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Preferred Citation

Papers of the North American land Company, Accession #8146-a, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

Purchased on 8 May 1984.

Scope and Content Information

The papers consist of business correspondence and documents of Sylvanus Bourne, consul general of the United States in Holland and an agent for Dutch investors in the company. The letters chiefly concern property in Washington City conveyed to Daniel Crommelin and Sons, Amsterdam, by Greenleaf, and efforts by the firm to secure the property. Of interest are letters of Morris re: the company's books and judgments against him. The British blockade of Dutch ports in 1799, slow tobacco sales in Holland, and honors paid by the Dutch to the memory of George Washington are also mentioned. Correspondents include Edward Tilghman, Tobias Lear, Thomas Browne, and the banking firm of Rocquette, Elzevier, and Beeldemaker, Rotterdam.