Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Rochester (N.Y.) Languages : en Pages : 11
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Boxes 1 and 2 contain about 250 letters, dating from 1780 to 1910, with a concentration of letters between 1800 and 1830. The correspondence is mainly to and from Nathaniel Rochester, with some other family members represented. The papers contain a few letters from well-known national figures, including Henry Clay, James Madison, Albert Gallatin, and Alexander Hamilton. Other important correspondents include Charles Carroll and William Fitzhugh, Rochester's partners in the 1803 Western New York land purchase. There are also retained copies of Rochester's own letters, written in his own hand along with correspondence from several of his sons, including William B. Rochester, who served as a Congressman. Also included are 17 letters Nathaniel Thrift Rochester wrote to his mother and sisters during a tour of Europe in 1832. Letters dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are to and from descendants of Rochester. Box 3 contains financial and legal material such as bills, receipts, deeds, agreements, etc. The material is concentrated between 1780 and 1830 with some material extending into the 1850s. The earlier material documents Rochester's business dealings before he came to Western New York, including the sale of slaves. Box 4 contains other material, including a few 19th-century broadsides, speeches, and newspaper clippings. Boxes 5-8 (including box 6a, containing a photograph album) include a journal of Nathaniel Rochester's slave transactions (1790-94), and what appears to be an account of a trip to the Genesee region in 1800. Boxes 7 and 8 contain genealogical material of the Rochester family compiled by Nathaniel Rochester III (1919-2001) along with material accumulated by family members about his work for IBM. These boxes also contain additional material about Montgomery Rochester, the grandson of Nathaniel Rochester. Mongomery Rochester died in 1909. Boxes 9 and 10 are books collected by or containing information about Nathaniel Rochester III.
Author: Rochester family Publisher: ISBN: Category : Monroe County (N.Y.) Languages : en Pages :
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The collection contains biographical information and legal documents relating to Nathaniel Rochester (1752-1831), a founder of the city of Rochester, N.Y., and to his wife, Sophia (Beatty) Rochester (1768-1845). Also included are a number of documents relating to Harvey Montgomery ( -1869), the husband of Nathaniel and Sophia Rochester's fifth child, Mary Eleanor (Rochester) Montgomery (1796-1849, and commissions and appointments of Nathaniel Rochester and Nathaniel Thrift Rochester. In addition, one folder contains personal correspondence written between 1841 and 1849 to Mary G. (Whitney) Montogomery (?-1882), wife of Harvey and Mary Eleanor Montgomery's fifth child, Thomas Colman Montgomery (1820-1906). Also included are letters and documents concerning the estate of Thomas Critcher of North Carolina, 1800-1827, and financial papers of Whig Central Committee of Monroe County, 1844.
Author: Anne Sheriff Publisher: ISBN: Category : Kent (England) Languages : en Pages : 256
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In 1689, Nicholas Rochester (ca. 1640-ca. 1719) and his son, William Rochester (ca. 1680-1750) came to America from England. Descendants lived and some still live in New York, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and elsewhere.
Author: Paine family Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Paine-Mills Family Papers is a small collection relating to the history of two Rochester-area families over a 100-year period. The main piece is a small booklet by Paul M. Paine, published in 1896 for the Historical Society of Athens, NY, called "The Paines of Athens. Their Ancestors and Descendants," along with the notes compiled for this document. The family includes several University of Rochester alumni: William Theodore Mills (UR 1872), another William Theodore Mills (UR 1900), and Buell Paine Mills (UR 1898), father of Allen Paine Mills. The collection also includes accounts, corespondence, clippings, etc.
Author: Shutt (Family (Rochester, N.Y.)) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Shutt Family Papers consists of one folder with deed and other land papers of the George C. Maurer and family of Rochester, as well as one photograph album of the Shutt family.
Author: Jean Fagan Yellin Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469625792 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 1052
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Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. Born in Edenton, North Carolina, Jacobs escaped from her owner in her mid-twenties and hid in the cramped attic crawlspace of her grandmother's house for seven years before making her way north as a fugitive slave. In Rochester, New York, she became an active abolitionist, working with all of the major abolitionists, feminists, and literary figures of her day, including Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Amy Post, William Lloyd Garrison, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, William C. Nell, Charlotte Forten Grimke, and Nathan Parker Willis. Jean Fagan Yellin has devoted much of her professional life to illuminating the remarkable life of Harriet Jacobs. Over three decades of painstaking research, Yellin has discovered more than 900 primary source documents, approximately 300 of which are now collected in two volumes. These letters and papers written by, for, and about Jacobs and her activist brother and daughter provide for the thousands of readers of Incidents--from scholars to schoolchildren--access to the rich historical context of Jacobs's struggles against slavery, racism, and sexism beyond what she reveals in her pseudonymous narrative. Accompanied by a CD containing a searchable PDF file of the entire contents, this collection is a crucial launching point for future scholarship on Jacobs's life and times.
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