Series I. Individual Oversize Manuscripts, 1648-1942, inclusive

Parchment deed. Land sold by five couples, being the heirs of Pieter Stoutenburgh (1613-1699): Tobias Stoutenburgh (bricklayer) and wife, Antio (or Annetie?); Evort Boyvanko, Esquire and wife, Wyntio; Isaac Stoutenburgh (carpenter) and wife, Noltio; Albortus Ringo (cordwainer) and wife, Jannotio(?); and William Waldron and wife, Engoltio(?). Deed signed with seals by all, with three of the wives using marks. Deed recorded January 22, 1700. Later note on reverse signed by Justice David Provoost and others dated October 29, 1701. Rough typescript and notes from donor are also in the folder. (Gift of Dr. William O'Keefe, October 2019.)

2 documents. Deed (1710) from Octavo Coemaats(?) to Abraham Wendell and sixteen others. Other surnames include Hooghlands(?), Hegeman, Beekman, Van Pelt, Van Dyk, Van Duyn, Cortelyou, Gouverneur, Volkertt(?), Veghten, and Van Leuwen(?). Deed is for property in the vicinity of the Raritan River and Millstone River in New Jersey. The second document is a 1784 certificate for the appointment of Arent Van Pelt as Second Lieutenant in Nicholas Van Brunt's Company in the regiment of militia in Kings County, New York. (The certificate's frame was removed and is boxed apart from the foldered document.)

One deed from the DeLanceys to Philip Livingston, John Watts, Thomas Buchanan, Gulian Verplanck, James Watson, Moses Rogers, James Farquhar, Richard Harison, and Daniel Ludlow, for land in the 1st Ward of New York City, bounded by Broadway on the east, by Temple Street on the west, by Thames Street on the south, and by Little Queen Street on the north.

Preamble and resolutions adopted at a special meeting of Alert Hose Co., No. 3, at the Carriage House in Brooklyn W.D. memorializing their fellow firefighter William Moir Smith who died at Richmond, Virginia, of wounds from the battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861. Smith was a member of the 71st Regiment, Company A. Signed by H.A. Ransford, foreman, and W.A. Price, secretary.

Includes 8 documents: 2 graduation certificates from Rutgers Female Institute to Lizzie A. Conover (1862, 1865); Certificate of membership in the Free and Accepted Masons, Holland Lodge, No. 8, to John T. Conover (1864); Graduation certificate from Van Norman Institute to Mary Conover Jones (1888); Graduation certificate from Columbia College, School of Mines, to Edward Marwedel Jones (1894); and 3 oval pictures (drawings?) of John, Lizzie, Mary (identified by donor; not noted on the objects). (Gift, Richard K. Lewis, 2019)

Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise, with related certificate, awarded to Mabel Davison for her care of blinded French soldiers during World War I. Also a related certificate to Davison from the American Fund for French Wounded. These items, with a placard also in the folder, were originally framed together in 1940. They were a gift to N-YHS in June 1940 by Charles Stewart Davison in the context of the opening year of World War II. See Davison's contextual June 1940 letter in the institutional archives (General Correspondence, Box 191, folder 2). The items were unframed, and the frame discarded, by conservator Alan Balicki in September 2022.

Certificate awarded for the completion of studies in the College Preparatory Course. Signed by principal Mary Elizabeth Masland. Stamped with seal that reads "The Gardner School, 1857." With tied ribbon that was presumably used to hold the document in rolled form. (Historical note: Also know as the Gardner School for Girls, the organization was founded in 1857. At the time of this certificate, and since 1916, it was located at 11 East 51st Street in New York City. Masland had been its principal since 1910. The Institute closed in 1949.)

Item is a sheet of 50 3 cents stamps issued on April 30, 1939, for the "Sesquicentennial of the inauguration of Washington as first president." Sheet (#22365) is mounted to paper backing, with contextual information, indicating that the sheet was sold by New York City postmaster Albert Goldman to N-YHS Director Alexander J. Wall on the first day of issue. Goldman signed and dated the sheet and signed the backing.

Includes a watercolor of Trinity Church in lower Manhattan, which appears to be initialed VBA. With the drawing are documents that seem likely to have come from the backing of the previously framed drawing. These documents include a newspaper clipping with context and likely placing the provenance of the drawing as a gift from the artist Violet B. Alvarez to Albert Ulmann (1861-1948); with the clipping is a drawing of an artist, both mounted on paper signed by Alvarez and dated August 1942.