21 reels. Accompanied by a guide. General correspondence. Nicholson was a financier, promoter, and land speculator. He served as clerk to the Board of Treasury of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1781; as an auditor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for settling the accounts of the Pennsylvania Line; and as Comptroller General of Pennsylvania from 1782 to 1794. Originals are in the Pennsylvania State Archives.

Correspondence and an autobiographical sketch of the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War service of Samuel Miles. A native Pennsylvanian, Miles raised and commanded a regiment of riflemen, but was captured near Flatbush in August 1776, during the battle of Long Island. He was held as a prisoner of war in New York until his exchange in April 1778. Miles subsequently served as Mayor of Philadelphia and was a presidential elector in 1796.