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Call Number: 1995.002
Extent: 3.0 Linear feet, in three record cartons.
Louisa Merritt Field Stabler (1826-1914) lived with her husband and children in Brooklyn Heights at 135 Willow Street. The Stablers’ children included a daughter, Louise Merritt (1868-1954), and a son, Edward. Louise Merritt Stabler was a member of the first graduating class of Barnard College in 1893. She later became active in the suffrage movement, and was married to zoologist George Howard Parker (1864-1955), a professor at Harvard College. The Louisa Merritt Field Stabler family papers chiefly consist of personal correspondence from Louisa Merritt Field Stabler to her daughter, Louise Merritt Stabler Parker. Some correspondence is also between various members of the Stabler and Parker families. The collection also includes notebooks, a copy of Louisa Merritt Field Stabler’s will, various newspaper clippings, and ephemera.
Louisa Merritt Field Stabler (1826-1914) lived with her husband and children in Brooklyn Heights at 135 Willow Street. Her husband, Edward Hartshorne Stabler (1813-1877), was a drug broker with an office at 44 Cedar Street in New York City. His commercial specialty was opium, at that time an import from Asia. He was originally from Baltimore and after his move to Brooklyn, his business never recovered. The Stablers’ children included a daughter, Louise Merritt (1868-1954), and a son, Edward. The Stablers were Quakers with strong ties to the Brooklyn Meeting House and Mission, the Young Friends Society, and the Friends Seminary. The Stabler family was also highly involved with education on all levels, from local kindergartens to universities. The family had connections to Columbia College, and contributed financial support to the establishment of Barnard College, at the time one of the few institutions in the country to offer a college education to women.
The Stablers’ daughter, Louise Merritt Stabler, graduated from Brooklyn Heights Seminary in 1886 and taught there before attending Barnard College. She was a member of the first graduating class of Barnard College in 1893. She later became active in the suffrage movement, and was involved with the League of Women Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1894, she married zoologist George Howard Parker (1864-1955), a professor at Harvard College and a member of the American Physiological Society. The Parkers lived in North Cambridge, MA at 6 Avon Place.
Names:
- Stabler, Louisa M., 1826-1914
- Parker, George Howard, 1864-1955
- Parker, Louise M., 1868-1954
- Stabler family
- Stabler, Edward H., 1813-1877
- Barnard College
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social conditions
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Port Chester (N.Y.)
- Westchester County (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Families — New York (State) — Kings County
- Housekeeping
- Quakers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Women — Education (Higher) — New York (State) — New York
- Women — Suffrage
- Women — New York (State) — Kings County
- Women — United States — Social conditions
- Women’s colleges — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Correspondence
- Family papers
- Memorabilia
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Call Number: 2005.014
Extent: 1.0 Linear feet, in one record carton.
This collection contains the papers of Brooklyn writer and poet Maude White Hardie, including autobiographical writings, poems, essays, correspondence and family letters, diaries, books, postcards, brochures, and legal and financial documents.
Maude White Hardie was a writer and poet who lived with her husband, Charles Hardie, on East 19th Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. Charles Hardie was a chemist who worked for a German Aniline Company that later became the well-known I.G. Farben Industry.
Names:
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Intellectual life
Subjects:
- Poets, American — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Autobiographies
- Books
- Brochures
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Essays
- Family papers
- Financial records
- Legal documents
- Poems
- Poetry
- Postcards
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Call Number: 1988.005
Extent: 1.67 Linear feet, O’Mahoney Family Papers, 1988.
Certificates and diplomas issued to members of the O’Mahoney family of Brooklyn, including Anna, Catherine, Mary, and May O’Mahoney, for passing various stages of academic achievement during the period 1906 to 1925. Some certificates issued to Anna and Catherine O’Manhoney give them license to teach at the grade school level. Most of the certificates are issued by the Department of Education of the City of New York, as well as St. Francis Xavier’s Academy and various other primary and secondary schools.
