Research Catalog
Pierre Van Cortlandt correspondence
- Title
- Pierre Van Cortlandt correspondence, 1787-1845.
- Author
- Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1762-1848.
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- .4 linear foot (1 box)
- Summary
- Collection consists mainly of letters received by Van Cortlandt.
- Subjects
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Additional Formats (note)
- available on microfilm;
- Source (note)
- Wormser
- Biography (note)
- Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. (1762-1848) was a soldier and politician from Westchester County, New York.
- Processing Action (note)
- Cataloged
- Call Number
- MssCol 3127
- OCLC
- NYPW94-A367
- Author
- Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1762-1848.
- Title
- Pierre Van Cortlandt correspondence, 1787-1845.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Additional Formats
- Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library.
- Biography
- Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr. (1762-1848) was a soldier and politician from Westchester County, New York. He was a U.S. Congressman from 1811-1812 and a brigadier general in the Westchester militia during the War of 1812. His first wife, Catharine Clinton Taylor, was the daughter of George Clinton, governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and 1801 to 1804, and vice-president under Jefferson and Madison, 1804-1812. Van Cortlandt was the son of Pierre Van Corlandt (1721-1814) who had been the first lieutenant-governor of New York.
- Occupation
- Politicians.Soldiers.
- Added Author
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852.Clinton, DeWitt, 1769-1828.Clinton, George, 1739-1812.Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824.Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893.Genet, Edmond Charles, 1763-1834.Tallmadge, Mathias B.Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814.
- LCCN
- ms 74000565
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 3127