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Theodorus Bailey Myers collection, 1542-1876

Title: Theodorus Bailey Myers collection 1542-1876

The collection consists of letters and documents, as well as paper money, portraits and other prints of individuals prominent in American history during the colonial period, the American Revolution, and the nineteenth century. Represented in the collection are the signers of the Declaration of Independence, governors of New Netherlands and New York, members of the Continental Congress, and generals and other military figures of the revolution, including American, British, French, and Hessian officers. Also included are the papers of General Daniel Morgan, 1777-1808; letterbook of General Mordecai Gist, 1777-1779; documents reflecting the activities of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1754-1759; pay rolls and subsistence accounts of New York regiments, 1756-1758; and manuscript sermons of Lewis Rou, minister of the French Protestant Church in New York City, 1704-1750. In addition to prominent figures in American history, the collection contains letters and documents of English and European royalty and military figures, including Napoleon and his marshals, and an account by Don Juan de Casta of the siege of Havana, 1762.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet; 34 boxes, 8 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2091 View

Gist family papers, 1776-1865.

Title: Gist family papers, 1776-1865.

Includes letters (1776-1778) of John McClure and William Sterett to Mordecai Gist relating to the Revolution in Maryland; letters (1847-1853) of W. W. H. Gist while serving in the Mexican War in New Mexico and while in California; and letters from various family members who served in the 6th Maryland Infantry and the 17th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War relating to action in Maryland, Virginia, and Tennessee. Includes a map of military installations around the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers at the time of the Revolution. Correspondents include Branford Gist, George W. Gist, Mary Gist, and Richard J. Gist.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.1 container.0.2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980098 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

Papers of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, 1778-1851 (bulk 1779-1781)

Title: Papers of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben 1778-1851 (bulk 1779-1781)

The collection includes correspondence, orders, memoranda, petitions, indentures, and writings on military topics by Baron von Steuben during his tenure as an officer of the American army, as well as material relating to his estate and memorials.

ArchivalResource: 7.0 Linear feet; (15 boxes [1 oversize], 6 volumes)

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

Harper, Robert Goodloe, 1765-1825. Robert Goodloe Harper papers, 1788-1812.

Title: Robert Goodloe Harper papers, 1788-1812.

Chiefly correspondence re his legal practice, business interests, and national news and politics. Two letters, 1791, document the ill-fated South Carolina Yazoo Company, one of the original three companies formed to develop Georgia's western lands. Formed in 1789, the company had four charter members-Thomas Washington (alias Walsh) of Georgia, Alexander Moultrie, Isaac Huger, and William Clay Snipes. Shares of the company were limited to twenty; they could be subdivided, but to have a seat and vote at the company's meetings, a member had to own one full share. Letter, 15 Jan. 1791, from Harper to Gen. Mordecai Gist reporting that the board had voted to admit him as a member. Gist had sent word by Snipes that he intended to take one full share in the Yazoo purchase. In the end, the company's plans failed; it forfeited its claim to the land when it failed to comply with the 1789 Georgia statute regulating the purchase. By that time, the partners had ostracized Washington for enacting "a most infamous and extensive scheme of villainy, the forging of public securities to a very large amount" (the authorities hanged him in Charleston for counterfeiting state indents). Later, the S.C. Senate impeached and convicted Attorney General Alexander Moultrie for diverting genuine state indents into the company's finances. Letter, 16 Mar. 1793 to J[ohn] E[wing] Colhoun re a case in Cambridge Court [Edgefield County, S.C.?]; letter, 26 Mar. 1799 (Baltimore), to Secretary of War [James McHenry] expressing concern over an expected insurrection: "Their leaders are committed to the full length of Treason," and advising that McHenry send a large body of troops to deal with the situation [presumed to be the rebellion led by Pennsylvania auctioneer John Fries (ca. 1750-1818) in his protest against a tax on real estate]. Document, 19 July 1793 (Orangeburg District, S.C.), re Harper's appointment as lawyer for Jacob Rumph in sale of certain lands on Edisto River and transfer of land to John Hall, including certificate no extant mortgages on said land letter, 29 July 1799 (Baltimore, Md.) to [James McHenry], Secretary of War, announcing opening of his law office in Baltimore but assuring McHenry that he stands ready to return to military service if the need should arise, noting a recent letter from Gen'l [Charles Cotesworth] Pinckney, expressing his desire for a commission in case of an increase in hostilities during the quasi-war between the U.S. and France, although world events made that appear less likely: "The difficulty... will in all probability be removed by Prince Charles and Count Suwaroff [i.e. Prince Charles de Ligne and Alexander Suvorov].... What a pity that so many Suwaroffs and Bonapartes in embryo, should be chilled into mere lawyers Planters & merchants by the cold breath of Peace!" Letter, 8 Dec. 1800, to Jacob Read (Washington, D.C.), explaining his delay in returning to Washington and requesting information on votes from S.C. and Rhode Island; letter, 18 July 1807 (Baltimore, Md.) to William Sullivan (Boston), informing him of closing of a legal case, sending his remittance, and explaining the financial settlement; letter, 13 Aug. 1807 advising to bring suit in a matter involving a ship and cargo; letter, 8 June 1812, receipt for fee in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713368047 View

