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Guide to the
Hendricks Family Papers, 1713-1976
(bulk 1755-1959)
 MS 295

New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
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New-York Historical Society

Collection processed by Meaghan Dwyer, 2000; EAD finding aid prepared by Celia Hartmann, 2010; revisions and additions by Joseph Ditta, June-July 2017 and January 2020.

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on October 17, 2022
English using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Container List

Series III. Hendricks Family and Partnership Business Records (1794-1928)

Scope and Contents

The series includes records of businesses owned by the Hendricks family, wholly or in partnership.

Arrangement

The series is arranged into three subseries

Subseries III.A. Partnership with Solomon I. Isaacs in Soho Copper Company

Subseries III.B. Hendricks Brothers

Subseries III.C. Business and property of the Soho Copper Company and Belleville Copper Rolling Mill

Subseries III.A. Partnership with Solomon I. Isaacs in Soho Copper Company

Scope and Content

The subseries contains records of the partnership between Harmon Hendricks and Solomon I. Isaacs to manufacture copper at the Soho Copper Company. It consists of loose correspondence, inventories, indentures, contracts, ledgers and account books, and other records organized chronologically by subject, detailing the company's early attempts to succeed and establish clientele.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 11 Folder : 12 Articles of co-partnership and other legal agreements
1814-1831
Box: 11 Folder : 13 Advertisement in NY Gazette and General Advertiser
1815 February 13
Box: 11 Folder : 14 Correspondence and business records
1815-1821
Box: 11 Folder : 15 Correspondence and business records
1816-1837
Box: OS Small Folder : Y-Hendricks 6 Partnership and other legal documents
1813-1853
Volume: 10 Folder : unknown container Account book
1827 April 1-1828 February 29

Subseries III.B. Hendricks Brothers

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 12 Folder : 1 General correspondence and records
1831-1842
Box: 12 Folder : 2 Correspondence and records: Brainard-Harley
1834-1850
Box: 12 Folder : 3 Correspondence and business records: Merrick-Trotter
1834-1850
Box: 12 Folder : 4 Bills of lading

Scope and Contents

Five bills of lading for goods (e.g., copper, coal, etc.) shipped to Hendricks & Brothers by the Steam Tow-Boat Company (April 5, 1836; May 17, 1837); Swiftsure Transportation Line (August 7, 1843); Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company (May 12, 1846); and Merchants' Despatch Line (May 30, 1860). Includes a photocopy or facsimile of a list, dated New York, September 7, 1816, of "Steam-Vessels, built in the City of New-York, under the Direction and Superintendence of Robert Fulton, or according to his Plan."

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Peter A. Rabinowitz, in memory of Ruth Hendricks Schulson, daughter of Rosalie Nathan Hendricks, December 2019 (accession no. MS.2019.055).

1836-1860
Box: 12 Folder : 5 General correspondence and business records
1840-1849
Box: 12 Folder : 6 Correspondence and business records
1850-1859
Box: 12 Folder : 7 Pressbook of Uriah Hendricks, II
1859-1869
Box: 12 Folder : 8 Correspondence and business records
1860-1869
Box: 13 Folder : 1 General correspondence and records
1870-1912
Box: 13 Folder : 2 Articles of co-partnership and related documents
1893-1911
Box: 13 Folder : 3 Mill history, and newspaper clippings
1908, 1922, 1928
Box: 13 Folder : 4 Stocks and bonds, miscellaneous 1879-1899
1879-1899
Box: 13 Folder : 5 Bonds: California-Maine
1867-1892
Box: 13 Folder : 6 Bonds: Maryland-New Jersey
1864-1891
Box: 13 Folder : 7 Bonds: New York
1850-1903
Box: 13 Folder : 8 Bonds: North Carolina-West Virginia
1882-1903
Box: 13 Folder : 9 Postcards and photographs of mill
Undated
Box: 13 Folder : 10 Hendricks homestead photographs
Undated
Box: OS Small Folder : Y-Hendricks 6 Brooklyn Navy Yard order form for tin and copper; NJ Oil vs Hendricks Brothers case
1851, 1853
Volume: 11 Account book
1831 April-1832 January
Volume: 12 Account payable and receivable
1832-1835
Volume: 13 Ledger
1833-1835
Volume: 14 "The Revenue Book"
1846
Volume: 15 Letterbook of Joshua Hendricks
1856-1886

Subseries III.C. Soho Copper Company and Belleville Copper Rolling Mill Business and Property Records

Scope and Content

The subseries contains deeds, mortgages, indentures, contracts, maps, blueprints, photographs, and other records from the Belleville mill and property and is organized chronologically by subject and form.

Container 1 Container 2   Title Date
Box: 14 Folder : 1 Deeds, mortgages, indentures 1794-1861
1794-1861
Box: 14 Folder : 2 Deeds, mortgages, indentures
1876-1912
Box: 14 Folder : 3 Deeds and agreements: mining and cotton mill
1807-1874
Box: 14 Folder : 4 Maps, blueprints, descriptions
1809-1911
Box: 14 Folder : 5 Belleville homestead: deeds, maps, mortgages
1820-1911
Box: 14 Folder : 6 Belleville Lead Company: deeds, maps, mortgages, and related documents
[1847-1862]
Box: 14 Folder : 7 Property appraisal
1905
Box: OS Small Folder : Y-Hendricks 7 Deeds, indentures, mortgages, mining agreements
1794-1848
Box: OS Small Folder : Y-Hendricks 8 Deeds, maps, mortgages, blueprints
1794-1890s
Box: OS Small Folder : Y-Henricks 9 Photographs, including homestead
Undated
Drawer: Unfiled Mounted photograph
Undated

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