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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.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged chronologically.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
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.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Hamilton Family Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Gift of Marie H.M. Barrett, 1988 & 1991.
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.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Processed HR 04/--/88.
Papers Processed HR 10/25/91.
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.
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