Names:
- New York (N.Y.). Dept. of Education
- O’Mahoney family
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Education — New York (State) — Kings County
- Girls — Education — New York (State) — Kings County
- Irish Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Schools — New York (State) — Kings County
- Students — New York (State) — Kings County
- Teachers — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
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Call Number: 1977.180
Extent: 1.6 Linear feet, in two folders and one oversize flat box
The Andrew J. Provost collection of Bushwick, N.Y., family papers includes documents compiled by Provost and his son likely in connection, at least in part, with their genealogical research and writings. The documents include deeds, indentures, wills, and property maps ranging from 1653 to 1835, some with certifications and other official notations ranging to 1859. The earliest original document is 1709; documents dated from the 1600s are nineteenth century certified copies. The materials concern Bushwick (Kings County, N.Y.) families and property, including that in the Greenpoint section (now part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn). Surnames appearing in the collection include Arundius, Bennet, Calyer, Cappoens, Meserole/Miserol, Praa, Provost, and Volckertsen, among others.
Names:
- Provost, Andrew J., 1834-1925
- Bennet family
- Calyer family
- Meserole family
- Praa family
- Provost family
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Bushwick (New York, N.Y.)
- Bushwick (New York, N.Y.) — Manuscript maps
- Greenpoint (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Genealogy
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Deeds
- Family papers
- Indentures
- Manuscript maps
- Wills
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Call Number: ARC.282
Extent: 0.5 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and one flat box
The Luquer and Payne families papers (1822-1980) center on the Reverend Lea Luquer (1833-1919) and his wife, Eloise Elizabeth (nee Payne) (1834-1894), with material related to earlier and later generations of their family and related families, including Low, Lynch and Pierrepont. The collection includes Eloise’s journal of her 1874 travels in Western Europe with Lea. There are several editions of “The S.S.S.S. Gazette” (1876-1879), handwritten collections of poems and stories authored principally by the children of Lea and Eloise Luquer. There are nineteenth century indentures and other agreements concerning property in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, and Westchester County (N.Y.). Many of these relate to the estates of Nicholas Luquer (1810-1864) and Thatcher Taylor Payne (died 1863). The collection includes Payne and Luquer family genealogical documents compiled in the twentieth century, and records of burial plots at Green-Wood Cemetery for members of the Low, Luquer, Lynch, and Pierrepont families, among others. There is correspondence from Henry Evelyn Pierrepont to his wife (1865-1866) and documents concerning Seth Low Pierrepont’s disposition of property from the family home at One Pierrepont Place in Brooklyn, circa 1941. The collection holds a few Civil War era documents related to the Confederate States of America, including bonds and military correspondence.
Names:
- Luquer family
- Luquer, Eloise Elizabeth
- Luquer, Lea
- Luquer, Nicholas
- Luquer, Thatcher T. P.
- Lynch family
- Overmyer, Grace
- Payne family
- Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
- Pierrepont family
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1808-1888
- Pierrepont, Seth Low
- Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)
- White Star Line
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- Europe — Description and travel
- New York (N.Y.)
- Southern States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
- Westchester County (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Cemeteries — New York (State) — Kings County
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State)
- Genealogy
- Ocean travel
- Real property — New York (State)
Types of material:
- Bonds (legal records)
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Family papers
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Journals (accounts)
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Receipts (financial records)
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Call Number: ARC.281
Extent: 2.4 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and one flat box
The Anita Lott Cruikshank collection (circa 1677-1892) consists of documents concerning various families, principally from Kings County (N.Y.) and principally concerning land and estate transactions. It is surmised that the materials were accumulated by various members of the Lott family, especially Jeremiah (1776-1861) and John A. Lott (1806-1878), of Flatbush (now part of Brooklyn, a borough of New York City) in the course of various private, public and professional activities. Many documents either concern a Lott as a party to the transaction or indicate a Lott performing an official responsibility or acting as estate executor, attorney, or in some other role as advocate. Accordingly, though many of the papers concern the Lott family, most of the collection concerns other families as well. The most important example of this is a set of papers concerning the Ludlow-Willink family of New York and Flatbush. These papers include documents regarding the commercial interests of Dutch merchant John Abraham Willink (died 1852) and his estate. Willink was married to Cornelia Ann Ludlow (1788-1865); documents from her family include estate, property, and professional papers for various Ludlows and related family ancestors, among these Charles Crooke and Anthony Rutgers of New York City. In addition to the towns of Kings County, documents in the collection refer to matters in New York City, Dutchess County (N.Y.), and Middlesex County (N.J.), among other places. Among the other surnames represented in the collection are Brownejohn, Cortelyou, Couwenhoven, Lefferts, Lloyd, Stryker, Van Brunt, Van der Bilt, and Vanderveer.
