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Gratz, Simon. Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

Title: Alphabetical collection, 1677-1910.

The alphabetical collection is particularly rich in papers of Protestant American clergymen. Letters, 1795-1820, of American Presbyterian clergy addressed to William Wallace Woodward, a Philadelphia bookseller. Manuscript sermons of such clergymen as Abiel Abbot, Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel Chauncey, Timothy Edwards, Ashbel Green, Levi Hart, Alexander Murray, James Muir, William B. Sprague, Solomon Stoddard, Samuel Willard, and others. The collection includes letters and portraits of many other prominent Americans and Europeans: Theodosia Burr Alston; Governor Edmund Andros, 1677; General John Armstrong, 1769; Susanna Anthony, 1770; John Jacob Astor, 1842; John Bradford, 1720; Governor Jonathan Belcher; George Bryan; George Clinton; George Clymer; DeWitt Clinton, 1822; John Dickinson; William Dearborn, 1808; William Duer, 1786; Edward Everett, 1827; Benjamin Eastburn, 1734; William Eaton, 1805; Albert Gallatin, 1801-1811; Joseph Galloway, 1769; Adolphus W. Greely; Jonathan Greenleaf, 1843; Alexander Hamilton; Samuel Hopkins, 1770; William Harrison, 1786; Patrick Henry; Jared Ingersoll; John Jay, 1822; Washington Irving; Dyre Kearney, 1787; James Kent; Francis Scott Key; John Laurens, 1778; Gouverneur Morris, 1806; John P. Montgomery, 1776; Thomas Mifflin, 1791; John Nicholson, 1795; Isaac Morris; Samuel Otis, 1789; Richard and Thomas Penn, 1755; Edmund Pendleton; James Parker, 1793; Colonel James Rodney, 1764; Joseph Reed, 1812; Peyton Randolph; J. Bayard Smith, 1778; Jonathan D. Sergeant, 1784; Henry De Saussure, 1787; Theodore Sedgwick, 1799; William Tweed, 1871; John Tyler, Jr., 1842; James Wadsworth, 1780; John F. Zubley, 1767; and others. Other miscellaneous items are: manuscripts of James Monroe, 1794-1828, on the French Revolution; instructions to James Monroe by Edmund Randolph, 1794-1796; Aaron Burr letters, 1775-1811; Erick Bollmann, 1810; William Eaton, 1802; Joseph Bonaparte correspondence, 1815-1827; parchment deeds, 1691-1786, of Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Judge John Cleves Symmes to Captain Dayton on settlements west of Ohio and on the Miami, 1789; papers relating to Indian affairs, 1789-1806; Irish Revolution papers, 1806-1813; Mexico and South America, 1785-1843; United States Bank, 1805; Bank of North America, 1813-1814; Canadian Rebellion, 1837-1838; political relations between France and America, 1783-1793; letters of writers, artists, scholars, scientists, physicians, apothecaries, penologists, reformers, etc., ca. 1711-1910, including Joseph Lancaster's voluminous correspondence on education, James Rumsey's manuscripts and printed material, 1788, concerning his invention of the first steam vessel, and other papers bearing on intellectual trends.

ArchivalResource: 100 linear ft.

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Gilman family. Gilman family papers, 1804-1905.

Title: Gilman family papers, 1804-1905.

Correspondence of Dr. Joseph Gilman and his daughters, including letters of Tristram Gilman and Jonathan Greenleaf.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box)

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First Congregational Church (Wells, Me.). Records, 1701-1848.

Title: Records, 1701-1848.

Records of the church including baptisms, church meetings, and deaths.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

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Greenleaf, Jonathan, 1785-1865. Account of Wells, Maine, 1825.

Title: Account of Wells, Maine, 1825.

An account of the town of Wells, Me., written by Jonathan Greenleaf and Jeremiah Hubbard.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Parsons Family Papers, 1769-1878

Title: Parsons Family Papers 1769-1878

Parsons family of Connecticut and Ohio. Correspondence, legal documents, newspaper clippings, account book, printed matter, and other papers, chiefly of Samuel Holden Parsons (1737-1789), Continental Army officer; his son, Enoch Parsons (1769-1846), public official and banker of Middletown and Hartford, Connecticut; and Enoch's son, Samuel Holden Parsons (1800-1871), lawyer and banker of Middletown.

ArchivalResource: 80 items; 1 container; .2 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

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Greenleaf, Stephen, Jr., 1795-1850. A general view of the town of Brattleboro, 1842.

Title: A general view of the town of Brattleboro, 1842.

A letter from Stephen Greenleaf, Jr. to his relative Jonathan Greenleaf, written on February 8th, 1842, provides a detailed account of the early history and first inhabitants of Brattleboro, Vermont and gives some information on the population, geography and industry of the town. Additionally this letter mentions the first merchant in the town, Stephen Greenleaf, which prompts Jonathan Greenleaf to write the other letter in the collection, dated February 18th, 1842, which offers a more detailed account of the genealogy of the Greenleaf family who came to Brattleboro from England by way of Boston.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/650852972 View