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Richard Price Papers, 1767-1790

Title: Richard Price Papers 1767-1790

The Welsh non-conformist minister Richard Price (1723-1791) was a moral philosopher and political and economic theorist whose ideas leant support to the American cause during the Revolution. Of broad and liberal mind, he was an integral member of the intellectual coterie surrounding William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne, and was a founding member of the Unitarian Church. Befitting a latitudinarian thinker, the range of Richard Price's correspondence is extremely broad, touching upon his rationalistic philosophy and dissenting theology, his political views on British politics, America and the American Revolution, the Constitutional settlement, the future of the United States, social reform, demography, prisons, and slavery. The ninety letters in the collection are arranged chronologically, with correspondents including Charles Chauncy (8 letters, 1772-1779), Benjamin Franklin (7 letters, 1775-1789), John Howard (11 letters and a biographical manuscript, 1770-1789), Thomas Jefferson (3 letters, 1785-1789), Benjamin Rush (8 letters, 1786-1790), and Edward Wigglesworth (3 letters, 1775-1786), as well as lesser known figures such as the reformer John Howard.

ArchivalResource: 90.0 items

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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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FRANCIS PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i + 368). Miscellaneous papers, 1764-1894, mainly relating to the identity of the writer of the letters of "Junius." Among them. are various letters and papers of Lady Francis and other members of the Francis family. On f..., 1764-1894

Title: FRANCIS PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i + 368). Miscellaneous papers, 1764-1894, mainly relating to the identity of the writer of the letters of "Junius." Among them. are various letters and papers of Lady Francis and other members of the Francis family. On f... 1764-1894

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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Boylston family. Boylston family papers, 1688-1979.

Title: Boylston family papers, 1688-1979.

Business and family papers of the Boylston family of Boston and Princeton, Mass. and Bath, Bristol, and London, Eng. Letters, letterbooks, diaries, ledgers, and journals of merchants John (1709-1795), Thomas (1721-1798), Nicholas (1716-1771), and Ward N. Boylston (1749-1827). Subjects include coffee, rum, potash, sugar and whale oil trade, land speculation, the coming of the American Revolution, Mass. loyalists, construction of the family home in Princeton, and European description and travel. Correspondents include John Q. Adams, Asher Benjamin, Eliphalet Fitch, George Folger, Benjamin Hallowell, William Cooper, Harrison Gray, Daniel Leonard, Daniel Lisle, Moses Gill, Charles Bulfinch, Charles Paxton, William Smith, Benjamin, Petty, Samuel and William Vaughan, Samuel Sewall, and Jacob Wendell.

ArchivalResource: 98 boxes (4 containing 42 v.), 44 v. in cases, 3 oversize v. in cases, 12 extra tall v. in cases, and 6 oversize boxes.

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Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768 - ca. 1936

Title: John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936

The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 850 items

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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 7 -- Letters to Franklin, 1783 January-November

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 7 -- Letters to Franklin 1783 January-November

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 1 -- Letters to Franklin, 1730-1776

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 1 -- Letters to Franklin 1730-1776

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 2 -- Letters to Franklin, 1777 January-1778 March

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 2 -- Letters to Franklin 1777 January-1778 March

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 9 -- Letters to Franklin, 1787-1790

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 9 -- Letters to Franklin 1787-1790

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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American Philosophical Society. Membership certificate, 1786 Jan. 20, of John Jay.

Title: Membership certificate, 1786 Jan. 20, of John Jay.

Certificate of John Jay as a member of the American Philosophical Society. Signed by Benjamin Franklin as president, and by John Ewing, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania; William White, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Philadelphia; and Samuel Vaughan; James Hutchinson, a surgeon in the Continental Army; Robert Patterson, first director of the U.S. Mint; John Foulke; and Samuel Magaw.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 24 x 39 cm. folded to 24 x 14 cm.

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

Title: Papers, 1746-1900.

This collection includes letters, with some transcripts and photostats, between Vaughan and American and British correspondents. There are also lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 v.); notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; and genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5000 items.

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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Letter and autographs, 1757, n.d.

Title: Letter and autographs, 1757, n.d.

Consists of a 1757 letter to the Reverend Ezra Stiles in Newport, Rhode Island, and a block of four signatures (those of Franklin, John Ewing, Samuel Vaughan and William White). A note accompanying the signatures suggests that they were cut from a certificate of membership from the American Philosophical Society, where all four men were officers.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (3 leaves)

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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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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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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin, 1781-1782

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 6 -- Letters to Franklin 1781-1782

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Vaughan, Samuel. Samuel Vaughan diary, 1787-1796.

Title: Samuel Vaughan diary, 1787-1796.

Diary (1787 June 18-September 4) kept by Vaughan on a trip through Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania to Fort Pitt. The volume (44 pages) also includes maps, later notes on the diary entries, and list compiled by his son, Benjamin Vaughan, giving information on Samuel Vaughan's children.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.1 microfilm reel.

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Journal, 1787, of a tour through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, 1787

Title: Journal, 1787, of a tour through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia 1787

This journal begins with a visit to Germantown (Pa.), and continues through Pennsylvania to Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Also included are expenses on the road for Vaughan, his horse, and servants.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 45 p., photostats

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Temple, Nelson, Lloyd, Vassall, and Borland family papers, 1611-1862 (bulk 1700-1831)

Title: Temple, Nelson, Lloyd, Vassall, and Borland family papers, 1611-1862 (inclusive), 1700-1831 (bulk)

Papers of U.S. senator James Lloyd and others related to the Temple, Nelson, Lloyd, Vassall, and Borland families.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet (12 boxes and 1 folder)

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Samuel, Williams family, papers, 1723-1995.

Title: Samuel papers, Williams family 1723-1995.

Family papers of American Samuel Williams (1743-1817), clergyman, naturalist, and for a time, the Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. Includes manuscripts of Williams's friend, Count Benjamin Thompson Rumford.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

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Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 8 -- Letters to Franklin, 1783 December-1786

Title: Benjamin Franklin Papers Part 8 -- Letters to Franklin 1783 December-1786

This is part of the large inventory for the Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss B F85). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Stetson, Sarah P., Mrs. Samuel Vaughan Papers, 1947-1955.

Title: Samuel Vaughan Papers, 1947-1955.

Correspondence, 1947-1955, with libraries, historical societies and descendants about Samuel Vaughan (1720-1802) and his sons Benjamin Vaughan, Charles Vaughan and John Vaughan. The collection includes photostats, microfilm, and slides.

ArchivalResource: 8 notebooks.

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Vaughan, Samuel, 18th cent. Journal : of Samuel Vaughan, 1787 June 18 - September 4.

Title: Journal : of Samuel Vaughan, 1787 June 18 - September 4.

"Minutes made by S.[amuel] V.[aughan] from Stage to Stage on a Tour to Fort Pitt or Pittsbourg in company with Mr. Michl. Morgan O'Brian. from thence by S.V. only--through Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania." Includes Vaughan's visit to Mount Vernon and his sketch of the layout of the estate.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (70-72 p.)

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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