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| Series VIII: Manuscript Collections, 1492-1873 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| VIII D: Other Collections, 1632-1873 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| (137) Philadelphia printer (continued) | |||||||||||||
| 3 items in 3 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Account books (1794-1796) kept by a Philadelphia printer and bookseller. | |||||||||||||
| 137.1, Sept. 1794-Jan. 1795 | |||||||||||||
| 137.2, Apr.-Nov. 1795 | |||||||||||||
| 137.3, Apr. 1795-Jan. 1796 | |||||||||||||
| (138) Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (86 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| A contemporary copy in the hand of Nicholas King, clerk in the War Office, of Pike's journal (9 Aug. 1805-30 Apr. 1806) relating his voyage up the Mississippi River. Includes extract of a letter (6 Oct. 1806) from Nicholas Boilvin, Indian agent in St. Louis, to the Secretary of War. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:126 REEL 57 | (139) Pollock, Oliver, 1737-1823. | ||||||||||||
| circa 290 items in 2 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Papers (1767-1788). Letters received and accounts, chiefly 1775-1781, when Pollock served as commercial agent of the Continental Congress in New Orleans. Includes information on his commercial dealings, especially in the slave trade and business with merchants in Natchez, Pensacola, Philadelphia, and Richmond. Correspondents include William Blount, William Constable, Robert Dow, William Dunbar, Jeremiah German, James Hamilton, Alexander Hill, James Hunter, George Meade, Joseph Nourse, Charles Pollock, Nancy Pollock, James Rumsey, and George Urquhart. | |||||||||||||
| 139.1 1767-1775 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:127 REEL 57 | 139.1 1776-1788 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:128 REEL 57 | (140) Post, Christian Frederick, 1710-1785. | ||||||||||||
| 4 items. | |||||||||||||
| Contemporary copies of journals (15 July-22 Sept. 1758 and 25 Oct. 1758-10 Jan. 1759) kept by Post, a Moravian lay missionary and emissary of the Pennsylvania government, on journeys to visit the Ohio Indians. Also minutes (8-9 Feb. 1759) of a conference with the Cayuga Indians in Philadelphia and minutes (24-25 Oct. 1759) of an Indian conference at Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh). [The journals and minutes have been published in several sources.] | |||||||||||||
| (141) Paxton, James. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (180 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Orderly book (23 Oct. 1813-8 June 1815) of general, regimental, brigade, and division orders for the Northern Army, kept by Paxton, of Rockbridge county, Va., a captain in the 12th Regiment, United States Infantry, at Grenadier's Island, Sackett's Harbor, Burlington, Champlain, Plattsburgh, Buffalo, and other locations. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:129 REEL 58 | (142) Pringle, John. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (66 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Account book (1775-1785) including business accounts, invoices, and sales records of Pringle's mercantile activities in Philadelphia and his extensive involvement in the Chesapeake tobacco trade. | |||||||||||||
| (143) "Proceedings of a Town Meeting." | |||||||||||||
| 1 unit (6 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Poem (1780s) in two cantos written in the American Revolutionary War period satirizing the patriot militia and the treatment of loyalists. | |||||||||||||
| (144) Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel, 1783-1840. | |||||||||||||
| 2 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Memorandum books (1827) kept by Rafinesque, historian and naturalist. | |||||||||||||
| 144.1, "Outlines of a General History of America...From 1492 to 1775" | |||||||||||||
| 144.2, Alphabetical list of names, with language of origin noted | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:130 REEL 58 | (145) Rhode Island. Commissioner of Loans. | ||||||||||||
| circa 700 items in 7 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Receipt books, 1790-1799. | |||||||||||||
| 145.1, 1790-1791 | |||||||||||||
| 145.2, 1791-1793 | |||||||||||||
| 145.3, 1792 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:131 REEL 58 | 145.4, 1792-1793 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:132 REEL 59 | 145.5, 1795-1796 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:133 REEL 59 | 145.6, 1796-1797 | ||||||||||||
| 145.7, 1798-1799 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:134 REEL 59 | (146) Riddell, Henry. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (68 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Account book (1777-1780) kept by Robert Mundell, attorney in Charles County, Md., while settling the accounts of Riddell, factor for the John Glassford and Co. Includes accounts for rents collected on Glassford property. | |||||||||||||
| (147) Riedesel, Fredrich Adolf, Freiherr von, 1738-1800. | |||||||||||||
| 12 items. | |||||||||||||
| Papers (1776-1778) in French, of Riedesel, commander of the Brunswick troops and prisoner of war, including a treatise on the organization of the Prussian Army in 1776, with diagrams and lists of troop arrangements, and a letter (18 Aug. 1778) from Riedesel to Maj. Gen. William Phillips, commanding officer of the British Army under the Treaty Convention of Saratoga. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:135 REEL 60 | (148) Robinson, Jeremy, 1787-1834. | ||||||||||||
| circa 1,400 items in 10 units. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence, diaries, journals, letterbooks, notebooks, and ships' records and papers (1806-1832) concerning Robinson, "Agent for Commerce and Seamen" at Lima, Callgo, and elsewhere in South America, and the role of Robinson and the United States Navy in the struggle for independence in South America, particularly in Chile and Peru. Includes letters regarding his proposed history of Chile, supplying specimens for the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, his efforts to obtain government positions, and ships' records relating to the Beaver, U.S.S.Franklin and U.S.S. Ontario. Correspondents include John Q. Adams, Richard Alsop, James Biddle, Asbury Dickens, David Findlay, Henry Hall, Michael Hogan, Richard M. Johnson, Samuel L. Mitchell, Bernardo O'Higgins, John B. Prevost, Nathan Robinson, Richard Rush, William Thornton, Egbert Van Buren, and John Varnum. (Card index available in the Manuscript Division.) | |||||||||||||
| 148.1, correspondence, 7 Aug. 1806-26 Mar. 1813 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:136 REEL 60 | 148.2, correspondence, 13 Apr. 1813-31 July 1817 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:137 REEL 60 | 148.3, correspondence, 7 Aug. 1817-19 Sept. 1818 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:138 REEL 61 | 148.4, correspondence, 20 Sept. 1818-4 Apr. 1820 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:139 REEL 61 | 148.5, correspondence, 12 Apr. 1820-30 Aug. 1824 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:140 REEL 61 | 148.6, correspondence, 7 Sept. 1824-29 Apr. 1829 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:141 REEL 62 | 148.7, correspondence, 1 May 1829-9 Mar. 1832, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:142 REEL 62 | 148.8 | ||||||||||||
| Letterbook, 11 June 1831-9 Apr. 1832 | |||||||||||||
| Diary, Feb.-Dec. 1818 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:143 REEL 62 | 148.9 | ||||||||||||
| Journal, "Occurrences and Remarks on a Voyage from New York towards the North West Coast of [South] America," 25 Nov. 1817-23 Apr. 1818 (formerly identified as William Hawkins's journal) | |||||||||||||
| Memorabilia | |||||||||||||
| Notebooks on philosophy, natural history, sciences and the arts; botany, zoology, mineralogy, and icthyology; the Pacific islands; United States cities | |||||||||||||
| Notes, miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| Poems and quotations | |||||||||||||
| Prescriptions | |||||||||||||
| Printed matter | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:144 REEL 62 | 148.10 Ships' records and papers: Beaver, 1811-1812, U.S.S. Franklin, 1822-1823, and U.S.S. Ontario, 1818 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:145 REEL 63 | (149) Rowland, William F. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (48 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Diary (1792) kept by Rowland, minister in Exeter, N.H., in which he records church duties and meteorological observations, interleaved in The Lady's Astronomical Diary, or Almanack for the Year of Our Lord, 1792. | |||||||||||||
| (150) St. Clair, Arthur, 1736-1818. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (64 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Proceedings (1778) of the court-martial of Maj. Gen. St. Clair (part printed and part in the handwriting of Edward D. Ingraham). Includes letter (1848) of Ingraham to Peter Force. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:145 REEL 63 | (151) St. John's Indians. (United Colonies of New England) | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (30 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Minutes (10-17 July 1776) of a conference held at Watertown, Mass., between the council of Massachusetts Bay, on behalf of the United Colonies, and the delegates of the St. John's and Micmac Indian tribes of Nova Scotia. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:146 REEL 61 | (152) Schenectady Committee of Correspondence, Safety, and Protection. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (76 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Minutes (3 Feb. 1777-7 Feb. 1778) recording the efforts of the committee to secure supplies and men for the army under Generals Schuyler and Gates and to maintain order in the district. Includes lists of members, hearings regarding loyalists, and orders for the control of loyalists, Indians, and African-Americans. Also information on troop movements and the activities of the Albany Committee of Safety. [Published on pp. 1005-1283 in vol. 2 of Minutes of the Albany Committee of Correspondence, 1775-1778(Albany, University of the State of New York, 1925).] | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:147 REEL 61 | (153) Scott, Anna Martha. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (54 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Commonplace book (1822-1823) including copies of poems, hymns, and notes on various subjects kept at Elk Ridge, Md. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:147 REEL 61 | (154) Selden, George L., d. 1864. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (184 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Logbook (20 Aug. 1828-31 Apr. 1830) kept by Selden aboard the U.S.S. Fairfield, describing a voyage from New York to the Mediterranean and maneuvers there. Includes color drawings of Le Pont de Rialto, Venice, and various national flags. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:148 REEL 61 | (155) Shenandoah Furnace. | ||||||||||||
