- Collection Overview
- Administrative information
- Key terms
- Using the collection
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Additional Resources:
Additional resources
- Calendar of Messages and Proclamations (PDF)
From NYPL Bulletin, volume 31, July 1927
- Calendar of Messages and Proclamations (PDF)
- Creator
- Clinton, George, 1739-1812
- Call number
- MssCol 573
- Physical description
- 1 linear foot (1 box and 1 v.)
- Preferred Citation
- George Clinton papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
George Clinton (1739-1812) was a soldier in the American Revolution; the first governor of New York State, 1777-1795 and 1801-1804; and Vice-President of the U.S. under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1805-1812. Collection consists of correspondence, accounts, military commissions, legal documents, copies of Clinton's papers, genealogical notes, autographs, financial papers, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1776-1812, concerns Revolutionary War, gubernatorial, Vice-Presidential, and personal matters and includes some letters of other members of Clinton's family. Accounts, 1777-1791, are for personal and family expenses; military commissions, 1779-1803, are signed by Clinton as Governor of New York; with land grant, 1790, and other family legal documents, 1813, 1819. Copies of Clinton papers located in other repositories include manuscript copies of letters and speeches, 1787-1788. Also, genealogical notes, autographs, signed bank checks, clippings, and other printed matter; volume of Clinton's proclamations issued as Governor, 1777-1781; and part of the Great Seal of the State of New York.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchases and transfers, 1941, 1952, Various, 1941Key terms
Names
- Clinton, George, 1739-1812
- Clinton, George Washington
- Clinton family
- New York (State). Convention of the Representatives (1776-1777)
- New York (State). Governor
Subjects
Places
- New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865
- New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
- New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1801-1815
Occupations
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
Access to materials
Request an in-person research appointment.Additional resources
- Calendar of Messages and Proclamations (PDF)
From NYPL Bulletin, volume 31, July 1927