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Shippen, Joseph, Jr., 1732-1810. Letterbook, 1763-1773.

Title: Letterbook, 1763-1773.

These letters relate principally to provincial business and comment on the Indians of Pennsylvania, the French and Indian War, a survey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary, and the Stamp Act. Correspondents include James Burd, Jeremiah Dixon, Joseph Galloway, Humphry Marshall, Charles Mason, Edward Shippen of Lancaster, and Edward Shippen, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (114 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298229 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

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Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781. ALS : Lancaster, Pa., to Joseph Shippen, 1774 Sept. 20.

Title: ALS : Lancaster, Pa., to Joseph Shippen, 1774 Sept. 20.

A letter to his son, sending congratulations on the birth of a son, commenting on events in Congress and the conduct of British officers in Boston, and discouraging at length the evils of drink and gambling.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145507016 View

Shippen family. Papers, 1750-1775.

Title: Papers, 1750-1775.

Papers, 1750-1775, include three original letters and typewritten transcripts of 18 others. The location of the originals is unknown. Topics include: family matters, Perth Amboy, N.J., David Ogden, the College of New Jersey, Oxford Furnace (Warren County, N.J.), Pennsylvania politics, Lord North, the First Continental Congress, Six Nations Indians, American brewing techniques, Baltimore plantations, and the French and Indian War. Also, a land-title brief for Oxford Furnace property.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39487107 View

Shippen family. Papers 1757-1961, bulk 1760-1800.

Title: Papers 1757-1961, bulk 1760-1800.

Collection contains miscellaneous items relating to various members of the Shippen family. The majority are letters, some of which date from the 1700s. Other items include receipts for goods purchased and photographs and engravings of members of the Shippen family. There are several obituaries and newspaper writings. There are copies of two accounts of Edward Shippen, Jr., for furniture, including details of upholstering an easy chair (1754-1755). Another bill for furniture was sent to Edward Shippen of Lancaster in 1771. A map shows the route of a road built by Colonel James Burd in 1758. Genealogical notes have been added to some documents.

ArchivalResource: 4 folders [ca. 25 items] : ill. ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83067246 View

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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Peale-Sellers family collection, 1686-1963

Title: Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963

The collection, divided into seven series, represents the careers and interests of the members of the Peale-Sellers family from the 1670s to 1960s. More than half is correspondence among various members of the families. The Peale family is best known as a family of artists; however, family interests and activities were much more wide-ranging. The best known Peale is Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786), who produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods. Peale was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821). He had eighteen children, eleven of whom reached adulthood. Three of Charles Willson Peale’s sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865). A fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist. Peale’s daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives. Two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers. The latter served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls. He was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909). One of their grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography.

ArchivalResource: 19.0 Linear feet; 38 Boxes; 147 Volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml View

Edward Shippen of Lancaster, 1936, 1936

Title: Edward Shippen of Lancaster, 1936 1936

This is a biographical sketch, without bibliography or citations.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 36 p., typed.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sh63-ead.xml View

Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781. ALS : Lancaster, Pa., to John Penn, 1766 Feb. 26.

Title: ALS : Lancaster, Pa., to John Penn, 1766 Feb. 26.

Shippen informs Penn that Christopher Tush has been cutting down trees and building a house on the proprietor's lands.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122490289 View

Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810. Papers of Joseph Shippen, 1727-1783.

Title: Papers of Joseph Shippen, 1727-1783.

Correspondence, legal papers, and accounts of Shippen, his father, Edward Shippen (1703-1781), his brother, Edward Shippen (1729-1806), his cousin, Dr. William Shippen (1736-1808), and Ann Penn, John Penn, Thomas Penn, and William Penn, relating to family affairs, Indian affairs, the estate of William Penn, and political matters in colonial Pennsylvania. Correspondents include John Armstrong, William Blythe, George Croghan, Thomas Gage, James Logan, Timothy Matlack, Israel Pemberton, Arthur St. Clair, James Tilghman, and Henry Wilmot.

ArchivalResource: 103 items.1 container.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77723622 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

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Hughes, John. Papers, 1725-1818.

Title: Papers, 1725-1818.

