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Chambers, James S. Papers, 1796-1918.

Title: Papers, 1796-1918.

Collection contains family correspondence of a minister dealing with health, economic conditions, social matters, and, especially, religion and church life.

ArchivalResource: 55 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36668712 View

Hopkinson, James, Esq. James Hopkinson papers, 1847-1917.

Title: James Hopkinson papers, 1847-1917.

Chiefly plantation, business, and legal correspondence re estate of John Berwick Legare, planter of Edisto Island, S.C.; including 20 volumes, 1846-1883, Edisto Island, S.C., chiefly plantation account books and journals re crop yields, repairs, expenditures, weather conditions, slave records, and social events; executor's account book, 1857-1861, re estate of J.B. Legare; receipts, 24 Nov. 1856-2 July 1959, Charleston, S.C., to J.B. Legare's estate, re household goods, taxes, legal records, and clothing. Letter, 21 Dec. 1861, U.S. Steamer Pawnee, Port Royal, S.C., P. Drayton, to S[amuel] F[rancis] DuPont, re naval operations and capture of cotton; letter, 23 Dec. 1861, Flag Ship Wabash, Port Royal, S.C., S.F. DuPont to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, re cotton captured by Drayton; letter, 31 Jan. 1862, Navy Department, Gideon Welles, to James S. Chambers, Navy Agent, Philadelphia, Pa., re delivery of captured cotton. Letter, 26 Jan. 1866, U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Charleston, S.C., O[liver] O[tis] Howard, re restoring plantation on Wadmalaw Island, S.C., now occupied by freedmen, to Count Ferdinand de Lasteyrie; letter, 24 Apr. 1866, Rockville, S.C., J.E. Cornelius, to Maj. H.W. Smith, Charleston, S.C., re distribution of seized land to freedmen, establishment of a school for African-American children, and restoration of seized land to former owners. Letter, 15 Nov. 1872, Charleston, S.C., Wilmot Gibbes DeSaussure, to James Hopkinson, Edisto, S.C., re lawsuit, court ruling, settlement amounts, and continuance; letter, Dec. 1872, Charleston, S.C., Whaley and Mitchell [firm] to James Hopkinson, re payment of James Hopkinson's account.

ArchivalResource: 402 items and 20 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41963032 View

Irvine, William, 1741-1804. Draper manuscripts: William Irvine papers, 1776-1834.

Title: Draper manuscripts: William Irvine papers, 1776-1834

Copies of correspondence of the Commander of the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, who later (1779) became a brigadier general in the Continental Army, including materials from his command at Fort Pitt (1781-1783). Border defense and Irvine's military career are the most prominent topics, but personal letters written to his wife discuss family health, business affairs, servants, and the children's education.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (2 volumes)

https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999464549602121 View

Irvine, William, 1741-1804. Draper manuscripts: William Irvine papers, 1776-1834.

Title: Draper manuscripts: William Irvine papers, 1776-1834.

Copies of correspondence of William Irvine, the Commander of the Seventh Pennsylvania Regiment, who later (1779) became a brigadier general in the Continental Army, including materials from his command at Fort Pitt (1781-1783). Border defense and Irvine's military career are the most prominent topics, but personal letters written to his wife discuss family health, business affairs, servants, and the children's education.

ArchivalResource: 0.4 c.f. (2 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465080512 View

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting : document signed, 1861 Aug. 10.

Title: President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these presents, greeting : document signed, 1861 Aug. 10.

Printed document with manuscript inserts, appointing James S. Chambers as the Navy agent for the Port of Philadelphia. Signed by Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States and Gideon Welles as Secretary of the Navy.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 29 x 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41940485 View

Chambers, James, d. 1805. Orderly books, 1778-1780.

Title: Orderly books, 1778-1780.

Four manuscript oderly books of the 1st Pennsylvania Regimenta attributed to Chambers: v. 1, July 26-December 1778 with headquarters at White Plains, Wrights Mill, Fredericksburg, Paramus, Newark, Westfield and Middle Brook contains brigade and regimental orders and daily field officer assignments; v. 2, 4 August 1778-7 October 1779, with headquarters at White Plains and Fredricksburg is water damaged and difficult to read and contains entries dated 1784 for wheat received and delivered at "Sundries;" v. 3, May 24-August 25, 1779 with headquarters at Middle Brook, Pomton Plains, New Windsor, West Point contains division orders and mentions Colonel Smallwood; v. 4, June 13-August 5, 1780, with headquarters at Bryan's Tavern, Short HIlls, Sprindfield, Rockaway Bridge, Totoway, Varblank Point [i.e., Verplancks Point] contains division orders and work details with mention of General Anthonly Wayne.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474722 View