Henry Van Schaack papers
Abstract
American loyalist.,Colonial Kinderhook and Albany, N.Y., resident. Mainly correspondence, with a few receipts, appointments, petitions, and other documents, dating primarily from 1756-1809, regarding Henry Van Schaack's Indian trade operations, Seven Years' War service, colonial political activities and opinions, Revolutionary War banishment, concern with post-war loyalist emigration, connection with Shay's Rebellion, advocacy of the U.S. Constitution, anti-church tax campaign, and party politics.,Correspondents include lifelong friends, close relatives, prominent N.Y. and Mass. political, military, and church officials, rebels and loyalists, Federalist journalists, etc. Also several colonial documents of Hitchen Holland and two Indian deeds of Cornelius Van Schaack.
Dates
- Creation: 1734-1896
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1756 - 1809
Creator
- Van Schaack, Henry, 1733-1823 (Person)
Biographical / Historical
American loyalist.,Colonial Kinderhook and Albany, N.Y., resident Henry Van Schaack held local offices and engaged in the Indian trade before and after the Seven Years' War, during which he served as commissary and paymaster to N.Y. troops. Banished by N.Y. revolutionary officials in 1778, Van Schaack spent the war years in New England and New Jersey. He later settled in Pittsfield, Mass., where as a Federalist he was elected again to public office. In 1760 he married Jane Holland, daughter of Hitchen Holland.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet (3 oversize boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Mss. arranged semi-chronologically in page order of volume in which they were originally affixed.
Ownership and Custodial History
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Bibliographic References
Papers collected and arranged in a volume by Henry Cruger Van Schaack, a nephew and author of Memoirs of the life of Henry Van Schaack (Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1892), in which much of the correspondence is reproduced. In 1887, the volume of mss. was inherited by Peter Van Schaack of Chicago.
Subject
- Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845 (Person)
- Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804 (Person)
- Sedgwick, Theodore, 1746-1813 (Person)
- Van Rensselaer, Stephen, 1764-1839 (Person)
- Van Schaack, Cornelius (Person)
- Van Schaack, Jane (Person)
- Van Schaack, Peter, 1747-1832 (Person)
- Van Scoyoc family (Family)
- Warren, Henry, 1764-1828 (Person)
- Jay, John, 1745-1829 (Person)
- Johnson, William, 1715-1774 (Person)
- Great Britain. Army (Organization)
- Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 (Person)
- Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824 (Person)
- Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) (Organization)
- Federal Party (Mass.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources (Organization)
- Van Schaack, Henry, 1733-1823 (Person)
- Holland, Hitchen (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Albany (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Massachusetts -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources
- New York (State) -- History -- Sources
- United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763 -- Sources
Topical
- American loyalists -- History -- Sources
- Church and state -- Massachusetts -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Constitutional conventions -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Indian land transfers -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Indian traders -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Manuscripts, American -- Northeastern States
- Merchants -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Political parties -- Northeastern States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 -- Sources
- Status
- Catalog Record Only
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
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Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
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