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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
Circa 1760s-1850s
Abstract:  

This rich collection of letters and documents, which was assembled by Sol Feinstone (1888-1980) over a period of fifty years, includes material on almost all notable Americans from before the Revolution to the 1850's, as well as prominent Europeans, and there are documents relating to military affairs. There are substantial groups of letters from: John Adams, Henry Dearborn, Alexander Hamilton, Jedediah Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, George Washington, and a long run of letters from a Massachusetts military surgeon named Samuel Adams. Many letters, though written by Revolutionary figures, relate to events that occurred before or after the War.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F327
Extent:
27 Linear feet
Subjects:  

1775-1783 | 1783-1850 | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Adams, Samuel | Agriculture | Agusta, GA | Albany (N.Y.) | Albany, N.Y. | Albany, NY | Albemarle Barracks, VA | Alexandria, VA | Algiers (Algeria) | Ambassadors | American Revolution | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Annapolis (Md.) | Annapolis, MD | Antigua, WI | Au Cap, France | Augusta County (Va.) | Bagshot, England | Baltimore (Md.) | Bank of Albany (Albany, N.Y.) | Belmont, VA | Bennington, VT | Bonston, MA | Books | Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) | Boston (Mass.) | Boston Massacre, 1770 | Boston, MA | Botta, Carlo, 1766-1837. Storia della guerra dell'independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America. English | Bound Brook (N.J.) | Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777 | Bristol County (Mass.) | Brown, Elias, 1793-1857 | Buckingham, PA | Bucks County (Pa.) | Bucks County (Pa.) | Business and Skilled Trades | Cabanis, P. J. G. (Pierre Jean Georges), 1757-1808 | Cadwalader, Lambert, 1742-1823 | Cambridge, MA | Cambridge, Mass | Camden (N.J.) | Camp Tappan, NY | Cape Henry (Virginia Beach, Va.) | Carlisle, PA | Catskill Landing, NY | Champlain, Lake | Charleston (S.C.) | Charleston Harbor, SC | Charleston, SC | Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) | Charlotte County, VA | Charlottesville (Va.) | Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.) | Chester County (Pa.) | Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Clothing | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Conde, France | Connecticut | Conneticut | Constitution | Court at St. James, London | Crown Point, NY | Cádiz (Spain) | Danbury (Conn.) | Dartmouth College | Dearborn, Henry, 1751-1829 | Delaware | Detroit, MI | Diplomacy | Diplomacy--History | Diplomatic History | Dobbs Ferry, NY | Dublin (Ireland) | Dueling | Early National Politics | Eastham, MA | Easton, Massachusetts | Education | Edwardsville (Ill.) | Egg Harbor City (N.J.) | Elizabethtown, NJ | England | Englishtown, NJ | Essex, England | Family Correspondence | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,colle | Fenner, NY | Fishkill (N.Y.) | Fort Mifflin (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fort Ticonderoga | France | France. Marine | France. Navy | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Frederick County (Va.) | Fredericksburg (Va.) | Fredericksburg, NY | Fredericksburg, VA | Freight and freightage | French Revolution | Gazette de Leyde (Netherlands, Leiden) | General Correspondence | Georgia | Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Goshen, NC | Great Britain. Parliament | Great Britain. Royal Navy | Great Britain. Stamp Act (1765) | Great Cumberland Place, London | Greenwich, CT | Haiti | Halifax, NS | Hamburg (Germany) | Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 | Hamoze, England | Hanover, NJ | Havana (Cuba) | Haverhill, MA | Hessian mercenaries | Hessian soldiers in the American Revolution | Hillsboro (N.C.) | Hingham, MA | Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) | Huntington, Andrew, 1745-1824 | Huntington, Jedediah, 1743-1818 | Inoculation | Ireland | Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Kentucky | Kingston, NC | L'Orient, France | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Lamb, John, 1735-1800 | Lancaster (Pa.) | Land titles | Langdon, John, 1741-1819 | Law | Law of the Sea | Legal correspondence | Legal documents | Levy, Levy Andrew, 1746-1829 | Liberty Pole, NJ | Lisbon (Portugal) | Litchfield, CT | Livorno (Italy) | Logistics | London | London, England | Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) | Luzerne County (Pa.) | Madeira wine | Manheim, PA | Marshfield, MA | Maryland | Maryland. Council of Safety | Massachusettes | Massachusetts | Medfield, MA | Middlebrook, NJ | Middleton, MA | Middletown, CT | Military History | Military