Among these papers are several dealing with the history of the Stamp Act, incuding a letter from Benjamin Franklin to John Hughes, Indian agent and distributor of stamps in Pennsylvania, 1765; a pamphlet, Instructions for the Distributors of Stamped Parchment and Paper in America, 1765; the manifest of the ship Royal Charlotte carrying 3 cases and 7 packages of stamps for America, 1765; the account book of John Hughes with Benjamin Franklin, 1755-1757; letters from Anthony Wayne to John Hughes relating to survey of land in Nova Scotia, 1765; a folder of the correspondence of John Hughes relating to the land project in Nova Scotia in which Benjamin Franklin was interested, 1763-1769; bonds, mortgages, and agreements, 1753-1782; letters from John Hughes to Isaac Hughes, relating his journey to Charles Town, 1769-1771; a pamphlet, The Bill for Better Raising of Money on the Inhabitants of Philadelphia for Public Use, 1739; the commission to John Hughes and Edward Shippen to build a fort and houses in Indian territory in connection with the Tedyuskung treaty signed by William Denny and Richard Peters, 1757; the daybook of John Hughes, 1761-1818; a record of bills introduced in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, 1814-1815; and patents and deeds, mostly pertaining to land in Upper Merion, Montgomery County, 1730-1802.

ArchivalResource: ca. 400 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541083 View

Storke and Gainsborough. Correspondence with American merchants, 1721-1740.

Title: Correspondence with American merchants, 1721-1740.

Included are business correspondence to Storke and Gainsborough from a number of American merchants including Philip Livingston, two Robert Livingstons, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, James Bowdoin, Thomas Hancock, Nathaniel Henchman, Peter Oliver, Andrew Oliver, Isaac Norris and Edward Shippen. The letters discuss the shipment of goods between the colonies, the West Indies and England. They include detailed descriptions of items sent to England and the West Indies for sale as well as items purchased from abroad. The letters also discuss land transactions, instructions for other business dealings and the condition of ships used to transport goods. Descriptions of the routes taken by vessels are also discussed within the context of trade. Some items are letters of introduction for relatives sent to England and contain instructions for the treatment of the visitors. Several of the documents in the collection do not relate directly to Storke and Gainsborough but are contemporaneous.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (ca. 332 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122617793 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

Burd family. Papers of the Burd-Shippen family, 1717-1898.

Title: Papers of the Burd-Shippen family, 1717-1898.

The majority of the collection includes the personal correspondence and business records of Edward Burd and, his relative, Edward Shippen IV. The business papers include legal documents such as deeds and indentured servant lists, business records in the form of invoices and receipts, and correspondence concerning debts and legal matters. The papers also relate to members of the Burd and Shippen families such as Sarah Shippen Burd, Elizabeth Burd, Edward Shippen Burd, James Burd, and James Burd Hubley. The collection contains the papers of Lewis Burd Walker, an amateur historian and family genealogist. Included in Lewis Burd Walker's papers are transcriptions of the wills of Margaret Shippen Arnold and Benedict Arnold. Walker also provides transcriptions of letters written by Margaret Shippen Arnold to family and friends.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31531712 View

Shippen family. Papers, 1733-1878.

Title: Papers, 1733-1878.

This small but rich collection of letters and documents concern the Shippen family of Pennsylvania. The subjects of the letters are varied and include domestic details, military affairs of the Revolution and the Pennsylvania frontier, politics, trade, and business.

ArchivalResource: ca. 160 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122473984 View

Timothy Horsfield Papers, 1684, 1733-1771

Title: Timothy Horsfield Papers 1684, 1733-1771

An early settler and prominent citizen in the Moravian heartland near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Timothy Horsfield was named justice of the peace when Northampton County was formed out of Bucks in 1752, and was one of those given responsibility for the defence of the local white and Christian Indian populations during the French and Indian War. The Horsfield Papers offer a window onto the tumultuous history of northeastern Pennsylvania during the 1750s and 1760s. Comprised largely of correspondence and related documents between Horsfield, William Parsons, and provincial and military authorities, the collection includes important information on the Indian assaults on the region in 1756 and 1757 and the military and diplomatic response.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear feet; 205 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.974.8.H78-ead.xml View

Thomas Gage papers 1754-1807 1759-1775 Gage, Thomas, papers

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

The Thomas Gage papers consist of the military and governmental correspondence and headquarter 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 between 1763 and 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 series is described in a separate finding aid. Thomas Gage warrants

ArchivalResource: 70 linear feet

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

Jacobs papers, 1681-1838.

Title: Jacobs papers, 1681-1838.

