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Box 0007
Container
Contains 9 Results:
Prince, William, Jr. Notebook of various topics, 1805 - 1806
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0409
Identifier: MS0138-025224
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1805 - 1806
Prince, Benjamin; . Listing of money received and carried forward with names of purchasers, 1806-08-20 - 1814-11-24
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0410
Identifier: MS0138-025225
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1806-08-20 - 1814-11-24
Prince, William R.; Journal by date, of money received and paid on business costs, property values, sales etc, 1868 - 1869-11
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0411
Identifier: MS0138-025226
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1868 - 1869-11
Prince, William R.; Accounts of transactions, money charged and paid with bulk of material between 1856 and 1857, 1854 - 1858
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0412
Identifier: MS0138-025227
Scope and Contents
Includes names and addresses of patrons and stock sent and money paid
Dates:
1854 - 1858
Prince, L. Bradford; Table of grapes and list of botanical terms
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0416
Identifier: MS0138-025231
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1842-1869
Prince, William R.; Undated journal of Mexican and American travels
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0417
Identifier: MS0138-025232
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1842-1869
Prince, William R.; Observations, Undated, of Mexico
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0418
Identifier: MS0138-025233
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1842-1869
Prince, L. Bradford; Notebook on electricity, laying pinks, strawberry tree and directions for making a fire-cracker rocket
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0419
Identifier: MS0138-025234
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1842-1869
French Correspondence; Twelve items concerning exchange of goods and business affairs, 1847 - 1861
File — Box: 0007, Folder: 0420
Identifier: MS0138-025235
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
Documents comprise the bulk of the collection, the largest concentration found between 1838 and 1856 (documents 215 to 295). After a brief career as a merchant in New York, he returned to Flushing Landing, Long Island, and was faced with a controversy between his father and uncle over ownership of the family property during which his father died and he became legal owner. Apparently, he was a poor business man, losing much of the nursery in the crash of the market in mulberry trees. In...
Dates:
1847 - 1861