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Rodgers family. Rodgers family papers, 1791-1885 bulk 1800-1830.

Title: Rodgers family papers, 1791-1885 bulk 1800-1830.

This collection contains more than seventy volumes of records pertaining to John Rodgers's naval career, including correspondence, general orders, requisition books, and ships' logs. Similar records highlight the careers of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, Rear Admiral John Rodgers, Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers, Rear Admiral John Augustus Rodgers, Captain George Washington Rodgers, Commodore John D. Henley, naval Purser Henry Denison, and Midshipman Frederick Rodgers. Civil Engineer and Civil War Colonel Robert Smith Rodgers is represented by diaries, accounts, and correspondence. A handful of personal papers concern other members of the extended Rodgers family, including Minerva (Denison) Rodgers, Sarah (Perry) Rodgers, Julia (Slidell) Rodgers, John Slidell, Jane (Slidell) Perry, and Louisa Rodgers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 157 vols., (12.25 linear ft.)

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Rodgers Family Papers, 1788-1944, (bulk 1820-1930)

Title: Rodgers Family Papers 1788-1944 (bulk 1820-1930)

Rodgers (Rogers) family. Correspondence, journals, drafts of writings and speeches, transcripts of radio broadcasts, book reviews, notes and notebooks, biographical material, and other papers relating chiefly to the naval careers of John Rodgers (1773-1838), John Rodgers (1812-1882), William Ledyard Rodgers (1860-1944), John Augustus Rodgers (1848-1933), and John Rodgers (1881-1926). Includes correspondence of the Hodge family, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), and other relatives of the Rodgers family.

ArchivalResource: 15,500 items; 60 containers plus 1 oversize; 20 linear feet

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Barron, James, 1769-1851. Papers of James Barron, 1831-1849.

Title: Papers of James Barron, 1831-1849.

Correspondence, chiefly circulars received from the U.S. Board of Navy Commissioners and signed by John Rodgers and William A. Harris, relating to Barron's duties as commanding officer of the U.S. Navy Yard, Philadelphia. Subjects include ship construction, outfitting and repairs, appropriations, and the defense of the yard. Other correspondents include Samuel M. Barclay and Samuel Burch.

ArchivalResource: 57 items.1 container.

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Crescent (Ship). Articles of agreement, 1834-1835.

Title: Articles of agreement, 1834-1835.

Articles of agreement for the ship Crescent of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with John Rogers or Rodgers as master. The documents list names of crew members, their stations and pay for voyages from the port of New Orleans to Le Havre and other ports in Europe. The agreement dated 1835 consists of the top half of the document only. The collection also includes a shipmaster's license for John J. Wade of Barrington, Nova Scotia, issued in 1867 by the American Shipmasters' Association in New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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de la Corte, Don Felipe,. Correspondence on the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's surveying expedition, 1852-1860.

Title: Correspondence on the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's surveying expedition, 1852-1860.

Photostats of letters relating to the Ringgold-Rodgers Expedition and the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's 1858-1859 surveying expedition to Hawaii and Japan. Includes Edward Meyer Kern's letters of application and appointment as artist and photographer for the expedition (including letters to Cadwaladar Ringgold about the cost of Kern's equipment), letters of preparation for the Ringgold-Rogers Expedition, a series of letters from John Mercer Brooke to Navy Secretary Isaac Toucey describing the U.S.S. Fenimore Cooper's expedition from 1858-1860 (including descriptions of their travels, their interactions with French and Japanese sailors, and the eventual wreck of the Fenimore Cooper), letters between Brooke and Mariana Islands Governor Don Felipe de la Corte regarding sailors from the shipwrecked U.S.S. Lexington and a separate account of the shipwreck, and a letter from A.D. Piper to Brooke about John H. Parker and the Pacific Guano Company. Also includes a letter from Russian Navy Commander A.A. Popoff to Brooke regarding the condition of the Fenimore Cooper.

ArchivalResource: 31 letters, negative photostats.

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Connecticut Historical Society. Collection of Connecticut and Massachusetts sermons, 1681-1823.

Title: Collection of Connecticut and Massachusetts sermons, 1681-1823.

Manuscript sermons, donated to CHS primarily during the 19th century, gathered into a single collection. About half were by ministers located in Connecticut, and the other half were by ministers in Massachusetts.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet (3 boxes).

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Rodgers, John. Interview, 29 Apr 1972.

Title: Interview, 29 Apr 1972.

Recollections of the Posey War.

ArchivalResource: 71 pp. : typescript.

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Bancroft, W. B. W. B. Bancroft letter : Portland, [Or.] to John Rodgers : ALS, 1867 Sept. 23.

Title: W. B. Bancroft letter : Portland, [Or.] to John Rodgers : ALS, 1867 Sept. 23.

Inquiring about Rodger's "Geography" of the Pacific Coast. Asks if positive arrangements have been made with "Mr. McCormick" about publishing it, and into how many books Rodgers proposes dividing the subject. Notes that H. H. Bancroft & Co. take great interest in anything written by a resident of the Pacific Coast.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85182721 View

Rodgers Family Papers, 1788-1944, (bulk 1820-1930)

Title: Rodgers Family Papers 1788-1944 (bulk 1820-1930)

Rodgers (Rogers) family. Correspondence, journals, drafts of writings and speeches, transcripts of radio broadcasts, book reviews, notes and notebooks, biographical material, and other papers relating chiefly to the naval careers of John Rodgers (1773-1838), John Rodgers (1812-1882), William Ledyard Rodgers (1860-1944), John Augustus Rodgers (1848-1933), and John Rodgers (1881-1926). Includes correspondence of the Hodge family, Matthew Calbraith Perry, Oliver Hazard Perry (1785-1819), and other relatives of the Rodgers family.

ArchivalResource: 15,500 items; 60 containers plus 1 oversize; 20 linear feet

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