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Found in 2 Collections and/or records:

 Collection

Ebenezer Foote Family Papers

Identifier: MSS20941
Abstract

Continental Army officer, jurist, merchant, and legislator, of Delaware County, N.Y. Family and general correspondence, orders, petitions, and legal and other papers of Foote and various members of his family. Topics include the Tammany Society of New York, the death of Alexander Hamilton, the War of 1812, the incident aboard the frigate Chesapeake, the first Seminole War, and New York politics.

Dates 1751-1871; Majority of material found within ( 1790-1807)
 Collection

Harry Payne Whitney Collection of Letters of William C. Whitney

Identifier: MSS45468
Abstract

Secretary of the navy, financier, and sportsman. Correspondence, legal and financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogies, and printed matter relating chiefly to William C. Whitney's business and political career in New York, and as secretary of the navy in the first Grover Cleveland presidential administration.

Dates 1757-1942; Majority of material found within ( 1883-1904)