Series III. Ezra Northey (1779-1855) Papers is mostly comprised of personal papers and includes a few folders which reflect his shipping and business career. The business and shipping papers include papers for three of his vessels, the Saucy Jack, Anson, and Criterion, financial materials relating to his partnership with Archelaus Rea, and financial and legal papers regarding his administration of the assets of shipping merchants John Dutch and Thorndike Deland. Of interest in Ezra's personal correspondence are several letters written to his wife Cynthia during their courtship (1820-1821) and an account (1826) of the apostate minister Anna Brathwait's activities in New York. Ezra's legal papers include his will (1844), his Quaker marriage certificate, and land deeds to the Eastern Railroad Company.