Washington, George, 1732-1799. George Washington papers, 1592-1937 (bulk 1748-1799).

Title: George Washington papers, 1592-1937 (bulk 1748-1799).

ArchivalResource: 77,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70984892 View

Stark, John, 1728-1822. Papers, 1758-1819.

Title: Papers, 1758-1819.

Chiefly correspondence (1775-1781) relating to Stark's tenure as commander in the Continental Army and concern with the defense of Albany, N.Y., during the Revolution, Indian affairs, and other military matters; together with accounts of the Battle of Bennington, Vt. (1777), expense records, commissions, pay receipts, orderly books (1775-1780), and other papers.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1 ft. (500 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70963885 View

Gist, Mordecai. Autograph letters signed : "Baltimore", to Dr. Richard Smith and Singleton Wooton, 1781 Sept. 18.

Title: Autograph letters signed : "Baltimore", to Dr. Richard Smith and Singleton Wooton, 1781 Sept. 18.

Concerning the coming of General Washington and family and making ready for them.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269589101 View

George Washington papers, 1592-1943

Title: George Washington papers, 1592-1943

United States president, United States Army officer, and patriot. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, accounts, military papers, and other papers documenting Washington's relations with the Continental Congress, his command of the Continental Army, his presidency, and other aspects of his career.

ArchivalResource: 77,000 items ; 508 containers plus 20 oversize ; 215.2 linear feet ; 125 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008068 View

Stewart, Charles, 1729-1800. Family papers, 1768-1877

Title: Charles Stewart family papers, 1768-1877

Papers of Charles Stewart, the Commissary General of Issues, Continental Army and delegate to Continental Congress from New Jersey along with some family documents.

ArchivalResource: 7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01286/catalog View

Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Papers, 1776-1934

Title: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Papers 1776-1934

Soldier and statesman. Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, broadsides, orderly book, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lafayette's military service in Canada and Virginia, his tour of the United States from 1824 to 1825, his land in Florida, and his views of such topics as the slave trade and the French government, including also material pertaining to the centennial observance of his death and Lafayette's genealogy.

ArchivalResource: 300 items; 2 containers plus 3 oversize; 1.4 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009082 View

William L. Clements Library. Nathanael Greene papers, 1762-1852, bulk 1780-1785.

Title: Nathanael Greene papers, 1762-1852, bulk 1780-1785.

The Nathanael Greene papers contain Greene's military and personal correspondence during American Revolution, with the bulk of the collection documenting his command in the Southern Department (1780-1783). The collection includes Greene's communications with George Washington, the Continental Congress, the War Board, state governors, and Continental Army officers and subordinates. Also present are military documents, such as returns, memoranda, and expense reports, and personal letters to and from his wife, Catherine.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759179083 View

Gist, Mordecai, 1743-1792. Autograph letter signed : to Gen. Greene, 1781 July 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Gen. Greene, 1781 July 14.