Records | Miscellaneous | Missouri | Missouri compromise | Monmouth County (N.J.) | Monticello, VA | Montreal, Canada | Montréal (Québec) | Morristown (N.J.) | Morristown, NJ | Mount Independence, NY | Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) | Mount Vernon (Va.) | Mount Vernon, VA | Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750-1801 | Naples (Italy : Province) | Naples, Italy | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Negotiation | Netherlands | Netherlands | New Brunswick (N.J.) | New Hampshire | New Haven, Connecticut | New Jersey | New Jersey -- History -- 1775-1865. | New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | New London (Conn.) | New Orleans, LA | New Port, RI | New Windsor, NY | New York | New York | New York (N.Y.) | New York (State) | New York (State). Committee of Safety | New York, N.Y. | Newburgh (N.Y.) | Newburgh, NY | Newport (R.I.) | Newtown, PA | North Carolina | Northampton County (Pa.) | Norwich, CT | Nova Scotia | Official Government Documents and Records | Ohio | Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) | Orland, ME | Paramus, NJ | Paris, France | Parish, Louisa County, VA | Passy, France\ | Pawtuxet, RI | Peekskill, NY | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania State Lottery | Pennsylvania--Politics and government | Pennsylvania. Committee of Safety | Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council | Pennsylvania. War-Office | Penobscot Expedition, 1779 | Pensions | Perth Amboy (N.J.) | Perth Amboy, NJ | Petitions | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia, PA | Philipsborough, NY | Philipsburg, NY | Pittsfield (Mass.) | Plymouth Ropeyard, England | Plymouth Yard, England | Political Correspondence | Pompton (N.J.) | Poplar Forest, VA | Portsmouth (Va.) | Portsmouth, NH | Preakness, NJ | Presidents. | Prince William County (Va.) | Princeton (N.J.) | Princeton, Battle of, Princeton, N.J., 1777 | Princeton, NJ | Printed Material | Prizes (Property captured at sea) | Proclamations | Promissory notes | Providence (R.I.) | Providence, R.I. | Providence, RI | Quartermasters | Quebec, Canada | Quincy, MA | Receipts | Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785 | Rhinebeck, NY | Rhode Island | Rhode Island | Richmond (Va.) | Richmond, VA | Roxborough, PA | Rutland, MA | Saint Petersburg (Russia) | Salem County (N.J.) | Saratoga (N.Y.) | Saratoga, NY | Sartine, Antoine de, Comte d'Alby, 1729-1801 | Savannah (Ga.) | Savannah, GA | Schuylkill River (Pa.) | Scotch Plains, NJ | Seminary, Quebec | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Shay's rebellion | Shays' Rebellion, 1786-1787 | Shrewsbury, MA | Slavery | Smallpox | Society of Friends | Society of the Cincinnati | Sons of Liberty | South Carolina | Spain | Springfield (Mass.) | Springfield (Union County, N.J.) | Springhill, VA | St. John's Church (Portsmouth, N.H.) | Stamford, CT | Stamp Act Congress (1765 : New York, N.Y.) | Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) | Statesmen. | Steuben County (N.Y.) | Stony Point (N.Y.) | Taxation | The Culper spy ring | The Hague, Netherlands | The will of General George Washington | Throgs Neck (New York, N.Y.) | Tobacco | Totowa, NJ | Treaties | Trenton (N.J.) | Trenton, Battle of, Trenton, N.J., 1776 | Trenton, NJ | Trinity Church (New York, N.Y.) | Tuckerton, NJ | United States -- Armed Forces -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. | United States -- History -- 1775-1865. | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | United States -- History, Military. | United States Lottery | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, German | United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department | United States. Articles of Confederation | United States. Congress | United States. Constitution | United States. Continental Army | United States. Continental Army. Massachusetts Regiment, Fourth | United States. Continental Congress | United States. Declaration of Independence | United States. Department of the Treasury | United States. Supreme Court | United States. War Department | Vaccination | Vaccines | Valley Forge, PA | Vaughan, John, Sir, 1756-1841 | Vermont | Virginia | Washington (D.C.) | Washington, DC | Washington, George (1732-1799) | Watertown (Mass.) | Watertown, MA | West Indies | West Point (N.Y.) | West Point, NY | Westminster (Vt.) | Westminster, England | Westmoreland County (Pa.) | Wethersfield (Conn.) | White Plains, New York | Williamsburg, VA | Wills | Wilmington (Del.) | Wilmington, DE | Winchester, England | Winchester, VA | Worcester, MA | Wyoming County (Pa.) | Yellow fever | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | York County (Pa.) | York, PA | Yorktown (Va.)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1785-1806
Abstract:  

