COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
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.
Dates
- 1785-1862.
Creator
- Dexter, Simon Newton. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Merchant, banker, Erie Canal commissioner, and cotton and woolen manufacturer.
Extent
12.8 cubic feet.
9 volumes.
4 microfilm reels.
Abstract
Correspondence, accounts, orders, receipts, notes, contracts, and other papers relating to Dexter's business and political activities.
Physical Description
Correspondence, accounts, orders, receipts, notes, contracts, and other papers.
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:
- R. Jones, B. Huth
- Date completed:
- August 1979
- EAD encoding:
- Martin Heggestad, March 2004
- Date modified:
- Marcie Farwell, July 2018
- Account books.
- Accounts.
- Bacon, E.
- Bankers.
- Banks and banking -- New York (State) -- Utica.
- Bates, Edward.
- Bicknell, Francis.
- Birmingham Manufacturing Company
- Black River Canal
- Black River Woolen Company
- Brinckerhoff, John.
- Capron, E.
- Capron, Seth.
- Center, A. J.
- Cheever, William M.
- Cooper, James.
- Culver, Oliver.
- Detroit Farmers\' and Mechanics\' Bank
- Devereux, John.
- Devereux, Nicholas.
- Dexter Manufacturing Company
- Dexter Village Society
- Distilleries -- New York (State)
- Doolittle, J. W.
- Dry-goods -- New York (State)
- Durer, William.
- Elgin Manufacturing Company
- Erie Canal
- Foote, Guy.
- Galen and Chicago Rail Road Company
- Germain, S. P.
- Gold family.
- Gold, Thomas R.
- 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.
- Industrialists.
- Iron mines and mining -- New York (State)
- Jefferson County (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- 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.
- New York (State) -- Economic conditions.
- New York (State) -- Industries.
- Northrup, Isaac.
- Oneida County (N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
- Oneida Manufacturing Company
- Oriskany Manufacturing Company
- Patterson, George W.
- Pease, John B.
- Perry, George T.
- Plank roads -- New York (State)
- Politics, practical -- New York (State)
- Pomeroy, Thadeus.
- Poor, Benjamin.
- Porter, Josiah.
- Pratt, Jonas.
- Railroads -- New York (State)
- Randall, Henry S.
- Receipts.
- Renwick, R. J.
- Rock Bottom Factory (Stowe, Mass.)
- Rogers, P. V.
- Root, Porteus B.
- Satterlee, James.
- Schenck, Peter B.
- Seward, Alexander, 1816-
- Seymour, Charles.
- Seymour, Henry.
- Sheep industry -- New York (State)
- 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.
- Tanneries -- New York (State)
- Taymond, B. W.
- 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.
- Whitestown (N.Y.) -- Commerce.
- Williams Woolen Company
- Williams, John.
- Woodsworth, Samuel.
- Wool industry -- New York (State)
- Yarwood, R. L.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Jones, B. Huth
- Date
- March 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Volume: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 2 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 3 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 4 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 5 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 6 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 7 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 8 (Mixed Materials)
- Volume: 9 (Mixed Materials)
- manuscript box: 5 - folder 1 (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 1 (negative) (Mixed Materials)
- microfilm reel: 2 (negative) (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