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| Series VIII: Manuscript Collections, 1492-1873 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| VIII B: Ebenezer Hazard Collection, 1492-1832 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| (9) Massachusetts | |||||||||||||
| circa 500 items. | |||||||||||||
| Hazard's transcripts of papers concerning Massachusetts, 1620-1774. Includes notes on Plymouth Colony and material concerning Maine and New Hampshire, 1652-1677. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:8 REEL 11 | (10) New England. | ||||||||||||
| circa 500 items in 2 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Records of the United Colonies of New England, 1643-1675, transcribed from the Plymouth copy, 1779. | |||||||||||||
| (11) Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (99 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Transcript of Pastorius' Umstandige Geographische Beschreibung (Frankfurt, 1700). | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:9 REEL 12 | (12) Politics. | ||||||||||||
| 22 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Scrapbooks, 1768-1776, of clippings on political topics. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:9 REEL 12 | 12.1 1768-1770 | ||||||||||||
| (4 vols.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:10 REEL 12 | 12.2 1770-1771 | ||||||||||||
| (4 vols.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:11 REEL 12 | 12.3 1771-1772 | ||||||||||||
| (5 vols.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:12 REEL 13 | 12.4 1772-1773 | ||||||||||||
| (3 vols.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:13 REEL 13 | 12.5 1774-1775 | ||||||||||||
| (3 vols.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:14 REEL 13-14 | 12.6 1775-1776 | ||||||||||||
| (3 vols.) | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:15 REEL 14 | Samuel Hazard material | ||||||||||||
| (13) Curious collection of scraps. | |||||||||||||
| 3 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Scrapbooks with clippings on British and French biography. | |||||||||||||
| 13.1 1821 | |||||||||||||
| 13.2 1831 | |||||||||||||
| 13.3 1832 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:16 REEL 14 | (14) Excerpta. | ||||||||||||
| 3 vols. and 1 unit. | |||||||||||||
| Scrapbooks with clippings on various subjects. Includes index. | |||||||||||||
| 14.1, vol. 1 | |||||||||||||
| 14.2, vol. 2 | |||||||||||||
| 14.3, vol. 3 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:17 REEL 15-16 | 14.4, clippings removed from vols. 1-2 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII B:18 REEL 16 | (15) Meteorological journal. | ||||||||||||
| 2 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Printed reports and observations on the weather, 1803-1828. | |||||||||||||
| 15.1 1803-1806 | |||||||||||||
| 15.2 1818-1828 | |||||||||||||
| REEL 16 | (16) Philadelphia. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (90 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Index to Philadelphia names, 1812. | |||||||||||||
| (17) United States Military Academy. | |||||||||||||
| 16 items. | |||||||||||||
| Documents and letters, 1790-1797; report, 1825, of the Board of Visitors; class rolls and staff lists, 1830; and an address by Secretary of War James Barbour, to the graduating class of 1825. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII:C1-C22 | VIII C: Hispanic Collection, 1527-1811 | ||||||||||||
| Transcriptions of Spanish documents including histories, diaries, and trial transcripts. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by author or title. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:1-4 REEL 17-20 | (1) Casas, Bartolomé de las, Bp. of Chiapa, 1474-1566. | ||||||||||||
| 4 vols. | |||||||||||||
| "Historia apologética de las Indias Occidentales," transcribed by Luis de Tío in 1846. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:5-8 REEL 21-23 | (2) Casas, Bartolomé de las, Bp. of Chiapa, 1474-1566. | ||||||||||||
| 4 vols. | |||||||||||||
| "Historia de las Indias," transcribed in the 18th century. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:9 REEL 24 | (3) Casas, Bartolomé de las, Bp. of Chiapa, 1474-1566. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (418 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| "Historia o brevísima recopilacion de la destruction de la India Occidental," transcribed in 1772. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:10 REEL 24 | (4) Casas, Bartolomé de las, Bp. of Chiapa, 1474-1566. See also Container VIII C:16-17, Oviedo y Valdés | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (13 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Notes on and partial copying of writings including "Este es un tratado, etc." (7 pp.); "Una disputa, etc." (3 pp.) and "Tratado coprobatorio, etc." (1 p.) bound with "Sumario de la Natural y General Historia de las Indias," by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (3 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| (5) Cortes, José. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (174 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| "Memorias sobre las provincias del Norte de Nueva España," 1799 (88 pp.); bound with "Diario y derrotero," by Silvestre V lez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, 1776-1777 (83 pp.); and invoice, 1799. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:11-13 REEL 25-26 | (6) Duran, Diego, d. 1588? | ||||||||||||
| 3 vols. | |||||||||||||
| "Historia Antigua de la Nueva España," written in 1585 and transcribed in the 19th century. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:14 REEL 26 | (7) Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel, 1753-1811. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (283 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Trial, 1811, of Hidalgo y Costilla, curate at San Felipe, for inciting a revolution, with introduction in English. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:15 REEL 27 | (8) Muñoz, Juan Bautista, 1745-1799. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (186 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| "Historia del Nuevo Mundo" [1794?], with typed copy. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:16-17 REEL 27-28 | (9) Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de, 1478-1557. See also Container VIII C:10, Casas, Bartolomé | ||||||||||||
