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Ferguson family papers

Title
  1. Ferguson family papers, 1727-1943 (bulk 1790-1880).
Supplementary content
  1. Finding aid
Author
  1. Ferguson family.

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Additional authors
  1. Day, John.
  2. Ferguson, Helen.
  3. Ferguson, Samuel, 1769-1816.
  4. Morewood, Edmund.
  5. Rawson, Elizabeth Threlkeld.
  6. Walton, Abraham.
  7. Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
  8. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Description
  1. 13.2 linear feet (33 boxes).
Summary
  1. 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.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
Subject
  1. Voyages and travels
  2. Account books
  3. Wills
  4. Business records
  5. Yellow fever > New York (State) > New York
  6. Connecticut > Social life and customs
  7. India > Description and travel
  8. Property records
  9. New York (N.Y.) > Religious life and customs
  10. Genealogies
  11. Ogden family
  12. England > Social life and customs
  13. United States > Description and travel
  14. Day family
  15. Liverpool (England) > Commerce
  16. Ferguson family
  17. Ephemera
  18. Lyde family
  19. New York (N.Y.) > Commerce
  20. Slave trade > Great Britain
  21. Europe > Description and travel
  22. Lawyers
  23. Morewood family
  24. New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs
  25. Dry-goods
  26. Walton family
  27. Great Britain > Commerce
  28. Merchants
  29. Diaries
  30. Shipping > New York (State) > New York
  31. China > Commerce
Genre/Form
  1. Account books.
  2. Business records.
  3. Diaries.
  4. Ephemera.
  5. Genealogies.
  6. Property records.
  7. Wills.
Call number
  1. MssCol NYGB 18092
Access (note)
  1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
Biography (note)
  1. The Fergusons were an English family that settled in New York City beginning around 1802.
Provenance (note)
  1. Gift of Alfred Ferguson to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1960.
Author
  1. Ferguson family.
Title
  1. Ferguson family papers, 1727-1943 (bulk 1790-1880).
Restricted access
  1. Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
Biography
  1. 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
  1. Gift of Alfred Ferguson to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1960.
Location of other archival materials
  1. Related materials include the Jonathan Ogden Papers, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY.
Finding aids
  1. Finding aid available in repository and on internet: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/18092.pdf
Source
  1. MSS 2008M27
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
  2. Finding aid
Occupation
  1. Lawyers.
  2. Merchants.
Added author
  1. Day, John.
  2. Ferguson, Helen.
  3. Ferguson, Samuel, 1769-1816.
  4. Morewood, Edmund.
  5. Rawson, Elizabeth Threlkeld.
  6. Walton, Abraham.
  7. Wordsworth, Dorothy, 1771-1855.
  8. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Research call number
  1. MssCol NYGB 18092
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