Found 33 collections related to Certificates

The miscellany chiefly contains letters to and from American editor, educator, author, and civic leader John Huston Finley. Outgoing letters stem mainly from Finley's term as editor-in-chief of the New York Times, though the tone of the correspondence is chiefly social, often relating to books or writings sent or received by Finley. Also included are autographs, clippings, and a certificate of honor from the Leonardo da Vinci Art School less

John Tyler was the tenth president of the United States, succeeding to the office on the death of William Henry Harrison. Tyler served as a state legislator, governor, U.S. representative, and U.S. senator before being elected Vice President in 1840. The collection consists of letters from Tyler to various individuals concerning minor official and social matters. Some letters are accompanied by typed transcriptions. Also included are Tyler's responses to autograph requests, invitations to various events, and a signed certificate naming John P. Brown to the post of Dragoman of the Sublime Port in 1842 less

Will of Philip Minthorne, 1756 (typed transcript), and papers, 1778-1896, relating to the estates of Stephen Richards, Thomas Randall, Robert R. Randall, and others, as well as other documents relating to the background and proceedings of the case of Stephen R. Brown vs. William Ricketts and George R. A. Ricketts involving New York City lands, including lands used to create and support Sailors' Snug Harbor less

A small quantity of letters, certificates, and ephemera of Walter T. Miller relating to the Seventh Regiment of the New York State Militia, Eighth National Guard, including "a list of articles for use at camp," menus for ceremonial dinners, minutes of an excursion committee meeting, company orders, and a letter of nomination for John R. Russell for 1st Lieutenant. less

Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, and documents signed by Hancock in his capacity as president of the Continental Congress and governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Letters are largely outgoing and most pertain to his official duties in the Continental Congress, including several letters to Col. Jeremiah Powell in the days leading up to the Battle of Rhode Island, expressing great distress at the desertion of the French fleet under Admiral d'Estaing. Several bills and accounts dating between 1753 and 1771 relate to the building and fitting out of ships for Hancock during his mercantile career. One oversize folder contains a letter dated October 17th, 1777 pertaining to an order to send more clothes to the troops, and references enclosures from General Washington so convincing that the Assembly would see that "the troops are in the greatest distress, and likely to suffer still more from the indemnity of the approaching season," though the enclosures are not present less

A small quantity of letters by and about American poet Edwin Markham, and material pertaining to engagements as a lecturer. Also present is a diploma, dated 1923, from Syracuse University, granting Markham an honorary doctorate in literature; a commemorative print of Markham's poem "Our Israfel: In Memory of Edgar Allan Poe," and a small quantity of ephemera less

Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was a United States Army general and 1852 presidential candidate of the Whig Party. Collection consists of letters, many addressed to Gales &Seaton, and to Thomas Ritchie and John P. Heiss, publishers of The Daily Union. Letters chiefly refer to political matters, and the publication of Scott's letters and addresses. Also present are canceled checks, autographs, and several engravings of Scott. less

Correspondence, notes, certificates, curricula vitae, diplomas, and documentation of various honors granted to astronomers Otto Wilhelm and Karl von Struve, with material referencing other members of the Struve scientific dynasty. In German, Russian, French, and Japanese. less

Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833) was United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1795-1800; United States Circuit Court judge for the Second Circuit, 1801-1802; and governor of Connecticut, 1817-1827. Oliver Wolcott Jr. letters and documents, 1799-1826, contain three letters written or signed by him regarding government business to Governor Jedediah Huntington of Connecticut, 1799; to Governor Isaac H. Williamson of New Jersey, 1818; and to Lieutenant Colonel George Bomford, 1823; and a signed printed circular letter to the Governor of Ohio (Jeremiah Morrow), 1825, regarding state resolutions to emancipate the slaves. A personal letter to James W. Henry at Baltimore, 1807, introduces Virgil Maxcy; and a letter to Wolcott's wife Betsy with a torn date [December 1800] tells of the close electoral vote count for Burr and Jefferson in the presidential election. Also included are signed certificates for civil and military appointments, 1817-1826; an order to his bank for Archibald Gracie, 1806; and a clipped signature. less

