Simon Newton Dexter papers, 1785-1862.
Collection Number: 753
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Simon Newton Dexter papers, 1785-1862.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
753
Abstract:
Correspondence, accounts, orders, receipts, notes, contracts, and other papers relating
to Dexter's business and political activities.
Creator:
Dexter, Simon Newton.
Quanitities:
12.8 cubic feet.
9 volumes.
4 microfilm reels.
Language:
Collection material in English
Merchant, banker, Erie Canal commissioner, and cotton and woolen manufacturer.
Correspondence, accounts, orders, receipts, notes, contracts, and other papers relating
to Dexter's business and political activities. Many of the papers relate to the Oriskany
Manufacturing Company, a woolen manufacturing firm. Other papers relate to Dexter's
activities as commissioner of the Erie Canal, to local and New York State politics,
and to various businesses and industries such as dry goods, cotton manufacturing,
sheep raising, ironmongery, a distillery, a tannery, wholesale and retail merchants,
railroads, and banks. Includes material concerning Thomas R. Gold and his family;
Porteus B. Root as a contractor for the Black River Canal and a builder of plank roads;
Black River Woolen Company; Detroit Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank; Dexter Manufacturing
Company; Dexter Village Society; Elgin Manufacturing Company; Galena and Chicago Rail
Road Company; Oneida Manufacturing Company; Rock Bottom Factory of Stowe, Mass.; and
Williams Woolen Company. Correspondents include E. Bacon, Edward Bates, Francis Bicknell,
John Brinckerhoff, E. Capron, Seth Capron, A. J. Center, William M. Cheever, James
Cooper, Oliver Culver, John Devereux, Nicholas Devereux, J. W. Doolittle, William
Durer, Guy Foote, James Goss, Francis Granger, P. L. Green, Ephraim and Roswell Hart,
Hiram Holcomb, C. L. Holley, Myron Holley, Alfred Hovey, O. Hungerford, Benjamin S.
Huntington, S. P. Germain, Alexander B. Johnson, Hiram Ketchum, E. Kirby, G. A. Lansing,
William M. Larrabee, Sam Lawrence, Daniel Lee, and Edwin C. Litchfield
Correspondents also include, T. W. Lockwood, E. T. Throop Martin, Simon Matteson,
Charles Moseley, Isaac Northrup, George W. Patterson, John B. Pease, George T. Perry,
Jonas Pratt, Thadeus Pomeroy, Benjamin Poor, Josiah Porter, Henry S. Randall, B. W.
Raymond, R. J. Renwick, P. V. Rogers, James Satterlee, Peter B. Schenck, Alexander
Seward, Charles and Henry Seymour, C. S. Shurman, Derick Sibley, Theodore Sill, John
Slade, Ambrose Spencer, J. A. Spencer, Theodore Spencer, J. D. Steele, B. F. Stillman,
William M. Tallman, Comfort Tyler, Stephen Van Rensselaer, Abraham Varick, Charles
D. and William Walcott, A. J. Waldron, Ezra Weeks, John A. and W. B. Welles, Edward
A. Wetmore, Andrew White, John Williams, Samuel Woodsworth, and R. L. Yarwood.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Simon Newton Dexter papers, #753. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Root, Porteus B.
Gold, Thomas R.
Bacon, E.
Bates, Edward.
Bicknell, Francis.
Brinckerhoff, John.
Capron, E.
Capron, Seth.
Center, A. J.
Cheever, William M.
Cooper, James.
Culver, Oliver.
Devereux, John.
Devereux, Nicholas.
Doolittle, J. W.
Durer, William.
Foote, Guy.
Goss, J. w. (James W.)
Granger, Francis.
Green, P. L.
Hart, Ephraim.
Hart, Roswell.
Holcomb, Hiram.
Holley, C. L.
Holley, Myron, 1779-1841.
Hovey, Alfred.
Hungerford, O.
Huntington. Benjamin S.
Germain, S. P.
Johnson, Alexander B.
Ketchum, Hiram.
Kirby, E.
Lansing, G. A.
Larrabee, William M.
Lawrence, Samuel.
Lee, Daniel.
Litchfield, Edwin C.
