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Davis, John, 1761-1847. District Court dockets : Boston, 1810-1833.

Title: District Court dockets : Boston, 1810-1833.

Dockets for March, June, Sept. and Dec. sessions with names of plaintiffs and trials pending, and action taken. A few cases are outlined in detail. The years represented are 1810, 1812, 1818, 1823, 1826-33.

ArchivalResource: 20 v. in 2.

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Davis, Caleb, 1738-1797. Papers, 1684-1826, bulk: 1750-1797.

Title: Papers, 1684-1826, bulk: 1750-1797.

Correspondence, bills & receipts, and accounts of Boston merchant Caleb Davis. Starting in the grocery business in the late 1750s, Davis expanded into the shipping trade, doing extensive business with the firm of Cravath and Dugan of Baltimore in fish, rum, flour, iron, and staves. After the Revolutionary War, he continued trade with several firms in Europe and the West Indies. During the Revolution he corresponded with Gen. William Heath and Dr. Barnabas Biddle, mostly about equipment and supplies. Davis became Speaker of the Mass. House of Representatives and was a representative to the state convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution. His correspondence includes letters from Rufus King, Nathaniel Gorham, and Theodore Sedgwick concerning the Constitution. (Con't) Also included are 2 letters from J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1782), one from George Washington (Aug. 1781), one from Paul Revere (Feb. 1779), and several from Samuel Adams (1778-1781). Also, letters from his brothers Amasa, Joshua, and Nathaniel Davis; school essays of John D. Davis; copy books of Davis's third wife, Eleanor Cheever, from the 1760s; and journals kept by William Downes Cheever during a trip to Europe, 1778-79.

ArchivalResource: 61 v., 1 case, and 2 index card boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17256331 View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Letters, 1811-1819.

Title: Letters, 1811-1819.

Three letters to William Smith Shaw and one letter to Edward Cutts Jr. from U.S. District Judge John Davis, concerning the Boston Athenaeum and personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00387/catalog View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Judicial opinions, 1811-1836.

Title: Judicial opinions, 1811-1836.

Drafts of judicial opinions and other documents relating to cases before John Davis, Judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts. Most of the cases pertain to maritime legal issues.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Davis, John, 1761-1847. Letters, 1778-1796.

Title: Letters, 1778-1796.

Letters of John Davis to his brother Thomas Davis of Plymouth, Mass. The early letters discuss personal and philosophical matters, and were written while John Davis was a student at Harvard and during the first years of his law career (1778-1785). The later letters (1796), written while Davis was Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury, concern political affairs in the Capitol, particularly the Treaty of San Lorenzo and the attempt by Congressman Edward Livingston to force President Washington to release papers relating to Jay's treaty with Great Britain.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder and 1 oversize folder.

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Davis, John, 1761-1847. Papers, 1627-1846.

Title: Papers, 1627-1846.

Papers collected by John Davis, Judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts and President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Included are papers, sermons, and letters to or from governors and religious leaders of the American colonies, including John Winthrop Sr., Gov. Thomas Prence, Jonathan Belcher, Benjamin Fletcher, Josiah Cotton, Rev. Thomas Prince, and Benjamin Colman. Some of the letters contain accounts of King Philip's War or other discussions of Indian relations. Also included are letters of John and Thomas Davis; a journal of a 1780 expedition to study a solar eclipse, led by Prof. Samuel Williams; Joshua Gee's memo book containing notes and accounts he kept as a Harvard student, 1714-15; notes of John Adams on the trial of British soldiers for the Boston Massacre; and lists of men who attended special dinners in 1797 and 1798 in Boston to commemorate the landing of the Pilgrims.

ArchivalResource: 3 narrow boxes and 1 small case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17346041 View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. A plan of Cambridge Green, September 14, 1780.

Title: A plan of Cambridge Green, September 14, 1780.

Small pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing of Cambridge Green created by Harvard senior John Davis, presumably as part of his undergraduate mathematical coursework. The map surveys Cambridge Commons and includes a few rough outlines of College buildings and the Episcopal church, and notes the burying ground, and the roads to Charlestown, Menotomy, the pond, Watertown, and the bridge. The original handwritten text is faded and was annotated with additional text by Davis including the note "[taken in my Senior year at H. College Septr 1780] Surveyed in concert with classmates, Atkins, Hall 1st, Howard, Payne, &c.- J. Davis." There is a note that "Atkins afterwards took the name of Tying." Davis refers to Dudley Atkins Tyng, Joseph Hall, Bezaleel Howard, and Elijah Paine, all members of the Harvard Class of 1781.

