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BOX 72-76 Miscellany, 1748-1895
Address book, calling cards, invitations, family genealogy, engraved portrait, clippings, account books, a logbook, minute books, legal documents, and printed matter.
Organized into three groups: personal miscellany of Edward McPherson arranged by type of material; McPherson family and Pennsylvania history documents arranged chronologically; and law office files of Robert G. McCreary of Gettysburg, Pa., including correspondence, arranged chronologically.
BOX 72 Edward McPherson personal material
Address book, 1862
Calling cards
Invitations
Report cards, Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., 1843-1848
Family genealogy
Portrait (engraved)
Clippings
Obituaries, 1895
Personal
BOX 73 Political, circa, 1860-1895
Abraham Lincoln
Thaddeus Stevens estate
Gettysburg Battlefield
Local history (articles by Rev. J. K. Demarest and others)
Printed matter
BOX 74 McPherson family and Pennsylvania history
Carroll's Delight, 1748-1797
Digge's Choice, 1752-circa, 1775
Robert McPherson's tax collection records, 1768-1769
John Smith account book, 1770-1773
York County, Pa., militia (documents), 1774-1798
Almanacks (with memoranda and accounts), 1782, 1799
Pennsylvania tax quotas
William McPherson, Adams County, Pa.
Commissioner's account book, 1803-1813
Road tax account book, 1804-1805
Court record book, November term, 1805
[William McPherson?] list of dogs taxed [Gettysburg, Pa.?], 1806-1816
William McPherson, supervisor of public roads, account book, 1815
Luther O. Sullivan, Bailiff, Loudoun County, Va., account book, 1827-1828
Court judgement and receipt book [?, Pa.], 1831-1835
Court of Inquiry, United States Revenue cutter McLane, 1833
Gettysburg, Pa., merchant's ledger and daybook, 1836
John Duncan, bank book (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1837-1850
Charles McPherson, copy book, 1841
BOX 75 Edward McPherson, minute book of the Shakespeare Club, 1847
“Index Rerum,” circa, 1849
Captain [Whipple?], logbook of voyage, New York to China, ship Eureka (Charles McPherson's name on flyleaf), 1854-1855
Jacob Eyster, account book, 1860
Gettysburg, Pa.
Miscellaneous documents re Civil War and battlefield, 1860-1900
Minutes of the Safety Committee, 1861
Minutes of the Relief Committee, 1861
Edward McPherson
Miscellaneous references to speeches, pamphlets, 1861-1865
“National Orphan's Homestead,” 1866
List of nominees for election, 1888
Genealogical chart of McPherson family See Oversize
Maps of York and Adams counties, Pa. See Oversize
BOX 76 Robert G. McCreary (d. 1883) law office records, legal documents and correspondence, 1785-1879, undated
BOX 77-100 Scrapbooks, 1848-1889
Clippings mounted in volumes.
Arranged in rough chronological order with considerable overlapping between volumes.
BOX 77 General
1848-1869
(4 vols.)
BOX 78 1867-1887
(3 vols.)
BOX 79 1878-1882
(3 vols.)
BOX 80 1884-1886
(4 vols.)
BOX 81 1884-1889
(3 vols.)
BOX 82 Campaigns
1864
(2 vols.)
BOX 83 1866 (2 vols.)
BOX 84 1867
(2 vols.)
BOX 85 1868
(1 vol.)
BOX 86 (2 vols.)
BOX 87 (1 vol.)
BOX 88 (2 vols.)
BOX 89 1869
BOX 90 1870
BOX 91 1871
(2 vols.)
BOX 92 1872
(2 vols.)
BOX 93 (1 vol.)
BOX 94 (1 vol.)
BOX 95 (2 vols.)
BOX 96 1874
1875
BOX 97 1875
1867
BOX 98 Miscellaneous
Battle of Gettysburg
(2 vols.)
BOX 99 United States Congress, 39th Congress
Civil Rights bill
BOX 100 Freedman's Bureau bill
United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment
BOX OV 1 Oversize, 1759-1869
Printed genealogical chart and maps of York and Adams counties, Pa.
Arranged and described according to the series, container and folder from which the items were removed.
BOX OV 1 Miscellany
McPherson family and Pennsylvania history (Container 75)
Genealogical chart, List of the Descendants of Robert and Janet McPherson prepared by Edward McPherson, 1869
Maps of York and Adams counties, Pa., 1759-1821

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