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Driggs family genealogical research papers
- Title
- Driggs family genealogical research papers, 1870-1939.
- Author
- Cooper, James Monroe.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Request in advance | MssCol NYGB 18200 box 1 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
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- Description
- .42 linear foot (1 box)
- Summary
- The Driggs family was believed to be descended from Joseph (Josiah) Driggs, who in turn was believed to be a descendant of Josiah De Raet of Amsterdam. The family was prominent in Saybrook and Middletown, Connecticut; and Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island, New York. The name was alternately spelled Dreegs, Drake, and De Rijks.
- The papers consist primarily of correspondence between members of the Driggs family, notably Laurence L. Driggs and Dr. James M. Cooper, concerning the history of the Driggs family. The collection also contains genealogical charts and photographs including a campaign postcard for Laurence L. Driggs, who ran as a Republican candidate for the eleventh congressional district in New York. Other items of note include a copy of a genealogy prepared in 1856 by Seth Driggs, a Spiritualist, which purports to trace the family for "a term of one thousand years or twenty-eight generations;" and autobiographical material from Parley Pratt, a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement murdered in Utah in 1857, who was related through Benjamin Woodbury Driggs.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Genealogies.
- Access (note)
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Source (note)
- Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Milstein Division of Local History and Genealogy, NYPL.
- Provenance (note)
- Presented to the New York Biographical & Genealogical Society in 1964 by S. L. Cooper.
- Call Number
- MssCol NYGB 18200
- OCLC
- 670763219
- Author
- Cooper, James Monroe.
- Title
- Driggs family genealogical research papers, 1870-1939.
- Restricted Access
- Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Driggs family genealogical research notes, by Laurence La Tourette Driggs, ca. 1907-1945.; Milstein Division of Local History and Genealogy, NYPL.
- Provenance
- Presented to the New York Biographical & Genealogical Society in 1964 by S. L. Cooper.
- Source
- Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2008.
- Added Author
- Driggs, Laurence La Tourette, 1876-New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol NYGB 18200