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Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers

Title
Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, 1817-1944.
Author
Kobbé, Frederick William.
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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Description
1.4 linear feet (2 boxes, 1 volume)
Summary
Genealogical notes and charts, and Frederick W. Kobbé's genealogical correspondence, ca. 1930s-1940s, on the Kobbé family, and also on the Clarkson, Cornell, Du Bois, Smith, and miscellaneous families. Also, copies and a few originals of 17th through 19th century wills, correspondence, accounts, certificates, receipts, clippings of illustrations of coats of arms, and miscellaneous documents of the above families. Of note are membership certificates issued to Thomas Say of Philadelphia from the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, 1817; the Societatis Regiae Physicae Edinburghenae, ca. 1831; Linnean Society, London, 1829; Musuem Philadelphiense, ca. 1821; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1824; and a membership certificate from the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 1863, to Lucy Say of Newburgh, New York.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
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Genre/Form
Genealogies.
Biography (note)
  • Genealogist.
Language (note)
  • Latin.
Provenance (note)
  • Portions donated to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Frederick Kobbé in 1945. Additional material donated by Mrs. Farnum (Alice) Gilbert and Mrs. Waldron (Helen) Proctor in 1960.
Call Number
MssCol NYGB 18173
OCLC
664354026
Author
Kobbé, Frederick William.
Title
Frederick W. Kobbé and Helen Jay De Bois genealogical research papers, 1817-1944.
Biography
Genealogist.
Language
Two certificates are in Latin.
Provenance
Portions donated to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society by Frederick Kobbé in 1945. Additional material donated by Mrs. Farnum (Alice) Gilbert and Mrs. Waldron (Helen) Proctor in 1960.
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Genealogists.
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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Research Call Number
MssCol NYGB 18173
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