Oliver Wolcott Sr. (1726-1797) was lieutenant governor of Connecticut, 1786-1796, and governor, 1796-1797. He was major general of the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War and served in the Continental Congress. Oliver Wolcott Sr. letters and documents, 1753-1797, contain an autograph letter signed to postmaster Ezekiel Williams, 1797 March 24; a personal autograph letter signed to "Sir," 1795 June 26 at New Haven, mentioning steps taken at a meeting of the Corporation of Yale College; and a signed letter addressed to Governor Trumbull (Jonathan Trumbull, 1740-1809), 1797 October 10, regarding his inability to attend the present legislative session. Also included are six endorsements clipped from legal documents signed as Sheriff of Litchfield County, 1753-1761, and an engraved portrait of Robert Boyle with Wolcott's book ownership signature on verso. less

Alexander E. MacDonald, M.D. (1845-1906) was a prominent American physician and psychiatrist, and a leader in the development of New York City's public institutions for the treatment of mentally-ill persons. The collection consists of Dr. Alexander MacDonald's scrapbook of entertainments held for patients in New York City public hospitals on Blackwell's Island and Ward's Island, 1873-1875, and several letters and documents relating to his professional activities, 1897-1902. The scrapbook, dated 1873 August 30-1874 June 19 and 1875 June 9, contains pasted newspaper clippings and programs documenting part of a series of weekly entertainments initiated by MacDonald for patients of Charity Hospital on Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island), 1873-1874, with an 1875 clipping for an entertainment at the New York City Asylum for the Insane on Ward's Island. Letters and documents chiefly pertain to MacDonald's attendance at professional conferences abroad, certifying his membership and credentials; there is also a personal letter from George E. Dodge (1849-1904) to MacDonald, 1902 June 28, regarding MacDonald's work on Ward's Island. A civil service flyer and a half-tone photographic portrait of MacDonald are included. less

Grant of an honorary coat of arms to Gertrude Cushing Yorke, March 20, 1959, signed by George Bellew, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Garter, Principal King of Arms; Sir John Heaton-Armstrong, Knight, member of the Royal Victorian Order, Clarenceux, King of Arms; and Aubrey John Toppin, member of the Royal Victorian Order, Norroy and Ulster less

Historic scroll of the Ray Palmer Club, 1892. Typewritten. Inserted is a certificate of membership in The General Federation of Women's Clubs, dated November 15, 1892. as well as a certificate of membership in the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs less

These papers of Harry L. Hopkins include correspondence (1936-1946) relative to proposed publications about Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Roosevelt National Memorial Committee, and other matters, including a letter from Winston Churchill dated June 23, 1943. The papers also include certificates of appointment to New York State and federal administrative posts (1932-1945), including a certificate of award for the Distinguished Service Medal less

General George Stillman was born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1751. He defended the coast of Maine from British attack during the American Revolution. He died in Machias, Maine, in 1799 Stillman's papers include his diary (1775-1776), which records incidents following the capture of the British sloop Margaretta; a service certificate signed by Major General Charles Lee; letters and orders from Colonel and Indian agent John Allan; commissions signed by John Hancock, Jeremiah Powell, T. Cushing, Samuel Adams, and Moses Gill respectively for Stillman's rank in the militia from Major to Brigadier General; and a certificate signed by Paul Revere and other officers of St. Andrew's Lodge, Boston, certifying that George Stillman is a Master Mason (1788) less

Log book kept by British seaman John Thompson on board H.M.S. Sharpshooter and other ships, traveling from Plymouth to Brazil and Plymouth to coast of Africa. Certificates are for service on merchant ships and in the British Navy as seaman, master, pilot, staff commander, retirement, etc., signed by commanders of ships, officers of the Admiralty and others. less

The Wainwright family papers includes military correspondence and records of William P. Wainwright of Rhinebeck, N.Y. as Colonel of the 22nd Regiment, New York State Militia, 1849-1855; letterpress copy books containing correspondence and financial records kept by his sons John T., Charles H., and William P. Wainwright Jr., 1895-1899, 1903-1913 (3 vols.) as agents for the estate of their grandfather John C. NY; additional business papers, legal documents and certificates of William P. Wainwright, Jr., 1897-1921; passports of Charles Wainwright and a few letters to his wife Margaret, 1920-1960. less

