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Madison, James, 1751-1836. Letters of James Madison, 1772-1775.

Title: Letters of James Madison, 1772-1775.

Seven letters, 1772-1775, from James Madison to William Bradford, discuss Bradford's education, literature, the Boston Tea Party, religious tolerance and freedom in Virginia, hostilities between Native Americans and colonists, the possibility that war between the U.S. and Great Britain may be avoided, H.H. Brackenridge's poetry, raising a force to defend Virginia against invasion, and Moses Allen. Madison also compares civilization in Virginia and Philadelphia, Pa., and gives an excerpt of chief Logan's speech to Lord Dunmore, regarding the colonists' treatment of the Shawnee.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34931259 View

Wilson, James, 1742-1798. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1784-1890.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1784-1890.

Petition to John Dickinson, President of the Supreme Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania, dated 17 April 1784 in Philadelphia and signed by James Wilson, Jonathan D. Sergeant, Alexander Wilcocks, William Lewis, William Bradford, Jr. and Jared Ingersol. The petitioners, who identify themselves as "the Practitioners of the Law in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia," request that the offices of Justice of the Peace and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas by kept separate; previously the Justices of the Peace had presided over the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155887077 View

Bradford, William, 1755-1795. ALS : to C. Biddle, [s.d.].

Title: ALS : to C. Biddle, [s.d.].

Informs Biddle that someone is waiting on him to offer security for the payment of money decreed against the sloop Hannah.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490272 View

Pennsylvania. Court of Quarter Sessions (Chester County). Indictment of Mary Williams for horse theft, 1782 November.

Title: Indictment of Mary Williams for horse theft, 1782 November.

William Bradford, Pennsylvania attorney general, signed this November session 1782 Court of Quarter Sessions indictment of Mary Williams, Jr. for stealing two horses in Chester County, Pa. on 1 July 1782.

ArchivalResource: 2 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49516503 View

Washington, George, 1732-1799. ALS : Germantown, Pa., to James Ross, 1794 Aug. 6.

Title: ALS : Germantown, Pa., to James Ross, 1794 Aug. 6.

A letter intended to be delivered to Ross by Attorney-General William Bradford, who is to explain the purpose of his visit on arrival. (Both men were appointed as federal commissioners to negotiate with the leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion.) Washington also informs Ross, who was the attorney for his lands in western Pennsylvania, that he has referred a prospective purchaser to him.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466259 View

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

William Bradford, Jr. letter to John Dickinson, 1782

Title: William Bradford, Jr. letter to John Dickinson 1782

American jurist, attorney general of Pennsylvania, and U.S. Attorney General. Letter discussing a court case involving Connecticut and Pennsylvania (December 12, 1782).

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7663 View

United States. Board of Treasury. Exchequer bill, 1781 June 21, Paris, pay to William Bradford / F. Hopkinson.

Title: Exchequer bill, 1781 June 21, Paris, pay to William Bradford / F. Hopkinson.

Printed form with ms. inserts, signed. Payment to William Bradford for interest due on money borrowed by the United States for $36 in 180 livres tournois signed by Francis Hopkinson as Treasurer of Loans, countersigned by Jos. Clarke, Commissioner of the Continental Loan-Office in the State of Rhode Island.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 10 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8570862 View

Richard Varick Papers, 1743-1871 (bulk 1775-1830)

Title: Richard Varick Papers 1743-1871 (bulk 1775-1830)

Richard Varick, born in New Jersey, 1753, served as Captain, deputy muster-master-general, and George Washington's secretary during the Revolutionary war. He was appointed one of the first mayors of New York and served from 1789-1801. He died in 1831. His papers contain items resulting from his military, legal, and political careers, as well as personal and familial correspondence and accounts--including letters received, drafts of letters sent, accounts, receipts, military orders, inventories, muster and pay rolls, military pay accounts, indentures, court-martial papers and civil court papers.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet; (5 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/varick/varick.html View

Varick, Richard, 1753-1831. Papers, 1774-1830.

Title: Papers, 1774-1830.

