- Creator
- Slocum, Margaret R
- Call number
- MssCol NYGB 18265
- Physical description
- .42 linear feet (1 box)
- Preferred Citation
- Slocum family genealogical research papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
The Slocum family genealogical research papers, compiled by Margaret R. Slocum, include family papers and genealogical research files. The family papers include correspondence belonging to Margaret's grandmother, Laura Dean, and to her great-uncle, John Atticus Robertson. Genealogical research material includes correspondence relating to genealogical and estate matters, news clippings, and other ephemera documenting John Atticus Robertson, and the Lawrence, Lefferts, Meserole, Greene, Marshall, Brinkerhoff, and Schenk families of Brooklyn and Dutchess County, New York. Of note is correspondence with the National Portrait Gallery regarding family portraits painted by Daniel Huntington, as well as an 1887 letter to Mary Robertson from Huntington with instructions on how to clean the portraits; and correspondence with various institutions relating to the provenance of an antique spoon belonging to the Schenk family
Administrative information
Custodial history
Presented to the New York Biographical & Genealogical Society by John D. Slocum.
Related Material
Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Key terms
Names
- Slocum, Margaret R
- Marshall family
- Robertson family
- Schenk family
- Slocum family
- New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection
Places
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Genealogy
- Dutchess County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
- Long Island (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
- Newtown (Queens County, N.Y.) -- Genealogy
- Queens County (N.Y.) -- Genealogy
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328