The papers of John Jacobs, member of Assembly for Chester County; Joseph Jacobs, saddler; Israel Jacobs, weaver, member of Congress, 1791; Isaac Jacobs, mayor of Philadelphia, 1767-1768; Benjamin Jacobs, surveyor, appointed by the Continental Congress to sign and number bills of credit, 1776. Among the papers are patents of land granted to early pioneers, one issued to Clement Dungan, Bucks County, 1684, signed by William Penn; another to Joseph Tanner, 1681, signed by William Parr; and a map of land on Delaware Bay, N.J., laid out and surveyed by John Woolidge and John Budd, 1691, containing a list of names of settlers. There are also records of the names of the first purchasers of land within the extended boundaries of Bedford, Sussex, Cumberland, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Philadelphia, and Bucks counties, on the Allegheny and Susquehanna rivers, on the Perkiomen, Yellow and Briar creeks, and other localities, 1729-1770, and an agreement pertaining to purchase of land in Nova Scotia, 1766. There are letters and documents of William Maclay, David Rittenhouse, Michael Hillegas, Edward Shippen, H. Vanderslice, John Robinson, Robert H. Morris, James Hamilton, Thomas Lawrence, Owen Biddle, Jacob Duché, Robert Bass, Nicholas Scull, John Lukens, Joseph Hilbon, treasurer of Pennsylvania Hospital, and many others, 1744-1769. Commerce and prices of commodities are shown in Joseph Jacobs ledger, 1760-1765; Joseph Jacobs and Samuel Wallis ledger, 1762-1766; Israel Jacobs ledger, 1776-1810; John Jacobs ledger, 1784-1818; Benjamin Jacobs ledger, 1765-1775; Juanita Iron Company stock books, 1766; bills of exchange, bills of lading, bonds, receipts, accounts. A large portion of the papers pertain to incidents during the period of the Revolution: Sargent Chambers, London merchant, letter, 1766, gives an account of Benjamin Franklin's efforts before Parliament for repeal of the Stamp Act; other letters are from John Galloway, R. Strettel Jones, Francis Johnston, commissioner to negotiate with the Indians, Benjamin Lightfoot, mobbed as a Tory, Jacob Richardson, who conducted the British army into Philadelphia, and others.

ArchivalResource: 500 items in 3 v. ; 44 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/151373875 View

Cummings, Hubertis Maurice, 1884-1963. Edward Shippen of Lancaster, 1936.

Title: Edward Shippen of Lancaster, 1936.

This is a biographical sketch, without bibliography or citations.

ArchivalResource: 36 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523397 View

Burd, James, 1726-1793. Business records and accounts, 1747-1768.

Title: Business records and accounts, 1747-1768.

ArchivalResource: 7 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316269 View

Shippen family papers, 1733-1878, 1733-1878

Title: Shippen family papers, 1733-1878 1733-1878

This small but rich collection of letters and documents concern the Shippen family of Pennsylvania. The subjects of the letters are varied and include domestic details, military affairs of the Revolution and the Pennsylvania frontier, politics, trade, and business.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear feet, Ca. 160 items

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sh61f-ead.xml 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

Burd,Edward, 1751-1833. Papers, 1766-1830.

Title: Papers, 1766-1830.

Correspondence and miscellaneous documents; many letters from Edward Shippen of Lancaster and other family members.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122590613 View

Balch Collection, 1699-1923.

Title: Balch Collection, 1699-1923.

