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BOX 1-4 John Rodgers (1773-1838), 1788-1941
BOX 1 Letterbook, Notebooks, and Family Correspondence, 1804-1845
Correspondence sent and received and notebooks.
Arranged by type of correspondence or material.
BOX 1 Letterbook, USS North Carolina, 1825, June-1827, July
Notebooks, 1825, 1829, 1836, undated
Correspondence
John Rodgers to his children, 1813-1835
John Rodgers to his brother, George W. Rodgers, 1828
John Rodgers to Henry Denison, 1805
Minerva D. Rodgers letters, 1809-1845
Henry Rodgers to William P. Rodgers, 1840
Denison-Henley family correspondence, 1804-1831
Julia Slidell to Sarah Perry Rodgers, undated
BOX 1-3 General Correspondence, 1803-1850
Letters to and from John Rodgers and letters between his contemporaries.
Rodgers's letters arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent. Letters between contemporaries are arranged alphabetically by name of sender.
BOX 1 Typewritten copies of letters
Letters to Rodgers
Babbit, William D., 1820, Feb. 8
Bainbridge, William, 1816, July 30; Jan. 16 and 22, Mar. 18, and 1820, Sept. 1
Barney, Joshua, 1828, Feb. 12
Binney, Amos, 1822, Jan. 10, undated
Birchmore, William, 1821, Feb. 10
Blake, George, 1824, May 25
Blunt, Edmund M., 1819, Dec. 13
Bollez, Arrele, 1829, Mar. 30
Budd, Charles A., 1812, Sept. 8
Bullus, Charlotte I., 1819, Mar. 3
Cathcart, James L., 1823, Sept. 12
Cromwell, John, 1828, Feb. 26
Dana, Samuel H., 1828, Aug. 29
Davis, Samuel S., 1827, Aug. 23
Decatur, Stephen, undated (3 letters)
BOX 2 English, George B., 1827, Aug. 2
Gales, I., 1815, Apr. 10
Gillis, George, 1815, Apr. 13
Gordon, Alexander G., 1824, Dec. 18
Gordon, William, 1825, Dec. 14
Gray, Andrew, 1833, Oct. 7
Hamilton, Samuel, 1825, May 15
Hay, Charles, 1825, Dec. 30
Lawrence, James, 1811, Apr. 8
Ludlow, Charles, 1809, Jan. 2
Madison, James, 1818, Nov. 29
Miller, Thomas, 1828, Jan. 26
Monroe, James, 1816, Jan. 26 and 27
Nicholson, J. B., 1825, Sept. 6
Nicholson, Rebecca, 1804, Apr. 30
Nicholson, Samuel, 1807, Sept. 29
Perry, Matthew C., 1827, Nov. 22; Jan. 8, Feb. 4, and 1828, Feb. 6; Perry, Matthew C., from John Rodgers, 1831, Apr. 10, 1834, Dec. 17; and 1836, Dec. 2
Perry, Oliver H., 1811, May 8; 1816, Mar. 6; and 1817, July 17
Pinkney, A., 1803, Dec. 8
Porter, David, 1805, June 30
Selfridge, Thomas O., 1828, June 29
Stribling, C. R., 1825, Mar. 3
Shuburne, J. W., 1828, Nov. 11
Southard, Samuel L., July 6, Sept. 7, 8, and 12, and 1825, Dec. 28 and 29; 1825, Apr. 25; and 1828, May 15
Spence, Robert T., undated
Spencer, R., 1825, Aug. 29
Stricker, John, 1807, Feb. 7
Thaler, William B., 1828, Apr. 20
Thomas, John, 1822, Nov. 15
Tingey, Thomas, 1807, Jan. 31; Tingey, Thomas from John Rodgers, 1806, Nov. 13, and 1807, Feb. 1
BOX 3 Letters between others
Bainbridge, William, to David Porter, 1820, Mar. 28
Blake, George, to Smith Thompson, 1823, July 30
Bullus, Charlotte I., to Charles W. Goldsborough, 1823, Jan. 11 and Mar. 7
Du Val, E. W. to William Jones, 1814, Nov. 6
Epps, John W., to George Pearce, 1809, Mar. 4
Gregory, Francis H., to James Ramage, 1825, Nov. 10
Harrison, William Henry, to Matthew C. Perry, 1821, Apr. 16 and 1839, Sept. 5
Pettigrew, James Johnston, to Matthew F. Maury, 1850, Oct. 21
Jones, Thomas, to Matthew C. Perry, 1845, July 4
Langdon, John, to Samuel Nicholson, undated
Lewis, Morgan, to Oliver H. Perry, 1813, Apr. 20
Mason, John Young, to Matthew C. Perry, 1848, Nov. 14
Packett, John, to Daniel Turner, 1818, Aug. 10
Rush, Benjamin, to Matthew C. Perry, 1838, Oct. 9
Scott, Winfield, to Matthew C. Perry, 1847, Mar. 22
Sumner, Charles, to Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, 1843, Aug. 17
Warrington, Lewis, to Smith Thompson, 1820, Nov. 20
BOX 3-4 Miscellany, 1788-1941
Biographical and autobiographical material, official documents, miscellany concerning Matthew Calbraith Perry, and other miscellaneous items.
Arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
BOX 3 Biographical file, circa 1870s
Rodgers, John, family biography
Rodgers, Minerva, autobiographical sketch
Rodgers Nannie, autobiographical sketch
Circulars, 1825-1832
Correspondence, 1882-1886, and journal, kept on board the USS Iroquois, 1864, of nephew, Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
Correspondence of son-in-law, Montgomery C. Meigs, 1862-1867
Court-martial cases, 1825
Individual accounts, 1788-1825
Letter of grandson, Montgomery M. Macomb, 1916
Perry, Matthew C.
Commission from Millard Fillmore, 1852
Material concerning Perry's 1854 expedition to Japan, 1821-1824, and Battle of Lake Erie controversy, 1841
Statement of Samuel Horseley on Battle of Lake Erie, 1821
Statement of Santa Anna, 1847, Nov. 2
BOX 4 Memoir of Rodgers concerning his imprisonment in Cape Francois, manuscript and typed copy, 1802
Newspaper clippings and magazine, 1812-1832
Official documents
Appointment of U.S. vice consul at Paros, 1823
Frederick Rodgers's appointment as midshipman, 1823
Rodgers's disability certificate (War of 1812), 1837
Patent, 1822
Report of the Board of Navy Commissioners, typed copy, 1815
Scrapbook kept by Rodgers
Estimates for provisions, clothing, and money for ships in the Mediterranean, 1825
Newspaper clippings, 1804-1834
Notes
Signal book, circa 1809
Somers mutiny case, 1843
Survey of ships, 1827-1829
Verse and miscellaneous writings
BOX 5-32 John Rodgers (1812-1882), 1809-1897
BOX 5-20 Notebooks and Official Correspondence, 1828-1881
Orders to duty, letters sent and memoranda received, and general orders on the Florida Expedition, the North Pacific Surveying Expedition, the Civil War and the Asiatic Fleet.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX 5 Personal notebooks, circa 1842 and 1873
Orders to duty, 1828-1881
Official correspondence
1839-1841
BOX 6 1842-1843
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