John Jay II Papers, 1834-1911

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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.


Legal and Financial Files, 1837-1850



Box 15 Folder 6 Legal Notes, 1837-1838


Box 15 Folder 7 Receipt and Financial Documents, 1835-1838


Box 15 Folder 8 Legal Files-Real Estate, Water Commissioners, 1790-1839



Box 8 Folder 1 Legal Files, 1840-1849


Box 8 Folder 2 Legal Files-Blackwood and International Copyright, 1849


Box 8 Folder 3 Legal Files--Petitions Re: Copyright, 1848


Box 8 Folder 4 Legal Files--Blackwood and International Copyright, 1848-1850


Box 8 Folder 5 Legal Files--Field Family, 1845-1849


Box 8 Folder 6 Legal Files--George Kirk, 1846


Box 8 Folder 7 Legal Files--Samuel Burhans, 1849-1850


Box 8 Folder 8 Receipts and Financial Document, 1840-1848


Legal and Financial Files, 1850-1859



Box 9 Folder 5 Receipts and Accounts, 1850-1859


Box 9 Folder 6 Legal Files-Real Estate and Financial-Jay/Field Family, 1850



Box 11 Folder 1 Legal Files--Real Estate and Financial-Jay/Field Family, 1851-1853


Box 11 Folder 2 Legal Files--Real Estate and Financial--Jay/Field Family, 1853-1856


Box 11 Folder 3 Legal Files--Real Estate and Financial-Jay/Field Family, 1857-1859


Box 11 Folder 4 Legal Files--Jay Family Partition Deeds, 1857-1858


Box 11 Folder 5 Legal Files--Lemmon Case, 1852-1860


Box 11 Folder 6 Legal Files--Elizabeth McFarland vs. George Fogel, 1850-1855


Box 11 Folder 7 Legal Files--Miscellaneous, 1850-1859


Legal and Financial Files, 1860-1889



Box 9 Folder 8 Receipts and Financial Documents, 1860-1869



Box 13 Folder 1-4 Receipts and Financial Documents, 1860-1869, 4 folders


Box 13 Folder 5-6 Legal Files, 1860-1869, 2 folders


Box 13 Folder 7 Receipts and Financial Documents, 1870-1879


Box 13 Folder 8 Legal Files, 1870-1879


Box 13 Folder 9 Receipts and Financial, 1880-1189


Box 13 Folder 10 Receipts and Financial--"Hotel Accounts", 1876-1887


Box 13 Folder 11 Legal Files, 1880-1889


Notes, Photos and Clippings, 1830-1849



Box 9 Folder 1 Miscellaneous Notes, Photos of Horace Mann Seating Chart, circa 1830s


Box 9 Folder 2 Clippings, circa 1840-1849


Box 9 Folder 3 Scrapbook, 1836-1842


Box 9 Folder 4 Miscellaneous-Georgia Historical Society Membership, St. Matthews Church, 1840-1841


Clippings, Photos, and Circulars/Pamphlets, 1850-1869


Box 9 Folder 7 Clippings--Lemmon Case, 1852-1860



Box 12 Folder 1 Clippings, 1850-1859


Box 12 Folder 2 Clippings--"Slave Cases" Notebook, 1847-1852


Box 12 Folder 3 Pamphlets and Circulars, 1850-1859


Box 12 Folder 4-6 Newspaper Clippings, 1860-1869, 3 folders


Box 12 Folder 7 Printed Materials, 1860-1869


Box 12 Folder 8 Photographs, 1860-1869


Box 12 Folder 9 Petition of the Women of Katonah, 1862


Newspaper Clippings, Printed Materials, and Will of Agnes Ward, 1870-1911



Box 14 Folder 1 Printed Materials and Invitations, 1870-1879


Box 14 Folder 2-3 Newspaper Clippings, 1870-1879, 2 folders


Box 14 Folder 4 Printed Materials and Invitations, 1880-1889


Box 14 Folder 5 Will of Agnes Ward, 1911


Writings, 1833-1859



Box 7 Folder 4 Columbia College Compositions, 1833-1836


Box 7 Folder 5 Compositions Written by Others, 1834-1835


Box 7 Folder 6 Notes--Columbia College, 1833-1836


Box 7 Folder 7 Writings, 1841-1842


Box 7 Folder 8 Writings, 1843



Box 15 Folder 1 Writings, 1844-1848


Box 15 Folder 2-3 Writings, circa 1840-1949, 2 folders


Box 15 Folder 4 Writings, 1854-1859


Box 15 Folder 5 Writings--Lecture on New York Manumission Society, 1852


Writings, 1860-1889



Box 6 Folder 5-6 Writings-Notes and Drafts, 1860-1869, 2 folders



Box 10 Folder 1-3 Writings, 1860-1869, 3 folders


Box 10 Folder 4 Writings--Address to the Colored Troops, 1864


Box 10 Folder 5 Writings--Draft of Address on Civil War, 1861-1865


Box 10 Folder 6 Writings--Address on Common Schools, 1860s


Box 10 Folder 7 Writings, 1870-1879


Box 10 Folder 8 Writings, 1880-1889