Names:
- Cruikshank, Anita Lott
- Cortelyou family
- Couwenhoven family
- Lefferts family
- Lott family
- Lott, Jeremiah, 1776-1861
- Lott, John A., 1806-1878
- Ludlow family
- Van Brunt family
- Vanderbilt family
- Vanderveer family
- Willink family
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Flatbush (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- County courts — New York (State) — Kings County
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State)
- Decedents’ estates — New York (State) — Kings County
- Families — New York (State) — Dutchess County
- Genealogy
- Lawyers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Dutchess County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Bonds (legal records)
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Estate inventories.
- Family papers
- Indentures
- Leases
- Manuscript maps
- Receipts (financial records)
- Slave bills of sale
- Wills
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Call Number: ARC.280
Extent: 2.8 Linear feet, in one manuscript box and two flat boxes
Francis Skillman (1817-circa 1897) of Roslyn, Nassau County (part of Queens County in the nineteenth century), on Long Island, N.Y. was a Justice of the Peace from 1851-1876 in North Hempstead, a genealogist who published a family history of the Skillmans in 1892, and a farmer. The Francis Skillman papers include materials from each of these aspects of Skillman’s life. These materials include correspondence, a genealogy manuscript and the research underlying the manuscript, journals, a docket book, property agreements, and miscellaneous historical documents. The journals principally concern Skillman’s farming activities and his hiring of help. The correspondence can generally be categorized as: letters from the Civil War years to Skillman from Christian Walthert, a private in the 15th New York Regiment of Engineers; letters from Skillman to his brother principally concerning family matters; and responses to Skillman’s genealogical inquiries. Genealogical information on the Schenck and Onderdonk families can also be found in the collection.
Names:
- Skillman, Francis
- Onderdonk family
- Schenck family
- Skillman family
- United States. Army. New York Engineers Regiment, 15th (1861-1865)
Places:
- Nassau County (N.Y.)
- North Hempstead (N.Y. : Town)
- Queens County (N.Y.)
- Roslyn (N.Y.)
- United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Long Island
- Agriculture — New York (State) — Long Island
- County courts — New York (State) — Long Island
- Crime — New York (State) — Long Island
- Family life
- Farmers — New York (State) — Long Island
- Genealogy
- Judges — New York (State) — Long Island
- Real property — New York (State) — Long Island
Types of material:
- Cadastral maps
- Correspondence
- dockets
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Journals (accounts)
- Manuscript maps
- Manuscripts (document genre)
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Call Number: ARC.279
Extent: 0.8 Linear feet, in two manuscript boxes.
The Terhune and Wyckoff families papers (1747-1932) include documents of two prominent families, affiliated through marriage, from Gravesend in Kings County, New York (part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn after 1898). John Terhune (1767-1842) played a significant role in the early development of Coney Island as a resort location, and the collection includes some documents on that subject and on a dispute over whether to incorporate the town of Gravesend. The bulk of the collection, dating from the first half of the nineteenth century and likely compiled principally in connection with the administration of the estates of various Terhunes and Wyckoffs, includes bills, receipts, promissory notes, inventories, deeds, indentures, court filings, and other financial and legal documents. The collection holds several individual items of interest, including two letters commenting on the use of personal slanders as a tactic in political campaigns, a document related to the founding of the Agricultural Society of Kings County, six cartes-de-visite, bills of sale and a will referring to enslaved African-Americans, indentured servitude agreements, and a promissory note (1796) from Aaron Burr to Albert Terhune. Other names of Gravesend residents appearing frequently in the collection include Bennet, Emmans, Lake, Lott, Ryder, and Stillwell.
Names:
- Terhune family
- Emmans family
- Lott family
- Stillwell family
- Terhune, Albert
- Terhune, John
- Wyckoff family
- Coney Island House (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend and Coney Island Bridge and Road Company
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
- Gravesend (New York, N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.)