Papers, 1774-1830, the majority dating from the Revolutionary War. They include letters received, drafts of letters sent, acounts, receipts, military orders, inventories, muster and pay rolls, military pay accounts, indentures, court-martial papers and civil court papers. They deal with: Varick's command of a company in Alexander McDougall's battalion at Ticonderoga and in Canada during 1775; service on courts-martial in 1775; problems of the batteau service in northern New York State in 1776; his position as secretary to Gen. Philip Schuyler in 1775-1776; his work as deputy muster master general, inspector general at West Point, first aide-de-camp to Benedict Arnold (including papers about Arnold's defection and subsequent investigations), and as recording secretary for George Washington (including papers about the transcription of Washington's letters). Many pertain to suits handled by him as an attorney practising in Poughkeepsie in 1782-1783, and in New York City after the war. The remainder include: papers about veterans' claims to military lands in New York State, including some maps; letters from various French persons, ca. 1780 to ca. 1800; papers relating to the settlement of the estate of Derick Dey, Varick's maternal grandfather, and the affairs of other members of the Dey family; personal and family correspondence and accounts; a few documents signed by Varick in his capacity as mayor of New York. Some of his more frequent correspondents were: Lt. Daniel Gano, Cornelius Cuyler, Philip John Schuyler, Gen. Horatio Gates, Col. Joseph Ward, Col. John Lamb, John Varick, Jr., Richard Lush, John Lansing, Jr., Henry Rutgers, Jr., Jacob John Lansing, Henry Sewall , Lewis Woodruff, William Bradford, Jr., John Morin Scott, Daniel Carthy, Dirck Romeyn, Henry Glen, Matthew Visscher, Peter W. Yates, John Laurance, Peter Elting, Philip Van Rensselaer, Col. Jonathan Trumbull, John V.B. Varick, John Sanders, and Simeon De Witt.

ArchivalResource: 2.3 linear feet (ca. 1,600 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475820762 View

Bradford, William, 1755-1795. William Bradford papers, 1772-1794.

Title: William Bradford papers, 1772-1794.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79452642 View

Bradford, William Jr., 1755-1795. ALS, 1778, January 10, Valley Forge, [Pennsylvania], to Joseph Clark.

Title: ALS, 1778, January 10, Valley Forge, [Pennsylvania], to Joseph Clark.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 24 x 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13139260 View

Wallace, John William, 1815-1884,. Collection, 1725-1854.

Title: Collection, 1725-1854.

Letters from George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Charles C. Pinckney, Benjamin Tilghman, Daniel Webster, Benjamin Rush, Duke of Wellington, and others are in this collection. They are scattered through the volumes of William Bradford, United States Attorney General, 1772-1796, and the volume of letters and documents of the Rev. Robert Blackwell, chaplain at Valley Forge, and of Thomas Willing, financier, 1771-1854. The remainder of the Wallace collection is composed largely of family papers: letters of John Maddox, the Rev. W. Wallace, J. Wallace, and Joshua Maddox Wallace, 1725-1801; letters to Joshua Maddox Wallace, 1784-1819; letters to John B. Wallace and his wife, 1805-1848; letters to Mrs. Susan Wallace, 1800-1849.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316606 View

Washington, George, 1732-1799. ALS : Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot, 1785 Jan. 26.

Title: ALS : Mount Vernon, to Elias Boudinot, 1785 Jan. 26.

Congratulates Boudinot and his wife on the marriage of their daughter (Susan Vergereau Boudinot, to William Bradford, later attorney general under Washington) and asks Boudinot to send a quantity of orchard grass seed.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122585934 View

General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Photographs of Attorneys General

Title: General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Photographs of Attorneys General

This series consists of photographs that document the Attorneys General of the United States. Attorneys General are documented through photographic copies of paintings and photographic portraits. In addition, some of the images show various activities of the Attorneys General, including press conferences, meetings, oaths of office, and banquets. Many of the photographs were used as part of a commemorative book, "200th Anniversary of the Office of the Attorney General", which highlights the history of the Office of Attorney General and the celebration of the anniversary on September 22, 1989. A copy of this book is included in this series in addition to another Department of Justice book,"Attorneys General of the United States, 1798-1985", which used many of the photographs. Not every Attorney General from the time period of the series is represented. A few images contain multiple Attorney Generals.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear inches

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/518092 View

U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Title: U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to the United States. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 551 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAA1392 View

Madison, James, 1751-1836. Letters of James Madison [manuscript], 1772-1775.

