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Business and Skilled Trades

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1708-1792
Abstract:  

James Burd (1726-1793) was well-known in colonial Pennsylvania through his role in the French and Indian War, as well as his connections to many of the colony's leading families (most notably the Shippen family). Initially starting out as a merchant in Philadelphia, Burd became increasingly involved with colonial affairs after moving to Lancaster County with his family in 1752. It would be on the frontier where Burd would make his mark first as a soldier, and later as a magistrate. The Burd-Shippen Papers consist mainly of letters and business documents sent to James Burd, with the bulk of the collection relating to the French and Indian War, 1754-1763, in which Burd served as an officer commanding troops at Fort Augusta and elsewhere. The collection reflects all aspects of Burd's life in Pennsylvania as a merchant, soldier, and magistrate; as well as his involvement with the Shippen family professionally and personally. Intermixed with items sent to Burd are receipts to his wife Sarah Shippen Burd, and correspondence between Edward Shippen and James Hamilton regarding land matters and Indian affairs in Lancaster.
Call #:  
Mss.B.B892
Extent:
6.5 Linear feet



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1727-1781
Abstract:  

These letters and papers include ten small volumes of letterbooks (1752-1781), and ca. 100 pieces of correspondence with Joseph Shippen (1750-1778). Topics discussed are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs.
Call #:  
Mss.B.Sh62
Extent:
10 volume(s)



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



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Dates:
1750-1974
Abstract:  

A collection of business and personal papers of three generations of the prominent Philadelphia Jewish family from 1750-1974. Business records include trade and land transactions (some in Yiddish) of the Gratz brothers, Barnard and Michael (1750-1804) with the business continued by Michael's sons: Simon, Hyman, Joseph, Jacob, and Benjamin (1791-1861). Personal correspondence are primarily letters to Rebecca Gratz from her sisters Rachel and Sarah (1795-1867) with later correspondence to Rachel's children: Horace and Sara Moses (1832-1879). Contains a small group of French letters related to Napoleon III, collected by family member Miriam Fox, and some heirloom artifacts.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.72
Extent:
10.5 Linear feet
Subjects:  

American Revolution | Art | Astor, John Jacob, 1763-1848 | Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 | Colonial Politics | Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Correspondence. | Croghan, George | Early National Politics | Etting, Frances Gratz, 1771-1852 | Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920 | Family Correspondence | Female Hebrew Benevolent Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Fenno, Maria | Franks, David | General Correspondence | Gratz, Barnard, 1738-1801 | Gratz, Benjamin, 1792-1884 | Gratz, Hyman, 1776-1857 | Gratz, Jacob, 1789-1856 | Gratz, Joseph, 1785-1858 | Gratz, Michael, 1740-1811 | Gratz, Miriam Simon, 1749-1808 | Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869 | Gratz, Sarah, 1779-1817 | Gratz, Simon, 1773-1839 | Hays, Richea Gratz, 1774-1858 | Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) | International Trade. | Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 | Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 | Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844 | Joseph, Sarah Gratz Moses | Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 | Land and Speculation | Land speculation | Legal Records | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marriage and Family Life | Moses, Horace, 1820-1893 | Moses, Isaac, 1742-1818 | Moses, Rachel Gratz, 1783-1823 | Moses, Solomon, 1774-1857 | Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 | Nathan, Rebecca Gratz Moses, 1810-1891 | Official Government Documents and Records | Orphan Society of Philadelphia (Pa.) | Pennsylvania History | Philanthropy | Political Correspondence | Religion | Rodman, Harriet Fenno, 1782-1808 | Simon, Joseph | Simon, Joseph, 1785-1858 | Sketchbooks | Social Life and Custom | Surveying and Maps | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Women's History



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.)