by T. J. Stiles
Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts
Erie Railway Company Collection
Records of R. G. Dun & Co.
Western Union Telegraph Company Collection
Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California
Joseph N. Allen Diary
H. H. Bancroft Collection
H. H. Bancroft Notes on the Vanderbilt Family
Papers Concerning the Filibuster War
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
James F. Joy Papers, Henry B. Joy Historical Research Collection
Rare Books and Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts
Charles Francis Adams Papers
William Lloyd Garrison Papers
Victoria Woodhull-Martin Papers
Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, New York
James Buchanan Papers, Microfilm Copy
California Historical Society, San Francisco, California
Winchester Papers
Carl A. Kroch Library, Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Frederick Gardiner to Charles Gill, September 6, 1838
Detroit Public Library, Detroit, Michigan
Burton Historical Collection
James F. Joy Papers
Mrs. F. A. Vanderbilt Papers
Archives and Special Collections, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
Gibbons Family Papers
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“Memoir of Alva Murray Smith Vanderbilt Belmont,” Matilda Young Papers
Hanson A. Risley Papers
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History New-York Hstorical Society, New York, New York
Aaron Burr, “Of the Validity of the Laws Granting Livingston & Fulton the Exclusive Right of Using Fire and Steam to Propel Boats or Vessels”
John P. Hale to Charles Sumner, March 18, 1854
Horace Greeley to William P. Fessenden, October 4, 1864
Horace Greeley, E. D. Morgan et al. to William P. Fessenden, October 10, 1864
Horace Greeley to William P. Fessenden, December 1, 1864
Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Papers
Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Samuel L. M. Barlow Papers
Lauriston Hall Papers
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia
Chester A. Arthur Papers
Nathaniel P. Banks Papers
Baring Brothers Archive, Microfilm Copy
John M. Clayton Papers
Hamilton Fish Papers
Benjamin B. French Papers
Abraham Lincoln Papers
William L. Marcy Papers
Hiram Paulding Papers
Reid Family Papers
Edwin M. Stanton Papers
John Hill Wheeler Papers
Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, Morgan Library, New York, New York
Cyrus W. Field Collection
J. P. Morgan Letterpress Books
National Archives, College Park, Maryland
Diplomatic Instructions of the Department of State, 1801–1906: Central American States, vol. 15, May 29, 1833–July 25, 1858, Microfilm Publication M77
Costa Rican Claims Convention of July 2, 1860, Record Group 76
National Archives, Washington, District of Columbia
Letters Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanding Officers of Squadrons, 1841–1886, Microfilm Publication M89
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for New York and New Jersey, 1862–1866, Microfilm Publication M603
U.S. Military Academy Application Papers, Microfilm Publication M688
Custom House Records, Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, Record Group 41
Letter Books of U.S. Naval Officers, March 1778–July 1908, Record Group 45
Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army), Record Group 153
National Archives, New York, New York
New York Tax Assessment Lists, 1867–1873, Record Group 58
Old Records Division, New York County Clerk's Office, New York, New York
John De Forest and Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. vs. Daniel Morgan, April 5, 1817, file 1817-#337, Court of Common Pleas
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. vs. Phineas Carman and Cornelius P. Wyckoff, May 26, 1817, file 1817-#1201, Court of Common Pleas
Aaron Ogden v. Thomas Gibbons, December 4, 1819, file O-109, Court of Chancery
Fitz G. Halleck v. Daniel Drew, March 15, 1820, file 1820-#479, Court of Common Pleas
John R. Livingston v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, December 28, 1822, file L J-1822-V-18, Supreme Court Judgments
John Adams, Treasurer of New York Hospital, v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, June 27, 1826, file 1820-#20, Court of Common Pleas
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Patrick Rice, November 26, 1827, file 1827-#1300, Court of Common Pleas
