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Forbes, John, 1707-1759. Papers of John Forbes [manuscript], 1755-1759.

Title: Papers of John Forbes [manuscript], 1755-1759.

The papers from Forbes's campaign against the French at Ft. Duquesne contain correspondence, reports about Indian allies and the colonial governments, military returns and instructions, intelligence reports and some financial papers. They concern strategy, supply, the advance across Pennsylvania, colonial cooperation, provisioning of the troops, Indian negotiations and relations with British and colonial officers. Material is present from other British campaigns in the French and Indian war, particularly the assault at Ft. Ticonderoga, the massacre at Ft. William Henry, the siege of Louisburg, and Braddock's defeat which is described in the letterbook of Sir John St.Clair, the highest ranking officer to survive.

ArchivalResource: 530 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647835114 View

William Henry Lyttelton papers 1730-1806 1755-1761 Lyttelton, William Henry, papers

Title: William Henry Lyttelton papers 1730-1806 1755-1761 Lyttelton, William Henry, papers

The William Henry Lyttelton papers document Lyttelton's career as governor of South Carolina and governor of Jamaica. These items primarily relate to colonial administration of South Carolina and Jamaica, and military engagements with Native Americans on the South Carolina frontier and against the French in the West Indies.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-960lyt?rgn=main;view=text View

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797. Jeffery Amherst papers, 1758-1764.

Title: Jeffery Amherst papers, 1758-1764.

The Jeffery Amherst papers (763 items) consist of the correspondence, documents, and military orders of Jeffery Amherst, British commander-in-chief in North America from 1758-1763. Included are Amherst's letters to General Thomas Gage and the papers given to Gage with the transfer of authority in 1763.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758450177 View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Bouquet's Expedition against the Indians, 1764.

Title: Bouquet's Expedition against the Indians, 1764.

Bouquet's Expedition against the Indians consists of two orderly books issued by Colonel Henry Bouquet, spanning August-November 1764, during which time he lead a small army into western Ohio Indian territory to retrieve white captives and to enforce a peace settlement with the Delaware, Mingo, Shawnee, and Wyandot Indians. These volumes contain detailed information on Bouquet's decisions and actions, and explain how he maneuvered his forces through the wilderness.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606793818 View

Schoop, John C. Colonel Henry Bouquet, 1719-1765.

Title: Colonel Henry Bouquet, 1719-1765. [n.d.]

ArchivalResource: 84 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13416662 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

Smith, William Henry, 1833-1896. Papers, 1836-1922, bulk 1855-1895.

Title: Papers, 1836-1922, bulk 1855-1895.

The collection is composed primarily of Smith's business, political, and research related correspondence dating from 1855-1895. Included are letters associated with his newspaper work in Cincinnati, and wire services such as the Associated Press. Business correspondence concerns Smith's interest in the Mergenthaler Printing Company. Political correspondence includes letters from James A. Garfield to Rutherford B. Hayes (1880-1881). Other papers concern the Republican Party, and the 1876 presidential campaign, and Smith's personal historical interests. Personal correspondence also includes letters from his wife and children, and Charles R. Williams. Photographs consist of carte de visite, cabinet card, and tintype portraits, likely of family members and friends.

ArchivalResource: 17 manuscript boxes, 6 bound volumes, 1 oversize box, 37 reels of microfilm, 1 box of photographs, 3 oversize photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47962192 View

Burd-Shippen Papers, 1708-1792

Title: Burd-Shippen Papers 1708-1792

James Burd (1726-1793) was well-known in colonial Pennsylvania through his role in the French and Indian War, as well as his connections to many of the colony's leading families (most notably the Shippen family). Initially starting out as a merchant in Philadelphia, Burd became increasingly involved with colonial affairs after moving to Lancaster County with his family in 1752. It would be on the frontier where Burd would make his mark first as a soldier, and later as a magistrate. The Burd-Shippen Papers consist mainly of letters and business documents sent to James Burd, with the bulk of the collection relating to the French and Indian War, 1754-1763, in which Burd served as an officer commanding troops at Fort Augusta and elsewhere. The 2.5 linear feet in the collection reflects all aspects of Burd's life in Pennsylvania as a merchant, soldier, and magistrate; as well as his involvement with the Shippen family professionally and personally. Intermixed with items sent to Burd are receipts to his wife Sarah Shippen Burd, and correspondence between Edward Shippen and James Hamilton regarding land matters and Indian affairs in Lancaster.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear feet; 12 volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B892-ead.xml View

