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Contents list available in the repository and online. Link to PDF finding aid added in fall 2018
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged chronologically.
This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, receipts, certificates, financial and legal documents, envelopes, clippings, pamphlets, and other printed materials dealing with social and family relationships, the sons' education, professions, and military careers, the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, real estate and financial matters, and with the deaths and bequests of various family members. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton, Gen. Schuyler Hamilton, Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, Charles Augustus Peabody, Gen. J. Fred Pierson, Gen. Winfield Scott, Martin Van Buren, and a manuscript by George Washington.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Hamilton Family Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Barrett, Marie H.M. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--02/13/88. Accession number--M-88-02-13.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Barrett, Marie H.M. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--10/09/91. Accession number--M-91-10-09.
Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, American Revolutionary leader and the first Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-1795, and his descendants, primarily his son and biographer John Church Hamilton, 1792-1882, his children, and Mrs J.C. Hamilton's family, the Van den Heuvel family of New York City.
Gift of Marie H.M. Barrett, 1988 & 1991.
Papers Processed HR 04/--/88.
Papers Processed HR 10/25/91.
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