A portion of the collection is made up of materials collected by Thomas Balch while he was writing Les Français en Amérique..., 1777-1783: original manuscripts of "Episodes de la Guerre maritime de l'Indépendence Américaine," by Du Petit Thouars, and "Mémoire du Marquis de Vaudreuil au Marquis de Duquesne," 1755; copies of "Mémoires du Comte de Grasse sur le combat naval, le 12 avril 1782," "Relation du voyage du Prince de Broglie, 1782," "Depuis mon depart de France, 26 mars 1781 au 18 nov. de la même année quand l'armée aux ordres de M. le Comte de Rochambeau est entrée dans le quartier d'hiver" (probably written by Cromot du Bourg, one of Rochambeau's aides), "Correspondance de M. de Kalb avec le duc de Choiseul du 20 avril 1767 du 10 février 1796," etc. A list of names of French and English officers in the American Revolution, 1779-1783, appears in the volume with the Du Petit Thouars manuscript. The interest of Thomas Willing Balch in international law is represented by correspondence, 1892-1918, relating to the use of arbitration as an instrument of international policy; papers relative to the arbitration of the Alabama Claims, 1864-1872; material on Alaskan boundaries, Jan. 14, 1854 to May 20, 1854. With the exception of a few incidental items, the rest of the collection contains family papers and documents pertaining to the history of colonial Pennsylvania. These include: photostats of the will, inventories of the estate, and some of the correspondence of Thomas Willing, 1776-1820; miscellaneous correspondence, invitations, 1857-1923; a group of etchings of French and American officers of the Revolution; letters and documents, 1699-1805, pertaining to social, political, and religious affairs, to the French and Indian War, and grand jury charges. Material of an equally miscellaneous nature is contained in letters and documents, 1717-1923: "Journal of occurrences while in Europe," July 10, 1815-July 10, 1816, signed by H. B. Wilson; "A Theme of Verbs," by Edward Shippen, 1768; Balch family correspondence with members of the Shippen and Swift families, 1752-1830; and Swift and Willing family correspondence, 1743-1882.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540339 View

Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781. Shippen family collection, 1750-1810 (bulk1750-1783)

Title: Shippen family collection, 1750-1810 (bulk1750-1783)

Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of several members of the prominent Shippen family of Philadelphia in colonial, revolutionary, and early federal periods; some of which is related to the College of New Jersey and its move from Newark, to Princeton, N.J. Manuscripts include two notebooks of Joseph Shippen, written in Latin and English. The first is a letterbook dated 1749-1751, titled "Compendium Romana Historia" with its original paper wrappers; 44 leaves, It includes copies of letters of Joseph Shippen to his father, brother, and others, some of which deals with the move of the college of New Jersey from its location then in Newark, N.J. The second notebook is an "Oratio salutatoria habita in comitus Academicis novarcae in Nova-Caesaria, sexto calendas octobris, 1753" delivered by Joseph Shippen in October 1753 to the governing body of the College of New Jersey, and its president the Rev. Doctor Aaron Burr. It contains genealogical notes; 24 numbered pages; original wrappers covered with a floral wall-paper. The manuscripts also include the Last Will and Testament of William Shippen, dated Sept. 1, 1783; a biographical sketch of William Shippen written by his daughter, Mrs. Ann Shippen Livingston. Also found is a deed for land in Western New Jersey to William Shippen signed by Samuel Shoemaker, dated May 20, 1767; a portrait of William Shippen, Jr., drawn by a daughter of Samuel Blair; and Photostats of correspondence.

ArchivalResource: .40 linear ft. ( 1 archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166637727 View

Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806. ALS : Philadelphia, to Edward Shippen, 1758 Aug. 18.

Title: ALS : Philadelphia, to Edward Shippen, 1758 Aug. 18.

Shippen writes his father in detail of his father-in-law's will, which he finds grossly unfair, since it favors the eldest son and unwed daughters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489386 View

Dunaway, Wayland Fuller, 1875-1956. Wayland F. Dunaway historical research collection, 1765-1928.

Title: Wayland F. Dunaway historical research collection, 1765-1928.

This Pennsylvania history collection includes miscellaneous letters to or from prominent local and state citizens including Andrew Gregg Curtin (two letters from 1857 and 1877), John Dickinson, Benjamin Latrobe, Noah Webster, Edward Shippen of Lancaster, and John Geary; a will; General Order No. 9 of Robert E. Lee surrendering the Army of Virginia; church cemetery records; a Pennsylvania German manuscript account book; and a U.S. Army sock pattern. There are also a number of printed circulars documenting Sylvester F. Wilson's attempt to create the American Ticket Brokers' Union in about 1881, as a move against the "monopolistic practices if the Pennsylvania Railroad." Also included is a rate sheet amd postcard for Wilson's People's Union Ticket Office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 0.20 cubic feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/772530596 View

Joseph Shippen letterbook, 1763-1773, 1763-1773

Title: Joseph Shippen letterbook, 1763-1773 1763-1773

These letters relate principally to provincial business and comment on the Indians of Pennsylvania, the French and Indian War, a survey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary, and the Stamp Act. Correspondents include James Burd, Jeremiah Dixon, Joseph Galloway, Humphry Marshall, Charles Mason, Edward Shippen of Lancaster, and Edward Shippen, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s)

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