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Whig Party (U.S.)

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Amelia and Eliza May letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 10 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065241519]
Identifier: 1417
Scope and content Letters chiefly to Mrs. Amelia Stoddard May of Newport (Herkimer County), N.Y. and her daughter Eliza, from relatives in Connecticut including Mrs. May's father Ebenezer Stoddard, Sr. comment on the Spring legislative session in Connecticut (1836) and the decline of the Whig Party, expansion of shoe manufacturing in New England, family matters and neighbors in Woodstock, Conn. In addition, one letter from a school friend in Warsaw (Wyoming County), N.Y., discusses the local dance school,...
Dates: 1836-1854.

Francis E. Spinner papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 167
Scope and content Letters dealing with the New York State Supreme Court of Herkimer County, including bills of judgment, letters of discharge, orders of transportation, and inventories of Supreme Court furnishings; an account book for Spinner when he was sheriff of Herkimer County; also letters of a military content dealing with the 5th Brigade of the New York State Militia, including bills from Aylesworth and Holmes of Utica; also, letters dealing with construction and personnel matters of the New York State...
Dates: 1802-1875.

Hugh White papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 610
Abstract Correspondence, letters, diaries, account books, tax receipts, deeds, inventories, contracts, surveys, land records, maps, photographs, church records, genealogical data and other papers pertaining chiefly to White's involvement in land in northern New York, particularly the counties of Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, and St. Lawrence; material concerning the cement business at Chittenango and Greenkills, New York. Also, political papers (1840-1867), which include material on the...
Dates: 1750-1933.

Letters of William Henry Seward and Samuel J. Tilden

 Collection — Manuscript box 22 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243630]
Identifier: 248m
Scope and content

Letter from Seward to E.A. Stansbury of Burlington, Vermont, dated November 14, 1844, bemoaning the defeat of Henry Clay (the Whig candidate) in the presidential election. Also, a letter from Samuel J. Tilden, dated February 19, 1853, to auditor G.W. Nevill, concerning the ability to make changes to New York's Canal Debt Sinking Fund.

Dates: 1844-1853.

Whig convention notes

 Collection — Manuscript box 28 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065245767]
Identifier: 871
Scope and content

Estimates made by delegates to a Whig senatorial convention at Bath, New York, Oct. 3, as to Marcy and Seward strength in various counties.

Dates: 1838.

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Account books 2
New York (State) -- Politics and government. 2
United States -- History -- 19th century. 2
Cement industries -- New York (State) -- Chittenango. 1
Cement industries -- New York (State) -- Greenkills. 1