The AJHS Manuscript Catalog
Jacobs, Phillip Collection |
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Type / Call # | Personal / P-010 | Contains correspondence, receipt books, business records, insurance policies, the will of Henry Whiteman, Jacobs' will and material relating to the settlement of Jacobs' estate by Peter McCartee, Richard Cunningham and Richard Ellis. Among the business records are included accounts and receipts for household items, a bill of sale for a Negro slave and records of accounts with Trinity Church of New York City and the Protestant German Reform Church in Rhynbeck, New York. Also included are documents pertaining to the sale and/or rental of land and houses in New York City and extensive correspondence and court records dealing with a dispute over Jacobs' will by the Orphans Asylum in New York City and Jacobs's widow, Elizabeth Teller. In the personal correspondence is a letter written in German (with an English translation) by Jacobs to his sister, Esther Simson, in Detyleback, Germany and one in Yiddish from his brother, Simon Jacobs, in London. Attached to this collection (but apparently not an integral part) are a deed for the sale of land in Elizabeth, NJ., by Caleb Jefferys to J. Hampton, accounts of Peter McCartee and a legal document of Richard Cunningham and Hugh McCormick. | Years | 1760-1832
| Locality | NY, New York City | Size | 2 cartons |
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