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Oliver Wolcott letterbook

Title
Oliver Wolcott letterbook, 1803-1808.
Author
Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833.
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Mixed materialRequest in advance MssCol 4221Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328

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Additional Authors
Oliver Wolcott & Co.
Description
1 v.
Summary
The letterbook of Oliver Wolcott & Co., 1803-1805, and of Oliver Wolcott, 1805-1808, contains copies of outgoing letters, some in the hand of Oliver Wolcott, documenting mercantile, real property, and other domestic and foreign commercial transactions. Letters concern the trade in fur and tea with Canton, China; importation of coffee and sugar from Batavia, Java; importation of pepper, salt petre and other commodities from Calcutta, India; exportation of tobacco to Holland and France; trade with Portugal and Barbados; prices and methods of doing business; voyages of the ships Triton and Trident; and the impact of the Napoleonic wars and the Embargo Act on American shipping and commerce. Recipients include, among others, Theodore Dwight, William P. Cleveland, Asa and Daniel Hopkins, David Humphreys, Baring Brothers & Co., and Canton hong merchants Cheonqua and Houqua.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Letterbooks.
Access (note)
  • Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
  • Surrogates must be used in lieu of original volume.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Available on microfilm;
  • Available as digital images.
Funding (note)
  • Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Source (note)
  • Purchased from Healy
Biography (note)
  • Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), was United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1795-1800; United States Circuit Court judge for the Second Circuit, 1801-1802; and governor of Connecticut, 1817-1827. Wolcott also served as the state comptroller of Connecticut before joining the United States Treasury Department in 1789, and presided over the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1818. He was deeply involved in mercantile and banking affairs in New York City during his hiatus from public service. In 1803 Wolcott established the firm of Oliver Wolcott & Co., commission merchants, in partnership with James Watson, Moses Rogers, Archibald Gracie, and William W. Woolsey, in New York City. The firm dissolved in 1805, and Wolcott continued as an independent merchant, primarily in the China trade. Prior to his return to Connecticut in 1815, Oliver Wolcott was a director of the Bank of the United States, 1810-1811, and the first president of the Bank of America, 1812-1814. He was also the first president of the Merchants' Bank, 1803-1804.
Call Number
MssCol 4221
OCLC
227004398
Author
Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833.
Title
Oliver Wolcott letterbook, 1803-1808.
Additional Formats
Available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-481
Available as digital images.
Restricted Access
Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
Access
Surrogates must be used in lieu of original volume.
Funding
Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Biography
Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), was United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1795-1800; United States Circuit Court judge for the Second Circuit, 1801-1802; and governor of Connecticut, 1817-1827. Wolcott also served as the state comptroller of Connecticut before joining the United States Treasury Department in 1789, and presided over the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1818. He was deeply involved in mercantile and banking affairs in New York City during his hiatus from public service. In 1803 Wolcott established the firm of Oliver Wolcott & Co., commission merchants, in partnership with James Watson, Moses Rogers, Archibald Gracie, and William W. Woolsey, in New York City. The firm dissolved in 1805, and Wolcott continued as an independent merchant, primarily in the China trade. Prior to his return to Connecticut in 1815, Oliver Wolcott was a director of the Bank of the United States, 1810-1811, and the first president of the Bank of America, 1812-1814. He was also the first president of the Merchants' Bank, 1803-1804.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Related collections include the Oliver Wolcott and Co. account books, 1804-1815; New-York Historical Society; New York, N.Y.
Finding Aids
Index of recipients available in repository and on internet.
Source
Purchased from Healy, 1929.
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Occupation
Merchants.
Added Author
Oliver Wolcott & Co.
Research Call Number
MssCol 4221
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