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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
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.
Dates
- 1773-1851.
Creator
- New York (State). Militia (Organization)
- Beebee & Co. (New York, N.Y.) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
9 items. (9 items.)
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.
Physical Description
Financial Records, Legal Documents, Manuscripts
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- December 2010
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, December 2010
- Last modified:
- Margaret Nichols, September 2018
- Aspen, Matthias.
- Curtiss, Lyman.
- Faneuil, Pierre Benjamin.
- Febiger, Christian, 1746-1796.
- Foreign exchange.
- Gingery, Christian.
- Legal documents.
- Military pensions -- United States -- History.
- New York (State). Militia
- Poems -- United States -- 19th century.
- Porter, Tyler, active 1818.
- Rubsamen, Jacob.
- Slavery -- United States.
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
- Summonses.
- Taxation -- United States -- States.
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Veterans.
- Wills.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- December 2010
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu