Scope and arrangement
This small collection consists of personal letters and several documents written or received by members of the family of Catherine V.R. Schuyler Malcom Cochran, the youngest daughter of General Philip Schuyler. Writers and recipients include Philip Schuyler, her sisters Angelica, Cornelia, and Elizabeth, her brother Philip, husbands Samuel B. Malcom and James Cochran, sons William and Alexander Malcolm, and others.
Philip Schuyler materials consist of nine letters written to his wife, 1789-1795, and eight to his children, 1799-1804 plus four documents relating to his lands and estate, 1763-1805. Of particular note is a letter from Philip Schuyler to his daughter Elizabeth shortly after the death of her husband Alexander Hamilton (July 22, 1804). Letters written by Samuel B. Malcom to his mother include his eyewitness account of the inauguration of President John Adams and Washington's farewell address (March 4, 1797). Other of his papers include legal licenses, documents relating to property inherited from Philip Schuyler and a letter to Aaron Burr concerning Malcom's share of the estate of Samuel Bayard. A letter from abolitionist Gerrit Smith to James Cochran (the second husband of Catherine Schuyler Malcom) is accompanied by a temperance revival broadside (May 13, 1841).