John Jay II Papers, 1834-1911

This series contains mostly John Jay II's correspondence with family members and friends, including Alexander Crummell, Charles Sumner, Oliver Johnson, Maria Weston Chapman, and Wendell Philips. Most correspondence have to do with issues including international copyright, fugitive slaves, the Civil War, and the role of the Episcopal church.

Incoming Correspondence, 1829-1889

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Box 1 Folder 1 Correspondence--Incoming, 1829-1830

Box 1 Folder 2 Correspondence--Incoming, 1831

Box 1 Folder 3 Correspondence--Incoming, 1832

Box 1 Folder 4 Correspondence--Incoming, 1833

Box 1 Folder 5 Correspondence--Incoming, 1834

Box 1 Folder 6 Correspondence--Incoming, 1835

Box 1 Folder 7 Correspondence--Incoming, 1836 January-September

Box 1 Folder 8 Correspondence--Incoming, 1836 October-November

Box 1 Folder 9 Correspondence--Incoming, 1837 January-February

Box 1 Folder 10 Correspondence--Incoming, 1837 March-June

Box 1 Folder 11 Correspondence--Incoming, 1837 July-December

Box 1 Folder 12 Correspondence--Incoming, 1838

Box 1 Folder 13 Correspondence--Incoming, 1839

Box 1 Folder 14 Correspondence--Incoming, 1830s

Box 1 Folder 15 Correspondence--Incoming, 1840-1841

Box 1 Folder 16 Correspondence--Incoming, 1842

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Box 2 Folder 1 Correspondence--Incoming, 1843

Box 2 Folder 2 Correspondence--Incoming, 1844

Box 2 Folder 3 Correspondence--Incoming, 1846-1849

Box 2 Folder 4 Correspondence--Incoming, 1850-1853

Box 2 Folder 5 Correspondence--Incoming, 1854

Box 2 Folder 6 Correspondence--Incoming, 1855-1859

Box 2 Folder 7 Correspondence--Incoming, 1860

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Box 3 Folder 1 Correspondence--Incoming, undated

Box 3 Folder 2 Correspondence--Stephen Myers to John Jay II on Underground Railroad, 1861

Box 3 Folder 3-5 Correspondence--Incoming, 1861, 3 folders

Box 3 Folder 6 Correspondence--Incoming, 1862

Box 3 Folder 7-8 Correspondence--Incoming, 1863, 2 folders

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Box 5 Folder 1 Correspondence--Incoming, 1864

Box 5 Folder 2 Correspondence--Incoming, 1865-1866

Box 5 Folder 3 Correspondence--Incoming, 1867

Box 5 Folder 4 Correspondence--Incoming, 1869

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Box 4 Folder 1 Correspondence--Incoming, 1870-1879

Box 4 Folder 2 Correspondence--Incoming, 1880-1889, 1893

Box 4 Folder 3-4 Correspondence--Incoming, 1880-1889, 2 folders

Outgoing and Third-Party Correspondence, 1835-1889

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Box 5 Folder 5 Correspondence--Outgoing, 1835-1839

Box 5 Folder 6 Correspondence--Third Party, 1830-1839, undated

Box 5 Folder 7 Correspondence--Outgoing, 1840-1849

Box 5 Folder 8 Correspondence--Third Party, 1840-1848

Box 5 Folder 9 Correspondence--Outgoing, 1855-1859

Box 5 Folder 10 Correspondence--Third Party, 1851, 1855

Box 5 Folder 11 Correspondence--Outgoing, 1860-1861

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Box 7 Folder 1 Correspondence--Outgoing, 1862-1869

Box 7 Folder 2 Correspondence--Outgoing-John Jay II to Reverend Edward Boggs, 1862-1863

Box 7 Folder 3 Correspondence--Third Party, 1863

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Box 6 Folder 1 Correspondence--Outgoing, 1870-1879

Box 6 Folder 2 Correspondence--Third Party, 1870-1879

Box 6 Folder 3 Correspondence--Outgoing, 1880-1889

Box 6 Folder 4 Correspondence--Third Party, 1885

Series II: Documents, 1790-1911

This series contains legal documents on cases including George Kirk, Lemmon, and Ann McFarland, partition and land sale documents, receipts relating to John Jay II's farms, John Jay II's writings on fugitive slaves, international copyright, and the Civil War, and newspaper clippings on abolition, freeman, the Civil War and John Jay I's political and antislavery activities. The series also includes pamphlets and circulars from anti-slavery societies, temperance petition from the women of Katonah, and some miscellaneous ephemera and photographs.

Collection Overview

Collection Contents

Series I: Correspondence, 1829-1889

Series II: Documents, 1790-1911