J. V. N.; Oakley, Thomas J.; New York (State); Erie Canal; Report
A three page report of the Commissioners of the Canal Fund presented to the New York State Legislature In Assembly, January 7, 1820 and submitted by John Tayler, Simeon De Witt, Archibald M'Intyre, Gerrit L. Dox, J. V. N. Yates, and Thomas J....
Six-page letter from J. H. Stringfellow, Virginian slave owner and resident of Atchinson [Kansas], to a political leader [probably Kansas Territory Governor Robert J. Walker] in oppostition to the adoption of the Lecompton Constitution.
Durant, Thomas J.(Thomas Jefferson),1817-1882; United states--Politics and government--1865-1877; Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950
Nine letters from various correspondents to Thomas Jefferson Durant, a lawyer and Louisiana state senator, and one of the few prominent Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War. After the war he practiced in Washington D.C.
Gray, Ebenezer, 1743-1795; Barker, Samuel Augustus, 1756-1819; Booth, Ashbel; Humphrys, David, Colonel; Gray, Charlotte, 1789-1873; Gray, Ebenezer, Jr., 1787-1844; Gray, Samuel, 1792-1834; Putnam, Israel, 1718-1790; Society of the Cincinnati;...
Letters, certificates, land grants and military orders pertaining to the life of Ebenezer Gray of Connecticut. Items include Grays commissions as major (dated 1777, signed by John Hancock) and lieutenant-colonel in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment...
New York State Legislature; Route; Construction; Excavation; Embankment; Locks; Aqueducts; Contractors; Damages; Shipping; Expenditures; Erie Canal; Commissioners; Champlain Canal; Clinton, Dewitt, 1769-1828; Rensselaer, Stephen Van, 1764-1839;...
Title page of a forty-six page annual report of the canal commissioners communicated to the legislature on January 15, 1819. This report was addressed to the New York State Legislature in obedience to the act entitiled "An act respecting navigable...
New York State Legislature; Route; Construction; Excavation; Embankment; Locks; Aqueducts; Contractors; Damages; Shipping; Expenditures; Erie Canal; Commissioners; Champlain Canal; Clinton, Dewitt, 1769-1828; Rensselaer, Stephen Van, 1764-1839;...
Final page of a forty-six page annual report of the canal commissioners communicated to the legislature on January 15, 1819. This report was addressed to the New York State Legislature in obedience to the act entitiled "An act respecting navigable...
New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
