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New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Baldwin and Company papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 56
Abstract: A shipping firm based in New York trading with Europe, South America and various ports in the United States. The principal partner in the firm was Simeon Baldwin of New Haven. The records include account books, correspondence, papers dealing with the general business of the firm and papers dealing with the individual ships. The records for each of the 124 ships consist of bills of lading, manifests, freight lists, settlements of earnings, letters of instruction to captains, captain's...
Dates: 1818-1876

Henry Fitzhugh papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1397
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence and legal and financial papers, which document Henry Fitzhugh's career as a financier for the Confederacy and a banker in New York City.

Dates: 1860-1948, bulk 1860-1898

Daniel Hubbard family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 970
Abstract:

Family and business letters of Daniel Hubbard, a New York City merchant, and of Bela Hubbard, a New Haven minister and his daughter Elizabeth Hubbard Pitkin, wife of Timothy Pitkin.

Dates: 1779-1846

Leffingwell family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 320
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, legal and financial records and memorabilia by and about the descendants of Lieutenant Thomas Leffingwell, one of the founders of Norwich, Connecticut. The major groups of papers are those of Christopher Leffingwell (1734-1810), a merchant in Norwich and William Leffingwell (1765-1834), a stockbroker in New York and later a resident of New Haven. These groups contain papers on legal, financial and business transactions. Family correspondence during the Revolutionary...
Dates: 1688-1954