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Creator
Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946
Call number
MssCol 2176
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 volume)
Preferred Citation

Fifty-seven early New York documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library

Sponsor
Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
Access to materials
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Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.

This collection brings together various deeds, indentures, receipts, governmental reports, and other documents related to the early history of New York Colony and State (1673-1799). Among these items are papers from New York governors Richard Nicolls, Edmund Andros, Benjamin Fletcher, and Cadwallader Colden; Massachusetts Bay Governor William Burnet; and New York City Mayors Matthias Nicoll and Robert Walters, among others.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Bequest of Gabriel Wells, 1947

Processing information

Compiled by Casey Babcock, 2016

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328