Patrick Rice v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, November 26, 1827, file 1827-#1671, Court of Common Pleas
Walter Blair v. Daniel Drew, March 10, 1831, file 1831-#87, Court of Common Pleas
Charles Hoyt v. John Brooks Jr., May 8, 1833, file BM 2163-H, Court of Chancery
James Ingham and James Leslie v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, December 15, 1834, file 1834- #756, Court of Common Pleas
Nestor Houghton v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, August 10, 1837, file BM V016-H, Court of Chancery
James Guyon and Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Moulton Bullock, James W. Otis, and Jonathan Prescott Hall, March 16, 1838, file BM 1404-G, Court of Chancery
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. John W. De Grauw and Jane, His Wife, Walter N. DeGrauw, John J. Stephens, and Others, May 30, 1839, file D CH 104-V, Court of Chancery
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. John Martineau and Eliza, His Wife, and Anna B. Cook, Executrix of Richard M. Cook, Deceased, September 13, 1839, file D CH 100-V, Court of Chancery
Joseph Tobey v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, October 15, 1839, file 1839-# 1291, Superior Court
Daniel Drew v. Bates Cooke, September 8, 1840, file BM 1233-D, Court of Chancery
Richmond Turnpike Company v. Oliver Vanderbilt, July 24, 1841, file BM 4–42, Court of Chancery
State of Indiana v. Daniel Drew, Nelson Robinson, Eli Kelly, Milton Stapp, William S. Dunham, and David Leavit, August 20, 1841, file BM 19-I, Court of Chancery
Isaac Schuyler v. Daniel Drew, Nelson Robinson & Co., October 27, 1841, file BM S-476, Court of Chancery
Richmond Turnpike Company v. Oliver Vanderbilt, July 11, 1842, file L.J.-1842-N-66, Supreme Court Law Judgments
Daniel Drew and Isaac Newton v. New York and Erie Rail Road Company, September 10, 1842, file 1842-#331, Superior Court
Oroondates Mauran and Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Morris Woolf May 11, 1843, file 1843- #814, Court of Common Pleas, NYCC
Phebe Vanderbilt v. Charles M. Simonson and His Wife, John K Vanderbilt and Charles M. Simonson Junior, Executors, and Mary Simonson, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Cornelius Simonson, Deceased, and John K Vanderbilt, April 27, 1844, file D CH-177- V, Court of Chancery
Jacob H. Vanderbilt and John Vanderbilt v. the People of the State of New York, May 10, 1844, file PL-1844-P-424, Supreme Court Pleadings
People of the City of New York v. Jacob H. Vanderbilt, December 19, 1844, file 1844-#771, Court of Common Pleas
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Henry N. Caldwell, March 4, 1845, file 1845-#1669, Court of Common Pleas
New York, Providence, and Boston Rail Road Company v. Elisha Peck, Richard M. Blatchford, James Foster Jr., Henry G. Stebbins, Matthew Morgan, Samuel Jaudon, and William S. Wetmore, January 3, 1848, file PL-1848-N-4, Supreme Court Pleadings
Curtis Peck v. Daniel Drew, January 31, 1848, file PL-1848-P 256, Supreme Cou
rt Pleadings
Isaac Spencer Jr. v. Daniel Drew, Nelson Robinson, Robert W. Kelley, and Daniel B. Allen, March 20, 1848, file 1848-#951A, Court of Common Pleas
Nelson Robinson, Robert W. Kelley, and Daniel B. Allen v. Daniel Drew and Isaac Newton, file PL-1848-R, June 27, 1848, Supreme Court Pleadings
Oliver Vanderbilt v. the Richmond Turnpike Company, July 17, 1848, file 1848-#1238, Superior Court
Nelson Robinson, Robert W. Kelley, and Daniel B. Allen v. Daniel Drew and Isaac Newton, file PL-1848-R 2, November 2, 1848, Supreme Court Pleadings
Curtis Peck v. Daniel Drew, January 7, 1850, file PL-1850-P-3, Supreme Court Pleadings, NYCC
Russell Sturgis v. George Law and Alanson P. St. John, March 27, 1850, 1850–922, Superior Court
Daniel B. Allen, Jeremiah Simonson, William McLean, Alexander H. Britton, William H Vanderbilt, Nathaniel Hayward, Henry Anderson, John Peck, and the Said Daniel B. Allen, Jacob H Vanderbilt, and James Brady, Trustees of the California Navigation Company of New York v. James H Fisk and Cornelius Vanderbilt, January 24, 1851, file PL-1851-A 17, Supreme Court Pleadings
Cornelius Vanderbilt vs. George Law and Others, August 16, 1851, file CV-V-20, Supreme Court Pleadings
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Accessory Transit Company, January 12, 1854, file PL 1854-V9, Supreme Court Pleadings
