MSS 633 Albert Gallatin Papers

              MSS 633
Albert Gallatin Papers
One- quarter cubic foot
Standard inventory
Collection Svnousis
Provenance: The Ohio H i s t o r i c a l Society acquire the Albert
Gallatin Papers prior to 1960. Marjorie J. Myers processed
the c o l l e c t i o n in April 1982.
Property r i g h t s : The Ohio Historical Society owns the prop-e
r t y r i g h t s t o t h i s collection.
Copyrights: Copyrights have not been dedicated to the public.
Consideration of the r e q u i r e m x s of copyright i s the responsi-b
i l i t y of the author and publisher.
Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations
of the Ohio H i s t o r i c a l Society.
Citation: Researchers are requested to c i t e c o l l e c t i o n number,
c o l l e c t i o n name, and the Ohio Historical Society in a l l foot-note
and bibliographic references.
H i s t o r i c a l sketches: Albert Gallatin was born in Geneva i n 1761
andimigrated to the United States in 1780. He became prominent
as an expert a t public finance and was appointed secretary of the
treasury in 1801. He served i n t h i s capacity u n t i l 1814, a f t e r -
ward holding various public and p r i v a t e o f f i c e s of d i s t i n c t i o n .
Gallatin died in New York in 1849. Jared Mansfield was born i n
Connecticut in 1759 and rose t o prominence as a mathematician and
teacher. He interrupted his career from 1803 t o 1812 when Presi-dent
Jefferson appointed him surveyor general. During t h i s period
be lived in Marietta from 1803 to 1805, then moved the surveyor's
o f f i c e to Cincinnati. Mansfield r e t i r e d from teaching a t West
Point. and returned to Cincinnati in 1828. He died in 1830.
Sources: DAB, vol. 7 , p. 103- 106; vol. 1 2 , p. 256- 257. Information
on the surveying of Ohio and the Northwest Territory may be found
through the p r i n t e d m a t e r i a l card catalog.
Scope and content: The Albert Gallatin papers consist of sixty-three
l e t t e r s dated 1800 t o 1811, which highlight business between
the surveyor general's office and i t s parent agency, the treasury
department. Included are eight l e t t e r s between Rufus Putnam, the
f i r s t surveyor general ( 1796- 1803), and Joseph Nourse, r e g i s t e r of
the treasury; f o r t y - s i x l e t t e r s between Jared Mansfield, second
surveyor- general ( 1803- 1812), and Albert G a l l a t i n , secretary of the
t r e a s u r y ; and nine l e t t e r s of Mansfield and Gallatin with other
o f f i c i a l s . The l e t t e r s are arranged in chronological order and
b r i e f l y described in the following calendar. Nany of the surveyor
g e n e r a l ' s l e t t e r s are in d r a f t form and contain extensive e d i t i n g .
Unless otherwise noted, a l l l e t t e r s of the treasury department are
from Washington, D. C. ; l e t t e r s of the surveyor general are from
blarietta through April 1805, and from Cincinnati t h e r e a f t e r .