This collection includes notes and an unpublished manuscript (275 pages), entitled "Journals and Note-books of Benjamin Smith Barton, 1785-1806," by Waldo L. McAtee. The manuscript includes an introduction with biographical and bibliographical notes, an annotated glossary-index, and an indexed bibliography of works referred to in the various journals. The photocopies of journals and notebooks by Barton include his survey of the boundary of western Pennsylvania and Ohio, 1785; a commonplace book, 1789; journey through New York to Niagara Falls, 1797; Pennsylvania journal, 1798; visit to Virginia, 1802 (published); Salt Pond Mountain, Virginia, 1806; notes on vertebrates and miscellany.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B284.1
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1840-1865
Abstract:  

A product of the distinctive culture of reform in antebellum Philadelphia, William Parker Foulke was the scion of the old elite who put a conservative stamp on social change. Trained as an attorney, Foulke spent much of his adult life engaging his deep amateur interest in natural history and mental philosophy and devoting himself to a variety of civic and philanthropic causes, including the colonization of formerly enslaved persons, penal reform, and cultural institutions in his native Philadelphia. The Foulke Papers are the product of the diverse social and intellectual interests of the Philadelphia attorney and philanthropist William Parker Foulke. Consisting primarily of correspondence, notes, and essays, the collection touches on Foulke's many interests. The collection includes numerous lectures delivered by Foulke along with material on the Lancaster County Prison, New York Prison Association, and the Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons; notebooks concerning prisons and prisoners, including a 1846-1852 diary, and a listing of prisoners, their race, age, crime, sentence, and observations; a diary concerning the American Colonization Society (1852); a copy of an arctic diary (1853-1854) by John Wall Wilson, in the hand of Isaac Israel Hayes, which recounts much of the journey aboard the brig Advance, commanded by Elisha Kent Kane. There is also a list of buildings (1820-1841) designed by John Haviland, and material on the American Academy of Music, Philadelphia.
Call #:  
Mss.B.F826
Extent:
3.75 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Advance (Brig) | Africa, West -- Description and travel | American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) | American Colonization Society | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania | Archaeology -- Pennsylvania | Arctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration | Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 | Bringhurst, ----- | Cadwalader, John | Carey, Henry Charles, 1793-1879 | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Cassin, John, 1813-1869 | Colonization, repatriation | Dinosaurs -- New Jersey | Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 | Foulke, William Parker, 1816-1865 | Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Freemasons -- Pennsylvania | General Correspondence | Geological Survey of Pennsylvania | Geology -- Pennsylvania | Gilpin, Henry D. (Henry Dilwor | Grinnell, Henry | Hart, George H. | Haviland, John, 1792-1852 | Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel), 1832-1881 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 | Lancaster (Penn.) County Prison | Landis, Henry D. | Law | LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 | Legal Records | Leidy, Joseph, 1823-1891 | Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Liberia -- Description and travel | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Lyceums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Manuscript Essays | Mesmerism | Miscellaneous | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Native America | New York Prison Association | Olden, Charles Smith | Packard, Frederick A. (Frederick Adolphus) (1794-1867) | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 19th century | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia History | Philadelphia Society For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons | Political Correspondence | Prison reformers -- Pennsylvania | Prisons -- Design and construction | Prisons -- New York (State) | Prisons -- Pennsylvania | Reformers -- Pennsylvania | Rogers, Henry D. (Henry Darwin), 1808-1866 | Science and technology | Sheafer, P. W. (Peter Wenrick), 1819-1891 | Slavery -- United States. | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 | Wilson, John Wall



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1718-1912
Abstract:  