| 4 items in 4 vols. | |||||||||||||
| Account books (1809-1810) | |||||||||||||
| 155.1, daybook, 1809-1810 | |||||||||||||
| 155.2, journal, 1809-1810 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:148 REEL 64 | 155.3, ledger, 1809-1810 | ||||||||||||
| 155.4, index to ledger, 1809-1810 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:149 REEL 64 | (156) Sherburne, Samuel. | ||||||||||||
| 18 items (60 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Chiefly letters (1778-1812) between Sherburne and Benjamin Austin of Boston concerning Sherburne's dry goods business. Other correspondents include John Langdon, Edward Phelon, John Sherburne, John Wendell, and William Whipple. Includes a statement of accounts (1776) with Ebenezer Foster. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:150 REEL 72 | (157) Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810. | ||||||||||||
| 103 items. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence (1727-1795) of Shippen, Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania, his father Edward Shippen (1703-1781), and his brother Edward Shippen (1736-1808) relating, in part, to political and social life, Indian affairs, and the estate of William Penn. Correspondents include John Armstrong, Edward Burd, James Burd, William Blair, William Blyth, George Croghan, Thomas Gage, James Logan, Charles Mason, Timothy Matlack, Samuel Postlethwait, Israel Pemberton, Ann Penn, John Penn, Thomas Penn, William Penn, Arthur St. Clair, William Shippen, James Tilghman, and Henry Wilmot. Also a small unbound memorandum book (1756) containing accounts and a list of men in Captain John Burk's company during Edward Shippen's service as pay-master of the British regular and provincial forces. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:151 REEL 64 | (158) Simms, Charles | ||||||||||||
| circa 1,100 items in 7 units | |||||||||||||
| Papers (1731-1822). Chiefly legal and financial papers and personal, military, and business correspondence concerning Simms's activities as a major and lieutenant colonel in the American Revolution, his business affairs as president of the Potomac and Shenandoah Co., the establishment of the District of Columbia, and movements of the British Army near Alexandria during the War of 1812 when Simms served as mayor and customs officer. Correspondents include Robert Goodloe Harper, Thomas Law, Charles Lee, John Marshall, Luther Martin, John Mason, Daniel Morgan, Leven Powell, Edmund Randolph, Thomas Swann, Bushrod Washington, and John Witherspoon. (Index available in the Manuscript Division.) | |||||||||||||
| 158.1, 13 June 1731-18 Nov. 1788 | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:152 REEL 64 | 158.2, 4 Dec. 1788-4 Dec. 1794 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:153 REEL 65 | 158.3, 12 Dec. 1794-5 Sept. 1799 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:154 REEL 66 | 158.4, 18 Sept. 1799-5 Dec. 1801 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:155 REEL 66 | 158.5, 16 Dec. 1801-9 Oct. 1809 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:156 REEL 66 | 158.6, 30 Oct. 1809-6 Nov. 1818 | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:157 REEL 66 | 158.7, 30 Nov. 1818-8 Oct. 1822, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:158 REEL 67 | (159) Smallwood, William, 1732-1792. | ||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (128 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Orderly book (3 July-2 Oct. 1780) of general division, and brigade orders received by Gen. Smallwood's Maryland regiment from Generals Baron de Kalb and Horatio Gates, Chatham County, N.C. Includes returns (July 1780) of Maryland and Delaware troops. | |||||||||||||
| (160) Smedley, James. | |||||||||||||
| 1 vol. (80 pp.) | |||||||||||||
| Orderly book (16 Aug.-4 Nov. 1762) kept for Lt. Col. Smedley's regiment at Crown Point, N.Y. | |||||||||||||
| BOX VIII D:159 REEL 67 | (161) Smith, Buckingham, 1810-1871. | ||||||||||||
| 41 items. | |||||||||||||
| Papers (1702-1857). Includes correspondence, book extract, index, and a map relating to Smith's study of the history of Florida. Correspondents include Alexander Dallas Bache, George Bancroft, Thomas H. Benton, John Beard, John C. Fr mont, K. B. Gibbs, Theodore Irving, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Jackson Morton, Henry C. Murphy, A. J. Pickett, Henry R. Schoolcraft, Jared Sparks, George Ticknor, and Mariano Velasquez. | |||||||||||||
| (162) Smith, Jonathan. | |||||||||||||
| circa 1,000 items. | |||||||||||||
| Letterbook (27 July 1765-4 Dec. 1770) of Jonathan and S[ ] Smith, Philadelphia merchants, concerning trade, accounts, consignments, and markets. Includes copies of letters to other merchants including Thomas Amory, Thomas Boylston, Isaac Codman, John Foley, Alexander Hill, Nathaniel Holmes, Jackson and Bromfield, Moses Little, March and Treadwell, Otis and Prince, and Jonathan Williams. | |||||||||||||
| (163) Smith, John R. 7 | |||||||||||||
| items. | |||||||||||||
| Collection (1785-1809) containing four letters (1785-1786) to Smith from his brother Samuel [Harrison] Smith in Philadelphia and one letter from Paul Thapier, 1809. Includes a book of notes on such subjects as African-Americans, history, and oratory; a commonplace book of poetry; and a geometry copybook which also includes copies of poems. | |||||||||||||
| (164) Smith, Samuel Harrison, 1772-1845. | |||||||||||||
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