Elisha Camp papers, 1756-1879.1800-1875
Collection Number: 696
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Elisha Camp papers, 1756-1879. 1800-1875
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
696
Abstract:
Papers pertaining to the early history of Jefferson County, New York.
Creator:
Camp, Elisha.
Quanitities:
7.2 cubic feet.
9 volumes.
Language:
Collection material in English
Postmaster, militia officer, lawyer, deputy New York State district attorney, politician,
newspaper owner and editor, banker, landowner, and land agent.
Correspondence, accounts, contracts, leases, surveys, bonds, deeds, receipts, and
other land, legal, and business papers, political broadsides and pamphlets pertaining
to the early history of Jefferson County, New York, particularly on the township of
Hounsfield, on the transfer of land from intermediate investors to actual settlers,
on the attempts to make Sackets Harbor a great commercial center, and on the accompanying
economic, political, and social developments. Collection is chiefly concerned with
Camp, who served as representative of his brother-in-law Augustus Sacket, and for
other absentee landowners such as David A. Ogden, Thomas L. Ogden, Peter Kemble, Ezra
Hounsfield, Lemuel Storrs, Henry Champion, Herman LeRoy, William Bayard, James M.
Ellis, Cornelius Ray, Michael Hogan, James Le Ray Chaumont, the executors of the Nicholas
Olive estate and the executors of Nicholas Gouvernor. Papers after 1845 are chiefly
family letters between Camp and his children and Elisha E. Camp who was in Mexico
(1847), Green Bay, Wisconsin, Washington Territory, and Oregon, and a series of Civil
War letters. Names of persons and firms represented include David Boyd, President
James Buchanan, DeWitt Clinton, James C. Duane, George Hale, L. Seymour, Gerrit Smith,
Jesse C. Smith, Charles Smyth, Joseph C. Yates, the Jefferson County Agricultural
Society, Jefferson County Bank, Lake Ontario Steamboat Co., Ogden Land Co., and the
Sackets Harbor and Ellisburgh Railroad.
Other topics include the Sackets Harbor and Saratoga Railroad, Sackets Harbor Steam
and Ferry Boat Co., Union Academy, and the Watertown and Rome Railroad. Also, handbills,
editorials, and speeches concerning National Republican Party politics on the New
York State and local levels, and containing uncomplimentary references to the Bucktail
faction. Other papers pertain to the militia system, the United States Navy, restrictive
fees on Lake Ontario commerce, and water rights at Brownville, New York.
Detailed list available in accession folder.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Elisha Camp papers, #696. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Collection is closed for processing.
Names:
Le Ray de Chaumont, J. (James), 1760-1841.
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868.
Clinton DeWitt, 1769-1828.
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Sacket, Augustus.
Ogden, David A.
Ogden, Thomas L.
Kemble, Peter.
Hounsfield, Ezra.
Storrs, Lemuel.
Champion, Henry.
LeRoy, Herman.
Bayard, William.
Ellis, James M.
Ray, Cornelius.
Hogan, Michael.
Olive, Nicholas.
Gouverneur, Nicholas.
Camp, Elisha E.
Boyd, David.
Duane, James C.
Hale, George.
Seymour, L.
Smith, Jesse C.
Smyth, Charles.
Yates, Joseph C.
Camp family.
Jefferson County Agricultural Society (Jefferson County, N.Y.)
Jefferson County Bank
New York (State). Militia
United States. Navy
Lake Ontario Steam-Boat Company
Ogden Land Company
Sackets Harbor and Ellisburgh Railroad
Sackets Harbor and Saratoga Railroad
Sackets Harbor Bank
Sackets Harbor Steam and Ferry Boat Company
Union Academy
Watertown and Rome Railroad
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Places:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Hounsfield (N.Y.) -- History.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
Sackets Harbor (N.Y.) -- Finance.
Sackets Harbor (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
Sackets Harbor (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Sackets Harbor (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Finance.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Economic aspects.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Manufactures.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Subjects:
Manufactures -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
Shipping -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
Politics, Practical -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
Mills and mill-work -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
Land titles -- Exchange of.
Land titles -- Valuation.
Inland water transportation -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
Form and Genre Terms:
Broadsides.
Deeds.
Bonds (negotiable instruments).
Surveys.
Leases.
Account books.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
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Volume 1 |
Scrapbook
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1820-1838 | |
Volume 2 |
Day Book
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1838-1841 | |
Volume 3 |
Day Book
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1840-1846 | |
Volume 4 |
Account Book
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1817-1821 | |
Volume 5 |
Account Book
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1835 | |
Volume 6 |
Account Book
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1846-1847 | |
Volume 7 |
Shipping Book
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1847-1860 | |
Volume 8 |
Ledger
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1816-1845 | |
Volume 9 |
Business Letter Book - signed by Camp as cashier; seems to be banking
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1855-1856 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Plan of proposed division of Sackets Harbor
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1823 |