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Enos Thompson Throop (1784-1874) was an upstate New York lawyer, jurist, and politician who was governor of New York state from 1829-1832. Upon the completion of his term of office, he received appointments as the naval officer for the Port of New York, 1833-1838 and charge d'affaires for the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, 1838-1842. He lived most of his adult life at "Willowbrook," his home near Auburn, except for the years 1847-1857 which he spent at "Springbrook" near Kalamazoo, Michigan.

In 1814, he married Evelina Vredenburgh who died in 1834. Although none of their children survived infancy, he had many nieces and nephews, both on his and his wife's side, who corresponded with him.

Included in the Papers are approximately 150 letters. Most of them were written by members of the family and thus are of a personal or business nature. Some letters, after 1834, deal with life, investments, and land promotion in Michigan. All the correspondence has been indexed in the main manuscript index.

Family correspondents include: Mrs. Evelina (Vredenburgh) Throop, his wife; Mrs. Elizabeth T. (Porter) Beach, his wife's niece; Mrs. Eliza (Akin) Cuyler, his niece; and Montgomery Hunt Throop, his nephew.

Non-family correspondents include: Benjamin Franklin Butler, lawyer; Samuel Clark, lawyer and politician; James Lorimer Graham, President of the Metropolitan Insurance Company; John Stilwell Jenkins, lawyer and newspaper editor; and Jabez Hammond, lawyer, politician and author.

In addition to the correspondence, there are approximately 35 other manuscript pieces of a financial, legal, or political nature. Of particular interest are the several items of a political nature proceeding and during the War of 1812.

Biographical Information:

• Dictionary of American Biography
• John S. Jenkins, Lives of the Governors of the State of New York , Auburn, N.Y., Derby and Miller, 1851, "Enos T. Throop," p.478-545.
• Mrs. E. T. Throop Martin, "Sketch of the Life of Governor Throop, " Collections of the Cayuga County Historical Society , Number 7, Auburn, N.Y. 1889, p. 153-167.

Acquired from James Brunner, December 14, 1971. 

Box 1: Correspondence

Folder 1: 1804 - 1828

Folder 2: 1829 - 1831

Folder 3: 1832 - March 1833

Folder 4: Apr. 1833 - Dec. 1833

Folder 5: 1834 - 1840

Folder 6: 1841 - 1845

Folder 7: 1846

Folder 8: 1847

Folder 9: 1848 - 1849

Folder 10: 1850 - 1851

Folder 11: 1852 - 1854

Folder 12: 1855 - 1857

Folder 13: 1858 - 1860

Folder 14: 1861 - 1863

Folder 15: 1864 - 1866

Folder 16: 1867 - 1868

Folder 17: Mrs. Evelina (Vredenburgh) Throop to Enos Thompson Throop, n.d.

Folder 18: Other Correspondence, n.d.

Box 2: Political, Business, Legal, etc., Papers

Folder 1: [Throop, Enos Thompson?] Oration delivered in the school house at Sherwoods Corner [N.Y.] the 4th of July 1806.

Folder 2: [Throop, Enos Thompson?] [Charges against the administration of Morgan Lewis, governor of New York State, 1808?]

Folder 3: [Throop, Enos Thompson?] To the electors of the county of Cayuga [N.Y. 1810]

Folder 4: Cayuga County, N.Y. Citizens. Resolutions on the war with Great Britain, September 23, 1812

Folder 5: [Throop, Enos Thompson.] To the Republican electors of the county of Cayuga, 1817.

Folder 6: [Throop, Enos Thompson?] To the Honorable Ambrose Spencer, 1817.

Folder 7: "Returns of Cayuga Election, 1808"

Folder 8: Financial, Legal, etc., Papers, 1823-1861, n.d.

Folder 9: Invitations, poems, cards, etc., 1861, n.d.

Folder 10: Mall account book, 1838-1840

Folder 11: "A table for receiving and paying the gold coins ... Passed April 29, 1816" (printed)

Folder 12: Material regarding construction at Willowbrook, near Auburn, N.Y., 1857, 1858.

Folder 13: Photographs (2): Willowbrook

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