COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
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.
Dates
- 1756-1879.
- Majority of material found within 1800 - 1875
Creator
- Camp, Elisha. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Postmaster, militia officer, lawyer, deputy New York State district attorney, politician, newspaper owner and editor, banker, landowner, and land agent.
Extent
7.2 cubic feet.
9 volumes.
Abstract
Papers pertaining to the early history of Jefferson County, New York.
Physical Description
Correspondence; accounts; contracts; leases; surveys; bonds; deeds; receipts; other land, legal, and business papers; political broadsides; pamphlets; editorials; handbills; and speeches.
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:
- B. Shepherd, K. Jacklin
- Date completed:
- March 1981
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, March 2004
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, June 2017
- Account books.
- Bayard, William.
- Bonds (negotiable instruments).
- Boyd, David.
- Broadsides.
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868.
- Camp family.
- Camp, Elisha E.
- Champion, Henry.
- Clinton DeWitt, 1769-1828.
- Deeds.
- Duane, James C.
- Ellis, James M.
- Gouverneur, Nicholas.
- Hale, George.
- Hogan, Michael.
- Hounsfield (N.Y.) -- History.
- Hounsfield, Ezra.
- Inland water transportation -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Economic aspects.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Finance.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- History, Local.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Manufactures.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
- Jefferson County Agricultural Society (Jefferson County, N.Y.)
- Jefferson County Bank
- Kemble, Peter.
- Lake Ontario Steam-Boat Company
- Land titles -- Exchange of.
- Land titles -- Valuation.
- Le Ray de Chaumont, J. (James), 1760-1841.
- LeRoy, Herman.
- Leases.
- Manufactures -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
- Mills and mill-work -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
- New York (State). Militia
- Ogden Land Company
- Ogden, David A.
- Ogden, Thomas L.
- Olive, Nicholas.
- Politics, Practical -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
- Ray, Cornelius.
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
- Sacket, Augustus.
- Sackets Harbor (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Sackets Harbor (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
- Sackets Harbor (N.Y.) -- Finance.
- Sackets Harbor Bank
- Sackets Harbor Steam and Ferry Boat Company
- Sackets Harbor and Ellisburgh Railroad
- Sackets Harbor and Saratoga Railroad
- Sackets harbor (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
- Seymour, L.
- Shipping -- New York (State) -- Jefferson County.
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
- Smith, Jesse C.
- Smyth, Charles.
- Storrs, Lemuel.
- Surveys.
- Union Academy
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
- United States. Navy
- Watertown and Rome Railroad
- Yates, Joseph C.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by B. Shepherd, K. Jacklin
- Date
- March 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- manuscript box: 26 - folder 1 (Mixed Materials)
- manuscript box: 4 - folder 1 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 2 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 3 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 4 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 5 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 7 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 6 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 9 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 10 (Mixed Materials)
- mapcase folder: 3 (Mixed Materials)
- mapcase folder: 4 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 8 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 11 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 12 (Mixed Materials)
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