© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Pierrepont
White collection, 1728-1939.
Collection Number:
399
Creator:
William Pierrepont. White
Quantity:
63.6 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts,
maps, surveys, pamphlets, statements, registers, bills, land contracts,
inventories, cashbooks, indentures, minutes, and other records and papers
reflecting the westward and southward movement of members of the White and
related families, concerning their activities in the development of land,
canals, railroads, cotton manufacturing, mining, banking, and highways, chiefly
in New York State. The early papers relate to the White family of Middletown,
Connecticut, and the development after 1783 of Whitestown, New York, and
include the town books (1807-1823) for Richland, New York, church records,
early election returns, deeds, documents on the Brothertown Indians, grist
mills, civil and criminal cases, slave sales, the War of 1812, the Bank of
Utica, and the Pierrepont Land Office. Includes the diary of William Pierrepont
White. One group of papers relates to the disposal of the Constable lands and
the development of Pierrepont Manor, and contains statements of land contracts
(1801-1810) given by William Constable, an inventory of the Constable estate
(1829), a memorandum of journeys made by William Constable Pierrepont to the
Constable tract, lists of bonds for Ellisburgh, New York (1834-1841), and a
series of letters from Franklin B. Hough relating to life boats for Ellisburgh
and Oswego, and to other matters.
Language:
Collection material in English
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Correspondence, diaries, deeds, accounts, maps, surveys, pamphlets,
statements, registers, bills, land contracts, inventories, cashbooks,
indentures, minutes, and other records and papers reflecting the westward and
southward movement of members of the White and related families, concerning
their activities in the development of land, canals, railroads, cotton
manufacturing, mining, banking, and highways, chiefly in New York State. The
early papers relate to the White family of Middletown, Connecticut, and the
development after 1783 of Whitestown, New York, and include the town books
(1807-1823) for Richland, New York, church records, early election returns,
deeds, documents on the Brothertown Indians, grist mills, civil and criminal
cases, slave sales, the War of 1812, the Bank of Utica, and the Pierrepont Land
Office. Includes the diary of William Pierrepont White. One group of papers
relates to the disposal of the Constable lands and the development of
Pierrepont Manor, and contains statements of land contracts (1801-1810) given
by William Constable, an inventory of the Constable estate (1829), a memorandum
of journeys made by William Constable Pierrepont to the Constable tract, lists
of bonds for Ellisburgh, New York (1834-1841), and a series of letters from
Franklin B. Hough relating to life boats for Ellisburgh and Oswego, and to
other matters.
Also, correspondence, accounts, and other documents of Hugh White, son
of the Whitestown proprietor and early concrete manufacturer.
Other papers concern Canvass White, an engineer for the Erie Canal,
construction superintendent for the Union Canal of Pennsylvania, the Delaware
and Raritan Canal of New Jersey, and the New York Water Works Company, and
promoter of the Cohoes Company. Includes the papers of William N. White,
vice-president of the Utica Pipe Foundry Company, director of the Utica and
Mohawk Railroad Company, of the Jefferson County National Bank, the Rome,
Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad Company, and other companies; he was the
manager of the estate of his father-in-law, William Constable Pierrepont, and
an active figure in political, church, and educational affairs. Also the papers
of William Pierrepont White, lawyer and businessman of New York and Utica,
president of the Oneida Historical Society, and a pioneer in the development of
modern highways. Includes papers of the Wheeler, Constable, and Van Wagenen
papers, as well as other families; also, Walcott family correspondence
beginning with a series of letters (1825-1827) from Walnut Hills, Mississippi,
and other series relating to real estate speculation in Kansas, Missouri,
Indiana, and Nebraska, to banking in North Dakota, to the management of cotton
mills in Georgia and New York, and to oil and mining interests.
SUBJECTS
Names:
White, William
Pierrepont.
Constable family.
Constable, William.
Hough, Franklin B.
Pierrepont, William Constable.
Van Wagenen family.
Walcott family.
Wheeler family.
White family.
White, Canvass.
White, Hugh.
White, William N.
Bank of Utica (Utica, N.Y.)
Cohoes Company.
Delaware and Raritan Canal
(N.J.)
Erie Canal.
Jefferson County National Bank
(Jefferson County, N.Y.)
New York (State).Legislature.
New York Water Works Company.
Oneida Historical Society at
Utica
Pierrepont Land Office.
Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad
Company.
Union Canal (Penn.)
Utica and Mohawk Railroad
Company.
Subjects:
Real property--New York
(State)
Land titles--New York
(State)
Real property--Kansas.
Real property--Missouri.
Real property--Indiana.
Real property--Nebraska.
Canals--New York (State)
Canals--New Jersey.
Canals--Pennsylvania.
Railroads--New York
(State)
Cotton manufacture--New York
(State)
Cotton
manufacture--Georgia.
Textile factories--New York
(State)--Oneida County.
Textile
factories--Georgia.
Mineral industries--New York
(State)
Banks and banking--New York
(State)--Oneida County.
Banks and banking--North
Dakota.
Roads--Design and construction--New
York (State)
Elections--New York (State)--Oneida
County.
Brotherton Indians.
Grist mills--New York
(State)--Oneida County.
Slavery--New York (State)
Life-boats--New York (State)--Lake
Ontario.
Concrete.
Woolen goods.
Education--New York (State)--Oneida
County.
Oil industries--New York
(State)
Emigration and
immigration.
Family--New York (State)--Oneida
County.
Migration, Internal--United
States.
Industries--New York (State)--Oneida
County.
Engineers.
Bankers.
Places:
Oneida County
(N.Y.)--Commerce.
Oneida County (N.Y.)--Economic
aspects.
Oneida County (N.Y.)--Politics and
government.
Oneida County (N.Y.)--Religious
life and customs.
New York
(State)--Commerce.
Whitestown (N.Y.)--History,
Local.
Form and Genre Terms:
Deeds.
Maps.
Surveys.
Inventories.
Cashbooks.
Account
books.
Inventories.