05661mpc  2201021 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025010001700066035002400083035002200107040002400129100001800153245003600171300002400207545015700231520148300388520051001871555002102381524010402402600004902506600003302555600003202588600003102620600002202651600002002673600002102693600001902714600002202733600002002755600002102775600001902796600002102815600002002836600002002856600002002876600002102896600002602917600002002943600001702963600001702980600002002997600001803017600001603035600002003051600002003071600002103091610005003112610002703162610002903189610002503218610003103243610001903274610004403293610004203337610002503379610004403404610001903448610003303467610003703500650006903537650002803606650003003634650006103664650006103725650005003786651003903836651004803875650004203923651004703965651005404012651005004066651003804116651003704154651004704191651004604238651003604284651004504320651003204365651007504397655002404472655001704496655001804513655004104531655001604572655002104588905002104609998000904630209772620000719094145.0920519i17561879nyu                 eng d  bms 62004434   a(CStRLIN)NYCV92A290  a(NIC)notisAKT6555  aNICcNICeappmdNIC1 aCamp, Elisha.00aElisha Camp papers,f1756-1879.  a7.2 cubic ft.; 9 v.  aPostmaster, militia officer, lawyer, deputy New York State district attorney, politician, newspaper owner and editor, banker, landowner, and land agent.  aCorrespondence, 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 trasnfer 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.  aOther 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.  aGuide available.  aElisha Camp papers, #696.  Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.10aLe Ray de Chaumont, J.q(James),d1760-1841.10aBuchanan, James,d1791-1868.10aClinton DeWitt,d1769-1828.10aSmith, Gerrit,d1797-1874.10aSacket, Augustus.10aOgden, David A.10aOgden, Thomas L.10aKemble, Peter.10aHounsfield, Ezra.10aStorrs, Lemuel.10aChampion, Henry.10aLeRoy, Herman.10aBayard, William.10aEllis, James M.10aRay, Cornelius.10aHogan, Michael.10aOlive, Nicholas.10aGouverneur, Nicholas.10aCamp, Elisha E.30aCamp family.10aBoyd, David.10aDuane, James C.10aHale, George.10aSeymour, L.10aSmith, Jesse C.10aSmyth, Charles.10aYates, Joseph C.20aJefferson County (N.Y.) Agricultural Society.20aJefferson County Bank.10aNew York State.bMilitia10aUnited States.bNavy20aLake Ontario Steamboat Co.20aOgden Land Co.20aSackets Harbor and Ellisburgh Railroad.20aSackets Harbor and Saratoga Railroad.20aSackets Harbor Bank.20aSackets Harbor Steam and Ferry Boat Co.20aUnion Academy.20aWatertown and Rome Railroad.20aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 0aInland water transportationzNew York (State)zJefferson County. 0aLand titlesxValuation. 0aLand titlesxExchange of. 0aMills and mill-workzNew York (State)zJefferson County. 0aPolitics, PracticalzNew York (State)zJefferson County. 0aShippingzNew York (State)zJefferson County. 0aJefferson County (N.Y.)xCommerce. 0aJefferson County (N.Y.)xSocial conditions. 0aManufactureszJefferson County (N.Y.) 0aJefferson County (N.Y.)xEconomic aspects. 0aJefferson County (N.Y.)xPolitics and government. 0aJefferson County (N.Y.)xEconomic conditions. 0aJefferson County (N.Y.)xFinance. 0aSackets Harbor (N.Y.)xCommerce. 0aSackets Harbor(N.Y.)xEconomic conditions. 0aSackets harbor (N.Y.)xSocial conditions. 0aSackets Harbor (N.Y.)xFinance. 0aJefferson County (N.Y.)xHistory, Local. 0aHounsfield (N.Y.)xHistory. 0aUnited StatesxHistoryyCivil War, 1861-1865vPersonal     narratives. 7aAccount books.2aat 7aLeases.2aat 7aSurveys.2aat 7aBonds (negotiable instruments).2aat 7aDeeds.2aat 7aBroadsides.2aat  a20000103120000.0  s9554