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Bradford, William, 1755-1795. Manuscripts on Indian affairs, 1737-1775, [n.d.].

Title: Manuscripts on Indian affairs, 1737-1775, [n.d.].

The first volume includes extracts from the journals of Conrad Weiser and Christian Frederick Post, Charles Thomson's "An Enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British interest" (1759), and a printed version of Judge Bradford's "Statement of facts and observations respecting the penal laws" (1792). The second volume contains selected letters and documents in the Pennsylvania state records on Indian relations, French and Indian War, and Braddock's campaign. Some manuscripts are written by Deborah Norris Logan and Charles Thomson.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (879 p.) : copies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364935 View

Mercer, Hugh, ca.1721-1777. Letter, 1776 October 13.

Title: Letter, 1776 October 13.

Letter to Mrs. Gordon, his mother-in-law, describing the enemy's movements and the preparations being made by Continental troops. Discusses his health and the health of several other officers. Written at Perth Amboy, N.J., enclosed in a letter by Hugh Mercer, Jr. as an autograph of his father. Also includes an 1830 letter from Mercer's son discussing his father's letter.

ArchivalResource: 3 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122468643 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Collins, Varnum Lansing, 1870-1936. Correspondence, 1929-1931.

Title: Correspondence, 1929-1931.

Correspondence relating to two swords belonging to General Hugh Mercer; together with a photograph of one of the swords.

ArchivalResource: 10 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70962896 View

[Hugh Mercer, biographical materials]

Title: [Hugh Mercer, biographical materials] 1868-

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21993947 View

Shepherd, Andrew. Account book, 1773-1790.

Title: Account book, 1773-1790.

Ledger of accounts for a store, possibly kept by Andrew Shepherd of Orange County, Virginia. A great variety of goods were sold to people in Orange, Culpeper, Albemarle, and Augusta counties, and the communities of Fredericksburg and Staunton. Customers included Isaac Allen, Captain William Daingerfield, Ambrose Madison, James Madison Jr., Hugh Mercer, Barnet Moore, John Strather, and Mrs. William Taliaferro.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (96 p.) ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25002803 View

Weedon, George, 1734-1793. Account book [manuscript], 1777-1793.

Title: Account book [manuscript], 1777-1793.

The book contains accounts, 1777-1793, of George Weedon with Fontaine Maury, James Monroe, William Mercer, Timothy Green, John Minor, the Fredericksburg Academy, the estate of Hugh Mercer, of which Weedon was executor, and soldiers stationed at the Sentry Box. Account entries are primarily for cash, but also include entries for the delivery of wood, personal and household expenses, slave hires, legal services, lottery prizes, sundries, and building supplies.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777. Letters of Hugh Mercer, 1767-1774.

Title: Letters of Hugh Mercer, 1767-1774.

Include letter, 1767, from Hugh Mercer to John Morgan, replying briefly to attempt of veterans of the French and Indian War to obtain land for their services, accepting Morgan's offer to correspond with a medical society, relating plans to employ a new method of medical treatment, and remitting payment for books. Also include letter, 1774, to unknown recipient, in which Mercer replies he has sent the recipient's letter for publication, mentions that the governor has declined land warrants for Virginia officers who served in Northern regiments and will allow some surveys on the Ohio River. He urges his correspondent to present his case for the surveys to Lord Dunmore.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32960048 View

Burd, James, 1726-1793. Burd-Shippen Papers, 1740-1792 (bulk).

Title: Burd-Shippen Papers, 1740-1792 (bulk).

Relating principally to the French and Indian War, this collection contains letters, 1740-1792, (ca. 400 items) to Burd from Edward Shippen of Lancaster, Henry Bouquet, John Hambright, Lynford Lardner, Samuel Miles, William Trent, Walter Stirling, Daniel Wister, and others, on personal and business matters.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86102558 View

Hale, Henry E. (Henry Ewing), 1840-1925. Register of visitors to "Mercer Room" and Princeton battlefield, 1876-1921.

Title: Register of visitors to "Mercer Room" and Princeton battlefield, 1876-1921.

Register of visitors to the Princeton battlefied and room in the Thomas Clark House, also owned by Hale, in which General Hugh Mercer died after the battle.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70962245 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866

Title: Jared Sparks collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866 .

Documents copied or collected by American historian and president of Harvard Jared Sparks.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00303/catalog View

Livingston, William, 1723-1790. William Livingston family papers, 1695-1788.

Title: William Livingston family papers, 1695-1788.