ArchivalResource: 9.25 x 7.75 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/715099144 View

Tudor, William, 1779-1830. Papers, 1786-1826.

Title: Papers, 1786-1826.

Collection consists principally of letters, draft letters and letters received, chronologically arranged. The letters illustrate William Tudor's activities as a merchant in Boston and the development of the ice business with his brother, Frederic, his travels in Europe, the rise of the North American Review and Tudor's literary endeavors, and finally, his difficult role as U.S. Consul in Peru during the war of liberation from Spain. Papers include Tudor's account of a trip through Middlesex Co. into N.H., ca. 1794, an extensive letters to his father, 1797, reporting on affairs in Boston; letters, 1798-1801, mostly from a trip to France ; letters, draft letters, 1811-1812, to Stephen Higginson, James Monroe, Josiah Quincy, Frederic Tudor and others; material relating to the North American Review; letters received, 1815-1823 from Timothy Pickering, John Pickering, John Vaughan, John Davis, William Lee, Robert Hallowell Gardiner, William Roscoe, Samuel Gilman, Robert Walsh and others; and letters received as consul, 1823-1826, from family members and Boston merchants mostly seeking Tudor's assistance as U.S. Consul recovering confiscated cargo, ships and imprisioned crew.

ArchivalResource: 125 items, in box ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7897126 View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Delivered before the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge : manuscript, 1830 Nov. 5.

Title: Delivered before the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge : manuscript, 1830 Nov. 5.

Speech delivered at the Boston Lyceum chiefly concerning 18th-cent. American authors.

ArchivalResource: 23 leaves ; 25 cm.

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Barclay, Samuel M. Papers, 1819-1851.

Title: Papers, 1819-1851.

Contains mainly correspondence regarding Barclay's law practice which he shared with his brother, Josiah, focusing on issues of debt and contracts. Correspondence also deals with political issues on the local and state level and touches on issues relating to the Pennsylvania Quaker community.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

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Davis, John, 1761-1847. Bank books ; Boston, 1796-1799.

Title: Bank books ; Boston, 1796-1799.

Records of transactions with the Bank of the United States, Boston.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. in 1.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10503130 View

Ralph Morris collection of autographs and portraits

Title: Ralph Morris collection of autographs and portraits

Autographs and portraits assembled by American collector Ralph Morris.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01092/catalog View

Papers, 1819-1851

Title: Papers, 1819-1851

The collection consists of mainlycorrespondence regarding Barclay's law practice and some politicalissues on the local and state level.

ArchivalResource: 1 box

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Davis, John, 1761-1847. Specimen law cases, 1785 Jan.

Title: Specimen law cases, 1785 Jan.

Cases illustrating legal terminology, presumably recorded as a student.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10503098 View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Circuit Court dockets : Boston, 1804-1831.

Title: Circuit Court dockets : Boston, 1804-1831.

Dockets for October and May sessions with names of plaintiffs and trials pending, and action taken. A few cases are outlined in detail. The years represented are 1804-5, 1816, 1827-31.

ArchivalResource: 10 v. in 1 ; 22 cm.

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American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

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Glen, Henry, 1739-1814. Papers, 1781/1801.

Title: Papers, 1781/1801.

The Henry Glen Papers consist of fifteen letters written to Mr. Glen over a period of twenty years by family members and business acquaintences. All but one of the letters was written while Glen was a representative in Congress. Nine of the letters date between February 1795 and February 1796, including five discussing the Jay Treaty, from its arrival in Philadelphia through ratification and the ensuing political turmoil. Three additional letters discuss troop supply in northwestern New York.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122558530 View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Papers, 1785-1843.

Title: Papers, 1785-1843.

See also entries under Davis for following contents: circuit court dockets; district court dockets; specimen law cases; agricultural dictionary; bank books; miscellaneous papers.

ArchivalResource: 5 v. + 1 box (13 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10497932 View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Letter, 1838.

Title: Letter, 1838.

Handwritten letter dated Washington, from Davis on economic supply and demand.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Letter, 1831 Nov. 20 : to John Davis.

Title: Letter, 1831 Nov. 20 : to John Davis.

Writing to Davis, a judge, Webster declines an undisclosed proposal due to the pressures of his law practice, as well as his duties as a congressman.

