Legal documents - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, 1773-1851.
Collection Number: 4779
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Legal documents - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, 1773-1851.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4779
Abstract:
Last will and testament of Colonel Pierre Benjamin Faneuil, Boston, Massachusetts,
1877; signed manuscript Revolutionary War pension request for Tyler Porter, with list
of battles, Massachusetts, 1818; New York State Militia Return of Officers ... under
Command of Brigadier-General Lyman Curtiss, 1834; Beebee & Co. Bullion Exchange Bankers,
New York financial statement, 1851; will of Christian Gingery of Warwick, Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, includes mention of "mulato Girl," 1778; will of Jacob Rubsamen
(?) of Philadelphia includes manumission of three slaves, 1792; and will of Brigadier
General Christian Febiger, Philadelphia, 1796. Also clipping with poem about slavery,
"The Auction-Block Again - Who Bids?" from the New York Tribune, undated. Also, two
documents mounted on one sheet of paper: a summons to serve on a grand jury and a
tax assessment, both addressed to Matthias Aspen, Philadelphia, 1773.
Creator:
no primary creator
New York (State). Militia
Beebee & Co. (New York, N.Y.)
Quanitities:
9 items.
Language:
Collection material in English
Last will and testament of Colonel Pierre Benjamin Faneuil, Boston, Massachusetts,
1877; signed manuscript Revolutionary War pension request for Tyler Porter, with list
of battles, Massachusetts, 1818; New York State Militia Return of Officers ... under
Command of Brigadier-General Lyman Curtiss, 1834; Beebee & Co. Bullion Exchange Bankers,
New York financial statement, 1851; will of Christian Gingery of Warwick, Lancaster
County, Pa., includes mention of "mulato Girl," 1778; will of Jacob Rubsamen (?) of
Philadelphia includes manumission of three slaves, 1792; and will of Brigadier General
Christian Febiger, Philadelphia, 1796. Also clipping with poem about slavery, "The
Auction-Block Again - Who Bids?" from the New York Tribune, undated. Also, two documents
mounted on one sheet of paper: a summons to serve on a grand jury and a tax assessment,
both addressed to Matthias Aspen, Philadelphia, 1773.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Legal documents - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, #4779. Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Faneuil, Pierre Benjamin.
Porter, Tyler, active 1818.
Curtiss, Lyman.
Gingery, Christian.
Rubsamen, Jacob.
Febiger, Christian, 1746-1796.
Aspen, Matthias.
New York (State). Militia
Places:
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Veterans.
Subjects:
Taxation -- United States -- States.
Slavery -- United States.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
Foreign exchange.
Military pensions -- United States -- History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Poems -- United States -- 19th century.
Summonses.
Wills.
Legal documents.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Faneuil, Pierre Benjamin. Will
|
1777 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Revolutionary War Pension Request. Boxford, Massachusetts.
|
1818 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
New York State Militia Document
|
1834 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Beebee and Co. Bullion Exchange Bankers, New York. Financial Statement
|
1851 |
Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Lancaster County PA. Will. Includes Mention of a "Mulato Girl" Slave
|
1778 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Will. Philadelphia, PA. "Purchase and Set Free" Slaves
|
1792 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Christina Febiger. Will.
|
1796 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Poem About Slavery From New York Tribune
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|
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Grand jury summons and tax assessment for Matthias Aspen. Philadelphia, PA.
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1773 |