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Nicholson, John, 1757-1800. Papers, 1772-1819 [microform].

Title: Papers, 1772-1819 [microform].

The records consist of John Nicholson's private papers which were seized by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania around 1800 in order to prosecute its claims against his estate and unravel the many difficult title conflicts involving his vast land holdings.

ArchivalResource: 27 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86123628 View

[Plan of Whitehall].

Title: [Plan of Whitehall]. [18--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 23 x 37.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78731302 View

Dilly, Charles, 1739-1807. [Letter] 1795 Oct. 7, London [to] Mr. Young, Philadelphia / C. Dilly.

Title: [Letter] 1795 Oct. 7, London [to] Mr. Young, Philadelphia / C. Dilly.

A list of books in sheets, printed for and sold by C. Dilly, London, Oct. 1794. (2 p.). On pages 3-4, Charles Dilly writes a letter to Mr. Young in Philadelphia commenting upon some of the books offered. Most probably the letter is to William Young (1755-1829), a Scottish immigrant, who engaged in bookselling and printing in Philadelphia from 1784 to 1802.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191958952 View

Bancroft family. Papers, 1788-1962.

Title: Papers, 1788-1962.

The records consist of a collection of Bancroft family personal and business papers. They include many copies and transcripts of early family letters in the possession of the English branch of the family and brought to America by Samuel Bancroft, Jr., in 1913. The records also include newsclippings, brochures, and typescript histories of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company and the Eddystone Manufacturing Company (absorbed in 1929), and genealogical notes on the Bancroft family in Britain and America.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123373537 View

James Muir ledger, 1782-1795, 1782-1795

Title: James Muir ledger, 1782-1795 1782-1795

This ledger is a record of Muir's work for Robert Bell, Francis Bailey, Joseph Crukshank, Mathew Carey, Thomas Dobson, William Prichard, William Young, and Charles Varlo, including other accounts.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1volume, ca. 100 p., photocopy

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.657.M88-ead.xml View

Philadelphia booksellers accounts, 1788-1823.

Title: Philadelphia booksellers accounts, 1788-1823.

Philadelphia booksellers accounts in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Includes a bill for a coach. The accounts are issued by Matthew Carey, Wholesale and Retail Bookseller and Stationer; W. W. Woodward, Theological and Classical Bookseller; and William Young, Printer and Bookseller. The booksellers order supplies from each other.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122618506 View

Young, William, 1755-1829. Family papers, 1745-1850 (inclusive), 1745, 1800-1850 (bulk).

Title: Family papers, 1745-1850 (inclusive), 1745, 1800-1850 (bulk).

The papers include William Young's receipt book, 1819-1822 as Treasurer of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of National Industry. There are also miscellaneous deeds and other legal papers, 1745-1850, concerning his property, "Whitehall," on Spring Garden Street, and the Rockland estate. Other family papers are: son William Wallace Young receipt book, 1839-1846, as agent for Rockland Manufacturing Company; grandchild Agnes Young McAllister newspaper extracts concerning the 1819 Atlantic Ocean crossing of the Steamship, Savanah; memorabilia of a trip to Europe, 1841; family memoir, n. d.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122441227 View

Feris, B. Plot of lands belonging to Caleb Kirk, on both sides Brandywine Creek copied from B. Feris's drft.

Title: Plot of lands belonging to Caleb Kirk, on both sides Brandywine Creek copied from B. Feris's drft. [18--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 50 x 38.4 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83302194 View

Scisco, Louis Dow, b. 1868. Louis D. Scisco research collection, ca. 1924-1955.

Title: Louis D. Scisco research collection, ca. 1924-1955.

Typescript and manuscript articles about the sixteen original land proprietors of the District of Columbia; articles on early American history; genealogical research on Sir Christopher Gardiner and others; typescript synopses of early District of Columbia records, including the first volume of the proceedings of the District of Columbia Commissioners, the Commissioners' first letter book, and a portion of the Commissioners' second letter book (1791-1795).

ArchivalResource: .45 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70925858 View

Young, William, 1755-1829. Young and Woodward Business Papers, 1789-1826 (inclusive).

Title: Young and Woodward Business Papers, 1789-1826 (inclusive).

The Young and Woodward Business Papers contain letters and documents relating to the printing, publishing, and bookselling efforts of both William Young, and William W. Woodward, to whom Young sold his business in 1802. Included are letters from authors, publishers, and other booksellers.