In addition to family and business correspondence, the Charles Nicoll Bancker Family Papers contains various documents, such as a furniture inventory volume (30pp.); a Daybook, 1795-1800 (120pp.); and a very interesting journal (unidentified, but by one of the Banckers, and filed under "Description of a trip..."), from New York to Albany and back, between July 20-Aug. 15, 1793 (1 vol., 31 pp.). It contains detailed observations of the Hudson River and the towns along the way. Bancker was involved in business and trade prior to 1826, and in insurance after that date, so there is material relating to those topics in this collection. He owned a substantial library of the period, which was used by Charles Wilkes's Expedition after 1837 (see Reynell Coates to Bancker). This library, along with Bancker's notable scientific instrument collection, was sold after his death and there are published auction catalogues in the collection. There is much family correspondence from: Anne E. Bancker, Charles Gerard Bancker, Evert Bancker, Sarah U. Bancker, Violetta Bancker Talbot, Elizabeth Bancker Teackle, and John Teackle.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B22.c
Extent:
3.25 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Adams, John, 1735-1826 | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Bancker, Charles Gerard, 1809-1861 | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | Bancker, Evert, 1734-1815 | Bancker, Sarah Upshur Teackle, circa 1780-1843 | Beasley, Frederick, 1777-1845 | Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Catalogs. | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Daybooks. | Early National Politics | Education | Family Correspondence | Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | General Correspondence | Girard, Stephen--Estate, 1750-1831 | Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Insurance agents -- United States. | Inventories. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de, 1757-1834 | Land and Speculation | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Marshall, John G. (John George), 1789-1880 | McIlvaine, H. M. | Merchants - United States | Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850 | Montgomery, James, 1787-1834 | Montgomery, John T. (John Teackle), 1817-1895 | Muhlenberg, William Augustus, 1796-1877 | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Political Correspondence | Politicians -- United States. | Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 | Sketchbooks | Smith, Christopher | Social Life and Custom | Stevens, John, 1749-1838 | Talbot, Violetta Taylor Bancker, 1788-1865 | Teackle, Elizabeth Bancker | Teackle, John, 1753-1817 | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States - Commerce - To 1865 | United States - Social conditions - To 1865 | Upshur, Abel Percy | Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829 | Women's History



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1747-1948
Abstract:  

A listing of miscellaneous manuscript maps that are not associated with any particular collections.
Call #:  
Misc.Maps
Extent:
100 item(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1699-1750
Abstract:  

Copied by Mrs. Deborah Norris Logan from original letters and papers in her family, with additions by J. Francis Fisher and Redmond Conyngham. Includes Logan's correspondence with William Penn, Hannah Callowhill Penn, Isaac Norris, Governor George Clarke of New York, Governor William Gooch of Virginia, and Governor George Thomas of Pennsylvania. Contains materials regarding early Philadelphia and Indian and colonial affairs.
Call #:  
Mss.B.L82
Extent:
4 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1650-1655 (1820)
Abstract:  

The New Sweden Company was founded as a joint stock enterprise in 1637 including Swedish, Dutch, and German investors seeking to trade in American furs and tobacco. Centered at Fort Christina, near present day Wilmington, Delaware, the colony expanded up both sides of Delaware Bay and the Delaware Reiver to present day Philadelphia, but capitulated to the Dutch in 1655. This volume contains selected transcripts in Swedish and German of documents in Swedish archives relating to the settling and governance of the colony of New Sweden in Delaware and Pennsylvania, made at the expense of Jonathan Russel, United States minister to Sweden, 1820. The documents have all been translated into French, and were printed in Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, vol. 4 (1829), 177-8,200, 314-315, 373-374, 398-400; vol. 5, 14-15, 219-221. No. 27 was not printed. Bound in at the end of the volume is Ch. 5 of Per Lindeström, "Description de la nouvelle Suède et des Indes Occidentales, 1691."
Call #:  
Mss.974.8.Sw2
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1765-1775
Abstract:  

