- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Furman, Moore, 1728-1808
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Moore Furman Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1j92g746j
- Dates:
- 1793-1808
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of selected eighteenth-century letters and documents of businessman Moore Furman, deputy quartermaster general of New Jersey during the American Revolution.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists primarily of Furman's letters (1794-1808) to his dry goods business associate, Benjamin Guild, of Pittstown, New Jersey. In addition, there are two documents (1793, 1807) concerning Pittstown property and two letters (1780) by Furman to Capt. Thomas Reading about forage needed by the American army during the Revolutionary War.
- Arrangement
Arranged by accession number.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Furman, Moore, 1728-1808
Moore Furman was deputy quartermaster general of New Jersey during the American Revolution.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM1619-1699, 11257
- Custodial History
The collection was formed as a result of a Departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Dina Britain on March 29, 2006. 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:
Moore Furman Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/1j92g746j
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Dry-goods--New Jersey--Pittstown--18th century.
Quartermasters--New Jersey--18th century--Correspondence. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence -- 18th century
- Names:
- Guild, Benjamin, 1785-1858
- Places:
- Pittstown (N.J.)--History--1775-1865--Sources.
United States--History--Revolutionary War, 1775-1783--Sources.
