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1. Rodgers family papers, 1740-1987

   14,850 items. 74 containers plus 4 oversize. 28.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States Navy and Army officers and family members. Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, logbooks, photographs, recollections (memoirs), financial papers, and printed matter centering primarily on the naval career of Commodore John Rodgers (1773-1838).

2. C. R. Hughes Embargo Act of 1807 map tracings collection

   8 items. 1 map folder. 8 maps. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   A collection of eight manuscript map tracings by C.R. Hughes, a printer based in Berryville, Virginia. Six maps illustrate how members of Congress voted on the Embargo Act of 1807. The other maps show the 1816 Massachusetts gubernatorial election and how electors in Georgia voted in the 1816 presidential election.

3. Key-Cutts-Turner family papers, 1808-1975

   135 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Correspondence, genealogical and biographical material, a commonplace book, poetry, writings, and printed matter relating to the Key-Cutts-Turner families of North Carolina and Washington, D.C. Chiefly family correspondence of Ann Arnold Key Turner with various relatives including her father, Francis Scott Key, written from Woodley plantation, Warrenton, North Carolina. Also includes letters of Richard Cutts written from Washington, D.C., relating to the commercial and maritime embargo of the Jefferson and Madison administrations.

4. Joseph Hopper Nicholson papers, 1789-1827

   2,200 items. 7 containers. 1.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Jurist and U.S. representative from Maryland. Correspondence and other papers relating chiefly to Nicholson's service as U.S. representative and judge of the U.S. Circuit Court and U.S. Court of Appeals.

5. Charles Nicoll Bancker correspondence, 1803-1830

   220 items. 3 containers. .6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Merchant of Philadelphia, Pa. Correspondence addressed to Bancker primarily from his father-in-law, John Teackle, and brother-in-law, Littleton Dennis Teackle, as well as other members of the Teackle family of Maryland. Pertains to family and business matters and documents national economic and political issues related to the family's interests in banking, commerce, and shipbuilding.