ArchivalResource: 1 sheet ; 25 x 40 cm. folded to 25 x 20 cm.

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Harvard University. Corporation. At a meeting of the immediate government of Harvard University, Nov. 9th 1818, the following votes were received from the Corporation.

Title: At a meeting of the immediate government of Harvard University, Nov. 9th 1818, the following votes were received from the Corporation.

Two leaves containing a printed circular with a transcription of the November 9 and 11, 1818 votes of the Immediate Government (the Harvard Faculty) and the Harvard Corporation related to the discipline of the sophomore class following their "resistance to the authority of the College." The text has is signed "J. T. Kirkland Pres't" and addressed to Judge Davis.

ArchivalResource: .01 cubic feet (1 folder)

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa 1743-1806

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Davis, John, 1761-1847. Winslow family papers II, 1638-1760 ; bulk: 1638-1680.

Title: Winslow family papers II, 1638-1760 ; bulk: 1638-1680.

Papers from colonial governors Edward and Josiah Winslow of Plymouth Colony from 1638-1680. Includes correspondence; land challenges; court documents; estate inventories; an official confession of insubordination signed by Josiah Winslow for refusing to fight against Native Americans during King Philip's War; correspondence and other documents related to Native American relations; and petitions addressed to governors Thomas Prence of Plymouth Colony, and John Winthrop of Massachusetts. Also includes a petition for Gen. John Winslow to receive compensation for his duties in the army, 1756-1760, and an index compiled by John Davis, 1792. Explanatory notes to the collection added by Charles Deane.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43636634 View

Hickey, Thomas A., 1869-1925. Papers, 1886-1967, 1897-1925.

Title: Papers, 1886-1967, 1897-1925.

Includes correspondence, financial and legal material, printed material, photographs, and posters. Collection bulks (1897-1925) with correspondence relating to Hickey's political activities, campaign and political pamphlets and journals. Included in the correspondence are letters from Eugene V. Debs and Theodore Debs.

ArchivalResource: 5,751 leaves

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24768562 View

Sumner, Increase, 1746-1799. Letters received, 1797-1799.

Title: Letters received, 1797-1799.

ArchivalResource: 4 items, tipped-in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14707254 View

Society for the Study of Natural Philosophy. Records, 1801-1807.

Title: Records, 1801-1807.

The Society was organized in Boston by a group of wealthy young Federalists, amateur scientists, who wished to assist in the diffusion of scientific knowledge through research and experimentation and the self education of their members. Prominent in the Society were John Davis, William Emerson, James Jackson, John Thornton Kirkland, Josiah Quincy, John Quincy Adams, John Lowell and John Collins Warren. The records contain the regulations and by-laws of the society, lists of members and minutes of meetings, synopses of experiments and, finally, a list of the possessions of the Society and their disposal when the organization was absorbed by the Athenaeum in 1807.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin), 1816-1889. Correspondence of Baltimore, Maryland merchants 1771-1885.

Title: Correspondence of Baltimore, Maryland merchants 1771-1885.

Letters from customers and shippers to various merchants in Baltimore, Maryland including: Mark Alexander, James Cox, Jr. and members of his staff, Robert Danny, Robert Gilmore & Son, George Gale, John Killey, John Kilty, Robert and Samuel Purviance, and George Welch. Includes some papers of Matthew Blair, Sylvanus Bourne of Amsterdam, Robert Brent, James Brown of Richmond, Va., Carson & Seton and Leroy and Bayard of New York, N.Y., and Willing & Francis of Philadelphia, Pa.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647974086 View

Story, Joseph, 1779-1845. Papers, 1796-1844.

Title: Papers, 1796-1844.

Contains correspondence and the original manuscript of his book on promissory notes.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb, 1807-1825

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb 1807-1825

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIb-ead.xml View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Agricultural dictionary, ca. 1821.

Title: Agricultural dictionary, ca. 1821.

Farming terms and techniques alphabetically arranged. In addition to his responsibilities as a judge, Davis maintained a farm in Plymouth.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10503112 View

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884. Papers, 1555-1882 (bulk: 1833-1881)

Title: Wendell Phillips papers, 1555-1882 (inclusive) 1833-1881 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of American abolitionist Wendell Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes (17.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00497/catalog View

Papers, 1787-1863.

Title: Papers, 1787-1863.

