Correspondence, reports, surveys, clippings, account books, maps, deeds, and other records relating to lands owned, developed, and exchanged by Nicholas Devereux in New York State. These papers include references to to the Erie Railroad, the Rossie Lead Mining Company, the Bank of Ellicottville, James Le Ray de Chaumont, Nicholas Devereux and Company, Devereux Land Office, Ellicottville Land Office, the Holland Land Company, and to the establishment of a shoe factory and other commercial enterprises in Utica, New York. Family correspondence (c. 1800-1880) refers to the development of business in Utica, New York and the surrounding area, and to such subjects as the suffering of Catholics in Ireland, De Witt Clinton, the trial of General William Hull, Aaron Burr, the building of the Appian Way, banking affairs in Albany, New York, reactions to the War of 1812, the policies of James Madison, landlord problems in Chenango County, charitable work, Catholicism, and Nicholas Devereux's founding of the American College in Rome. Major correspondents include Benjamin C. Butler, James Clapp, John Devereux, Mary D. Devereux, Francis Kernan, Cornelia Pierrepont, William C. Pierrepont, the Butler family, Clapp family, William M. Morris, and Edward A. Wetmore