Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gales, Joseph, Jr., 1786-1860
2. Mudge, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1817-1879

Description

1. .1 linear foot (1 folder)

Summary

1. Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783-1851) of Roxbury, Massachusetts was a politician, militia officer, author and horticulturist. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he was the son of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829), an American army officer and statesman, and Dorcas Osgood Marble. The collection contains a letter to his friend Joseph Gales, editor of the National Intelligencer at Washington, D.C., dated 1848 April 26; a short letter to Benjamin Mudge at Lynn, Massachusetts confirming a lecture, dated 1843 November 10; and four importation certificates for wine arriving in Boston and its vicinity, dated 1816 and 1823, signed by Dearborn during his tenure as Collector of Customs at Boston.

Subject

1. Customs administration > Massachusetts
2. Newspaper editors
3. Politicians
4. United States > Collector of Customs (Boston, Mass.)
5. Certificates of origin

Genre/Form

1. Certificates of origin.

Call number

1. MssCol 9326

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Source (note)

1. Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford collection.

Author

1. Dearborn, H. A. S. (Henry Alexander Scammell), 1783-1851.

Title

1. Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn letters and importation certificates, 1816-1848.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Source

1. Donated by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1899, as part of the Ford collection.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Newspaper editors.
2. Politicians.

Added author

1. Gales, Joseph, Jr., 1786-1860, Correspondent.
2. Mudge, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1817-1879, Correspondent.

Research call number

1. MssCol 9326