Business correspondence and papers of Thomas Melvill, Sr. and his son ThomasMelvill, Jr. of the Massachusetts-based Melville family, ancestors of the author Herman Melville.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01005/catalog View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Miscellaneous papers, 1798-1843.

Title: Miscellaneous papers, 1798-1843.

Includes letters to and from Josiah Quincy, President of Harvard, regarding Henry T. Davis, grandson of the judge, letters to and from Daniel Webster concerning Davis's resignation from the bench in 1841 and other tributes to his 40 years of service. Also included is John Collins Warren's "Answers to questions respecting Delirium tremens ...," offered in the trial of Alexander Drew for the alleged murder of Chas. L. Clark on board the ship John Jay of Nantucket (U.S. Circuit Court, June 1828), other correspondents: Rufus Choate, S. Godon & J. Valler. Includes: Odes, by Davis, and others, for the "22nd of December" ca. 1801 (1 leaf, printed) and a ticket to the Agricultural Dinner at Dudley's Tavern in Brighton, 1822. With a summary of Harvard College accounts (prepared in 1840) for the years Davis served as treasurer, 1810-1827 (2 sheets).

ArchivalResource: 14 items, in box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10618541 View

John Davis Commencement poem collection, ca. 1780s

Title: John Davis Commencement poem collection, ca. 1780s

This collection contains five handwritten copies of Harvard graduate John Davis's 1781 Commencement poem. John Davis later served for forty years as a United States Court Judge in Massachusetts, and was Harvard's Treasurer from 1810 to 1827. The poem was delivered by Davis as part of the Commencement exercises on July 18, 1781, during the College's first public Commencement since the Revolutionary War interrupted the annual tradition in 1773. The poem imitates a classical style popular among Harvard Commencement poems of the late 18th century but is unusual in its focus on the Revolutionary War. The copies of Davis's poem were likely made between 1782 and 1785 by students, and may have been created because of the poem's popularity or as a class assignment.

ArchivalResource: .1 cubic feet; (1 flat box)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hua11011/catalog View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc, 1826-1836

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIc 1826-1836

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives.IIc-ead.xml View

Davis, John, 1761-1847. Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Benjamin Bourne, 1798 May 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Benjamin Bourne, 1798 May 23.

Concerning the Luzerne Purchase.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270515963 View

Wythe, George, 1726-1806. Order, 1761 Sept. 10, to the sheriff of Loudoun County, Va.

Title: Order, 1761 Sept. 10, to the sheriff of Loudoun County, Va.

Autograph document signed by Wythe as a justice of Loudoun County ordering the sheriff to summon John Davis to appear in court to answer the charge of permitting unlawful gaming in his house.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122625878 View

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852. Daniel Webster papers, 1800-1895 (inclusive), 1824-1852 (bulk), [microform].

Title: Daniel Webster papers, 1800-1895 (inclusive), 1824-1852 (bulk), [microform].

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, a scrapbook, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Daniel Webster, lawyer, statesman, diplomat, and politician. Among the topics covered are legal matters, the Bank of the United States, diplomacy, boundaries of the United States, Latin American relations, politics, the tariff question, Webster's early life, public opinion of the administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, development of the anti-Masonic movement, and Webster's role in Tyler's cabinet.

ArchivalResource: 8 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122501363 View

Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

Title: Topical pamphlet collection, <1741>-<1996>.

A long-established, artificial, still-growing collection consisting largely of printed pamphlets, with articles, reprints, some ephemera, typescripts, photocopied manuscript material, and one set of slides (to accompany a typescript item) also included. Some of the items within were bound during the 19th century, some are loose. Covering a broad range of topics relating to American (and particularly New England) history, life, and thought, the Topical Pamphlet Collection provides background and context for the more specifically Concord-related materials in the Concord Free Public Library Special Collections. The collection--not to be confused with the Concord Pamphlet Collection--includes <883> items, dating from <1741> to <1996>. Series I (Historical Topics) includes <352> items dating between <1741> and <1996>, Series II (Individuals, As Author or Subject) <300> items between <1761> and <1963>, Series III (Massachusetts Towns--History, Anniversaries, Description, etc.) <127> items between <1748> and <1991>, and Series IV (Pamphlet Materials on Multiple Topics, Organized by Form) <104> items between <1752> and <1940>. Some of the bound volumes include the occasional out-of-scope pamphlet. Moreover, there is some topical overlap of material in different subseries.

ArchivalResource: <883 > items<47 > containers

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694087719 View