Winslow family papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SP-08

Staff Only

Scope and Content

The collection includes correspondence and papers created by and related to the ancestors of donor John Grenville Winslow, beginning with Henry Brevoort, Jr. in the early nineteenth century. While the bulk of the collection relates to Henry Brevoort, Jr. and his children, the papers encompass several generations of the Brevoort family as they and their descendants married into the Bristed, Kane, and Winslow families. Also included in the collection are lists of letters created after the settlement of estates, auction catalogs and related papers, and collected letters of historical value unrelated to the family.

Dates

1762-1970
Majority of material found within 1831 - 1835

Creator

Brevoort, James Carson (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials in the collection are in English and French.

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is not restricted.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use

Various copying restrictions apply, according to the Archives' use policy. Guidelines are available from the Salve Regina University Archives. Salve Regina University owns the copyright to material produced by employees and trustees of the University and work for hire. Requests for permission to publish material from the University Archives should be directed to the Archivist. See also the Archives' copyright and publication statement.

Biographical and Historical Note

Henry Brevoort, Jr. (1782-1887) was the son of Henry Brevoort, Sr. (1747-1841) and Sarah Wheaton. He is the great-great-grandfather of John Grenville Winslow, the donor of the collection. Henry Brevoort, Jr.'s siblings were William Whetten Brevoort (1784-?), who married Sarah Nash about 1804; Margaret Anne Brevoort Renwick (1794-?), who married James Renwick on October 10, 1816); John Brevoort (1797-?); and Elias Brevoort (1804-?), who married Mary Brown in 1830.

With his wife Laura Carson Brevoort, Henry Brevoort, Jr. had eight children: James Carson Brevoort (1818-1887), William Augustus Brevoort, (1819-ca. 1832), Elizabeth Neville Brevoort Coolidge (1821-1849), Henry Wortley Brevoort (1821-?), Laura Whitten Brevoort Bristed (1823-1860), Margaret Claudia "Meta" Brevoort (1825-1876), Constance Irving Brevoort Sedwick (b. 1828), and Edith Henry Brevoort Kane (1832-?).

Of Henry Brevoort, Jr.'s children, J. Carson Brevoort married Elizabeth Dorothea Lefferts and had one son, Henry Lefferts Brevoort (1848-1895), who married Elizabeth Schermerhorn in 1871. Elizabeth Neville Brevoort married Frederick W. Coolidge and had a son, the mountaineer William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (1850-1926), whose aunt Meta introduced him to alpine climbing. Laura Whitten Brevoort married Charles Astor Bristed (1820-1874). Edith Henry Brevoort Kane married Pierre C. Kane (1828-1870), son of Eliza Corne Kane and Oliver Grenville Kane, who was the cousin of federal judge John Kintzing Kane (sharing grandparents John O'Kane and Sybil Kent). Edith and Pierre Kane's children were Grenville Kane (1854-1943), Meta Kane (b. 1856), Elizabeth de Gironcourt Kane (1859-1961), Henry Brevoort Kane (1866-1930), and William Carson Kane (b. ca. 1868).

Of Edith and Pierre Kane's children, their son Grenville Kane married Margaret A. Wolfe (1839-1940). Their children were Sybil Kane (b. ca. 1882), Edith Brevoort Kane (b. ca. 1884), Margaret Dorothy Kane (b. ca. 1886), Anzonetta (also called Anzonella) Kane (b. ca. 1888), and Rose O'Neil Kane (b. ca. 1890).

Of Grenville Kane's children, Rose O'Neil Kane married Carroll Dana Winslow. They had three children: Penelope Winslow, John Grenville Winslow (the donor of the collection), and Rose O'Neil Winslow. Rose's sister Edith Brevoort Kane married George F. Baker, Jr. (1878-?), having four children: Florence Baker (b. ca. 1913), Edith B. Baker (1913-1975), George Fisher Baker III (1915-1977), and Grenville Kane Baker (1921-1949).

Of Edith Brevoort Kane's children, George Fisher Baker III married Frances Drexel Munn Baker; they had three children, George F. Baker III (d. 1977), Anthony (1943-2008), and Pauline Baker Pitt. With his second wife, George Fisher Baker had two children, Kane Kendall Baker and Lavinia Baker.

Extent

0.417 Linear Feet (one document box)

Additional Description

Abstract

Contains correspondence and other documents created by, related to, or collected by the ancestors of the Winslow family, beginning with Henry Brevoort, Jr., and his wife Laura Carson, and following their descendants through the Kane, Bristed, and Winslow families; includes collected materials of historical value created by prominent figures in American history.

Arrangement

The materials are grouped by family or individual and arranged chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers were donated to Salve Regina University in 2010 by John Grenville Winslow.

Digital Collection

The digitized collection is available at https://www.jstor.org/site/salve-regina-university/winslow.

Related Materials

Related materials on Henry Brevoort, Jr., J. Carson Brevoort, and Henry L. Brevoort are held in the Brevoort Family Papers (1977.285) at the Brooklyn Historical Society.

The Baker Library at Harvard Business School holds materials related to George F. Baker, Jr., husband to Edith Brevoort Kane, and his father George F. Baker, Sr. in the Baker Family Papers (Mss.781 1768-2011 B167).

The papers of the Renwick family, in particular the husband of Laura W. Brevoort Renwick, Professor James Renwick, are held by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Columbia University (MS# 1063).

Materials related to the Kane family, particularly federal judge John Kitzing Kane, are held at the American Philosophical Society in the Kane Family Papers, 1745-1955 (Mss.Ms.Coll.115) and the University of Pennsylvania Archives & Records Center in the Kane Family Papers, 1802-1965 (UPT 50 K916).

Salve Regina University Special Collections holds a copy of William Rhinelander Stewart's Grace Church and Old New York (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1924; call # BX5980.N5 G7 1924) which contains annotations related to Henry Brevoort, Sr. and Henry Brevoort, Jr.

Bibliography

The following sources delineate the genealogy of many of the familial branches represented in this collection.

Stewart, William Rhinelander. 1924. Grace Church and Old New York. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
Conover, David K. 2012. Our Family History: Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven -- Cornelia Adelaide Kane. Conover Genealogy. http://www.conovergenealogy.com/connet/connet-o/p4475.htm. Accessed September 24, 2014.
D. Appleton and Company. 1918. "Kane, Grenville." In The Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Eds. James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. Volume VIII. New York: The Press Association Compilers, Inc. Google Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=qVQ_AQAAIAAJ. Accessed September 24, 2014.
Clarke, Robert Gordon. 2013. Early New Netherlands Settlers: Jan Brevoort. RootsWeb. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/page1/brevoort.htm. Accessed September 26, 2014.

Processing Information

The collection was inventoried by Allyson Neurohr and Nicole Nietzel in spring 2009; this was updated by University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Julie Swierczek in May 2013. The collection was processed by University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Maria Bernier and Susan Millard in 2010 and 2011. University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Genna Duplisea finished the finding aid and encoded it in September 2014.