Erie Canal; New York (State); New York; Commissioners; Bank of Geneva; Canal Fund; Finance; Flagg, Azariah C. (Azariah Cutting), 1790-1873; Receipt
20 cm. x 8 cm. Bank receipt for money deposited into the Commissioners of the Canal fund drawn on account from the Bank of Geneva. On December 25, 1834, Howard A. C. Flagg, Comptroller, deposited $4,115.90 to the credit of the Commissioners of the...
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...
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 Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Title page of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This report includes both the...
Canal Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Page 4 of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This page includes a table of tolls...
Two-page letter dated June 21, 1854, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn, notifying of the travels of Mrs. Hoyt and Sarah Hoyt, and also giving some abolitionist news. At end, Spooner mentions that, "my lady...
Slaves--Emancipation--Kentucky--Lincoln County; Slaves--Kentucky--Lincoln County; Slavery--Kentucky--Fayette County
Two-page deed of emancipation of the slaves George, Aibry, Mary, William, Henry, Louis, Ajax, and James by their owner John Green in Lincoln County, Kentucky.
Bills of sale; Slaves--Kentucky--Fayette County; Slavery--Kentucky--Fayette County
Two-page bill of sale between David Sayers, William Nancy and George Boon regarding the slaves belonging too Harvey Bledsoe, in Fayette County, Kentucky.
Four-page letter from Lewis Tappan of New York [City] to Theodore D. Weld in Cincinatti, Ohio, regarding Antislavery demonstrations at Lane Seminary that outraged administrators Lyman Beecher and Franklin Youngs Vail. Includes mention of several...
Slavery--Massachusetts--Boston; Petitions--Massachusetts--Boston; Slavery--United States; Slaves--United States
Undated petition signed by c.150 Boston citizens arguring against the removal of Judge [Edward Greely] Loring in 1850 from his appointment as judge for forcing Anthony Burns to return back to slavery in the South.
Unsinged manuscript list of ca. 115 "military actors" in the trial of Anthony Burns, copied from the Boston Courier. Includes names, military title, and occupation with some addresses.
Two-page list of names of fugitive slaves aided by the Vigilance Committee [probably of Boston, Massachusetts] since the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill in 1850 until 1854.
Verplancke family; Mount Gulian (Fishkill, N.Y.); African Americans--New York (State)--Fishkill; Slaves--Maryland--Social conditions; Fugitive slaves--Maryland; Fishkill (N.Y.)--Social life and customs; Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
James F. Brown (1793-1868) was the ex-slave gardener of the Verplanck family at Mount Gulian, Fishkill, New York. Brown was a runaway slave from Maryland, and the Verplancks purchased his time after he was found by his master. The collection...
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...