David S. Manners and Lydia Roberts, Administrators of Samuel Roberts, Deceased, v. George Law and Arnold Mason, March 18, 1854, file 1854-#2117, Superior Court
George J. Lathrop v. Cornelius Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew, May 4, 1854, file LJ-1854-V-131, Supreme Court Law Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. William C Moon, June 7, 1854, file L J-1854-M-398, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Reuben C. Stone, September 12, 1854, file L J-1854-S-19, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. John C Thompson and Minthorne Tompkins, September 26, 1854, file J L-1854-T-172, Supreme Court Judgments
James H Quimby v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, November 13, 1854, file 1854-#1242, Court of Common Pleas
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Spring Valley Shot & Lead Manufacturing Company, April 21, 1855, file L J-1855-S-206, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Spring Valley Shot & Lead Manufacturing Company, July 26, 1855, file L J-1855-S-208
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Spring Valley Shot & Lead Manufacturing Company, May 2, 1855, file L J-1855-S-212, Supreme Court Judgments
New York Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Freeman Campbell and Mary Ann, His Wife, Rutherford Moody and Eunice P., His Wife, Jacob J. Van Pelt and Sarah, His Wife, and Jay Jarvis, President of the Citizen's Bank, September 25, 1855, file PL 1855-N14, Supreme Court Pleadings
James H Quimby v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, November 21, 1855, file 1855-#1313, Court of Common Pleas
Charles H. Wright v. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., January 21, 1856, file LJ-1856-V-100, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Jesse P. Wilson, March 19, 1856, file 1856-#2735, Superior Court
George S. Salls v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, November 17, 1856, file 1855-#1226, Court of Common Pleas
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Mark Wadleigh and Calvin E. Knox, June 24, 1857, file LJ-1857-W- 173, Supreme Court Judgments
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. New York and Harlem Railroad Company, July 16, 1858, file LJ- 1858-N-41, Supreme Court Judgments
Accessory Transit Company v. Cornelius K. Garrison, September 13, 1858, file 1858-#53, Superior Court
David Colden Murray, Receiver of the Accessory Transit Company, v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, November 3, 1859, file PL 1859-M V74, Supreme Court Pleadings
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Joseph L. White, November 7, 1860, file 1860-#985, Superior Court
Theodosius F. Secor and Charles Morgan v. George Law, May 22, 1861, file 1861-#832, Superior Court
Certificate of Incorporation, November 27, 1863, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company
Certificate of Increase of the Capital Stock, October 5, 1866, Atlantic Mail Steamship Company
Henry S. Thatcher and George Buckland v. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, April 2, 1867, file LJ- 1867-V-192, Supreme Court Law Judgments
George R. Pecker v. Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, April 2, 1867, file LJ-1867-V-100, Supreme Court Law Judgments
Frank Work v. Daniel Drew, John E. Eldridge, Alexander Drew, Homer Ramsdell, J. C Bancroft Davis, Henry Thompson, Dudley Gregory, Frederick A. Lane, George Gravel, James Fisk Jr., Jay Gould, and William Skidmore, July 24, 1868, file PL-1868-W-25, Supreme Court Pleadings
Cornelius Vanderbilt v. Jeremiah Simonson, August 13, 1868, file LJ-1858-S-574, Supreme Court Law Judgments
New Jersey Historical Society, Jersey City, New Jersey Stevens Family Papers
New-York Historical Society, New York, New York
Thomas Gibbons Papers
Samuel S. Griscom. “Journal of a Tour thro N. Jersey, Penn and N. York with occasional remarks on the people, Literary characters Ladies Institutions &c. &c. &c.,” 1824
Philip Hone Diary
Livingston Family Papers
Misc. Manuscripts
John M. Clayton
Charles O. Handy
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Misc. Microfilms
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Diary, 1876–1878, reel 72
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Diary 2, 1876–1878, reel 72
G P. Morosini, “Jay Gould and the Erie Railway”