From the Sugar Act of 1764 through the Tea Act of 1773, the British Parliament imposed a variety of taxes upon their American colonies in an effort to raise revenue to offset the enormous debts incurred during the Seven Years' (French and Indian) War. Far more efficiently than raising revenue, these duties raised the indignation of the colonits, contributing more than their share to the alienation that fueled the independence movement The two volumes that comprise the Pennsylvania Stamp Act and Non-Importation Resolutions Collection contain 34 manuscript and printed items relating to the political crisis over taxation on goods imported into the American colonies between 1765 and 1773, with a focus on Philadelphia. The first volume is concerned exclusively with agitation over the Stamp Act of 1765 and its repeal, while the second volume relates more specifically to the Non-Importation agreements of the 1760s, the Townshend Duties, and the Tea Act of 1773. Among these are letters of Governor John Penn, correspondence between the Sons of Liberty at Philadelphia and those of New York, 1766, an address of the committee of Boston merchants to a committee of Philadelphia merchants, 11 August 1768. Among the more dramatic letters are those from John Hughes, the would-be Stamp Officer for Pennsylvania who resigned bis commission in the face of public protest, and a seies of threatening letters addressed to James and Drinker, consignees for the sale of tea in Pennsylvania in 1773.
Call #:  
Mss.973.2.M31
Extent:
2 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1774-1932
Abstract:  

David Rittenhouse (1732-1796) was one of the most prominent American men of science of the 18th Century. A skilled instrument maker, Rittenhouse was the an astronomer, playing a major role in recording the 1769 Transit of Venus, among many accomplishments. Rittenhouse also conducted important survey work for the state of Pennsylvania, establishing the state's western border, as well as overseeing the completion of the Mason-Dixon survey. In addition to his scientific endeavors, Rittenhouse's work for American independence places him among the important founding fathers. Subordinating his scientific interests for the greater good of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution, Rittenhouse served as a member of both the Pennsylvania Assembly and the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, and held powerful positions on the Pennsylvania Council of Safety and the subsequent Committee on Safety. Rittenhouse also served as the first director of the United States' Mint, at the behest of President George Washington. Rittenhouse was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1768 and played a major role in placing the Society on the scientific map. He held many positions in the Society, including serving as its President from 1791 until his death in 1796. The Rittenhouse papers span 1774 to 1932, and consist of 61 items, over 0.25 linear feet. The collection is comprised mainly of correspondence, but also includes receipts, genealogies and broadsides.
Call #:  
Mss.SMs.Coll.11
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1728-1819
Abstract:  

This volume includes messages and proclamations of governors of the province, a petition to the King from the province of Georgia [n.d.], the draft of an address of the University of the State of Pennsylvania to George Washington (1781), a letter from Arthur Lee to Alexander Wedderburn (1774), letters of Timothy Matlack to Abiel Holmes (1819), and George Wythe's draft resolutions (1775).
Call #:  
Mss.974.8.D65
Extent:
1 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1681-1921
Abstract:  

These documents are principally of Pennsylvania interest, 1757-1809, including letters to Richard I. Manning from John C. Calhoun, Marquis de Lafayette, George McDuffie, and William Wirt. There are also letters of Clement C. Biddle, James Buchanan, Francis J. Grund, James Madison, Timothy Pickering, and William H. Seward. In addition, there are several musical scores (n.d.) and 19 cancelled checks (1861-1871) drawn by Ticknor and Fields in Boston, to the order of various American authors.
Call #:  
Mss.973.D32
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1690-1996
Abstract:  

An extensive family collection, the Vaux Family Papers center around the lives of George Vaux V (1721-1803), George Vaux VII (1779-1836), and George Vaux VIII (1832-1915), their business partners, siblings, wives, and children, and encompasses the extended Vaux family of Warders, Sansoms, Heads, Graffs, Morrises, Cressons, and Mayberrys. The collection includes correspondence, financial accounts, receipts, business records, journals, diaries, photographs, and legal documents.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.73
Extent:
150 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1743-1990
Abstract:  

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history. The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.
Call #:  
APS.Archives
Extent:
192.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1663-1972
Abstract:  

One of the oldest houses in Philadelphia, Wyck is now a non-profit museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nine generations of the Jansen-Wistar-Haines family owned the Wyck property from 1690 until 1973. The last family owner deeded 2.5 acres of land, the house and its contents, several outbuildings, a landscaped garden, and a small endowment to the Wyck Charitable Trust. The Wyck Charitable Trust and the Wyck Association now administer the preservation of the property and its educational services to the public. This collection contains diaries, letters, accounts, bills and receipts, deeds, and photographs. The collection as a whole is deepest for the period 1770-1970. Items of particular note include accounts of household expenses at Wyck from ca. 1790-1970; papers pertaining to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Quaker schools, and social reform groups; agricultural and horticultural practices; and correspondence to and from cultural leaders of 18th and 19th century Philadelphia. The papers of the John S. Haines family (Ms. Coll. 52A) form part of the Wyck Papers. The papers cover the years 1845 to 1949 and are arranged into eight series.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.52
Extent:
168.0 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1659-1985
Abstract:  

