Found 12 collections related to New York (N.Y.) -- Genealogy

The Richard Sutton genealogical research papers contain family papers dating from 1801 to 1886, and Sutton's research notes, copies of documents, and correspondence generated by his research on the Sutton and Steele families. The family documents are largely papers of members of the Steele family of New York City, in particular Sutton's great-grandfather, William Steele. Allied families represented in his research files include the Brown, Davison, Falconer, Ostrom, Seger, Smith, Stymets, Vaughan, Wisner, and Woodruff families, all of New York and the surrounding areas. less

James W. Gerard (1794-1874) was a prominent lawyer born in New York City. After graduating from Columbia, Gerard joined the New York Bar Association and became a prominent member of the city's legal community. He is notable for his work in creating the House of Refuge for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in 1823, which was the first institution of its kind in the United States. Later, he became the Inspector of Common Schools The collection consists of one scrapbook containing personal correspondence; a journal from an 1863 trip to Europe; writings and speeches by James W. Gerard (senior) on crime and juvenile delinquency; obituaries and tributes on the death of Gerard in 1874. The scrapbook was created by Gerard's son, James Watson Gerard junior, himself a lawyer, Commissioner of Education, and a New York State senator; and father to James Watson Gerard III, the American ambassador to Germany, 1913-1917 less

The progenitor of the Van Norden family in America was Pieter Casparszen Van Naerden who first appeared in the historical record in 1621 with other Huguenots and Walloons petitioning the British ambassador at the Hague for permission to emigrate to Virginia. Collection contains genealogical notes, history and sketches, mostly typescript, on members of the Van Norden and related families by Warner Van Norden, copies of wills, and a few marriage and death certificates, and personal papers of Warner's son Theodore L. Van Norden, mostly concerning a family financial scandal. The papers of Theodore Van Norden consist of manuscripts, correspondence, legal and financial papers and clippings pertaining to lawsuits against his brother and his wife as well as drawings, paper dolls, poems, stories by children, and a letter and telegram from Theodore Roosevelt. less

Varian Fry, born in New York City in 1907, was known as "the American Schindler" for his work in aiding over 2,000 endangered people from Nazi-occupied France until he was ousted by the Vichy government in 1941. In the final years of his life, Fry took on the role of family genealogist, collecting correspondence and other material belonging to members of his extended family, and researching his family's origins. The Varian Fry genealogical research papers contains personal papers belonging to members of Varian Fry's extended family dating from 1829 to 1921, family photographs, correspondence relating to Fry's genealogical research dating mainly from 1958 through 1962, and a comprehensive index to the research. less

Belknap, Center, Innes, and Murphy were notable names in New England as early as the 17th century. Robert Lenox Belknap, the New York businessman most prominently represented in this collection, was a direct descendant of Abraham Belknap (d. 1643), an early settler in Salem, Massachusetts; and Joseph Belknap (1630-1712) of Boston. The Center and Innes families counted author Henry Livingston and Francis Lewis, signer of the Declaration of Independence, among their ancestors. Dr. Deas Murphy, father of Serena Deas Murphy Center, served as Chief of Surgery at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, N.Y. The William Conrad Kopper and Serena Deas Murphy Center genealogical research files contain family papers and genealogical research pertaining to the Belknap, Center, Innes, Murphy, and allied families. Included in the collection are genealogical notes, pedigrees, genealogical charts, as well as original family documents such as wills, contracts, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs. less

Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967) was the daughter of William de Groot, a ship owner employed in the China trade and his second wife Elizabeth King Hawley. A painter, art collector and philanthropist, Miss de Groot was born in New York City and moved with her family to Nice, France in 1891. She lived in Europe for forty years before returning to New York in 1933. Her New York cousins included yachtsman, composer and photographer Frank Seymour Hastings and his brother the noted architect Thomas Hastings, who were the sons of Reverend Thomas Samuel Hastings and Fanny de Groot. Adelaide de Groot's sister Elizabeth married an Italian diplomat, Guilio Caravadossi, the Count of Aspremonte. After de Groot's return to New York, she pursued an interest in her family's genealogy. The papers contain the research of Adelaide Milton de Groot - including her notes, family charts, and correspondence. Adelaide Milton de Groot researched the de Groot family and the families related to her by marriage, namely the Bosworth, Brantingham, Foote, Hastings, Hawley and Robinson families. The collection consists primarily of handwritten genealogical notes and charts. Correspondence, pertaining to her genealogical research, copies of original documents, and photographs of gravestones and family houses are also included. less

The Driggs family was believed to be descended from Joseph (Josiah) Driggs, who in turn was believed to be a descendant of Josiah De Raet of Amsterdam. The family was prominent in Saybrook and Middletown, Connecticut; and Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island, New York. The name was alternately spelled Dreegs, Drake, and De Rijks The papers consist primarily of correspondence between members of the Driggs family, notably Laurence L. Driggs and Dr. James M. Cooper, concerning the history of the Driggs family. The collection also contains genealogical charts and photographs including a campaign postcard for Laurence L. Driggs, who ran as a Republican candidate for the eleventh congressional district in New York. Other items of note include a copy of a genealogy prepared in 1856 by Seth Driggs, a Spiritualist, which purports to trace the family for "a term of one thousand years or twenty-eight generations;" and autobiographical material from Parley Pratt, a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement murdered in Utah in 1857, who was related through Benjamin Woodbury Driggs less

Frances Adelaide (Leverich) Ingraham (1849?-1934) was a founding member of the Daughters of the Revolution and served as its president-general. Her papers, 1812-1934, contain correspondence concerning her membership in several lineage societies and materials created and collected in the course of her genealogical research on the Bogert, Ingraham, Leverich, Masterton, McLeod, Phoenix, Schoonmaker, Vanderveer, and Walton families. less

Founded in 1896, the Order of Founders and Patriots is made up of "Associates" who trace their ancestry back to those first colonists and who have forefathers in the same male ancestral line who served in the American Revolution. The records of the New York Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots include membership applications; minutes (1910-1920) of the General Society of the War of 1812; a scrapbook; and one volume of material belonging to the Committee on Insignia, Ribbon, Rosette, and Diploma of the Order, which contains correspondence with designers such as Tiffany & Company; Bailey Banks & Biddle Company; Dempsey & Carroll, J.E. Caldwell & Company; Louis Dreka; and John Quincy Adams. Membership applications span from 1896 to 1914, and from 1936 to 1952 less

Genealogical notes, charts, correspondence, clippings, and printed material, ca. 1940s-1950, produced by Foley's genealogical research on the Foley, de Luze, and related families. Some original 18th and 19th century documents including a letter to Catharine Ludlow Ogden Hammond from her mother, S[arah] Ogden in Newark, concerning the mother's recent widowhood and other family matters, 1790; a family Bible record, 1806-1940, of the Barretts and Kortright families; an approbation (letter of introduction), November 17, 1840, for Philip Schuyler, who was a United States Consul at Liverpool and part of a commission "...to assist their subjects and people in their commerce and traffick there...," signed by Queen Victoria and Lord Palmerston; marriage certificates of Louis Phillippe de Luze and Sarah Ogden, Trinity Church, New York, 1821, and Arthur Mackie Foley and Sarah Alice de Luze, St. Mark's Church, New York, 1878 or 1879; and manuscript and typescript copies of 18th and 19th century wills, marriage certificates, and other legal documents. Of note are ca. 20 letters, ca. 1771-1828, received by Richard Harison of New York attorney-at-law, concerning family, business, and general matters. A few letters are addressed to Jane Harison, and one is from Richard Harison to his mother less