Bouquet’s Expedition against the Indians 1764 Bouquet’s Expedition against the Indians

Title: Bouquet’s Expedition against the Indians 1764 Bouquet’s Expedition against the Indians

Bouquet’s Expedition against the Indians consists of two orderly books issued by Colonel Henry Bouquet, spanning August-November 1764, during which time he lead a small army into western Ohio Indian territory to retrieve white captives and to enforce a peace settlement with the Delaware, Mingo, Shawnee, and Wyandot Indians. These volumes contain detailed information on Bouquet's decisions and actions, and explain how he maneuvered his forces through the wilderness.

ArchivalResource: 2 volumes

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-938bou?rgn=main;view=text View

Shippen, Edward, 1703-1781. Letters and papers, 1727-1781.

Title: Letters and papers, 1727-1781.

These letters and papers include ten small volumes of letterbooks (1752-1781), and ca. 100 pieces of correspondence with Joseph Shippen (1750-1778). Topics discussed are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs.

ArchivalResource: ca. 190 items and 10 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540100 View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Great Britain. Army. Provincial Forces of Pennsylvania. Colonial Henry Bouquet's Orders, 1758.

Title: Colonial Henry Bouquet's Orders, 1758.

The orderly book contains orders of Colonial Henry Bouquet in connection with General John Forbes's assult on Fort Dusquesne. Also pertains to Forts Raystown and Lyttelton, PA. Covers June 17 to September 14, 1758. Published in The Papers of Henry Bouquet, ed. S.K. Stevens, Donald Kent, and Louis Waddell (Harrisburg: The Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission, 1951- ), 2: 656-90.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume, 68 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755759105 View

Gage, Thomas, 1721-1787. Thomas Gage papers, 1754-1807, bulk 1759-1775.

Title: Thomas Gage papers, 1754-1807, bulk 1759-1775.

The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarters papers of General Thomas Gage, officer in the British Army in America (1754-1763) and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America (1763-1775). The papers include incoming correspondence and retained copies of letters written by Gage, together with a large quantity of documents related to military administration and manuscript maps of North America. The collection is particularly strong in documenting British administration of North America after the French and Indian War, interactions with Native Americans, and the years preceding the American Revolution. The collection also includes a the Thomas Gage warrants, a series of financial documents authorizing payments related to British military expenses in North America during Gage's service as commander-in-chief.

ArchivalResource: 70 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711054960 View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Henry Bouquet papers, 1758-1764.

Title: Henry Bouquet papers, 1758-1764.

Contains watercolor picture-maps of Bouquet's campaign on the western frontier during the French and Indian War. Also includes a letter from John Bradstreet to Bouquet, dated Oct. 17, 1764.

ArchivalResource: 1 wallet.Letter; 2 pages.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311520803 View

Jeffery Amherst papers 1758-1764 Amherst, Jeffery papers

Title: Jeffery Amherst papers 1758-1764 Amherst, Jeffery papers

The Jeffery Amherst papers (763 items) consist of the correspondence, documents, and military orders of Jeffery Amherst, British commander-in-chief in North America from 1758-1763. Included are Amherst's letters to General Thomas Gage and the papers given to Gage with the transfer of authority in 1763.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-341amh?rgn=main;view=text View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Camp.

Title: Camp. 1764.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 20 x 11.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81408919 View

Darlington, Mary C. (Mary Carson), 1824-1915. History of Colonel Henry Bouquet and the western frontiers of Pennsylvania, 1747-1764 / collected and edited by Mary Carson Darlington.

Title: History of Colonel Henry Bouquet and the western frontiers of Pennsylvania, 1747-1764 / collected and edited by Mary Carson Darlington. [191-?]

ArchivalResource: 186 leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38903738 View

Darlington family. Darlington family papers, 1753-1921 [electronic resource].

Title: Darlington family papers, 1753-1921 [electronic resource].

This collection contains the nineteenth and early twentieth century personal, legal and financial papers of William M. Darlington and his family, including: his wife, Mary Carson O'Hara Darlington, his children, O'Hara Darlington, Mary Carson Darlington and Edith Dennison Darlington Ammon, his father, Benjamin Darlington, and his wife's grandparents, James and Mary Carson O'Hara. Documents range from personal letters, business correspondence, financial and travel documents, to art on paper, photographs, scrapbooks of news clippings and personal ephemera. The collection highlights William's book collecting, including correspondence with book dealers and individuals interested in his library, book catalogs and orders, receipts for purchases, notes and essays written by William, and topical inventories of the family library when it resided at Guyasuta.

