- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807
- Title:
- Elias Dayton Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4m90dv549
- Dates:
- 1800
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of some business records of Elias Dayton, a nineteenth-century Elizabeth, New Jersey, general store owner and contractor.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of receipts and invoices for disbursements of provisions by Elias Dayton, general store owner and contractor, signed by Commander [Tim?] Taylor of the 13th Regiment at Elizabeth Town Point (now Elizabeth), New Jersey, in April, May, and June of 1800.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Dayton, Elias, 1737-1807
Elias Dayton was a general store owner and contractor who supplied provisions to the 13th Regiment at Elizabeth Town Point (now Elizabeth), New Jersey.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM18111
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Elias Dayton Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/4m90dv549
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Operational rations (Military supplies) -- New Jersey -- 19th century.
- Genre Terms:
- Invoices -- 19th century.
Receipts -- 19th century. - Names:
- United States. Army
United States. Army. New Jersey Infantry Regiment, 13th (1862-1865) - Places:
- Elizabeth (N.J.) -- History, Military -- 19th century -- Sources.
New Jersey -- History, Military -- 19th century -- Sources.
