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Charles Williamson papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-1006
Abstract Extensive correspondence, documents, a journal describing an information gathering trip to Turkey of Charles Williamson, politician, British government agent, and developer of central New York State lands in the late 1700s. Williamson is suspected to have been involved in the "Burr Conspiracy," an episode in history in which Burr was accused of treason. Collection also includes research materials compiled by Isaac Joslin Cox, a scholar who wrote several articles on the Aaron Burr...
Dates: 1775-approximately 1940s; Majority of material found within 1790-1810

David Tilden Brown Papers

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Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-1819
Abstract Letters, receipts, contracts, 2 manuscript maps, and drawings pertaining to Brown's activities in Nicaragua around 1848-1850. Brown traveled to Central America in 1849 planning to establish a cheaper and faster commercial route west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Nicaragua. Brown and several associates formed the Compañía de Vapores de Nicaragua and, on March 14, 1849, negotiated the first treaty with General José Trinidad Muñoz for exclusive rights to steamship...
Dates: 1848-1866; Majority of material found in 1849 - 1849

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Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 -- Sources 1
Canals -- Nicaragua -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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Ackerman, Simeon H. 1
Brown, D. Tilden (David Tilden), 1822-1889 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 1
Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820 1