ArchivalResource: 31.5 linear ft. (27 boxes + 49 vol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/671386919 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

Burd, James, 1726-1793. Burd-Shippen Papers, 1740-1792 (bulk).

Title: Burd-Shippen Papers, 1740-1792 (bulk).

Relating principally to the French and Indian War, this collection contains letters, 1740-1792, (ca. 400 items) to Burd from Edward Shippen of Lancaster, Henry Bouquet, John Hambright, Lynford Lardner, Samuel Miles, William Trent, Walter Stirling, Daniel Wister, and others, on personal and business matters.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86102558 View

Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800. Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to [John Baynton and George Morgan, Philadelphia, Pa.], 1765 Mar. 19.

Title: Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to [John Baynton and George Morgan, Philadelphia, Pa.], 1765 Mar. 19.

March 19, 1765, letter to partners John Baynton and George Morgan, regarding the firm's losses and strategies to employ in gaining approval from General Thomas Gage to engage in the Indian trade in the west.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40826841 View

John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775, 1735-1775

Title: John Bartram correspondence, 1735-1775 1735-1775

Correspondence compiled by Edward E. Wildman and Francis D. West, chiefly from original letters in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and other depositories, 1956.

ArchivalResource: 719.0 Item(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B28.w-ead.xml View

Edward Shippen letters and papers, 1727-1781, 1727-1781

Title: Edward Shippen letters and papers, 1727-1781 1727-1781

These letters and papers include ten small volumes of letterbooks (1752-1781), and ca. 100 pieces of correspondence with Joseph Shippen (1750-1778). Topics discussed are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Volume(s), Ca. 190 items; 10 volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sh62-ead.xml View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Disposition to receive the enemy.

Title: Disposition to receive the enemy. 1764.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 20 x 11.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79240602 View

Selected materials on Indian affairs, 1698-1796, 1698-1796

Title: Selected materials on Indian affairs, 1698-1796 1698-1796

Most of the items microfilmed are from the Public Archives of Canada. From the Daniel Claus Papers, 1761-1796, are letters and papers on Indian affairs at Forts Pitt, Niagara, and Detroit, with letters of Dr. Alexander McKee, Arthur St. Clair, Joseph Chew, Richard Butler, Joseph Brant, and John Graves Simcoe. From the papers of Brigadier Robert Monckton, 1760-1761, are appointments, returns, reports, bills and receipts, and letters relating to Forts Pitt, Bedford, and Niagara, with letters of James Burd, Horatio Gates, Henry Bouquet, Lewis Ourry, Sir John St. Clair, Thomas Hutchins, John Stanwix, and Lord Amherst. There are also excerpts for minutes of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs at Albany, 1723-1746; transcripts from the Public Record Office on Indians, trade, defense, 1698-1767, including names of persons naturalized in British America, 1740-61, and accounts of Lt. Col. Harry Gordon, 1756-1761, 1764-1767; Duquesne-Centrecoeur correspondence, 1752-1753, Fonds Verreau, from the Université Laval, Quebec; and, miscellaneous documents. All materials concern eighteenth-century Indian affairs, especially the Six Nations, and Algonquian Indians.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.426-ead.xml View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Autograph letter signed, 1763 Apr. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed, 1763 Apr. 24.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270513848 View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Speech at Fort Pitt, 1764 Sept. 20.

Title: Speech at Fort Pitt, 1764 Sept. 20.

Speech of Col. Henry Bouquet, commander of Fort Pitt, to Lenape chief "Captain" Jacobs and other Delaware Indian chiefs with him at the fort.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974526 View

Darlington family. Darlington family papers, 1753-1921.

Title: Darlington family papers, 1753-1921.

This collection contains the nineteenth and early twentieth century personal, legal and financial papers of William M. Darlington and his family, including: his wife, Mary Carson O'Hara Darlington, his children, O'Hara Darlington, Mary Carson Darlington and Edith Dennison Darlington Ammon, his father, Benjamin Darlington, and his wife's grandparents, James and Mary Carson O'Hara. Documents range from personal letters, business correspondence, financial and travel documents, to art on paper, photographs, scrapbooks of news clippings and personal ephemera. The collection highlights William's book collecting, including correspondence with book dealers and individuals interested in his library, book catalogs and orders, receipts for purchases, notes and essays written by William, and topical inventories of the family library when it resided at Guyasuta.

