Personal correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to Leonard Bronk from Samuel Van Vechten, re: going to "Sopes", July 6, 1775
File — Case Bronck Manuscripts Drawer One
Identifier: BM 1775.3
Scope and Contents
Letter from Samuel Van Vechten about going to Sopes. Reverse contains a letter dated June 1776 from Leonard Bronk to an unknown receipient.
Letter to Leonard Bronk from Samuel Van Vechten, re: going to "Sopes", July 2, 1775
Item — Case Bronck Manuscripts Drawer One
Identifier: BM 1775.4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bronck Family Manuscripts comprise roughly five cubic feet of material primarily on parchment and handmade paper. Contents include personal letters, business papers, and legal documents dating from the lifetime of Jan Bronck (1652-1742) to Leonard Bronk Lampman (1872-1939). Leonard Bronk Lampman was the final owner of the family's 1663 estate and its contents. The most intellectually unified series within the collection come from the lifetime of Judge Leonard Bronck (1751-1828) and his...
Letter to Leonard Bronk from Samuel Van Vechten, re: military news
Item — Case Bronck Manuscripts Drawer One
Scope and Contents
Letter from Samuel Van Vechten in Skenesborough to Leonard Bronk in Coxsackie. The letter refers to Leonard not replying to a previous letter "on acct of the Great Damage Your Place had sustained by the uncommon flood of water that had been at that Place..." Van Vechten mentions his poor health and the poor health of the "men on this ground". Other updates include prisoners being taken to Ticonderoga and the implied marriage of Annetie Van Orden.
Letter to Leonard Bronk from Samuel Van Vechten, re: social affairs, April 13, 1775
File — Case Bronck Manuscripts Drawer One
Identifier: BM 1775.1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Bronck Family Manuscripts comprise roughly five cubic feet of material primarily on parchment and handmade paper. Contents include personal letters, business papers, and legal documents dating from the lifetime of Jan Bronck (1652-1742) to Leonard Bronk Lampman (1872-1939). Leonard Bronk Lampman was the final owner of the family's 1663 estate and its contents. The most intellectually unified series within the collection come from the lifetime of Judge Leonard Bronck (1751-1828) and his...
Letter to Leonard Bronk from Samuel Van Vechten, re: social affairs with additional notes, April 17, 1775
File — Case Bronck Manuscripts Drawer One
Identifier: BM 1775.2
Scope and Contents
Letter from Samuel Van Vechten asking Leonard Bronk to take a ride with him to "Sopes" and to the "Palse." On the reverse side, there is an unfinished note, seemingly in different handwriting, discussing local governement affairs. It reads: "Whereas we agreed at W. Van Valkenburgs that it woud be best to have all the Inhabitants to sine that Assosiation. I have considered it ones more and found it was againast the Resolves of the Congress. so I thought with your consent that it woud be best to...
