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Walworth family. Walworth family papers, 1774-1884.

Title: Walworth family papers, 1774-1884.

Consists of correspondence, financial records, legal records, official documents, architectural drawings and various ephemera. Contains detailed correspondence concerning land transactions for the Connecticut Land Company; records of the post offices of Painesville, Ohio, and Cleveland, Ohio; records of the Port of Cuyahoga; records of the Circuit Court of Geauga County, Ohio, Corporation of the Village of Cleveland, and the Cleveland School House; records of the Cleveland Branch of the Erie Bank of Pennsylvania; land valuations and tax lists for Cleveland and the Fire Lands; and legal records of Litchfield County, Connecticut, and New London County, Connecticut. Correspondents include William Eldredge, Frederick Miner, Gideon Granger, Calvin Pease, Samuel Huntington, David Abbott, Nathaniel Ledyard, Lewis Cass, Oliver Phelps, Charles P. Barnum, Lewis Morgan, and Oliver Forward. A calendar of correspondents is included in the register to the collection. Insight into the social relations of the Walworths and their relations, including the Dunlap, Beattie, Strickland, Keyes, Wren, and Avery families, is seen through the correspondence between the women in the Walworth family.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19824932 View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. ALS : Washington, D.C., to Ephraim Kirby, 1804 Apr. 6.

Title: ALS : Washington, D.C., to Ephraim Kirby, 1804 Apr. 6.

Concerns recent and upcoming elections in a number of states, and encouraging gains made by the Democratic Party.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122475249 View

Granger, Francis, 1792-1868. Papers, 1800-1864 [microform].

Title: Papers, 1800-1864 [microform].

"Chiefly letters to Granger and his father, Gideon Granger (1767- 1822), Postmaster-General under Jefferson and Madison (1801-1814). Includes copies of letters from Francis Granger to Thurlow Weed ..."-- Prelim.

ArchivalResource: 305 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25427312 View

Wadsworth, Elijah, 1747-1817. Elijah Wadsworth family papers, 1792-1868 [microform].

Title: Elijah Wadsworth family papers, 1792-1868 [microform].

Correspondence, letter copies, autograph envelopes with biographical data on prominent Western Reserve residents, land lists, surveys, indentures, accounts, receipts, summonses, depositions, and Ohio Militia election returns, military receipts, provision returns, and morning papers, belonging to Elijah, Frederick, and Wedworth Wadsworth. Included are a number of letters from Samuel Huntington, 1765-1817.

ArchivalResource: 2 rolls of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45857229 View

Pease, Mindwell King. Manumission document, 1794.

Title: Manumission document, 1794.

The widow and heirs of Joseph Pease of Suffield, Conn., emancipate Hannah White, an African-American, provided that their estates be freed from responsibility for her support and that the selectmen of Suffield also manumit her.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 32 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35294951 View

Harvard University. Autograph File, G. 1641-2009.

Title: Autograph File, G

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: 5 linear feet (10 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01430/catalog View

Huntington, Samuel, 1765-1817. Correspondence, 1801-1817.

Title: Correspondence, 1801-1817.

Letters to Huntington relating to Ohio politics and elections, land transactions, War of 1812, and settlement and development of the Western Reserve. Correspondents include Henry Champion, Moses Cleaveland, Gideon Granger, Stanley Griswold, Return J. Meigs, Jeremiah Morrow, Calvin Pease, John Smith, Amos Spafford, Edward Tiffin, George Tod, Elisha Tracy, Elijah Wadsworth, and Thomas Worthington.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (148 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17974916 View

Armstrong, Edward Ambler, 1858-1932,. Gideon Granger correspondence, 1803-1804.

Title: Gideon Granger correspondence, 1803-1804.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79456394 View

Papers, 1775-1935.

Title: Papers, 1775-1935.

Correspondence, diaries, and literary manuscripts of American poet and statesman Joel Barlow.

