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  Title

  Papers, 1670-1823

  Author

  Van Bergen family.  

  Pages:

  2

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Manuscripts and Special Collections.
  

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  • Holdings			Change Display
    New York State Library
    	Copy	Material	Location
    380.1092 V218	1	MICROFILM	CHECKEDOUT (nocirc)
    Manuscripts and Special Collections
    	Copy	Material	Location
    SC10844	1	MANUSCRIPT	N (nocirc)

• MARC Record

  Papers, 1670-1823
  Van Bergen family.
  

  Control Number:

  (N) SC10844

  Author:

  Van Bergen family.

  Title:

  Papers, 1670-1823.

  Quantity:

  2 boxes (0.50 cubic ft.)

  Arrangement:

  Correspondence arranged alphabetically.

  Abstract:

  This group of papers is related primarily the Van Bergen family's business ventures and commercial activities. Included are letters to Martin Gerritsen Van Bergen from family members and business associates, including Sir William Johnson. Also included are numerous accounts and receipts of Peter Van Bergen regarding supplies delivered to the military post at Oswego. These receipts detail the wide array of goods and services that were being bought and sold. Other business records include the daybook of debit-credit accounts kept by Martin Gerritsen Van Bergen, 1749/50-1761 that details the goods purchased by his customers; and memorandum book related to the sloop Delancey, which ran between New York and Albany. Much of its cargo was lumber and furs. These papers also contain documents relative to personal business and legal matters including bonds, deeds and receipts.

  Finding aids:

  Unpublished inventory available in repository and on Internet site.

  Preferred citation:

  Van Bergen family, Papers, 1734-1802.

  Personal subject:

  Van Bergen, Martin Gerritsen.

  Personal subject:

  Van Bergen, Peter.

  Subject:

  Merchants--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Land titles--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Debtor and creditor--New York (State)

  Geographic terms:

  New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775.

  Geographic terms:

  New York (State)--Commerce.

  Form/genre terms:

  Letters (correspondence). aat

  Form/genre terms:

  Receipts. ftamc

  Form/genre terms:

  Deeds. ftamc

  Personal author:

  Van Bergen, Martin Gerritsen.

  Personal author:

  Van Bergen, Peter.

  Personal author:

  Johnson, William, Sir, 1715-1774.

  Added title:

  Daybook, 1749-1765.

  Added title:

  Memorandum book of sloop Delancey.

  LOCATION:

  Manuscripts and Special Collections New York State Library Albany, NY 12230.

  Electronic access:

  Finding aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc10844.htm