| 3 vols. and index (55 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Second and third parts of "Historia natural y general de las Indias," transcribed in the 18th century, with an index and description in English. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:18 REEL 28 | (10) Pérez de Ribas, Andrés, 1576-1655. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (160 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| "Crónica y historia religiosa de la Provincia de la Compa ia de Jesus de México en Nueva España," transcribed by L. F. Tasistro in 1849. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:18 REEL 28 | (11) "Relacion de las ceremonies y ritos y poblacion y gobernacion de los Indios de la Provincia de Mechoacán." Illustrated by Antonio de Mendoza and transcribed from the codice of El Escorial in the 19th century. | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:19 REEL 29 | (12) Thiéry de Menonville, Nicholas Joseph, 1739-1780. | ||||||||||||
| "Voyage polytéchnique dans lint rieure du Mexique et les Côtes de la mer du Inde" (515 pp.), transcribed in the 18th century with "Traité sur la culture du Nopal" and other material, with index, maps, and plates. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:20-21 REEL 29-30 | (13) Veytia, Mariano, 1718-1779. | ||||||||||||
| 2 vols. | |||||||||||||
| "Historia del origen de las gentes que poblaron la America Septentrional," transcribed in the 18th century. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII C:22 REEL 30 | (14) "Miscelánea Nueva Espana: Fragmentos de historia de Nueva España copiados de un malisimo egemplar que pos D. Diego Panes," | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (462 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Transcribed in the 18th century by Diego Muñoz Camargo. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII:D1-D195 | VIII D: Other Collections, 1632-1873 | ||||||||||||
| Collections of personal papers including correspondence, journals, financial papers, military records, and reports. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by title. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:1 REEL 31 | (1) Account book, 1759-1762. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (180 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Record of expenditures compiled by order of the House of Commons in 1780, for "extraordinary services" for the three years that Gen. Jeffrey Amherst commanded the British Army in North America during the French and Indian wars. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:2 REEL 31 | (2) Account book, 31 Mar.-28 Oct. 1788. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (56 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Fees received by a legal clerk in Pennsylvania | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:2 REEL 31 | (3) Account book, 1800-1801. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (7 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Billbook kept at Washington, D.C., and newspaper clipping, "[ch]oral Elegy." | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:3 REEL 31 | (4) Alexander, William. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (circa 200 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Daybook (1777-1779) kept by Capt. Alexander as commanding officer at Carlisle, Pa., of the accounts of the 7th Pennsylvania Regiment. | |||||||||||||
| (5) Andrews, Joseph Gardner. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (circa 200 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Diary (Jan.-31 Dec. 1795) kept by Andrews as Army surgeon at Fort Defiance, Ohio. Includes comments on daily events, meteorological observations monthly state of the garrison reports, and a letter of presentation (30 Aug. 1848) from Samuel Breck of Charleston, S.C., to Dr. Lewis Roper. | |||||||||||||
| (6) Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, 1709-1710. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (24 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Collection relating to the military expedition to Annapolis Royal. Includes contemporary copies of royal instructions to Col. Francis Nicholson, his commission as commander in charge of Her Majesties Forces, a letter of Governor James Dudley to the Council and Representative in New Hampshire, and minutes of various Councils of War. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:4 REEL 73 | (7) Anne Arundel County, Md. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (129 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Record book kept by William H. Brown, notary public, 1799-1802, with copies of notary statements and documents notarized. Notary book used as scrapbook (1756-1863), with more than 100 prints of Revolutionary War figures, numerous examples of Confederate States of America currency (1861-1863) from Virginia, Alabama, and Georgia, clippings, an indenture (1756), a facsimile of the signatures of signers of the Declaration of Independence, payrolls (1778) of Captains James Gray, John Gregory, and Booker's companies of the 11th Virginia Regiment and Capt. David Earle's company of the 3rd Virginia Regiment. *Item on indefinite loan to the Maryland State Archives. Also available on microfilm shelf no. 15,667. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:5 REEL 31 | (8) Atkinson, Theodore, 1697-1779. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (100 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Journal (1724-1754) kept by Atkinson of a journey he made to Canada as a commissioner from New Hampshire (Jan.-May 1724) and of a journey he made as a commissioner on the treaty with the Six Nations of Indians (1754). | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:6 REEL 73 | (9) Baltimore County (Md.) Committee of Safety. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (112 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Journal (30 Nov. 1774-1 Oct. 1776) of the proceedings. Includes lists of members, notes on ships entering and leaving Baltimore (Mar. 1775-1776), copies of several letters sent, accounts of members with the committee, and a clipping. Item on indefinite loan to the Maryland State Archives. Also available on microfilm shelf no. 15,667. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:7 REEL 31 | (10) Baum, Frederick. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (44 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Orderly book (29 May-28 June 1777) kept by Baum as lieutenant colonel of Hessian troops in America. Includes orders of Lt. Gen. Burgoyne at Montreal and Crown Point. | |||||||||||||
| (11) Bell, John, 1796-1872. | |||||||||||||
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