Found 8 collections related to Surveyors

Gerard Bancker (1740-1799) and brother Evert Bancker Jr. (1734-1815) were New York City surveyors and members of a wealthy merchant family. The land surveys, plats, and maps that comprise the bulk of the Bancker plans depict the streets, buildings, farms, and riverbanks of early New York. They were commissioned by individuals, churches, proprietors, and city government (The Corporation of the City of New York) and were created between 1667 and 1821, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1770 to 1810. There are also some surveys of land in upstate New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. less

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. less

Robert Brooke was an American surveyor and civil engineer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Robert Brooke papers relating to the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1796-1845 (bulk 1804-1805), comprise five volumes used by Brooke chiefly during his work on the feeder canal to the proposed main line in 1804 and 1805; papers relating to a survey of private lands near the feeder canal, 1805; and a portfolio of watercolor drawings of aqueducts by the Canal’s engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1804. The volumes also include records of Brooke’s work for Philadelphia canal companies, 1798-1799 and 1817, and surveys made in Philadelphia, 1806, as well as legal forms for land transactions, 1796-1816. A few manuscript documents, 1796-1845, and a printed broadside addressed to Stockholders of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, 1824, are also present. less