Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
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...
Erie Canal; New York (State); New York; Inland navigation; Finance; Hudson Canal Company; Enlargement; Finance; Tolls; Land Grants; Taxes; Stock certificate
25x19 cm. A New York State 5 per cent stock certificate signed by J. Williams, treasurer, issued to Charles Dening in 1839. Financing of the building and the enlargement of the canal was raised through the issuance of stock certificates,...
Erie Canal; New York (State); New York; New York (State) Stock Certificate; Moran Brothers of New York; Loans; Reimbursements; Canal Department;Joseph, Alexander, Comte de Peurtales; Letter
7.5 cm. x 24.5 cm. Notarized manuscript two page letter from Alexander Joseph, Comte de Peurtales in Geneva, Switzerland appointing the Moran Brothers of New York City as his "true and lawful attorneys to receive the reimbursement of four...
Rensselaer, Stephen Van, 1764–1839; North, William, 1755-1836; Eddy, Thomas, 1758 – 1827; Porter, Peter B. (Peter Buell), 1773-1844; De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834; Commissioners; Expenditures/Expenses; Report; Financing; New York (State); Erie...
A thirty-five page report of the commissioners to explore the route of an inland navigation from the Hudson River to Lakes Ontario and Erie. The commissioners were appointed by joint resolutions of the New York State Senate and Assembly. In 1810,...
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Promotional Materials; Correspondence; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Wingate, George A., d. 1955; McCooey, John H.; Ketcham, Herbert T.
Letter by John H. McCooey correcting misstatements made during the campaign about Surrogate George A. Wingate who had been appointed to finish up the term begun by Surrogate Herbert T. Ketcham.
Minutes from the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Massachusetts A. S. [Anti-Slavery] Society, December 27, 1888 [1838], in which Henry B. Stanton is appointed General Agent of the Society.
Page 1100 from the fifteen page report (pp. 1087-1103) of the committee that was appointed to explore the western waters of New York State in 1792 to examine the state of the Mohawk River from the town of Schenectady to Fort Schuyler. This early...
