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BOOK

Title:  
Letters from John Quincy Adams to his constituents of the Twelfth congressional district in Massachusetts: To which is added his speech in Congress, delivered February 9, 1837
Creators:
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 | Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Publication:
I. Knapp, Boston, 1837.
Notes:  
Two poems by J. G. Whittier. "Lines written on the passage of Mr. Pinckney's resolutions in the House of representatives, and of Mr. Calhoun's 'Bill of abominations,' in the Senate ..." and "Stanzas for the times", by J. G. Whittier: p. 66-72.
Call #:  
Pam. v.155, no.1
Extent:
72 p. ; sextodecimo.
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PAMPHLET

Title:  
Speech ... on the abolition petitions, delivered on Wednesday, March 9, 1836
Creator:
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
Publication:
Duff Green, Printer, Washington City, [1836]
Call #:  
Pam. v.682, no.21
Extent:
16 p. ; octavo.
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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Title:
New York (State). Canal Commissioners. Records  
Dates:
1825-1826
Abstract:  

Correspondence and petitions to Henry Seymour regarding canal routes in northern New York, personnel, etc. Mentions David Thomas, Wells Hatch.
Call #:  
Mss.629.9.N47d
Extent:
7 volume(s)
Subjects:  

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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Title:
Daniel Horsmanden selected papers, 1714-1747, relating to the Six Nations  
Dates:
1714-1747
Abstract:  

These papers include 140 pages of letters, council minutes of Indian conferences, petitions, and speeches, concerning the activities of the New York Assembly and the Six Nations, principally for 1745-1747. Also contains a 200-page addendum of papers of the Van Shack family, pertaining to the same subjects. Table of contents included.
Call #:  
Mss.Film.640
Extent:
1 microfilm_reel(s)
Subjects:  

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Title:
Catalogue of political tracts relating to the history of the colony of Pennsylvania from 1681 to 1770, 1838  
Dates:
1838
Abstract:  

Catalogue and Tracts relating to Pennsylvania, 1681-1770, collected by Joshua Francis Fisher (presented to APS in 1839), contains: 1. "Catalogue of Printed Tracts relating to the Political History of . . . Pennsylvania, 1681-1770," with an introduction by Fisher (20 pp.); 2. (Sir William Keith), "The Life and character of a strange `He Monster' lately arrived in London from an English Colony in America, . . .," n.d. The "Monster" is identified as Andrew Hamilton by Walker Lewis, William and Mary Quarterly 38 (1981): 269-294; 3. A modest apology for the eight members. (3 pp.); 4. Petitions of merchants and others to the King for the safety of the Province and against the Quakers, n.d. (4 pp.).
Call #:  
Mss.016.9748.C28
Extent:
1 volume(s)
Subjects:  

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Title:
Papers of American Loyalists, 1782-1798  
Dates:
1782-1798
Abstract:  

There are letters, petitions, and reports concerning the Loyalists and the losses they sustained in the Revolutionary War. Includes the Committee of American Merchants, Observations on trade (1783), Banished American merchants petition (1789), and Classes of American loyalists and their claims.
Call #:  
Mss.973.314.L95
Extent:
15 item(s)
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Title:
Documents, 1728-1816, relating to the province of Pennsylvania and to the American Revolution  
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)
Subjects:  

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Title:
William Penn miscellaneous letters and documents, 1665-1801  
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)
Subjects:  

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Title:
The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s  
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. 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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. 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