ArchivalResource: 7 v. and 6 boxes (3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01285/catalog View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. Autograph letter signed : General Post Office, to James Elliot, Esq., 1810 Dec. 4.

Title: Autograph letter signed : General Post Office, to James Elliot, Esq., 1810 Dec. 4.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269568637 View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. Autograph letter signed : Canandaigua, to Samuel M. Hopkins, Esq., 1817 Dec. 22.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Canandaigua, to Samuel M. Hopkins, Esq., 1817 Dec. 22.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269567163 View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. ALS, 1803 August 28, Suffield, to Thomas Worthington, Chiliocothe.

Title: ALS, 1803 August 28, Suffield, to Thomas Worthington, Chiliocothe.

Gideon Granger, lawyer, politician & Postmaster General & Thomas Jefferson's administrator writes a letter of introduction for Ephraim Kirby to Senator Worthington.

ArchivalResource: 1 p., 24 x 18.1 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23189733 View

Granger, Francis, 1792-1868. Papers of Francis and Gideon Granger, 1800-1864.

Title: Papers of Francis and Gideon Granger, 1800-1864.

Chiefly letters to Granger and his father, Gideon Granger, U.S. postmaster-general under Jefferson and Madison (1801-1814). Includes copies of letters from Francis Granger to Thurlow Weed. Topics include the Antimasonic Party, politics, the Post Office Dept., and public works. Correspondents include DeWitt Clinton, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Jefferson, Abbott Lawrence, and William Henry Seward.

ArchivalResource: 305 items.1 container plus 1 oversize.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71066250 View

Gideon Granger letters, 1789-1805

Title: Gideon Granger letters 1789-1805

Letters from American politician and lawyer Gideon Granger to various parties relating to business and legal affairs, such as money owed on land purchases. Also present is an 1805 circular letter from Granger addressing charges made against him relating to his actions on behalf of the New England Company, and the Yazoo land scandal

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4421 View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to Bliss, Esq., 1803 July 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington City, to Bliss, Esq., 1803 July 23.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269587231 View

Dickinson, Daniel S. (Daniel Stevens), 1800-1866. Correspondence and stock certificates, 1807-1895.

Title: Correspondence and stock certificates, 1807-1895.

Collection consists mainly of letters and notes on routine financial and government matters. Correspondents include Daniel S. Dickinson, Gideon Granger, Cadwallader R. Colden, Francis Granger, Hamilton Fisk (on letterhead of the Department of State, Washington), L. P. Watson (on letterhead of the Executive Mansion, Albany), and Eliphalet Nott. One of the items from Hamilton Fisk is a letter appointing Dorman B. Eaton to the civil service (April 23, 1873); another is a letter to Charles B. Norton acknowledging his request for an appointment abroad (October 24, 1872). Also, two certificates of shares of stock in Western Emigrating Company issued to Roswell C. Otis on March 9, 1835.

ArchivalResource: 14 items (0.05 cubic feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/774136503 View

Langdon, John, 1741-1819. John Langdon, William Whipple, and Elwyn family papers, 1713-1965 (bulk 1761-1853).

Title: John Langdon, William Whipple, and Elwyn family papers, 1713-1965 (bulk 1761-1853).

Langdon's papers (chiefly 1775-1781) include business and political correspondence and letterbooks; U.S. governmental and financial records, including Ft. Ticonderoga inspection instructions and report (1775); accounts of the building of the ships Ranger and America and frigate Raleigh for the Continental Navy; New Hampshire governmental records; and a few general business records. Papers of William Whipple, judge, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Revolutionary military and political leader, who served in the Continental Congress (1776-1779), commanded New Hampshire militia in the Saratoga and Rhode Island campaigns, and was a close ally of Langdon, include correspondence, U.S. Congressional documents, and military and financial papers. The Elwyn family and other papers consist chiefly of letters to John Langdon's daughter, Elizabeth (Langdon) Elwyn, of Portsmouth and later Philadelphia, Pa., many from her children, but also from naval commander Isaac Chauncey, editor Charles King, and lawyer Timothy Upham, who managed her New Hampshire properties; papers of her husband, Thomas Elwyn, lawyer, including records of the John Moffatt estate and the subsequent legal case; some papers of the Elwyn children: Alfred W., John L., Thomas O., and William O., and some of their descendants, including members of the Stone family; 16 letters to Peter Livius; and a few papers of Tobias Langdon and other Langdon family members.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70945035 View

Kean, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1950. Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean, 1765-1938.

