TREZIYULNY FAMILY PAPERS
1758-1921
12 cu.ft.
In theTreziyulny Papers are numerous letters providing information on the careers in surveying of Charles S. Treziyulny (b. 1757, d. 1851), styled on his tombstone at Bellefonte, Centre County, as "Baron Charles Stegner Treziyulny, Polish exile," and of son, Henry P. Treziyulny (b. 1800, d. 1877), for many years county surveyor of Centre County. These other members of the Treziyulny family are represented: Charles T. Treziyulny (b. 1804), by occasional letters or drafts of surveys; and Joseph Franklin P. Treziyulny (d. 1862), son of Henry P. Treziyulny, by correspondence, school books, drafts of surveys, and miscellaneous items casting light upon his military service during the Civil War and his death at the Battle of Fredericksburg. There are a few items connected with surveyor R. J. Gibbs, who married Sarah T., daughter of Henry P. Treziyulny.
The more important papers are those associated with the professional services of Charles S. Treziyulny and his son, Henry P. These include drafts of single tracts or drafts of connected tracts of land surveyed by them in the central counties of Pennsylvania or of copies of drafts of surveys made in that general area by a number of official deputy surveyors of the Province of Pennsylvania and the successors of these in the early decades after that Province had become the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These latter copies, secured from the Pennsylvania Land Office and assembled for professional surveying use in the time of Charles S. Treziyulny, in whose handwriting many appear to have been taken, illustrate the range of explorations of such eighteenth-century deputy surveyors as Richard Tea, Charles Lukens, William Maclay, Frederick Evans, John Canan, Joseph J. Wallis, and James Harris.
- Charles S. Treziyulny, 1769-1822 and undated. (1 box) {#128m.1}
- Henry P. Treziyulny, 1766-1900 and undated. (7 boxes) {#128m.2}
- Henry P. Treziyulny Family Papers, 1853-1885 and undated. (1 box) {#128m.3}
- Charles S. or Henry P. Treziyulny Papers, 1766-1900 and undated. (1 box) {#128m.4}
- Treziyulny Surveys, undated. (13 boxes and 13 folders) {#128m.5}
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