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Moses Family Papers | ||
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| Type / Call # | Personal / P-001 | The collection contains business, legal, official, and personal papers and correspondence of the following members of the Moses family: Isaac Moses (1742-1818), primarily legal and business papers covering years 1767-1818, including a Masonic certificate (1767), a receipt book (1785-1787), with many Jewish names (list included in the collection), a power of attorney for Isaac Moses, Samuel Myers and Moses Myers witnessed by Alexander Hamilton (1788), an invitation to the anniversary dinner of the Havarh Meshivat Nefesh, London (1798), a letter to his son, Solomon, on the occasion of Solomon's first voyage to Madras and Calcutta (1798), an invitation to the coronation of Napoleon I (1804), and the inventory of his estate (1818); Moses Levy Moses (1773-1843), two customs declarations (1800, 1810); Solomon Moses (1774-1857), a journal kept by him on his first voyage to Madras and Calcutta (1798), and a letter concerning the burial of his son, Isaac, in Mobile, Alabama (1847); Joshua Moses (1780-1837), an attestation of citizenship signed by DeWitt Clinton (1803), a family record book noting his own marriage and data concerning his children (1817-1820), an invitation to a dinner on behalf of the Jews' Hospital, London (1816), and letters of administration and inventory of his estate (1817); Isaac Moses (1807-1847), letter on a legal matter (1829); Isaac Moses, Jr. (1819-1889), printed obituary (1889); Israel Moses (1821-1870), primarily items covering his military career, including Nicaraguan military scrip given to Moses as payment for services rendered (1856), a scrapbook of newspaper clippings with manuscript notations kept by him while serving as a lt. colonel in the Army Medical Corps during the Civil War (1861-1865); a series of letters to his brother and sister-in-law, Lionel and Selina Moses, describing his life in the Union Army (1861-1862), a letter to Mrs. J.J. Lyons describing the need for comforters in his unit (1861), and a transcription of his military record (1870); Lionel Moses (1825-1895), a letter on Masonic business from Canton, China (1855), two certificates of membership in the Odd Fellows (1847 and 1848), and a printed resolution on his death from K.K. Shearuth Israel (1895). The collection also includes numerous photographs of various family members, personal articles belonging to family members, and correspondence and assorted newspapers and manuscripts relating to the history and genealogy of the family, furnished by Blanche Moses, daughter of Lionel Moses. Daguerreotypes of various family members have been removed from the collection and catalogued separately. Also included are photocopies of credit reports of the firm Isaac Moses and Son, compiled by R.G. Dun & Co., from originals at the Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Brighton, Mass. (1848-1864), and photocopies of the military records and papers of Israel Moses and Isaac Moses found at the National Archives, Washington (1858-1868). |
| Years | 1767-1941 | |
| Locality | NY, New York City | |
| Size | ca. 260 items | |
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