Research Catalog
Azariah C. Flagg papers
- Title
- Azariah C. Flagg papers, 1821-1848.
- Author
- Flagg, Azariah C. (Azariah Cutting), 1790-1873.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2.1 linear feet 5 boxes).
- Summary
- The collection consists of letters received, 1821-1848, from Silas Wright, Jr., Michael Hoffman, John A. Dix, R.H. Walworth, W.L. Marcy, Albert Gallatin, Preston King, and others concerning national and local political and economic issues as well as some letters from Flagg to his associates, his notes on periodical articles, and a small amount of printed material. Correspondence documents political and economic issues, both national and local, of the period from 1823 to 1848, covering topics such as free trade, public debt, construction of canal systems in New York, currency and banking, presidential campaigns, taxation, extension of slavery and states rights, and annexation of Texas. Letters also trace the collapse of the National Republican Party, the new Whig Party, the rise of the Democratic wing of the Republican Party, and the development of Jacksonian democracy.
- Subjects
- Politicians
- United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861
- Texas > Annexation to the United States
- New York (State) > Politics and government > 1775-1865
- Mexico > Foreign relations > United States > 1821-1861
- Taxation > United States
- States' rights (American politics)
- Slavery > United States
- Free trade
- Debts, Public
- Currency question > United States
- Canals > New York (State)
- Banks and banking > United States
- Whig Party (N.Y.)
- Republican Party (N.Y.)
- National Republican Party (N.Y.)
- Democratic Party (N.Y.)
- Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Flagg, Azariah C (Azariah Cutting), 1790-1873
- Access (note)
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Additional Formats (note)
- available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Estate of Maria Flagg, Maria
- Biography (note)
- Azariah Cutting Flagg (1790-1873) was a newspaper editor and politician in New York.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- MssCol 1023
- OCLC
- NYPW93-A237
- Author
- Flagg, Azariah C. (Azariah Cutting), 1790-1873.
- Title
- Azariah C. Flagg papers, 1821-1848.
- Restricted Access
- Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
- Additional Formats
- Flagg correspondence, 1834-1838, available on microfilm; New York Public Library.Silas Wright correspondence, 1823-1847, available on microfilm; New York Public Library.Michael Hoffman correspondence, 1826-1848, available on microfilm; New York Public Library.
- Biography
- Azariah Cutting Flagg (1790-1873) was a newspaper editor and politician in New York. He served as assemblyman in 1823; New York Secretary of State from 1826 to 1833; State Comptroller, 1834-1839, 1842-1846; and New York City Comptroller, 1852-1859.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Politicians.
- Added Author
- Dix, John A., (John Adams), 1798-1879.Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849.Hoffman, Michael, 1787-1848.King, Preston, 1806-1865.Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857.Walworth, Reuben Hyde, 1788-1867.Wright, Silas, 1795-1847.
- LCCN
- ms 69000844
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 1023