{"value"=>"<p>John Lincklaen's papers consist of: his commissions from the Dutch Navy, 1785-1790; a certificate of Freemasonry issued to him at Marseilles, 1788, and one issued to his father, Anthony Quirin Lincklaen, at Amsterdam, 1757; correspondence and accounts, 1809- 1817, concerning the establishment and operation of a cotton and wool \"manufactory\" at Cazenovia (including an 1809 letter from Lincklaen to Philip Schuyler in which Lincklaen expresses an interest in purchasing some merino sheep from the landowner); journals, 1791-1792, documenting his travels through New York, Pennsylvania, and Vermont as an agent of the Holland Land Company; two typescript copies of Lincklaen's letter, October 25, 1802, to Paul Busti, consisting of a long narrative of his journey through the Holland Land Company's Genesee purchase (the original letter was found at the office of Van Eeghen and Co., Amsterdam, in 1923); some legal and financial papers, 1796-1820; the Lincklaen family seal; and correspondence, 1795-1820.</p> <p>Lincklaen's correspondence, consisting of letters both received and sent, concerns business, personal, political, and local affairs, and matters that Lincklaen dealt with in his capacity as the Holland Land Company's Cazenovia agent. There are some letters in Dutch, and at least one in French. His correspondents are business associates, Holland Land Company representatives, relatives, friends, and neighbors. Included are letters from: Paul Busti; Cazenovia lawyer and state senator Perry G. Childs; Adam G. Mappa, the Holland Land Company's agent at Olden Barneveld, N. Y.; Rev. Levi Parsons, a missionary; John Jacob Vanderkemp; John Wheelock, president of Dartmouth College; Lambertus Wolters, describing life at the Hyde Park school, and Benjamin Allen, who ran the school, describing the boy's progress.</p>"}