Title: Letters of James Madison [manuscript], 1772-1775.

Seven letters, 1772-1775, from James Madison to William Bradford, discuss Bradford's education, literature, the Boston Tea Party, religious tolerance and freedom in Virginia, hostilities between Native Americans and colonists, the possibility that war between the U.S. and Great Britain may be avoided, H.H. Brackenridge's poetry, raising a force to defend Virginia against invasion, and Moses Allen. Madison also compares civilization in Virginia and Philadelphia, Pa., and gives an excerpt of chief Logan's speech to Lord Dunmore, regarding the colonists' treatment of the Shawnee.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647860558 View

Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Title: Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

ArchivalResource: 14,250 items

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003008 View

Hamilton, Alexander, 1755-1804. Correspondence and documents, 1777-1800.

Title: Alexander Hamilton correspondence and documents, 1777-1800

Correspondence and documents pertaining to U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01383/catalog View

Bradford Family. Bradford family papers, 1620-1906 (bulk 1770-1800).

Title: Bradford family papers, 1620-1906 (bulk 1770-1800).

The Bradford family papers span 1620 to 1906 with the bulk of material created during the American Revolution. Many family members have contributed correspondence, notes and documents to the collection. The three most prominent contributions come from William Bradford (1721-1791), Thomas Bradford (1745-1838) and Thomas Bradford (1781-1857). The collection contains of military documents including certificates, accounts and correspondence. These documents most frequently pertain to prisoners of war during the American Revolution in both the army and navy. Correspondence, account books and subscription lists from the Bradford printing and publishing business are also found among the family papers as are personal correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes, 24 vols. (9 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122609201 View

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804. Correspondence and documents, 1777-1800.

Title: Correspondence and documents, 1777-1800.

Includes letters from Hamilton as Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to diplomat William Short, letter to Hamilton from William Bradford, and other materials.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78225727 View

Bradford, William, 1755-1795. Lectures on eloquence : manuscript, [1772?].

Title: Lectures on eloquence : manuscript, [1772?].

Notebook containing notes by William Bradford, Jr. (Class of 1772) on Witherspoon's lectures on eloquence. Flyleaf inscribed by Nehemiah Wade (Class of 1776).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (246 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54746932 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

Pennsylvania. Circuit Court. Receipt : to William Bradford, 1793 June 21.

Title: Receipt : to William Bradford, 1793 June 21.

Receipt for amount paid to William Bradford for expenses while on the circuit in the fall of 1792 and spring of 1793. Signed by G.W. Nicholson of the controller's office and John Donnaldson of another office (illegible).

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63936764 View

Manuscripts on Indian affairs, 1755-1792, [n.d.], 1755-1792

Title: Manuscripts on Indian affairs, 1755-1792, [n.d.] 1755-1792

The first volume includes extracts from the journals of Conrad Weiser and Christian Frederick Post (1757), 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, including transcriptions of several treaties between the Province of Pennsylvania and the Delawares and other Indians (1755-1758); the French and Indian War; and Braddock's campaign. Some manuscripts are written by Deborah Norris Logan and Charles Thomson.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Volume(s), 2 volumes, 879 p., copies

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.970.4.M415-ead.xml View

Bradford, William, 1755-1795. Letter, 1783.

Title: Letter, 1783.

A letter dated January 1783, labeled as the Attorney Generals sixth opinion, Seizure of flagg goods in Chester County, and sent to Gen. Irwin, expressing the opinion that the Supreme Executive Council could not interfere in Col. Hannum's seizure of British goods if said goods were necessary to prisoners of war.

ArchivalResource: Handwritten letter 2 p. ; 29 cm.Engraved portrait 1 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86166344 View

Bradford, William, 1755-1795. A common-place book, 1770.

Title: A common-place book, 1770.

Commonplace book of Bradford, containing many philisophical writings by Voltaire, Sterne, etc. on marriage, avarice, revenge, humility, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 bound ms. (94 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49366702 View