Title: Papers of Jefferson Randolph Kean, 1765-1938.

The collection is divided into two parts. The first contains the autograph collection of William S. Worth, who collected letters of prominent men, chiefly from New England and New York in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Most of the correspondence, 1765-1832, is of a routine nature though of interest is a letter, 1804 December 28, from Thomas Rodney re: the political situation in West Florida and a cover note, 1805 March 4, from William Eaton to James Madison re: a treaty with Mamet Bashaw. The second half of the collection consists of letters, 1891-1938, to Jefferson Randolph Kean, chiefly from noted medical colleagues on routine matters, although James Carroll Flippin queries Kean on the University of Virginia's influence on Walter Reed. Correspondents are William Beaumont, Elias Boudinot, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin Butler, John Butler, Jonathan Dayton, Charles Edward Dudley, William Duer, Pierpont Edwards, Oliver Ellsworth, Gideon Granger, John Hancock, Richard Harrison, Stephen Higginson, Samuel Huntington, John Kean, Aaron Ogden, Harrison Gray Otis, Charles Petit, Caesar Augustus Rodney, Thomas Russell, Philip John Schuyler, William H. Seward, William Smith, Abraham Van Vechten, and Benjamin Wright. Also included are Fred Crayton Ainsworth, Dallas Bache, Andre Chantemesse, Enoch Herbert Crowder, Bernard Francis Dickmann, William Crawford Gorgas, Fitzhugh Lee, Franklin Henry Martin, Henry Pinckney McCain, Angus McLean, William Louis Rodman, William Howard Taft, William Holland Wilmer, and Leonard Wood.

ArchivalResource: 50 (ca.) items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32960099 View

Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916. Cleveland Abbe papers, 1892-1906.

Title: Cleveland Abbe papers, 1892-1906.

Letters and research materials relating to the history of Abbe's house located at 2017 I Street, NW, and the surrounding neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Previous occupants of the house included Timothy Caldwell, Gideon Granger, and James Monroe. The building currently serves as the headquarters of the Arts Club of Washington.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70939748 View

Seymour, Moses, 1774-1826. Moses Seymour, Jr. appointment, 1802 Feb. 17.

Title: Moses Seymour, Jr. appointment, 1802 Feb. 17.

Gideon Granger, Postmaster General of the United States, appointment of Moses Seymour, Jr. as Deputy Postmaster at Litchfield, Conn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727798717 View

Law, Jonathan, 1784-1859. Correspondence, 1809-1825.

Title: Correspondence, 1809-1825.

A letter from Epaphras Bull in Danbury, Conn., in 1809 deals with the problems of raising money for the republicans; a letter from Gideon Granger in New Haven, Conn., in 1817 deals with a dispute over land in Genesee County, New York; a letter from John McLean in 1825 states that the book in question is to be charged as a periodical work.

ArchivalResource: 1 envelope (3 items) ; 24 x 37 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33255608 View

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Letter to Gideon Granger [manuscript], 1811 September 11.

Title: Letter to Gideon Granger [manuscript], 1811 September 11.

Jefferson asks for the address of James Lyon and thanks Granger for a postbook.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647821560 View

Wadsworth, Elijah, 1747-1817. Family papers, 1792-1868.

Title: Family papers, 1792-1868.