Concerning military movements in Maryland.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 1/4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269584444 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VII, Miscellany, 1764-1792

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume VII, Miscellany, 1764-1792

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 7 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312 I72++ 1898). Portraits: Washington Irving, George Washington, Roger Sherman (with autograph), James Duane (with autograph), George Clinton, General Putnam, Joseph Reed, Anthony Wayne (2), George Sackville Germain (Viscount Sackville), Simon Fraser, Arthur St. Clair (2), Joseph Brant (Indian name, Thayendanegea), Baron Friedrich Adolph von Riedesel, John Dyke Acland, William Duer, Horatio Gates, James Wilinson, Marquess Lafayette, Lafayette (3), Benjamin Lincoln, Red Jacket (Indian name, Sagoyewatha), Barry St. Leger (2), John Stark (2), John Murray (Earl Dunmore), Count Polaski, Benjamin Franklin (2), Charles Marquis of Cornwallis, and Sir Charles Grey (Earl Grey). Prints: Hudson Highlands - Near Forts Clinton & Montgomery; Bay of New York; A South View of Oswego, on Lake Ontario, in North America; General Burgoyne addressing the Indians at their War Feast, in Canada; View of the Ruins of Ticonderoga Forts on Lake Champlain; Lake George; A View of a Saw Mill & Block House upon Fort Anne Creek, the property of General Steene,...; View of the City and Port, of Philadelphia, on the Delaware, taken from Kensington; Gen. Burgoyne Addressing the Indians; Gezicht van den Waterval van Cohoz; Washington, Lafayette & Greene. Sheltered in a Farm House; A View on Schuylkill, near Philadelphia. Letters: ALS, Arthur St. Clair to Michael Gratz, August 8, 1768; AL(handwritten copy), Friedrich Riedesel to William Phillips, May 14, 1778;ALS, Tadeasz Kosciuszko to Charles Pettit, January 10, 1798; A(aman.)LS, George Clinton to Major Delavan, June 19, 1781; ALS, William Duer to James Greenleaf, December 14, 1794; ALS, Joseph Trumbull to Jared Tracey, January 15, 1778; ALS, Benjamin Lincoln to Charles Pettit, October 4, 1778; ALS, Mordecai Gist to Samuel and John Smith, April 10, 1787; ALS, John Armstrong to Smith Thompson, December 9, 1819; ALS, Lafayette to ?, April 22, 1817. Documents: A(aman.)DS, Muster Roll. [Fragment with signatures of John Golver and Levi Lindley]. Maps: The Burgoyne Campaign 1777; A Perspective View of Lake George; The Country between Crown Point and Albany being the Great Pass from the English to the French Settlements in North America; Communication between Albany and Oswego; Battle of Brandywine.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (61 items).

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/2094211 View

Myers, Theodorus Bailey, 1821-1888,. Theodorus Bailey Myers collection, 1542-1876.

Title: Theodorus Bailey Myers collection, 1542-1876.

Collection consists of letters and documents, as well as paper money, portraits and other prints of individuals prominent in American history during the colonial period, the American Revolution, and the nineteenth century.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 10 linear feet (34 boxes, 8 v.).Copies: 7 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122532426 View

Cockey, John Paul, 1796-1859. Cockey-Gist family papers, 1785-1868.

Title: Cockey-Gist family papers, 1785-1868.

Correspondence of Brigadier General Mordecai Gist (1742-1792) and Dr. John Paul Cockey (1796-1859), Cockey family genealogical data (1765-1868), list (1868) of gifts to Cockey's heirs, and memoir (1837) of Gist's life and Revolutionary War service.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28414847 View

Caesar Rodney correspondence, 1749-1823.

Title: Caesar Rodney correspondence, 1749-1823.

Collection consists of letters from Rodney to his brother Thomas and to Henry Laurens, and letters to Rodney from various political figures.

ArchivalResource: .3 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122532346 View

Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784. Correspondence, 1749-1823

Title: Caesar Rodney correspondence 1749-1823

Caesar Rodney (1720-1784), statesman, was a colonial legislator in Delaware and representative to the Stamp Act Congress and to the Continental Congress. He served as a major-general in the Delaware militia, signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and was president of Delaware from 1778 to 1781. Collection consists of letters from Rodney to his brother Thomas and to Henry Laurens, and letters to Rodney from various political figures. Also, letters to his nephew Caesar Augustus Rodney, who served as U.S. Attorney-General from 1807 to 1811, was U.S. Senator from Delaware, and was appointed the first U.S. Minister to the Argentine Republic.