Papers of the Conant family of Alfred, Maine, dated 1802-1834. The papers largely consist of deeds for land bought and sold in the towns of Alfred and Lyman, Maine by members of the Conant family. They also include some correspondence about the purchase of goods and legal matters, and several invoices from Boston merchants Mitchell & Freeman and Hitchcock & Nash. The names on these documents include: Alvah Conant, Cyrus Conant, John Conant, Nathaniel Conant, Andrew Conant, Daniel Conant, Ruth Conant, Louisa Conant, Benjamin Whitten, Joshua Whitten, Calvin Whitten, Humphrey Whitten, George Burnham, Abiel Hall, Daniel Holmes, William Parsons, John Holmes, John Roberts, Samuel Roberts, John Sayward, John Griffin, Clement Sheckley, Eunice Sands, Jonathan Farnum, Clarissa Whitten, and many others Alvah and John Conant were merchants in Alfred, Maine less

Correspondence, 1861-1916, between Charles W. Cowtan and various military and civilian figures relating to the 10th New York Volunteers during the Civil War. Also includes certificates relating to his military commissions and service, and to his membership in various veterans' groups, such as the Grand Army of the Republic and Masonic Veterans. Also includes a typewritten account of Cowtan's experience in the Civil War, a casualty list, and muster-out lists less

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. The collection consists of presidential papers; correspondence and professional papers; ephemera; photographs; and clippings. less

Sir Guy Carleton (1724-1808) served as Governor of the Province of Quebec, Governor General of British North America, and commanded British troops in Quebec during the American War of Independence. He oversaw the evacuation of British forces, Loyalists, and freedmen from New York in 1783. The papers consist of two orders submitted in 1767 to paymasters at Montreal and Quebec for payment of troops; a letter to Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, discussing how to defeat French attempts to gain the loyalty of Indian tribes, and how to manage the concerns of Canadians; and several letters and documents, 1775 to 1790, relating to various official duties. Also present is an 1867 transcript from the Public Record Office entitled "State Papers, America and West Indies, Sir G. Carleton's Correspondence, No. 147." The original document dates from 1783 less

Sarah Yardley Beers (1876-1946) was the great-niece of abolitionist James Miller McKim (1810-1874) and his wife Sarah A. McKim (1813-1891). Born in North Carolina, Sarah McKim Yardley was the daughter of Ellen Mulvany (1843-1924) of Millersville, Pennsylvania and William Buckman Yardley (1848-1885) of Pennsylvania and Delaware. Her mother married Edwin Ruthven Armstrong in 1886. In 1904 Sarah McKim Yardley married businessman Louis Gilbert Beers (1862-1935). Sarah Yardley Beers, as she was known, was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and an officer of the Broad Seal Chapter of Trenton, New Jersey. The Sarah Yardley Beers family papers, 1807-1983, comprise her genealogical correspondence and research papers relating to her maternal ancestry, particularly the McKim, Miller and Mulvany families of Pennsylvania; her mother's school autograph album and photograph album; family photographs and certificates; clippings and ephemera; and a Bible containing Miller family data and her parents' wedding certificate. Also present is a small amount of genealogical correspondence of her son Yardley Beers, 1965 and 1983; an engraved portrait of Lucy McKim Garrison by Gustav Kruell, circa 1890s; and printed materials. less

Benjamin Walker (born 1753 in London) was an American soldier, land agent, and U.S. representative from New York, 1801-1803. He served as aide-de-camp to Friederich Wilhelm von Steuben and George Washington during the Revolutionary War, and was appointed Naval Officer of Customs for the port of New York in 1789. Walker also worked as a land agent for William Duer and for the Pulteney Estate. He moved to Utica, New York in 1797 where he died in 1818. Letters to and from Benjamin Walker, in chronological order, pertain mostly to land transactions and commissions. Correspondents include Patrick Colquhoun of London and William Duer, referring in part to funding German settlers for Genesee lands in New York. Wartime communications, 1782-1783, include two letters to Captain Pierre-Etienne Du Ponceau. An undated letter in French from Baron von Steuben asks Walker to write a letter in English to the Governor of New Jersey for his signature, and mentions efforts to influence Haring, probably Cornelius Haring, agent of confiscated land in Bergen County. Former Army officer William North advises Walker of the death of a friend, 1806, and an 1820 letter concerns Walker's estate. Other items include a certificate of customs duties paid by the Brig Caroline, signed by Walker in 1795, and a letter from Rufus King concerning the documentation of imports, 1796. less