MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
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:
Subject
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
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:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
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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Catalogs. | Colonial Politics | Fisher, Joshua Francis, 1807-1873 | Government Affairs | Hamilton, Andrew | Manuscript Essays | Marischal, William Keith, -- Earl, | Miscellaneous | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania History | Petitions. | Society of Friends.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
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)
Subjects:
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American Revolution | American loyalists. | Colonial Politics | Commerce. | Government Affairs | Land and Speculation | Legal Records | Official Government Documents and Records | Petitions. | Political Correspondence | Reports. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories.
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)
Subjects:
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American Revolution | Colonial Politics | Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Government Affairs | Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837 | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829 | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Petitions. | Proclamations. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Wedderburn, Alexander
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1756-1816
Abstract:
These papers relate principally to Smyth's career in New Jersey before the American Revolution, and includes addresses to grand juries and their reports, and a copy of a petition to the Earl of Carlisle and its response (1778).
Call #:
Mss.B.Sm95
Extent:
0.25 Linear feet
Subjects:
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American Revolution | Carlisle, Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1748-1825 | Clinton, Henry, Sir | Colony and State Specific History | General Correspondence | Judges -- New Jersey. | Law | Legal Records | Legal instruments -- New Jersey. | New Jersey -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Official Government Documents and Records | Petitions. | Political Correspondence | Rhode Island -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. | Smyth, Frederick, 1732-1815
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)
Subjects:
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Business Records and Accounts | Cashbooks. | Charters. | Claypoole, James, 1640-1694 | Colonial Politics | Eckley, John | Fletcher, Benjamin, 1640-1703 | Hamilton, Andrew | Land speculation | Laws. | Lloyd, Thomas, 1640-1694 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Maps and Surveys | Markham, William, 1635 -1704 | Military History | New Jersey -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Norris, Isaac, 1671-1735 | Official Government Documents and Records | Penn, William, 1644-1718 | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania History | Petitions. | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Printed Material | Proclamations. | Roberts, Hugh | Seven Years' War | Simcock, John | Sugar. | Turner, Robert | Williams, Jonathan
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:
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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.)
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