ArchivalResource: .3 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2602 View

George Washington papers, 1592-1943

Title: George Washington papers, 1592-1943

United States president, United States Army officer, and patriot. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, accounts, military papers, and other papers documenting Washington's relations with the Continental Congress, his command of the Continental Army, his presidency, and other aspects of his career.

ArchivalResource: 77,000 items ; 508 containers plus 20 oversize ; 215.2 linear feet ; 125 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008068 View

Gist, Mordecai, 1743-1792. A statement of clothing, arms, accoutrements etc., wanted for a detachment of troops, 1781 May 22.

Title: A statement of clothing, arms, accoutrements etc., wanted for a detachment of troops, 1781 May 22.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269600549 View

Gist, Mordecai, 1742-1792. Letter, 1777.

Title: Letter, 1777.

Letter, dated Baltimore, Maryland, from Gist to Richard Peters, secretary of the Board of War in Philadelphia, concerning the detainment of fifty Highlander prisoners until their final destination could be determined; with further notes on the back giving instructions on where the letter was to be delivered.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145786948 View

Nathanael Greene papers 1762-1852 1780-1785 Greene, Nathanael, papers

Title: Nathanael Greene papers 1762-1852 1780-1785 Greene, Nathanael, papers

The Nathanael Greene papers contain Greene's military and personal correspondence during American Revolution, with the bulk of the collection documenting his command in the Southern Department (1780-1783). The collection includes Greene's communications with George Washington, the Continental Congress, the War Board, state governors, and Continental Army officers and subordinates. Also present are military documents, such as returns, memoranda, and expense reports, and personal letters to and from his wife Catherine.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-337gre?rgn=main;view=text View

Gist, Mordecai, 1742-1792. Letterbook of Mordecai Gist, 1777-1779.

Title: Letterbook of Mordecai Gist, 1777-1779.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.1 container.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71069942 View

Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Correspondence and papers, 1778-1794 (bulk 1779-1781).

Title: Correspondence and papers, 1778-1794 (bulk 1779-1781).

Correspondence and papers, 1778-1794. Most of the items are dated during 1779-1781, when Steuben was involved in efforts to reorganize the Continental Army and commanded the forces in Virginia, attempting to make that state a base of supply for General Nathanael Greene's army. They relate to such matters s the preparation and distribution of his "Regulations," reactions and questions about this work, appointments of inspectors, supply needs and problems, organization and administration of army and militia units, enemy movements and strength, condition of state militia and other army units, British invasion of Virginia, problems with the Virginia militia, his lands in Virginia, founding of the Society of the Cincinnati, etc. Some of his more frequent correspondents were: Col. Jean Baptiste Ternant, Col. William Davies, the Board of War, M. de Franey, Chevalier de la Luzerne, Gen. Nathanael Greene, Gov. Thomas Jefferson, Col. Edward Carrington, Col. George Gibson, Gen. Thomas Nelson, Gen. George Weedon, Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, Louis de Pontiere, Gen. Robert Lawson, Gen. Isaac Gregory, Col. J. Junis, Gen. Mordecai Gist, Maj. Buller Claiborne, Capt. John Pryor, Capt. William North, Col. Benjamin Walker, and Gen. Benjamin Lincoln. The collection also contains lists of engineers and tradesmen, returns of various regiments, returns of supplies, reports of Congress, and other miscellaneous papers.

ArchivalResource: 5.6 linear feet (14 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58779156 View

Justin G. Turner Autograph Collection, 1763-1968

Title: Justin G. Turner Autograph Collection 1763-1968

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and printed materials relating primarily to the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

ArchivalResource: 650 items; 2 containers; 0.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011146 View

Gist, Mordecai, 1743-1792. Autograph letter signed : to Wm. Carmichael, 1779 Aug. 27.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Wm. Carmichael, 1779 Aug. 27.

Forwarding an account with vouchers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 1/2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269584431 View