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- Creator
- Scovel, Noah, 1759-1821
- Call number
- MssCol 2709
- Physical description
- .25 linear feet (1 box)
- Preferred Citation
- Noah Scovel papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Noah Scovel (1759-1821) and his son Noah Scovel, Jr. (b. 1781), were merchants of Saybrook, Connecticut, and New York City. Noah Scovel's papers include letters, accounts, receipts, invoices, sailing orders to Captain Isaiah Pratt of the brig "Peggy," and lists of prices of goods relative to the trade with England, France, Barbados, British Guyana, and Cuba. His son's papers include letters and papers relating to the New-York Dry Dock Company, of which he was a founder
Key terms
Names
Subjects
- Merchants -- Connecticut
- Merchants -- New York (State) -- New York
- Shipping -- United States -- 19th century
Places
- Barbados -- Commerce -- United States
- Cuba -- Commerce -- United States
- England -- Commerce -- United States
- France -- Commerce -- United States
- Guyana -- Commerce -- United States
- West Indies -- Commerce -- United States
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328