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ACCOUNT - waiting review
CATALOG NUMBER V 1719 D
OBJECT NAME Account
DATE April 17, 1788 -
AUTHOR John Joseph Roosevelt (NYC merchant)
See Theodore Roosevelt Center: JOHN J.' ROOSEVELT (Jacobus•, Johannes 3 , Nicholas 2 , Claes Martenszen'), baptized at the New York Dutch Church, NYC 16 January 1751 (BDC 11:164), captain in the New York City militia in 1776 (CDNY 8:602; Bruce C. Bliven, Jr. Under the Guns: New York 1775-1776, New York, 1972, p. 302), merchant. He married at the Acquackanonk Dutch Church [Passaic, N.J.] 23 January 1781 (Arthur C.M. Kelly Vital Records of the Protestant Dutch Reformed Church at Acquackanonk . ... , New York, 1977, p. 228) MARY SCHUYLER, born about 1762 (Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 1st series, 8: 122), daughter of John and Ann (Van Rensselaer) Schuyler of Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey (Schuyler Gen. p. 133). John J. Roosevelt died in Troy, New York 18 August 1820 age 68 (VRENY 216; Eve.Post D 4:37).
RECIPIENT Pierre Van Cortlandt
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Philip Van Renselear, Elizabeth Van Cortlandt, Thomas Cooper,
PLACES New York,
KEYWORDS interior design, household decorative items, “Wilton Carpet”,
fabric, dressmaking,
WILTON CARPET INDUSTRY: https://archive.org/details/wiltshirearchaeo26arch/page/246/mode/2up?q=HIlton+carpet
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/inde/anderson/chap2.htm
Pier Van Cortland Esq’r
For Jn’o J Roosevelt….DrTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
