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Found in 4 Collections and/or records:

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Sylvanus Bourne Papers

Identifier: MSS13367
Abstract Massachusetts businessman and United States consul in Santo Domingo (1790-1791) and in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1794-1817). Drafts and photocopies of Bourne’s personal and diplomatic correspondence, business and commercial papers, a scrapbook, and account books. Consists primarily of correspondence relating to commerce between the United States and European countries, primarily France and Great Britain, and United States foreign relations and politics. Other material concerns Bourne’s...
Dates 1775-1859; Majority of material found within ( 1800-1815)
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John Leeds Bozman Family Papers

Identifier: MSS13524
Abstract

Historian and lawyer of Maryland. Correspondence and other material pertaining to John Leeds Bozman, John Leeds Kerr, John Bozman Kerr, J. S. Bozman, William Vans Murray, Daniel Carroll (1730-1796), and others.

Dates 1669-1883; Majority of material found within ( 1784-1841)
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Elbridge Gerry Papers

Identifier: MSS22657
Abstract United States vice president, delegate to the Continental Congress, and United States representative from and governor of Massachusetts. Chiefly correspondence relating to various aspects of Gerry's public career, including his memberships in the Massachusetts General Court and Provincial Congress (where he was active on committees of correspondence, safety, and supply during the Revolution), service in the Continental Congress and the U.S. House of Representatives, governorship of...
Dates 1772-1901; Majority of material found within 1776-1814
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James McHenry Papers

Identifier: MSS32177
Abstract

United States secretary of war, member of the Continental Congress from Maryland, Continental Army officer, and physician. Correspondence, financial records, diary, and other papers relating to McHenry's service as United States secretary of war in the administrations of George Washington and John Adams; and as a Continental Army officer, particularly as secretary to George Washington and on the staff of the Marquis de Lafayette.

Dates 1775-1862; Majority of material found within 1775-1816