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Records of insurance companies and agents, 1781-1909 (inclusive) [microform].

Title: Records of insurance companies and agents, 1781-1909 (inclusive) [microform].

Correspondence, ledgers, agency procedures book, policies (marine and fire), cash books, bills, receipts, monthly financial statements, scrapbook, and other insurance records of: William Morland & Henry Hudson, Newburyport, Mass., 1781-1783; Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston, 1798-1876; New Bedford Marine Insurance Co., New Bedford, Mass., 1805-1825; Commercial Insurance Co., Boston, 1812-1813; Joseph Balch, Boston, 1813-1823; Union Insurance Co., Portsmouth, N.H., 1815-1821; Mercantile Marine Insurance Co., Boston, 1823-1873; Nathan White, Bucksport, Me., 1839-1874 (includes ledgers and papers relating to insurance with the Thomaston Mutual Fire Insurance Co.); Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Newark, N.J., 1845-1903; Maverick Mutual Fire Insurance Co., East Boston, Mass., 1849-1851; Thomas P. James, Philadelphia, Pa., 1856-1861 (includes insurance of shipments with the Delaware Mutual Safety Insurance Co.); Boston Mutual Benefit Association, Boston, 1857-1878; Williams & Gould, Boston, 1858; Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston, 1866-1876; The London Assurance, Philadelphia, 1907-1909; and unidentified monthly financial statements, 1795-1806, for a firm in Boston. There is a microfilm copy of records and papers, 1839-1854, of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Co., Milwaukee. It also includes Civil War letters of Robert Chivas and J.L. Mitchell.

ArchivalResource: ca. 23 linear ft. (23 v., 1 box, 1 envelope, 1 folder, 1 reel of film)

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Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Lyman Draper's notes, primarily of interviews (1841-1868), with maps and transcriptions from state and county archives, newspapers, and personal manuscripts, concerning the trans-Appalachian West from about 1750 to 1815, with emphasis on Indian-White conflict, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Includes material on Indian wars, including Dunmore's War, 1774; expeditions against the Cherokee in 1776, 1788, and 1793; Crawford's campaign, 1782; John Logan's Shawnee expedition, 1787; the Great Miami treaty, 1786; the Nickajack campaign, 1794; a battle between the Potawatomi and Stephen Cole's party, 1810; Henry Dodge's expeditions of 1812 and 1814; and Indian attacks and captivities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also includes material on the Revolutionary War in Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and the Mohawk Valley, and the battles of Point Pleasant, Monmouth, King's Mountain, and Blue Licks, activities of spies, St. Clair's defeat, and Clark's Illinois campaign. Material on the War of 1812 includes descriptions of the Chicago massacre and battles of Frenchtown, Raisin River, and Thames. Also includes information on early settlement in Missouri and Kentucky, the state of Franklin, Shays' Rebellion, the upper Mississippi River, Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin), the Rock River valley (Illinois and Wisconsin), Indian traders at Milwaukee (circa 1800), and Hugh F. Bell's recollections of game hunting and cooking in Kentucky (circa 1795), with instructions for making a bearskin coat. Persons interviewed include Seneca Indians at the Cattaraugus Reservation (New York); Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, and his wife, Olive Van Bibber Boone; Simon Girty's daughter, Sarah Munger; and Simon Kenton's son, William M. Kenton. Includes excerpts from Benjamin Van Cleve's manuscript biography, from Nathaniel Hart's journal of Anthony Wayne's 1794 campaign, and copies of Wayne papers for 1792-1795. Individuals noted as subject terms below are discussed in the interviews. Also includes information on the Lewis family of Virginia, and on the Musick, Renfroe, Todd, and Wetzel families, and genealogical information for the Boone, Bryan, Callaway, Girty, Kenton, Munger, Sevier, and Van Bibber families, and for the families of John Cuppy, Thomas Dickerson, Silas Hedges, Henry Jolly, and Spencer Records. Maps include Kaskaskia (Illinois), portions of Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and the Tippecanoe battleground.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 cubic feet (33 volumes)

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Mitchell, Alexander. Papers, 1836 Mar. 16.

Title: Papers, 1836 Mar. 16.

Letter, March 16, 1836, from Alexander Mitchell, Eaton, O., to David J. Heaton, Washington, D.C., telling the effect the building of the National Road will have on the price of land.

ArchivalResource: 1 item, 4 p.

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Sage, Gardner A. Map of lands in the 12th Ward of the City of New York belonging to the estate of Elizabeth Addy, decd / surveyed by Gardner A. Sage.

Title: Map of lands in the 12th Ward of the City of New York belonging to the estate of Elizabeth Addy, decd / surveyed by Gardner A. Sage. 1837 Feb. 9.

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms., col. ; 52 x 71 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54762077 View

Records of insurance companies and agents, 1781-1938 (inclusive).

Title: Records of insurance companies and agents, 1781-1938 (inclusive).

Correspondence, ledgers, agency procedures book, policies (marine and fire), cash books, bills, receipts, monthly financial statements, scrapbook, and other insurance records of: William Morland & Henry Hudson, Newburyport, Mass., 1781-1783; Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston, 1798-1876; New Bedford Marine Insurance Co., New Bedford, Mass., 1805-1825; Commercial Insurance Co., Boston, 1812-1813; Joseph Balch, Boston, 1813-1823; Union Insurance Co., Portsmouth, N.H., 1815-1821; Mercantile Marine Insurance Co., Boston, 1823-1873; Globe Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Boston, 1824-1838; Isaiah Crowell & Co., South Yarmouth, Mass., 1839-1858; Nathan White, Bucksport, Me., 1839-1874 (includes ledgers and papers relating to insurance with the Thomaston Mutual Fire Insurance Co.); Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Newark, N.J., 1845-1903; Maverick Mutual Fire Insurance Co., East Boston, Mass., 1849-1851; Canterbury Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Canterbury, N.H., 1849-1938; Thomas P. James, Philadelphia, Pa., 1856-1861 (includes insurance of shipments with the Delaware Mutual Safety Insurance Co.); Boston Mutual Benefit Association, Boston, 1857-1878; Williams & Gould, Boston, 1858; Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Boston, 1866-1876; The London Assurance, Philadelphia, 1907-1909; and unidentified monthly financial statements, 1795-1806, for a firm in Boston. There is a microfilm copy of records and papers, 1839-1854, of the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Co., Milwaukee. It also includes Civil War letters of Robert Chivas and J.L. Mitchell.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3 linear ft. (32 v., 1 box, 1 envelope, 1 folder, 1 reel of film)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17266709 View