Personal, business, and family papers of William Livingston, 1695-1839, of Albany and New York, New York, and Elizabeth, New Jersey. William Livingston was an attorney, writer, member of the first U.S. Congress, Revolutionary War soldier, and first Governor of New York. Personal and family papers include letters, manuscript copies, and letterbook copies of letters written and received by William, his wife Susannah French Livingston, daughters Catherine Livingston Ridley, Sarah Livingston Jay, Susan Livingston Symmes, son Brockholst Livingston, and son-in-laws John C. Symmes and John Jay. Letters pertain to family matters, politics, legal issues, and William's command of the New Jersey Militia as a brigadier general and service as first governor of New Jersey during the Revolutionary War. Business papers include letters written and received by William pertaining to business, political, and military matters. Correspondents include George Washington, Abraham Clark, Nathaniel Greene, Hugh Mercer, John Hancock, John Witherspoon, and William Alexander, among others. Also includes military orders, account books, law registers, and registers of cases.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 11 narrow boxes, 4 v., and 2 oversize folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57545392 View

Miller family. Papers of the Miller family, 1806-1914.

Title: Papers of the Miller family, 1806-1914.

This collection consists of letters, 1806, 1821-1831, to Thomas Miller from: G. Mason Hooe, Lawrence Lewis, Charles Fenton Mercer, Hugh Mercer, James Monroe, R.B. Randolph, & John Taliaferro. Also included is a poem copied by Dolley Madison in 1816. Other items concern Dr. Thomas Miller's medical career and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. The remainder of the collection is family correspondence but includes a letter, 1873 January 26, Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter to Dr. Miller.

ArchivalResource: 70 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32135299 View

Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777. ALS, 1776 July 22 : Perth Amboy, to General George Washington.

Title: ALS, 1776 July 22 : Perth Amboy, to General George Washington.

Mercer acknowledges receipt of Washington's orders and encloses copies of an intercepted letter from a loyalist and a declaration from General Howe found on the road.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 20 x 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13767822 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VI, miscellany, 1774-1807

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VI, miscellany, 1774-1807

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume VI of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72++ 1898). Portraits of: Washington Irving, Benjamin Franklin (2), Israel Putnam, Robert Rogers (2), Benjamin Lincoln, Govenor Morris, John Glover, Thomas Paine, Hugh Percy (Duke of Northumberland), William Alexander (Lord Sterling), Henry Lee (2), Lord Howe, Hugh Mercer, [Thomas Paine], Lambert Cadwalader, King George III, Marquis Cornwallis, Edmund Burke, Tench Tilghman, Henry Knox, Philemon Dickinson, Lord George Germaine, Robert Morris, Anthony Wayne, John Hancock, Horatio Gates, Tadeusz Ko sciuszko, Josiah Meigs. Prints of: East View of Hell Gate, in the Province of New York; Der Einzug der Königlichen Völker in Neu Yorck/L'Entré triumphale de Troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck (colored); The Bevrley [sic] Robinson House Garrisons, Hudson River; Incendie de New-York; View from Fort Putnam; Lake George; [Capture of Gen. Lee]; The American General Lee taken Prisoner by Lieutenant Colonel Harcourt of the English Army, in Morris Country, New Jersey, 1776; The Battle Ground at Trenton; Washington Crossing the Delaware; Battle of Assunpink; [Battle of Trenton]; Surrender of Col. Rall [sic] at the Battle of Trenton; [five engravings depicting various scenes from the struggle for independence, with captions in German]; Battle of Princeton--Death of Mercer; A View of Pendennis Castle in Cornwall; View of the Old City Hall, Wall St. in the year 1789; The Jersey Prison Shop; Characteristic Scenery of the Hudson River. Letters of: ALS, Benjamin Lincoln to Gen. Thomas, June 16, 1775; ALS, Nathaniel Greene to William Gibbons, [n.d.]; A[aman.]LS, Col. William Grayson to [?], December 16, 1782; ALS, Joseph Reed to Ralph Izard, December 3, 1782; ALS, Gen. William Heath to Maj. Gen. Phillips, April 16, 1778; Joseph Reed to Gen. Ward, August 24, 1775; Joseph Reed to Council Chambers, September 7, 1781; ALS, Williams Heath to Maj. Gen. Phillips, April 21, 1778; AL, [James Monroe] to [?], [n.d.]; ALS, George Weedon to Maj. Gen. Baron von Steuben, March 4, 1787; ALS, Joseph Reed to Archibald McClean, April 8, 1781; ALS, Robert Morris to Robert Gilmor & Co., December 10, 1789; ALS, John Fitzgerald to [?], October 10, 1781; John Armstrong to [Col. Richard Butter], November 1, 1782; ALS, Benjamin Rush to Orchard Cook, November 11, 1807; ALS, Benjamin Rush to Dr. Peabody, [n.d.]; AL[frag. return address only], Gen. William Heath to [?], February 17, 1781; ALS, Tench Tilghman to [?], December 10, 1781; ALS, Robert Morris to John Nicholson, June 13, 1798; A[aman.]LS John Hancock to Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, June 14, 1791 (also signed by Samuel Phillips and David Cobb). Documents: ADS, [Receipt for sum of six pounds received by Roger Morris from Jacob Knofper], December 8, 1774; ADS, [Petition on behalf of James Reed--John Sprague, agent], [n.d.]; ADS,, [Statements (3) concerning payment of monies due, signed by Benjamin Lincoln], June 16, 1775 and March 25, 1779;D[form]S, [Blank license for a public house, Supreme Executive Council, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, signed by Thomas Mifflin and Charles Biddle], [n.d.]; ADS, [Receipt for payment received by James Chalmers from Charles Cone, signed by James Chanlmer, John Cadwalader, and William Caxton], [n.d.]; A[aman.]DS, [Appointment by King George II of Richard Waldron to office in New Hampshire, signed by William Burnet], May 14, [1728]; AD, [Accounts rendered], Feb. 23, 1777. Map of: Part of New Jersey &c.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (77 items).