Lockwood, T. W.
Martin, E. T. Throop.
Matteson, Simon.
Moseley, Charles.
Northrup, Isaac.
Patterson, George W.
Pease, John B.
Perry, George T.
Pratt, Jonas.
Pomeroy, Thadeus.
Poor, Benjamin.
Porter, Josiah.
Randall, Henry S.
Taymond, B. W.
Renwick, R. J.
Rogers, P. V.
Satterlee, James.
Schenck, Peter B.
Seward, Alexander, 1816-
Seymour, Charles.
Seymour, Henry.
Shurman, C. S.
Sibley, Derick.
Sill, Theodore.
Slade, John.
Spencer, Ambrose.
Spencer, J. A.
Spencer, Theodore.
Steele, J. D.
Stillman, B. F.
Tallman, William M.
Tyler, Comfort.
Van Rensselaer, Stephen.
Varick, Abraham.
Walcott, Charles D.
Walcott, William.
Waldron, A. J.
Weeks, Ezra.
Welles, John A.
Welles, W. B.
Wetmore, Edward A.
White, Andrew.
Williams, John.
Woodsworth, Samuel.
Yarwood, R. L.
Gold family.
Oriskany Manufacturing Company
Erie Canal
Black River Canal
Black River Woolen Company
Birmingham Manufacturing Company
Detroit Farmers\' and Mechanics\' Bank
Dexter Manufacturing Company
Dexter Village Society
Elgin Manufacturing Company
Galen and Chicago Rail Road Company
Oneida Manufacturing Company
Rock Bottom Factory (Stowe, Mass.)
Williams Woolen Company
Places:
Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
New York (State) -- Economic conditions.
New York (State) -- Industries.
Whitestown (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
Subjects:
Industrialists.
Bankers.
Plank roads -- New York (State)
Railroads -- New York (State)
Tanneries -- New York (State)
Distilleries -- New York (State)
Sheep industry -- New York (State)
Dry-goods -- New York (State)
Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Utica.
Wool industry -- New York (State)
Iron mines and mining -- New York (State)
Politics, Practical -- New York (State)
Form and Genre Terms:
Receipts.
Accounts.
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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Box 1 | 1793-1807 | ||
Box 2 | 1808-1818 | ||
Box 3 | 1819-1820 | ||
Box 5 | 1821 | ||
Box 4 | 1822-Oct. 1823 | ||
Box 23 |
1841-1870 , printed material (see list in accession folder)
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1841-1870 | |
Box 6 | Nov. 1823-1824 | ||
Box 7 | 1825-1826 | ||
Box 8 | 1827-1828 | ||
Box 9 | 1828-1831 | ||
Box 10 | 1832-1838 | ||
Box 11 | 1839 | ||
Box 12 | 1840 | ||
Box 13 | 1841 | ||
Box 14 | 1842-1845 | ||
Box 15 | 1846-1848 | ||
Box 16 | 1849-1850 | ||
Box 17 | 1851-1853 | ||
Box 18 | 1854 | ||
Box 19 | 1855-1856 | ||
Box 20 | 1857-1859 | ||
Box 21 |
1860-1905 , incomplete
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1860-1905 | |
Box 22 |
Undated
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Box 24 |
Periodicals
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Box 25 |
Pamphlets
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Box 26 |
Account books, bank books, two receipt books for contracts in connection with work
on the enlargement of the Erie Canal, Feb.1-June 7, 1841 and
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Feb.1-June 7, 1841, June 7-Sept. 17, 1841 (see accession folder for detailed list) | |
Box 27 |
Newspapers and periodicals
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Box 28 |
Newspapers and printed material
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Box 29 |
Broadsides, maps, music, etc. (see list in accession folder)
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Box 30 |
Family photos, news clippings in scrapbook
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Box 31 |
Bills, receipts
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Box 32 |
7 volumes (see list in accession folder)
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Microfilm Reel 1 |
Correspondence, 1800-1860 , on microfilm (see list in accession folder)
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1800-1860 | |
Microfilm Reel 2 |
Correspondence, 1800-1860 , on microfilm (see list in accession folder)
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1800-1860 |