Correspondence, letter copies, autograph envelopes with biographical data on prominent Western Reserve residents, land lists, surveys, indentures, accounts, receipts, summonses, depositions, and Ohio Militia election returns, military receipts, provision returns, and morning papers, belonging to Elijah, Frederick, and Wedworth Wadsworth. Included are a number of letters from Samuel Huntington, 1765-1817.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22407961 View

Huntington, Samuel, 1765-1817. Samuel Huntington correspondence, 1801-1817 [microform].

Title: Samuel Huntington correspondence, 1801-1817 [microform].

Letters to Huntington relating to Ohio politics and elections, land transactions, War of 1812, and settlement and development of the Western Reserve. Correspondents include Henry Champion, Moses Cleaveland, Gideon Granger, Stanley Griswold, Return J. Meigs, Jeremiah Morrow, Calvin Pease, John Smith, Amos Spafford, Edward Tiffin, George Tod, Elisha Tracy, Elijah Wadsworth, and Thomas Worthington.

ArchivalResource: 1 roll of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48193737 View

Land agent's account book, 1820-1867.

Title: Land agent's account book, 1820-1867.

Records of agent for absentee owners of land in Ashtabula County, Ohio; includes accounts for Gideon Granger, Francis Granger, J.R. Giddings and for the heirs of Seth Pease.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34521725 View

Pease, Calvin, 1776-1839. Papers, 1798-1841.

Title: Papers, 1798-1841.

Correspondence, court dockets and other legal papers, tax and financial records, land deeds and agreements, field notes, and other papers, relating to Pease's activities as a lawyer and judge. Includes field notes and lists of lands in the Western Reserve belonging to Gideon Granger, Pease's brother-in-law, and land deeds and agreements and letters concerning land transactions, particularly in Trumbull Co., Ohio. Included are a list of early stockholders of the Western Reserve Bank, records of the proceedings of the Pennsylvania-Ohio canal convention of 1833 and the constitution of the Warren Library Company.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22419748 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

Granger, Francis, 1792-1868. Francis Granger letter to Gideon Granger [manuscript], 1821 December 4.

Title: Francis Granger letter to Gideon Granger [manuscript], 1821 December 4.

Granger, Richmond, writes to his father on personal and family business, including the refusal of Richmond banks to take his drafts and the selling of his horse Old Bob. Concludes with a note the he "passed a most delightful day at Monticello--was treated with every attention--urged to prolong my visit & the parting words of Mr. Jefferson were 'remember me most kindly to your father & tell him old friendships are not fogotten' "

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648018291 View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Henry Wheaton, 1811 Aug. 11.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Washington, to Henry Wheaton, 1811 Aug. 11.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270883038 View

Bacot, Thomas W. (Thomas Wright), 1765-1834. Thomas W. Bacot papers, 1806-1818 bulk 1811-1818.

Title: Thomas W. Bacot papers, 1806-1818 bulk 1811-1818.

Letterbook providing detailed view of postal schedules, regulations, as well as local problems and political unrest during the War of 1812. Topics discussed include difficulty of enforcing postal regulations, challenges of roads and transportation of the day on delivery of mail, and undependable postmasters and contractors, including letter, 19 June 1812, in which Bacot chides a subcontractor for hiring James Warren Oliver, "the Stage driver who was convicted last year of robbing our northern mails in 1810..."; report, 5 Oct. 1811, of a tornado; and an illness of a postal contractor, reported 6 Sept. 1813, following a hurricane. Impact of the War of 1812 and the embargo and blockade of Charleston harbor also appear in this volume, including letters, 5 and 11 Oct. 1813, re Bacot's disapproval of published accounts of arrival in Charleson harbor of the U.S. sloop-of-war Argus with the captured British ship Barbadoes. Correspondents include Postmasters General Gideon Granger and R. J. Meigs; Assistant Postmaster General Abraham Bradley, Jr.; other letters addressed to South Carolina postmasters under Bacot's jurisdiction, and fellow postmasters in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C.; outgoing letters signed chiefly by Bacot, as well as by clerks A. Lechais and C. Tesson. Also including broadside, 25 July 1806, Charleston, S.C., "Regulations for the Post Office," gives rates of postage, time of receipt and departure of mail to and from various places.

