Title

Ferguson family papers, 1727-1943 (bulk 1790-1880).

Author

Ferguson family.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Offsite

Details

Additional Authors

• Day, John.
• Ferguson, Helen.
• Ferguson, Samuel, 1769-1816.
• Morewood, Edmund.
• Rawson, Elizabeth Threlkeld.
• Walton, Abraham.
• Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Description

13.2 linear feet (33 boxes).

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

Subjects

• Voyages and travels
• Account books
• Wills
• Business records
• Yellow fever > New York (State) > New York
• Connecticut > Social life and customs
• India > Description and travel
• Property records
• New York (N.Y.) > Religious life and customs
• Genealogies
• Ogden family
• England > Social life and customs
• United States > Description and travel
• Day family
• Liverpool (England) > Commerce
• Ferguson family
• Ephemera
• Lyde family
• New York (N.Y.) > Commerce
• Slave trade > Great Britain
• Europe > Description and travel
• Lawyers
• Morewood family
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
• Dry-goods
• Walton family
• Great Britain > Commerce
• Merchants
• Diaries
• Shipping > New York (State) > New York
• China > Commerce

Genre/Form

• Account books.
• Business records.
• Diaries.
• Ephemera.
• Genealogies.
• Property records.
• Wills.

Access (note)

• Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Biography (note)

• The Fergusons were an English family that settled in New York City beginning around 1802.

Provenance (note)

• Gift of Alfred Ferguson to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1960.

Call Number

MssCol NYGB 18092

OCLC

369445087

Author

Ferguson family.

Title

Ferguson family papers, 1727-1943 (bulk 1790-1880).

Restricted Access

Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref

Summary

The Ferguson family papers, 1727-1943, consist of 18th- and 19th-century correspondence, business records, financial and legal documents, diaries, and family miscellany of the Ferguson and allied families. The materials in this collection concern domestic life and mercantile activity in England and America during the late-18th and 19th centuries. The correspondence of the Fergusons with members of the families into which they married, or conducted business with, comprise almost half of the collection. Genealogical notes, charts and clippings dating from the early- to mid-20th century reflect the research of Samuel Ferguson's great-granddaughter, Helen Ferguson, on the family's history.

Biography

The Fergusons were an English family that settled in New York City beginning around 1802. The patriarch, Samuel Ferguson (1769-1816), born in Halifax, Yorkshire, was a prosperous merchant who established familial and commercial relationships with other wealthy and socially prominent New York families, including the Walton, Morewood, Day, Ogden, Lyde, and Fisher families.

Provenance

Gift of Alfred Ferguson to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1960.

Location of Other Archival Materials

Related materials include the Jonathan Ogden Papers, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY.

Finding Aids

Finding aid available in repository and on internet: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/18092.pdf

Source

MSS 2008M27

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Finding aid

Occupation

Lawyers.

Merchants.

Added Author

Day, John.

Ferguson, Helen.

Ferguson, Samuel, 1769-1816.

Morewood, Edmund.

Rawson, Elizabeth Threlkeld.

Walton, Abraham.

Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.

Added Title

Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.

Research Call Number

MssCol NYGB 18092