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BOX 51-53 Political History, 1755-1988
Correspondence, family and personal papers, military records, financial and legal documents, accounts and receipts, government and legislative documents, reports, illustrated and printed ephemera and other printed matter, background and reference material, and miscellaneous items relating to American military and political history.
Arranged alphabetically by name of person, topic, or type of material.
BOX 51 Military
(85)
Army, 1787, 1808, undated
(85.1)
Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, Pa., 1793-1795
(83.3)
Militia, payments in substitute for military duty, 1778-1780, 1819, 1844-1845
(85.5)
Navy
(85.2)
Background and reference material, 1882, 1898, 1930, 1953, 1962-1967, undated
Birch, Thomas, and family
Background and reference material, 1908, 1930, 1937, undated
Printed matter, 1851, 1862, 1883, undated
Clinton, DeWitt, 1829
(85.2.dc)
Constitution (Frigate)
Background and reference material, 1895, 1904, 1910, 1925-1931, undated
Morning report of the U.S. Marines, 1804
Printed matter, 1837, undated
(85.2.c)
Design and construction of six frigates by Joshua Humphreys, Timothy Pickering, and William Rush
Background and reference material, 1982, 1988
Letters and documents, 1795-1797
Engravings, undated
Jones, John Paul, facsimile of captain's commission, 1776
Letters and documents, 1786-1800, 1810-1815, 1830, 1837, 1845-1848, 1857, 1872, undated
Lewis, Montgomery
(85.2.l)
Background and reference material, undated
Letters and documents, 1830-1843
Reports, 1803, 1827
Rules for the procurement of timber, 1839
Philadelphia City Cavalry, Philadelphia, Pa., 1841
(85.4)
Newspapers
Gazette of the United States, 1792 See Oversize
New York Daily Graphic, 1875 See Oversize
(81)
Politics
(83)
circa 1600-1783, colonial and Revolutionary War period
Background and reference material, undated
Letters and documents, 1760, 1770-1781
(83.3)
BOX 52 Pennsylvania riots (1755-1765)
(83.2.pr)
Background and reference material, 1946-1949
Letters and documents, 1755, 1763-1765
Penn, Thomas, illustrations, undated
1784-1809, post-revolution and constitutional period
Background and reference material, 1957, undated
Asylum Co. and North American Land Co., 1795-1802 See also Oversize
(83.3)
Legislation, 1799
Letters and documents, 1793-1801, undated
(83.3; 83.4)
Society of the Cincinnati, 1792
(83.3)
"Test Law" book, oaths of allegiance to Pennsylvania, and indentures, 1786, 1795-1796
(82.1.a)
1820-1860, national period
Bennett, Edward, 1837, 1854
(83.5)
Great Britain, 1821, 1838
Letters and documents, 1831-1832
(83.3; 83.5)
War
(82)
1755-1763, French and Indian War, Pennsylvania legislation providing bills of credit, 1761
1775-1783, Revolutionary War
(82.1)
Letters and documents, 1775-1780
(82.1.b; 83.3)
Lists of British casualties, 1775-1776
1812-1814, War of 1812
Letters and documents, 1813-1814
Philadelphia, Pa., defenses of 1814, historical account, 1861
(83.5.a)
1861-1865, Civil War
(82.2)
Cards and tickets, 1862-1866, 1889, undated
Confederate States of America
Army paper, 1861-1863
Lee, Robert E., facsimile of farewell address to the Army of Northern Virginia, 1865
Letters and documents, 1842-1845, 1855-1865, 1872-1873
(82.2.b)
Muster rolls, vouchers, and other forms, 1862-1864 See also Oversize
Envelopes and illustrated covers, 1861-1864, 1899, undated
(82.2.b)
Family and personal papers
Bennett family
(82.2.b.4)
Bennett, Edward
Correspondence
Family, 1862-1863
General, 1862
Germantown Home Guard, Germantown, Pa., 1861
Other family members, 1855, undated
Clayton family
(82.2.b)
Background and reference material, undated
Clayton, Enos, correspondence
Family
Clayton, A. H. (cousin), 1863
Clayton, Jonathan (brother), 1861-1863
Clayton, Mary E. (wife), 1863
Clayton, Simon B. (brother), 1862
General, 1864, undated
Clayton, Mary E., 1862
Clayton, Simon B., 1862
BOX 53 Hoffman, J. William, 1842, 1861-1865, 1872-1878, undated See also Oversize
(82.2.i)
Riggs, Robert, 1861-1862, undated
(82.2.b.3)
Smith, Boyd M., 1910-1914, 1924
Stacey family
(82.2.b.1)
Other family members, 1861-1862, undated
Stacey, Davis Bevan
Correspondence
Family, 1863, undated
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