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Philip Schuyler letters and documents
- Title
- Philip Schuyler letters and documents, 1763, 1774-1801.
- Author
- Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804.
- Supplementary Content
- Collection guide and digital images
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Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol 23900 box 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .21 linear foot (1 box)
- Summary
- Philip John Schuyler (1733-1804), a Revolutionary War general and statesman, was a prominent member of the landed aristocracy of New York State. The collection consists of various autograph letters and documents of Philip Schuyler, including letters and orders written to Peter Curtenius, Richard Varick, Jeremiah Wadsworth, James Duane, and James Clinton during the American Revolution, and letters to his daughters Eliza and Catherine and other family members. Correspondence with Simeon De Witt, a letter to Barent Bleecker, and related documents concern their efforts to build canals in upstate New York during the 1790s. Also present are two documents signed in his role as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a letter to Richard Davis giving instructions on management of his property, a land indenture, and some receipts.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- leases.
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Digital images must be used in lieu of originals.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available as digital images.
- Funding (note)
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Source (note)
- Donated by John S. Kennedy, 1896 as part of the Emmet collection and J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899 as part of the Ford collection, and various purchases, 1932-1976
- Call Number
- MssCol 23900
- OCLC
- 958465544
- Author
- Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804.
- Title
- Philip Schuyler letters and documents, 1763, 1774-1801.
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.Digital images must be used in lieu of originals.
- Additional Formats
- Available as digital images.
- Funding
- Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
- Source
- Donated by John S. Kennedy, 1896 as part of the Emmet collection and J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899 as part of the Ford collection, and various purchases, 1932-1976
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Landowners.Soldiers.Statesmen.Surveyors.
- Added Author
- Bleecker, Barent, 1760-1840, correspondent.Clinton, James, 1736-1812, correspondent.De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834, correspondent.Duane, James, 1733-1797, correspondent.Varick, Richard, 1753-1831, correspondent.Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 1743-1804, correspondent.Emmet collectionFord collection
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 23900