Bennett family collection
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Abstract
This collections contains items pertaining to the Bennett family of Brooklyn, including correspondence, photographs, bound volumes and historical publications, genealogical material, wills and legal documents, clippings, artwork and drawings, and printed ephemera.
Biographical / Historical
The Bennett (sometimes spelled "Bennet") family was a multigenerational Brooklyn family descended from William Adrianse Bennet, who in 1636 purchased land from the Canarsee Native Americans and became one of the first European settlers of the present-day neighborhood of Gowanus. Certain members of the Bennett family later relocated to the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush, Flatlands, and Gravesend.
Scope and Contents
This collections contains items pertaining to the Bennett family of Brooklyn, including correspondence, photographs, bound volumes and historical publications, genealogical material, wills and legal documents, clippings, artwork and drawings, printed ephemera, certificates and honors, and a property map of East 4th Street in Gravesend. Also included are artifacts such as pins from fraternal organizations, jewelry, a wooden store sign, and a metal and wood ruler. It includes the art portfolio of Eleanor Gourley, Manual Training High School, 1919. Finally, it also contains four books by Gertrude Ryder Bennett set in colonial Gravesend.
The collection spans the period 1783 to 2005 and documents the activities of Bennett family members in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush, Flatlands, and Gravesend. Materials also reflect the Bennett family's relations to the Ryder, Ryerson, Vanderveer, and Wyckoff families.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to users without restriction.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date (if known); Bennett family collection, ARC.271, Box and Folder number; Brooklyn Historical Society.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Carol Bennett, 2000, 2006, and 2007.
Separated Materials
The following books have been transferred to the library' collection:
An album of New Netherland. Maud Esther Dilliard ; New York : Twayne Publishers; 1963
Blue water views of old New York including Long Island and the Jersey shore. John Beard ; Centerville, Mass. Scrimshaw Press; distributed by Barre Publishers, Barre, Mass.; 1970
Documents and letters intended to illustrate the revolutionary incidents of Queens County, N.Y., with connecting narratives, explanatory notes, and additions. Henry Onderdonk 1804-1886. ; New Orleans 811 Orleans St., New Orleans 70116 : Polyanthos; 1976
Dutch emigration to North America, 1624-1860; a short history. Bertus Harry Wabeke ; New York, N.Y. : The Netherlands Information Bureau; 1944
Four traditions: women of New York during the American Revolution. Linda Grant De Pauw ; New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Albany, New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission; 1974
Gravesend, the home of Coney Island. Eric J. Ierardi ; New York : Vantage Press; c1975.
Historic homesteads of Kings County, Brooklyn, N.Y. harles Andrew Ditmas 1887-1938. ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : The compiler; 1909
Historic Long Island / by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. Rufus Rockwell Wilson 1865-1949. ; New York : Berkeley Press; 1902
Historical Long Island : paintings and sketches. Cyril A. Lewis ; Charles J McDermott ; Jayne Coles ; Westhampton Beach, N.Y. : Long Island Forum; c1964
History of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, of Gravesend, Kings County, N.Y. William H. Stillwell (William Henry); Gravesend : Printed for the Consistory; 1892
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664. J. Jameson (John Franklin), 1859-1937. ; New York : Charles Scribner's; c1909
Old Brooklyn in early photographs, 1865-1929 : 157 prints from the collection of the Long Island Historical Society. William Lee Younger ; Long Island Historical Society. New York : Dover Publications; c1978
The 300th anniversary of the Gravesend Reformed Church, 1655-1955. Gravesend Reformed Church (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.). Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Eagle Press; 1955?
The history of the town of Flatbush, in Kings County, Long-Island. Thomas M. Strong (Thomas Morris), 1797-1861. ; New York : T.R. Mercein, Jr., printer; 1842
The stone house at Gowanus : scene of the Battle of Long Island, Stirling's headquarters, Cornwallis's redoubt, occupied by Washington, colonial residence of Dutch architecture, built by Nicholas Vechte, 1699. Georgia Fraser ; New York : Witter and Kintner; 1909
The story of New Amsterdam. William R. Shepherd (William Robert), 1871-1934. ; New York : Alfred A. Knopf; 1926
When Brooklyn was the world, 1920-1957. Elliot Willensky ; New York : Harmony Books; c1986
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Processing Information
MInimally processed to the collection level.
The collection combines the accessions 2000.010, 2006.003, and 2007.060.
