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  Title

  Papers, 1767-1795

  Author

  Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798.  

  Pages:

  2

  Item info:

  2 copies available at New York State Library and Manuscripts and Special Collections.
  

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  • Holdings			Change Display
    New York State Library
    	Copy	Material	Location
    342.73029 S655 206-7293	1	MICROFILM	MB
    	Note: Includes the single accessions and the boxed material listed in the finding aid
    Manuscripts and Special Collections
    	Copy	Material	Location
    SC14382	1	MANUSCRIPT	N (nocirc)

• MARC Record

  Papers, 1767-1795
  Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798.
  

  Control Number:

  (N) SC14382

  Author:

  Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798.

  Title:

  Papers, 1767-1795.

  Quantity:

  2 boxes (0.50 cubic ft.)

  Arrangement:

  Arranged chronologically.

  Additional phys form:

  Also available on microfilm (MB/FM, 342.73029 S655 206-7293), Manuscripts and Special Collections, New York State Library.

  Historical/biog note:

  Merchant, lawyer, politician. Smith was an anti-Federalist delegate to the 1788 convention to ratify the Federal Constitution held at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

  Abstract:

  Minutes of debates, notes, memoranda, speeches, revisions, and other papers relating to the ratification and adoption of the Federal Constitution at the New York State Constitutional Convention, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1788, to which Smith was an anti-Federalist delegate. Also included are papers relating to the disputed George Clinton-John Jay gubernatorial election of 1792. These materials include speeches and statements by James Duane, Alexander Hamilton, Robert R. Livingston and William Morris. Also includes letters of Melancton Smith addressed chiefly to James Cooper and Gilbert Livingston regarding matters relative to business and politics.

  Finding aids:

  Unpublished inventory available in repository.

  References:

  Finding aid reproduced in National Inventory of Documentary Sources, microfiche no.: 3.15.293.

  General note:

  Old microfilm call number: A-FM67.

  Preferred citation:

  Melancton Smith Papers, 1786-1792.

  Personal subject:

  Duane, James, 1733-1797.

  Personal subject:

  Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804.

  Personal subject:

  Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813.

  Personal subject:

  Morris, Robert, 1734-1806.

  Corporate subject:

  United States. Constitution.

  Corporate subject:

  United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

  Subject:

  Constitutional conventions--New York (State)

  Geographic terms:

  New York (State)--History--1775-1865.

  Geographic terms:

  New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1865.

  Geographic terms:

  United States--History--Confederation, 1783-1789.

  Geographic terms:

  United States--History--Constitutional period, 1789-1809.

  Geographic terms:

  Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)

  Form/genre terms:

  Speeches. ftamc

  Form/genre terms:

  Minutes. ftamc

  Electronic access:

  Finding aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc14382.htm