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Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777. Papers of Hugh Mercer, 1777-1813.

Title: Papers of Hugh Mercer, 1777-1813.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79454443 View

Taylor family. Papers : letters, legal documents, deeds, surveys, and maps, 1799-1828.

Title: Papers : letters, legal documents, deeds, surveys, and maps, 1799-1828.

There are thirty documents in this collection which ranges in date from the year 1799 to 1861. All of the documents concern land dealings transacted by various members of the Taylor family. Included among the documents are letters, indentures, survey accounts and lists, plat maps, and court documents for land located primarily in Hickman County, Clark County, Shelby County, and Jefferson County. All counties are located in Kentucky. Many of the land descriptions are given in "metes and bounds". There are eight documents that, either include a survey map, or are solely a survey map devoid of description.

ArchivalResource: 30 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36963827 View

Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777. ALS, l760 April 23 : Fort Augusta, to unknown.

Title: ALS, l760 April 23 : Fort Augusta, to unknown.

Indians to be invited to attend a grand council of the six-nation warriors. They wish to supply wampum to the Indians in exchange for cutting a road through their field. Written possibly to either James Hamilton or Francis Fauquier.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 19 x 15 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12591711 View

Smyth, Frederick, 1732-1815. Papers, 1756-1816.

Title: Papers, 1756-1816.

These papers relate principally to Smyth's career in New Jersey before the American Revolution, and includes addresses to grand juries and their reports, and a copy of a petition to the Earl of Carlisle and its response (1778).

ArchivalResource: 56 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122584274 View

Andrew Shepherd Account Book, 1773-1790.

Title: Andrew Shepherd Account Book, 1773-1790.

ArchivalResource:

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00083.xml View

Weedon, George, 1734-1793. Account book, 1777-1793.

Title: Account book, 1777-1793.

Include accounts, 1777-1793, of George Weedon with Fontaine Maury, James Monroe, William Mercer, Timothy Green, John Minor, the Fredericksburg Academy, the estate of Hugh Mercer, of which Weedon was executor, and soldiers stationed at the Sentry Box. Account entries are primarily for cash, but also include entries for the delivery of wood, personal and household expenses, slave hires, legal services, lottery prizes, sundries, and building supplies.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34689920 View

Weedon, George, 1734-1793. Ltne. Col. Geo. Weedon, Springfield Camp [Va.] June 18, 1776 [to] James Hunter, jun., esq., Mercer's, Fredericksburg [Va.] for Brig. Mercer.

Title: Ltne. Col. Geo. Weedon, Springfield Camp [Va.] June 18, 1776 [to] James Hunter, jun., esq., Mercer's, Fredericksburg [Va.] for Brig. Mercer. [1776]

ArchivalResource: folder (manuscript letter)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12319000 View

Innes, James, 1754-1798. Letter, 1777, Jan. 28 : Fredericksburg, to Mrs. Gordon.

Title: Letter, 1777, Jan. 28 : Fredericksburg, to Mrs. Gordon.

ALS. Gives an account of the death of General Mercer in the Battle of Princeton and of his burial in Philadelphia to Mrs. Gordon, a relative of the General.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35092860 View

Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777. Ledger, 1771-1775 : Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Title: Ledger, 1771-1775 : Fredericksburg, Virginia.

General Hugh Mercer, who settled at Fredericksburg, Va. after serving on Braddock's Expedition and becoming a friend of George Washington, was killed at the battle of Princeton in 1777. In 1771 he became the partner of Dr. Ewen Clements and they opened a shop for drugs and medicines. By 1772, John Julian had become Mercer's partner. The ledger kept during the years of partnership with Clements and Julian in Fredericksburg and ends before Mercer entered upon a military career in 1775. About 315 Virginia families were attended by Mercer, who notes visits and prescriptions, as well as fees charged. Among his patients were Mary Ball Washington, the mother of George Washington; Charles Washington, his younger brother; Col. Fielding Lewis; James Madison; Col. Thomas Ludwell Lee; John, Henry, and William Fitzhugh; Col. John Thornton; Dr. John Brockenbrough; Mercer's brother-in-law, Capt. George Weedon; and James Taylor Page and Mann Page. The entries center in 1771 and 1772, with notations on a division of each account between Dr. Clements and Dr. Mercer. At the end of 1772, the ledger gives an idea of the

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/421114650 View

Mercer, Hugh, ca. 1725-1777. Will 1776 March 20.

Title: Will 1776 March 20.

Photographic copy of the will of Hugh Mercer.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24646684 View