Found 286 collections.

Inventory and account of sales of goods and chattels, including books from the library "which were of His Excellency John Montgomerie Esqr Late Governour" of New York "that have come into the Hands of Charles Home Administrator." Also includes an account of moneys received of the rights and credits. Certified to before George Clarke, Lieutenant Governor, September 30, 1740 less

Benjamin Franklin (Ben) Grauer (1907-1977) was an American radio and television announcer, reporter and news commentator. In the mid 1960s he assembled a collection of mainly French historical manuscripts. Collection contains approximately 10,000 manuscript letters, documents and printed ephemera collected by Grauer. Manuscripts cover a wide span of time and subject matter and are of minor figures in French literary, cultural, social, academic, governmental, and administrative life. Also includes some English, Italian and Arabic items. Printed ephemera consists of flyers, pamphlets, reports and minutes of governing bodies during the period of the French Revolution, as well as invitations, menus, programs, posters, and engravings. less

The French Reformed Church located in Stettin, Germany (Prussia) was a French Huguenot church. Collection consists of manuscript and printed acts of the consistory, ca. 1716-1883, which relate to church observances, prayers, marriages, baptisms, charity, care of the poor, assignment of missionaries, physicians and surgeons, and other matters. Also, a small amount of correspondence, in German, 1916-1917, and miscellaneous nineteenth-century bills and accounts. less

Friesland is a province of the Netherlands on the North Sea. The province was part of the Spanish Empire until the late 16th century when it became one of the United Provinces of Holland. The provinces joined with the Belgian provinces in 1815 to form the kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1832 the Belgian provinces separated to form Belgium. Collection consists of resolutions for the provincial state of Friesland, 1584-1793; resolutions for authorized states, 1517-1564 (with gaps); and volumes of registers for resolutions, 1570-1780. less

Conveyances and abstracts of titles to various estates and lots in New York City once owned by Philip Minthorne and divided among his children. Entries contain a description of the lot, the value of the property, and a list of previous owners. They cover from 1732, shortly after Minthorne's death, to 1837. The volume includes a few sketches of land plots less

The Butler, Huntington, Smith, Cooke, and Clinch families were united through intermarriage and included prominent lawyers, architects, doctors, judges, politicians, scientists, and land owners hailing from New York City, Long Island, Boston, Cambridge, Lowell, Marblehead, Stockbridge and Worcester, Massachusetts. This collection spans multiple generations and consists of mostly 19th and 20th century family correspondence, financial and legal documents, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, personal miscellany, photographs and genealogical research. The papers reflect the personal, social, economic, and professional histories of these related families. less

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

The Fergusons were an English family that settled in New York City beginning around 1802. The patriarch, Samuel Ferguson, was a prosperous merchant who established familial and commercial relationships with other wealthy and socially prominent New York families, including the Walton, Morewood, Day, Ogden, Lyde, and Fisher families. The Ferguson family papers, 1727-1943, consist of 18th and 19th century correspondence, business records, financial and legal documents, diaries, and family miscellany of the Ferguson and allied families. Genealogical notes, charts, and clippings dating from the early- to mid-20th century reflect the research of Samuel Ferguson's great-granddaughter, Helen Ferguson on the family's history. less

This instructive mansucript concerning geography and mathematics was created by Thomas Fantet de Lagny of the French Academy of Sciences for the daughters of the Comte de Pontchartrain, whose seal is on the cover. It is in French and believed to have been written in 1727. The binder's title is "Trait de la sphere," and the volume is illustrated with tables and diagrams. Sections include: "Elemens metaphysiques de la science des nombres" and "Methode nouvelle pour la division." less

Records include accounts of money received by Governor Edward Cornwallis, 1749-1750; disbursements to officers and other army staff, 1749-1750; accounts of settlers and laborers provisioned at Halifax, 1749-1751; lists of Colonel Hopson's eight companies of Rangers victualled at Halifax, Chignecto, and Annapolis Royal, 1752-1755; and lists of foreigners, artificers, and others victualled at Lunenberg, 1753-1756. Documents are signed by P. T. Hopson, R. Bulkley, Horatio Gates, Charles Lawrence, and others less

Manuscript is a transcript copy, most likely from the 18th century, of Böhme's Magnum Mysterium, a work that was originally written in 1623. Transcript begins with a brief chronology of Böhme's life followed by a chapter-by-chapter transcription of the text. less

The volume contains manuscripts concerning the government of the viceroyalty of New Spain. The first and second manuscripts relate to the revenues of Mexico. These manuscripts give separate accounts of the properties of Juan de Ortega Montanes, Count de Galve, and the Duke of Albuquerque. The first manuscript consists chiefly of tables, but the title page contains an elaborately sketched border with birds and human figures. The third manuscript is a copy of the title deed of Emperor Chares V to Hernando Cortes, including the confirmation to Martin Cortes of King Philip of Spain. less

Memorandum book kept at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, probably by Captain Josiah Edson, in the early part of the 18th century. Contains notes on town affairs, laying out of lots, town representative, school teacher, men listed for army service, share work at the mills, laying out of roads, and other topics. The volume contains a note that Rudolphus Edson, grandson of Josiah Edson, died on October 5, 1833, aged 79 years, 9 months, and 5 days less

This collection contains the papers of the ancestors of Cornelius von Erden Mitchell, members of the Mitchell, Davis, Spingler and Van Beuren families and their connections. The materials in this collection include correspondence, photographs, daguerreotypes, legal documents, writings, scrapbooks and maps. The materials in this collection range in date from 1706-1957. less

Mortimer L. Neinken (1896-1984) was an American businessman, collector and philanthropist. He served as president of the Champion Pants Manufacturing Company of New York, was president and member of the board of trustees of Maimonides Medical Center, and was chairman of the Expert Committee of the Philatelic Foundation. Collection consists of approximately 13,000 antique legal seals, mostly heraldic. The majority are of German origin, but many Polish families are represented as well as Italian, French, Russian, English, Spanish, and Dutch families. Included are seals representing local churches; seals of a few notable churchmen; and some examples of seals of royal families of Central Europe, 1700s to the early 1800s. Also, Central European business documents and financial papers, relating mainly to the Marburg family of Gorizia, Italy, 1728-1855, including doctor's account book, contracts, receipts, edicts, and customs passes; and items relating to Fiume, Italy, 1810-1818. less

Collection consists of genealogical records, family papers and biographical accounts. Family members include Captain Juan Adal de Mosquera, 1604; Ivan Fernandez de Mosquera and Ana Mendez Figueroa of Badajos, Castilla, 1670; Gonzalo Fernandez Mosquera of Mexico, 1661; Francisco Pacheco de Mosquera of Mexico, 1613, 1634; Marcos Pacheco de Figueroa of Mexico, 1650, 1677, 1689; and Baltazar Mosquera of Mexico, 1781-1795. less

Stewart and Jones were merchants and ship chandlers of New York City. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous records of Stewart and Jones; correspondence and accounts of their predecessor firm, Jones and Ross; papers of Humphrey and Nicholas Jones; and records, 1789-1793, kept by John Jones while a member of the Committeee of Leases of Trinity Church in New York City. less