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Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900

Title: Benjamin Vaughan Papers 1746-1900

Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS 95 (1951): 246-249. Proceedings

ArchivalResource: 13.25 Linear feet

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United States. District Court (Pennsylvania : Eastern District). Admiralty dockets and case files, 1790-1847 [microform].

Title: Admiralty dockets and case files, 1790-1847 [microform].

The records consist of dockets and case files for admiralty cases heard by the Circuit Court at its sittings in Philadelphia between 1789 and 1840. A typical case file may contain some or all of the following documents: bills of complaint, answers, depositions, transcripts of testimony, exhibits, orders and reports of masters. The exhibits may include copies of original letters, minutes, contracts and accounts, shipping articles, crew lists, logs, manifests and other documents submitted as evidence. Most of the admiralty cases before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania during the years 1789 to 1840 concerned actions for damages arising from collision; for breach of contract for services or goods, chiefly claims for seamen's wages and materials and supplies furnished; and for pilotage, towage, and wharfage fees, bottomry, and marine insurance. There were also suits concerning prize, ransom, and salvage rights; smuggling of goods; illegal transportation of slaves; assault and battery; theft of cargo; embezzlement and fraud; and the illegal transportation of foreign troops by a confiscated U.S. vessel.

ArchivalResource: 18 reels of positive microfilm.

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Delafield, Richard, 1798-1873. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1838-1864.

Army officer. Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy. Historical research papers dealing with naval batteries; papers, notes and visas collected while an observer of the Crimean War; orders; proposal for "City guard seacoast artillery, 1858-1862"; proposal for hospital at Sandy Hook, N.J.; mechanical drawings; 1856 inventory of books, maps, plans, drawings, instruments, and other public property in possession of Major Richard Delafield regarding fortification of New York Harbor; correspondence arranged alphabetically by folder, including correspondence with John Gross Barnard, William H.C. Bartlett, Henry Washington Benham, Henry Brewerton, Archibald Campbell, Sir Samuel Cunard, Jefferson Davis, Miner Knowlton, John Young Mason, George B. McClellan, William Learned Marcy, Edward Denison Morgan, Frederick A. Smith, Sylvanus Thayer, Joseph G. Totten, Daniel Phineas Woodbury and others; miscellaneous correspondence is also included.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

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