William D. Murphy Account Books
Hiram Peck Diary
Staten Island Papers
David Mitchell Turnure Journal
Vanderbilt Family Papers
Thurlow Weed Papers
Isaac Woodruff Papers
New York Municipal Archives, New York, New York
John T. Hoffman Correspondence, Mayors' Papers
New York City Census, 1816 Staten Island Court Papers
Hugh McLaughlin v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, December 12, 1843, Supreme Court, Richmond County, box SI-66
Charles S. De Forest v. Tunis Egbert, Francis Perkins, Preston Sheldon, Helmus M. Wells, March 5, 1852, Supreme Court, Richmond County, box SI-68
People of the State of New York v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Anthony Bird, Stephen Williams, Elias Butler, Jacob Van Cleef and Jacob Arnold, November 22, 1851, Supreme Court, Richmond County, box SI-68
Manuscript Division, New York Public Library, New York, New York
Horace Greeley Papers
William D. Lewis Papers
Misc. Files
Horace F. Clark
Thomas Gibbons
Aaron Ogden
Augustus Schell
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. [Cornelius J. Vanderbilt]
PennCentral Collection
Annual Reports, Directors' and Executive Committee Minutes, Ledgers, and Letter-books, Canada Southern, Dunkirk, Warren & Pittsburgh, Hudson River, Lake Shore, Lake Shore & Southern Indiana, Long Island, Michigan Central, Michigan Southern & Northern Indiana, New York & Harlem, New York Central, New York Central & Hudson River, and Spuyten Duyvil Railroads
Samuel J. Tilden Papers
Correspondence of Cornelius and William H. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt Will Trial Case Clippings
Isaiah Thornton Williams Papers
New York State Library
Edwin D. Morgan Papers
John V. L. Pruyn Papers
Cornelius Vanderbilt to Pliny Miles, June 8, 1859
New York Stock Exchange Archives, New York, New York
Minutes of the New York Stock and Exchange Board
New York Yacht Club Library and Archives, New York, New York
Book of Minutes No. 1
Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Collection
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
George Peabody Papers
Rockefeller Archives Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York
John D. Rockefeller I
Correspondence, Record Group 1.2
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Gibbons Papers
Nielson Papers
Aaron Ogden Papers
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, New York
Ferry and Railroad Collection
Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Western Union Telegraph Company Collection
Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University, Carbon-dale, Ill.
Victoria Woodhull-Martin Papers
Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
Williams Family Papers
Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode
Island
Colt Family Papers
Special Collections, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
John James Tigert IV Papers
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Annual Report of the Comptroller of the Currency. Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1876.
Bureau of Navigation. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1807 to 1856. Washington, D.C: United States Department of Commerce, 1931.
Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, 1784–1831. Vol. 9. New York: City of
New York, 1917. New York State Assembly Document 75. 84th sess., 1861.
New York State Assembly Document 100. 85th sess., 1862.
New York State Assembly Document 175. 86th sess., 1863.
New York State Assembly Document 125. 87th sess., 1864.
New York State Assembly Document 19. 90th sess., 1867.
New York State Assembly Document 114. 90th sess., 1867.
New York State Assembly Document 210. 90th sess., 1867.
New York State Assembly Document 142. 92nd sess., 1869.
New York State Assembly Document 38. 103rd sess., 1880.
New York State Senate Document 52: Report of the Select Committee of the Senate, Appointed April 10, 1868, in Relation to Passage of Certain Railroad Bills. Albany: Argus Company, 1869.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894–1922. 30 vols.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 75. 31st Cong., 1st sess., vol. 10.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 103. 34th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 11.
United States House of Representatives Executive Document 24. 35th Cong., 1st sess., vol. 7.