John J. Merritt Family Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily contains John J. Merritt's correspondence with Hannah Brown during their courtship and after their marriage. In addition to expressing his feelings, he described life in New York City and travel up the Hudson to her home in Peekskill. After marriage in 1827, his affectionate letters continue, expressing loneliness when she was away on family visits. Later in the 1840s and 1850s when away on business trips, he described what it was like to travel through New York State, Canada and Michigan.
Dates
- Creation: 1818-1871
Creator
- John J. Merritt (1804-1871) (Person)
- John J. Merritt (1804-1871) (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
John J. Merritt (1804-1871) was a New York City Hicksite Quaker businessman. He was the son of John and Phebe.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
John J. Merritt (1804-1871) was a New York City Hicksite Quaker businessman. He was the son of John and Phebe J. Brown and in 1827, married Hannah Brown of Amawalk Monthly Meeting. This collection primarily contains John J. Merritt's correspondence with Hannah Brown during their courtship and after their marriage. The letters describe life in New York City and travel in New York State, Canada, and Michigan.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series:
- Biographical and genealogical material
- Letters written by John J. Merritt
- Miscellaneous family correspondence
- Miscellaneous
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Winthrop Trowbridge, 1963, 1979, 1983
Processing Information
Processed by FHL staff prior to 1967, as a Small Collection. With the addition of correspondence given in 1893, removed ca. 1983 to Record Group 5.
Subject
- Merritt family (Family)
- Title
- An Inventory of the John J. Merritt Family Papers, 1818-1871
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1983
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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