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Description
Corvaisier Benoist and Company wrote to John Kean, addressed to Philadelphia, PA. The letter is in French and likely business-related. Names included: soeur Corvaisier [sister Jane Grove Corvaisier], and Broonson [Bronson?] and Company. Barthalomew Corvaisier was John Kean's brother-in-law, by his step-sister, Jane Grove Corvaisier. The letter was addressed from Bon Repos, in present-day Haiti.
Author/Creator
Corvaisier Benoist and Company
Recipient
John Kean (1755-1795)
Creation Date
4-10-1792
Document Type
Manuscript
Inventory Location
Bay 1, Column 1, LHC Series 2
Recommended Citation
Corvaisier Benoist and Company. Corvaisier Benoist and Company to John Kean, April 10, 1792. Manuscript. From Special Collections Research Library and Archive, Kean University, Liberty Hall Collection 1790s. https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1790s/44
Rights
This collection is open to the public for research use. Copyright remains with Kean University. Credit this material. Personal photographs may be made for research purposes. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to Lynette Zimmerman, Executive Director at the Liberty Hall Academic Center & Exhibition Hall at lzimmerm@kean.edu.
Publishing Repository
Special Collections Research Library and Archive, Kean University
Collection
The Liberty Hall Collection consists of the correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other manuscript material of the Livingston and Kean families, dated from 1739-1847. The bulk of the collection is related to Susan Livingston Kean Niemcewicz (1759-1833). The Livingston and Kean families frequently corresponded and held accounts with other wealthy, prominent, colonial and early American families in New Jersey, especially Elizabethtown, Philadelphia, New York City, upstate New York, England, France, and Poland. A small portion of the collection includes correspondence with early Virginia families, unrelated to the Livingston and Kean families. The collection includes second hand accounts of enslaved people who were owned by the Kean and other families, offering a glimpse into their forced work and places of residence.