An Unpublished Archive: John C. Hamilton, Ralph Ingersoll, and the Estate of Baron Jan Cornelis van den Heuvel, Plantation Owner and Early New York Businessman
A group of approximately 15 letters on the disposition of the New York businessman's estate
With 10 letters from the son of Alexander Hamilton, John C.
Baron Jan Cornelis van den Heuvel was a Dutch born plantation owner and politician who served as governor of the Dutch province of Demerara from 1765 to 1770 and later became a merchant in New York City with the Dutch West...
With 10 letters from the son of Alexander Hamilton, John C.
Baron Jan Cornelis van den Heuvel was a Dutch born plantation owner and politician who served as governor of the Dutch province of Demerara from 1765 to 1770 and later became a merchant in New York City with the Dutch West India Company. He then moved to the US and was a prominent NY merchant, amassed a rather large fortune, and married three times. He would die in 1826, having outlived his wives of younger age.
One of his daughters from his second marriage married the son of Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton. Another married Ralph Ingersoll.
The children of the 2nd marriage became involved in a controversy with the children of his third marriage over the dispersal of funds promised to the latter wife. This occurred even before the old man’s death.
This unpublished collection of letters shows the details of this dispute.
Collection of letters, all in 1825, except one from 1824, from the files of Ralph Ingersoll, in connection with the estate of Jan Cornelis van den Heuvel.
There are:
10 letters from John C. Hamilton;
1 from Jacob van den Heuvel;
1 from John C. Eastman;
1 from attorney S. Jones;
1 from Colin McRae
1 from Ralph Ingersoll
This was passed down by the Ingersoll heirs and has never been offered for sale.
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