ArchivalResource: 31.5 linear ft. (27 boxes + 49 vol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/227188278 View

Henry Bouquet orders, 1758-1765

Title: Henry Bouquet orders 1758-1765

Bouquet's orders concerning contracts for wagons and horses at Berks County, Pennsylvania (1758); for the enlistment of Sergeant Roy in Captain Richard Mather's company of Grenadiers (1760); and for the discharge of Alexander Kaga of the 60th Royal American Regiment (1765).

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/7580 View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Henry Bouquet papers, 1765-1788.

Title: Henry Bouquet papers, 1765-1788.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79453412 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866

Title: Jared Sparks collection of documents concerning the American Revolution, 1740-1866 .

Documents copied or collected by American historian and president of Harvard Jared Sparks.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00303/catalog View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Order of march.

Title: Order of march. 1764.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 20 x 11.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78624191 View

William L. Clements Library. William Henry Lyttelton papers, 1730-1806.

Title: William Henry Lyttelton papers, 1730-1806.

The William Henry Lyttelton papers document Lyttelton's career as governor of South Carolina and governor of Jamaica. These items primarily relate to colonial administration of South Carolina and Jamaica, and to military engagements with Native Americans on the South Carolina frontier and against the French in the West Indies.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767571729 View

Letter to Alexander McKee from Henry Bouquet 1764 [manuscript]

Title: Letter to Alexander McKee from Henry Bouquet 1764 [manuscript]

Handwritten letter to McKee, Indian agent at Fort Pitt, from Henry Bouquet at Fort Loudon.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/621039509 View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. The Henry Bouquet papers, 1765.

Title: The Henry Bouquet papers, 1765.

Contains the following type of materials: correspondence / letters. Contains information pertaining to the following war and time period: Pre-Revolutionary War. General description of the collection: The Henry Bouquet papers include an autographed letter from Henry Bouquet to Rudolph Bentinck (signed April 29, 1765) covering such matters as Bouquet's prospective command of the Southern Brigade in Florida, his analysis of the means and prospects of promotion in the British Army, and his desire to receive an "establishment" of 100,000 acres from the proprietors of Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140401 View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Galloway, 1763 May 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Mr. Galloway, 1763 May 4.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270528248 View

Public Archives of Canada. Selected materials on Indian affairs, 1698-1796.

Title: Selected materials on Indian affairs, 1698-1796.

Most of the items microfilmed are from the Public Archives of Canada. From the Daniel Claus Papers, 1761-1796, are letters and papers on Indian affairs at Forts Pitt, Niagara, and Detroit, with letters of Dr. Alexander McKee, Arthur St. Clair, Joseph Chew, Richard Butler, Joseph Brant, and John Graves Simcoe. From the papers of Brigadier Robert Monckton, 1760-1761, are appointments, returns, reports, bills and receipts, and letters relating to Forts Pitt, Bedford, and Niagara, with letters of James Burd, Horatio Gates, Henry Bouquet, Lewis Ourry, Sir John St. Clair, Thomas Hutchins, John Stanwix, and Lord Amherst. There are also excerpts for minutes of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs at Albany, 1723-1746.

ArchivalResource: 3 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316294 View

Samuel Finley Field Notes for Bouquet's Expedition 1764, 1846-1849 1764 Finley, Samuel, Field Notes for Bouquet's Expedition

Title: Samuel Finley Field Notes for Bouquet's Expedition 1764, 1846-1849 1764 Finley, Samuel, Field Notes for Bouquet's Expedition

The Samuel Finley Field Notes for Bouquet's Expedition (60 pages) contains detailed descriptions of the topography of Bouquet's route though Pennsylvania and Ohio during his march against the Ohio Indians (October 2-25, 1864). Finley, a field engineer, recorded minute descriptions of physical and environmental features of the landscape, such as the direction and speed of rivers and streams, characteristics of the terrain, soil, and timber quality, and tree and undergrowth density.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1897fin?rgn=main;view=text View

Native American History collection 1689-1921 Native American History collection

Title: Native American History collection 1689-1921 Native American History collection

The Native American History collection contains miscellaneous letters and documents concerning Native American Indians in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies, and their interactions with British and American settlers.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-342nat?rgn=main;view=text View

Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765. For the attack.

Title: For the attack. 1764.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. map ; 20 x 11.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84006354 View