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Jones' Wood petition books, 1853

First page of a petition in two volumes requesting to have Jones' Wood turned into a public park. Jones' Wood was a large tract of farmland formerly belonging to the Schermerhorn and Jones families and located on the present-day Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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First page of a petition in two volumes requesting to have Jones' Wood turned into a public park. Jones' Wood was a large tract of farmland formerly belonging to the Schermerhorn and Jones families and located on the present-day Upper East Side of Manhattan.
PID
nyhs:237297
NYHS Identifier
Mss Collection -- BV Beekman 46
84202d_JonesWoodPetition1853.TIF
Member of
New-York Historical Society Digital Collections
American Manuscripts
Genre
petitions
Signatures (names)
Owning Institution
New-York Historical Society
Type
Text
Subject (Topical)
Families--New York (State)
Subject (Name)
Beekman, James W. (James William), 1815-1877
Beekman family
Subject (Geographic)
New York (State)--Politics and government--1775-1865
Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
Jones' Wood (New York, N.Y.)
Full Title
Jones' Wood petition books, 1853
Contributor
Beekman, James W. (James William), 1815-1877
Digital Format
image/tiff
Digital Origin
digitized other analog
Date Created
1853
Extent
2 volumes
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