Administrative Information
Provenance
The papers of the Rumsey family of Bohemia, Cecil County, Maryland, were deposited in the Library of Congress by Julia Brinkle Rodney in 1929 and converted to a gift in 1938. Additional material held by Rodney was reproduced with her permission to addition to the collection in 1939.
Processing History
The Rumsey Family Papers were housed and described circa 1980. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
Related Material
James Rumsey (1743-1792), an inventor of the steamboat, was related to this family. His papers are not included here, but his correspondence with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson about the steamboat and other matters is in the George Washington and Thomas Jefferson papers in the Manuscript Division. It (and his correspondence with others) is published in James A. Padgett, ed., “Letters of James Rumsey,” Maryland Historical Magazine 32 (1937): 10-28, 136-55, and 271-85. It is also in the published papers of Washington and Jefferson: The Papers of George Washington. ed. W. W. Abbot, et al. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1987 - ) and The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Eds., Julian P. Boyd, et al. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950- ).
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Rumsey Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.