- Kings County (N.Y.) — Genealogy
Subjects:
- African Americans — New York (State) — Kings County
- Auctions — New York (State) — Kings County
- Court records — New York (State) — Kings County
- Executors and administrators — New York — Kings County
- Genealogy
- Indentured servants — New York (State) — New York
- Inventories of decedents’ estates — New York (State) — New York
- Legal documents — New York (State) — Kings County
- Locomotive engineers
- Public officers — New York (State) — Kings County
- Railroads — New York (State) — Kings County
- Real property — New York (State) — Kings County
- Wills — New York (State) — Kings County
Types of material:
- Cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
- Correspondence
- Deeds
- Estate inventories.
- Genealogies
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Promissory notes
- Receipts (financial records)
- Slave bills of sale
- Tax records
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Call Number: ARC.188
Extent: 1.5 Linear feet, in four manuscript boxes.
The Daniel M. Tredwell papers contain manuscripts of histories, essays, lectures, and reminiscences by Daniel Melancthon Tredwell (1826-1921). Dating from circa 1870s through circa 1910s, these manuscript writings primarily concern Long Island, especially Kings, Nassau, and Suffolk counties, with the towns of Flatbush and Hempstead appearing most frequently. The collection includes three major manuscripts, one on Kings County history, another on Native Americans of Long Island, and the last dating from circa 1888 concerning Tredwell’s personal reminiscences of nineteenth century Long Island. There are also many shorter pieces on history, ethnography, philosophy, and other matters of intellectual inquiry. Topics of local historical interest include Melrose Hall in Flatbush, the organization of the Brooklyn Philosophical Society, and a history of the Apprentices Library Association. Other writings range from women’s rights to metaphysics to biographical notes.
Names:
- Tredwell, Daniel M., 1826-1921
- Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library Association
- Melrose Hall (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — History
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Social life and customs — 19th century
- Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) — History
- Hempstead (N.Y.) — History
- Kings County (N.Y.) — History — 19th century
- Long Island (N.Y.) — History
- Suffolk County (N.Y.) — History
Subjects:
- Indians of North America — New York (State) — Kings County
- Indians of North America — New York (State) — Long Island
Types of material:
- Biographies
- Essays
- Histories
- Lecture notes
- Notes
- Reminiscences
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Call Number: ARC.263
Extent: 94.55 Linear feet, in 7 manuscript boxes and 85 flat boxes
The Pierrepont family papers (1761-1918) document the intersection of commercial, civic and personal interests across three generations of one of the most prominent and influential families of nineteenth century Brooklyn, New York. The bulk of the collection concerns the business dealings of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont from 1838 to his death in 1888. This especially includes an extensive set of accounting and transactional records concerning the Pierrepont Stores, the family’s warehouse on Brooklyn’s East River waterfront; these include records of ships arriving at the Stores and their cargoes delivered. Additionally, there are substantive correspondence, legal documents and other materials concerning the Union Ferry Company, of which Henry was an officer. In addition to commerce and shipping, a major theme of the collection is that of land acquisition in Brooklyn Heights and at the adjacent waterfront in the early nineteenth century, and the development of that property over the course of the century. Included in the collection are correspondence, deeds, indentures, leases, accounting records, diaries, maps, invoices, receipts, business proposals, legal filings, clippings, and historical and genealogical manuscripts.
Names:
- Pierrepont family
- Pierpont, Hez. B., 1768-1838
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1808-1888
- Pierrepont, Henry Evelyn, 1845-1911
- Pierrepont, John Jay, 1849-1923
- Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company
- Covered Tube Cable Railway Co. (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Long Island Historical Society
- Nassau Cable Railway Company of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Pierrepont Stores (Brooklyn, New York, NY)
- Union Ferry Company (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Places:
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) — Maps
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
- East River (N.Y.)
Subjects:
- Bonded warehouses and goods — New York (State) — New York
- Business enterprises — New York (State) — New York
- Ferries — New York (State) — New York
- Imports — New York (State) — New York
- Landowners — New York (State) — New York
- Real estate development — New York (State) — New York
- Real property — Ownership — New York (State) — New York
- Shipping — New York (State) — New York
- Waterfronts — New York (State) — New York
Types of material:
- Account books
- Cadastral maps
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Correspondence
- Daybooks
- Deeds
- Diaries
- Indentures
- Invoices
- Journals (accounts)
- Ledgers (account books)
- Manuscript maps
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Scrapbooks
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