ArchivalResource: 1 box .21 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172833932 View

MacAllister, William Young. "Memoir of William Young," c. 1880.

Title: "Memoir of William Young," c. 1880.

This collection is a negative microfilm of a memorial to William Young (1755-1829), Philadelphia printer, publisher, and stationer, written by his great grandson, William Young MacAllister ( - ), c. 1880. The original is in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The biographical information was gleaned from various relatives and friends of William Young, as well as from his letters and papers. The memorial covers the development of Young's business in Philadelphia, the founding of his paper manufacturing and bookselling business in Rockland, Delaware, where he eventually made his home, as well as his establishment of the Whitehall Press in Whitehall, Pa. There is also a typescript of Young's last will, 1829.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122559690 View

Robert Gilmour letter to William Young, 1794 May 16

Title: Robert Gilmour letter to William Young 1794 May 16

Delaware papermaker Robert Gilmour's handwritten and signed letter to Philadelphia printer William Young documents the birth of a Delaware paper mill in 1794.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?mss0098_0175 View

Rockland Manufacturing Company on the Brandywine. Records, 1825-1856.

Title: Records, 1825-1856.

With the exception of the 1825 act of incorporation, the records date from 1843-56 and are chiefly concerned with the interests of the stockholders and creditors and with the disposition of the property. Wage lists for 1848 give data on both male and female employees.

ArchivalResource: 440 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86093997 View

[Plan of White Hall].

Title: [Plan of White Hall]. [18--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 18.9 x 22.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81419562 View

Bancroft family. Papers, 1788-1962.

Title: Papers, 1788-1962.

The records consist of two collections of Bancroft family personal and business papers. They include many copies and transcripts of early family letters in the possession of the English branch of the family and brought to America by Samuel Bancroft, Jr., in 1913. The records also include newsclippings, brochures, and typescript histories of the Joseph Bancroft & Sons Company and the Eddystone Manufacturing Company (absorbed in 1929), and genealogical notes on the Bancroft family in Britain and America and on the Wood family of Delaware County, Pa.

ArchivalResource: Mss. 1.5 linear ft.Photographs 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86094019 View

[Plan of properties on Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia].

Title: [Plan of properties on Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia]. [18--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map : col. ; 22.9 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80264075 View

Young, William, 1755-1829. Correspondence, 1792-1827.

Title: Correspondence, 1792-1827.

Correspondence of William Young, bookseller and printer of Philadelphia. Among the correspondents of Young were: Darton and Harvey, London; Dunlap and Claypoole; William Gilbert, Dublin; Joshua Gilpin; Richard Folwell; Benjamin F. Garrigues; Ross and Simpson; John Matthews; John Stockton and Son; William Warner and Company; and others.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/151377159 View

Brandywine Mill Seat Company. Records, 1798-1854.

Title: Records, 1798-1854.

The records of the Brandywine Mill Seat Company consist of correspondence, accounts, agreements and memoranda describing the acquisition of property, the attempt to sell mill seats to manufacturers, and the final disposition of the company's real estate and water rights.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122579379 View

Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854. Diaries, 1800-1851 [microfilm and photoprints].

Title: Diaries, 1800-1851 [microfilm and photoprints].

The Cope diaries exist in three forms. The first is the original manuscripts in 8 volumes. The second is a typescript abridgement made by a descendant, Mrs. George Emlen, and the third is a second, different abridgement edited by Eliza Cope Harrison and published as PHILADELPHIA MERCHANT: THE DIARY OF THOMAS P. COPE (South Bend, Ind.: 1978). Both the original manuscript and the Emlen typescript are in the Quaker Collection of the Haverford College Library.

ArchivalResource: Microfilm 1 reel.Photoprints 10 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122457472 View

Feris, B. Plot of lands belonging to Caleb Kirk on both sides of the Brandywine Creek.

Title: Plot of lands belonging to Caleb Kirk on both sides of the Brandywine Creek. [18--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map : col. ; 55 x 43 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78406782 View

Young, William, 1755-1829. ALS : to Charles I. and Victor du Pont, 1826 July 23 [photocopy].

Title: ALS : to Charles I. and Victor du Pont, 1826 July 23 [photocopy].