ArchivalResource: 1 broadside.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29774197 View

Land records of Shandaken, Lot No. 2 of the Great Lot No. 6 in the Hardenbergh Patent, Ulster County, New York, and other properties, 1821.

Title: Land records of Shandaken, Lot No. 2 of the Great Lot No. 6 in the Hardenbergh Patent, Ulster County, New York, and other properties, 1821.

Land records of various properties including Lewis County, but primarily of Lot No. 2 of the Great Lot no. 6 in the Hardenbergh Patent, Ulster County, New York.

ArchivalResource: 18 documents, 2 maps.(2 survey maps : manuscript ; 54 x 79.5 cm. or smaller)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122583062 View

United States. Post Office Dept. United States. Post Office Dept. records, 1789-1912.

Title: United States. Post Office Dept. records, 1789-1912.

Handwritten transcript of a letterbook of (1789 November 28-1805 March 15) containing copies of letters by postmasters general Gideon Granger, Joseph Habersham, Samuel Osgood, and Timothy Pickering; chart (1807) made by Gideon Granger; accounts (1804-1805, 1807) for the post office at Hamilton, Ohio; record book (1899 April 11-1906 September 25) of the post office at Cavetown, Md.; and essay (1912) entitled, Annals of the Post Office Department, 1607-1775, by E.F. Brown.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70981598 View

Kirby, Ephraim. Papers, 1763-1879.

Title: Papers, 1763-1879.

Correspondence and other papers reflecting Kirby's legal career, his political activities and land speculation. Includes material on the Revolution, the Yazoo land companies, early Alabama and Mississippi history, the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800, the Louisiana Purchase, the early U.S. Post Office under Gideon Granger, and the development of Jeffersonian political philosophy. Correspondents include Elisha Babcock, John James Beckley, William C.C. Claiborne, George Clymer, Tench Coxe, Alexander Dallas, William Duane, Gideon Granger, Stanley Griswold, Thomas Jefferson, Jeremiah Mason, Samuel Meredith, John Cozens Ogden, James Rivington, Nathaniel Smith, Benjamin Tallmadge, Uriah Tracy, James Wilkerson, and James Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 2, 900 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19931461 View

United States. Post Office Dept. Commission, 1812 January 21, appointing Abel Parker deputy post-master for Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

Title: Commission, 1812 January 21, appointing Abel Parker deputy post-master for Jaffrey, New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: Sheet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5348389 View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. Papers of Gideon and Francis Granger, 1800-1864 [microform].

Title: Papers of Gideon and Francis Granger, 1800-1864 [microform]. [1800-1864]

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel : negative ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81374908 View

Granger, Gideon, 1767-1822. Granger-Phelps agreements, 1810-1816.

Title: Granger-Phelps agreements, 1810-1816.

Agreements between Granger and Oliver Phelps' son and grandson, settling the open business between Granger and Oliver Phelps when Phelps died in 1809. Oliver L. Phelps (1775-1813) and Oliver Phelps (1796-1872) served as the executors of their respective fathers' estates. The agreements concern land in Western New York and Geauga County, Ohio.

ArchivalResource: (0.1 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70794221 View

Bradley, Stephen Row, 1754-1830. Jefferson's manuscript index to his account books and letters concerning the U.S. Bank and U.S. Post Office and 1776-1778 [manuscript] 1776-1778.

Title: Jefferson's manuscript index to his account books and letters concerning the U.S. Bank and U.S. Post Office and 1776-1778 [manuscript] 1776-1778.

In addition to Jefferson's index to his account books, the collection contains a letter, 1802 March 22, Gideon Granger to Stephen R. Bradley regarding a post office route in Virginia; a letter, 1811 January 14, Joseph Habersham to David Lennox regarding the Bank of the U.A; and a letter , 1867 February 15, J. H. Eatin to [Thorn?] on pay allowances for army officers.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647963768 View