The Smith-Houston-Morris-Ogden Family Papers document the history of the Houston, Smith, Ogden, Morris and allied families, beginning in the late 17th century, and continuing through to near the end of the 20th. Among the many treasures in this vast collection are the papers of Pennsylvania Railroad executive Henry Howard Houston (1820-1895), his son, Samuel Frederick Houston (1866-1952), and of Pennsylvania attorney and treasury official, William Meredith (1752-1816). Although the collection contains a great deal of interest with respect to land speculation, commerce, and trade emanating from Philadelphia, the bulk of the Smith Family Papers consists of personal and family correspondence and other papers. Among the largest and most interesting bodies of papers are those of L.M.C. Smith and Eleanor Houston Smith, daughter of Samuel F. Smith. These document the family's progressive attitudes regarding and resource conservation, historic preservation, and their social activism. This very large collection includes much material that is not itemized below.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.76
Extent:
350 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1684, 1733-1771
Abstract:  

An early settler and prominent citizen in the Moravian heartland near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Timothy Horsfield was named justice of the peace when Northampton County was formed out of Bucks in 1752, and was one of those given responsibility for the defence of the local white and Christian Indian populations during the French and Indian War. The Horsfield Papers offer a window onto the tumultuous history of northeastern Pennsylvania during the 1750s and 1760s. Comprised largely of correspondence and related documents between Horsfield, William Parsons, and provincial and military authorities, the collection includes important information on the Native tribes' actions (previously described as "Indian assaults") in the region in 1756 and 1757 and the military and diplomatic response of settlers.
Call #:  
Mss.974.8.H78
Extent:
0.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1665-1801
Abstract:  

Three volumes contain letters, laws, charters, reports, proclamations, petitions, and other official and semi-official documents relating principally to early Pennsylvania and New Jersey, signed by or addressed to William Penn, among others. A fourth volume is Penn's cash book, 1699-1703, which records expeditures, payments of quit rents, etc. Tipped in is "Catalogue of Goods left at Pensbury," and of goods left at Philadelphia, 1701.
Call #:  
Mss.B.P38
Extent:
4 volume(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1769-1866
Abstract:  

The papers include miscellaneous letters, letterbooks, books, certificates, and diplomas of various members of the Muhlenberg family. Among them are photostats of letters and papers of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and officers of the Continental Army on military affairs in the Southern Department during the American Revolution (1772-1804); photostats of letters to Albert Gallatin, Nathanael Greene, Edward Hand, Winthrop Sargent, Baron von Steuben, William Alexander, and George Washington; photostat of General Muhlenberg's journal of trips to the Ohio (1784, 1797); photostats of letters and notes of Gotthilf H. E. Muhlenberg, including a diary kept at Halle (1771) and extracts of thirty letters to Stephen Elliott of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina (1808-1815); photostats of letters of Henry A. Muhlenberg about his biography of General Muhlenberg (1848-1849); and photostats of letters of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). Also included is an original letterbook of Peter Muhlenberg, paymaster of the United States Army, kept at Augusta and Savannah, Georgia (1836-1842). Henry Muhlenberg's notebooks (1784-1813), written in Latin or German script, in a small hand, includes a wealth of botanical observations, with a focus on Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Henry Muhlenberg journals are a record of daily occurrences, with many features of a commonplace book, containing prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, and the plan of a barn. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787).
Call #:  
Mss.B.M891
Extent:
4.25 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1738-1910
Abstract:  

Jasper Yeates (1745-1817) was a lawyer and Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice, one of the state's most successful colonial-era legal practitioners. After moving to Lancaster County in 1765, he became active in colonial and early federal affairs, first by supporting the Revolutionary struggle and later by serving as one of Lancaster's delegates to the State Convention of 1787, which ratified the U.S. Constitution. The Jasper Yeates Papers (1728-1910, bulk 1760-1816) consist mainly of correspondence and business and court/legal records related to the Yeates family. The bulk of this three linear foot collection reflect Yeates' personal life as husband, father, son, and friend, as well as his professional life as lawyer and judge in Pennsylvania; much of the material dated after Yeates' death was created by children and/or grandchildren.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.151
Extent:
3 Linear feet



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