Letter of introduction for Frederick Rapp, business manager of the Harmony Society, to visit the woolen factories on the Brandywine.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/654374446 View

Aiken, John, fl. 1787. Indenture, 1787 Aug. 4, Philadelphia.

Title: Indenture, 1787 Aug. 4, Philadelphia.

Printed form, filled out to apprentice Aiken to William Young and John McCulloch, printers, for a term of six years and six months. Signed by Aiken and his mother Fanny.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490163 View

Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834. Papers, 1782-1838.

Title: Papers, 1782-1838.

This collection of the papers of E. I. du Pont was amassed by his descendant, Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954). The main body of E. I. du Pont's papers descended through Henry Algernon du Pont to Henry Francis du Pont and now forms part of the Hagley Museum & Library's Winterthur Manuscripts.

ArchivalResource: 1.7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86134169 View

Robert Aitken letters, 1779-1798

Title: Robert Aitken letters 1779-1798

The folder contains four letters: one letter to Joseph Reed dated 27 Nov. 1779 regarding the procurement of salt; a letter to John Nicholson dated 28 July 1795; a letter to Christopher Ludwick regarding the settlement of an affair between the two pertaining to a repair to a house and the emptying of said house dated 18 June 1798; and a letter to William Young discussing printing materials such as sorts and fonts dated 8 Apr 1795.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6538 View

Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834. Ledger, 1814-1818.

Title: Ledger, 1814-1818.

The volume is marked as an accounts current ledger of E. I. du Pont. It has been erroneously attributed to du Pont's sometime partner, Peter Bauduy, but much of the writing is in du Pont's own hand. The volume records a number of family and company expenses, particularly the raising of merino sheep, the operations of the merino farm and the Newport farm, house expenses, and the boarding of hands. There are accounts with a number of local firms in which du Pont was either a member or drew on for supplies.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516448 View

Du Pont, Eleuthère Irénée, 1771-1834. Papers, 1771-1922.

Title: Papers, 1771-1922.

The personal correspondence relates to both personal and business matters. Prior to E. I. du Pont's arrival in America in 1800 it includes letters concerning the career of his father and brother. After 1800, much of it concerns the founding and operation of the powder mills on the Brandywine. There are references to French and American politics, as well as to Thomas Jefferson's criticism of Napoleon in 1812, and the visit of Lafayette to the United States in 1824. The papers of Madame du Pont consist for the most part of family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122516430 View

[Greenhill W.D. Dielh lots].

Title: [Greenhill W.D. Dielh lots]. [18--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 39.4 x 31.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81938088 View

Gilmour, Robert. Robert Gilmour letter to William Young, 1794 May 16.

Title: Robert Gilmour letter to William Young, 1794 May 16.

Delaware papermaker Robert Gilmour's handwritten and signed letter to Philadelphia printer William Young documents the birth of a Delaware paper mill in 1794.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436086360 View

William Young papers 1765-1900 Young, William

Title: William Young papers 1765-1900 Young, William

The William Young papers center on the lives of William Young and his son-in-law John McAllister, Jr. The strengths of the collection are its documentation of William Young's careers as printer, publisher, bookseller and paper maker; the Associate Presbyterian Church; John McAllister's antiquarian interests; and the personal lives of the Young and McAllister families.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2186you?rgn=main;view=text View

McAllister, William Young, b. 1812. William Young papers 1765-1900.

Title: William Young papers 1765-1900.

The William Young papers center on the lives of William Young and his son-in-law John McAllister, Jr. The strengths of the collection are its documentation of William Young's careers as printer, publisher, bookseller and paper maker; the Associate Presbyterian Church; John McAllister's antiquarian interests; and the personal lives of the Young and McAllister families.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/248929461 View

Muir, James, of Philadelphia. Ledger, 1782-1795.

Title: Ledger, 1782-1795.

This ledger is a record of Muir's work for Robert Bell, Francis Bailey, Joseph Crukshank, Mathew Carey, Thomas Dobson, William Prichard, William Young, and Charles Varlo, including other accounts.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 100 p.) : photocopy.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540131 View

Du Pont, Eleuthera Bradford, 1873-1953,. The Eleuthera Bradford du Pont Collection, 1799-1834.

Title: The Eleuthera Bradford du Pont Collection, 1799-1834.

The papers in this collection date from the lifetime of E.I. du Pont and document important aspects of the early history of the Du Pont Company.

ArchivalResource: 6.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164039145 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