Found in 5 Collections and/or records:
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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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Lewis Reeves Gibbes Papers
Identifier: MSS22707
Abstract
Scientist and professor. Chiefly correspondence along with specimen lists, resolutions, clippings, printed material, and other papers relating primarily to Gibbes's career as professor of astronomy, mathematics, and physics at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Includes his correspondence with other scientists on the subjects of astronomy, botany, chemistry, geology, meteorology, physics, and zoology. Other subjects relate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Dates
1793-1894; Majority of material found within ( 1838-1894)
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Alexander Hamilton Papers
Identifier: MSS24612
Abstract
Delegate from New York to the United States Continental Congress, United States secretary of the treasury, United States army officer, statesman, and lawyer. Correspondence, speeches and writings, legal and financial papers, printed matter, and other papers relating to Hamilton's personal life and public career, especially his service as an aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War, his participation in the United States Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention,...
Dates
1708-1917; Majority of material found within 1777-1804
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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
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Manuscript Division
William Vans Murray Papers
Identifier: MSS34025
Abstract
Diplomat and United States representative from Maryland. Correspondence, diaries, and official documents pertaining to Murray’s diplomatic activities as minister to the Netherlands (1797-1801) and as minister plenipoteniary to France (1799-1800).
Dates
1778-1805; Majority of material found within ( 1797-1801)