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Read family. Papers, 1568-1906 (bulk 1775-1906).

Title: Papers, 1568-1906 (bulk 1775-1906).

Correspondence, deeds and indentures, genealogical records, commissions, printed material, and other papers. Papers of George Read relate chiefly to his activities during the American Revolution and his law practice in New Castle, Del. Includes a journal containing memoranda (1782-1784) kept by James Read as secretary of the Continental Congress Marine Committee and a record of his personal accounts (1794-1812). Papers of John Read include a notebook (1809-1818) of correspondence and memoranda which he kept as secretary of the Asylum Company, a land company of Philadelphia, Pa. Those of John Meredith Read pertain primarily to his involvement in Pennsylvania state politics, and papers of John Meredith Read, Jr., include correspondence and genealogical material pertaining to his book about Henry Hudson, correspondence regarding the sale of Read's collection of Robert Morris papers, and English legal documents (1568-1696, n.d.) from his ms. collection. Correspondents include John Bubenheim Bayard, James Buchanan, Thomas Cadwalader, Simon Cameron, George Clymer, John Dickinson, Philemon Dickinson, Joseph Galloway, Ulysses S. Grant, Gouverneur Kemble, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Samuel Meredith, John G. Nicolay, Caesar Rodney, Tench Tilghman, Samuel Wharton, and James Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34149622 View

Cadwalader Evans letter to Samuel Wharton, 1770 April 20

Title: Cadwalader Evans letter to Samuel Wharton 1770 April 20

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http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00390.xml 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

Jan Ingenhousz letterbook, 1774-1793, 1774-1793

Title: Jan Ingenhousz letterbook, 1774-1793 1774-1793

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Microfilm reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Film.615-ead.xml View

Evans, Cadwalader, 1716-1773. Cadwalader Evans letter, Philadelphia, PA to Samuel Wharton, St. James Square, London, 1770 April 20.

Title: Cadwalader Evans letter, Philadelphia, PA to Samuel Wharton, St. James Square, London, 1770 April 20.

Cadwalader Evans is writing to Samuel Wharton about Wharton's family that has remained in Philadelphia while Wharton has traveled to London. Much of the discussion focuses on innoculating family members against small pox. Evans is also interested in trying to produce silk near the Ohio River. He also comments on the state of trade in Philadelphia as a result of the trade embargo with England.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173619626 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

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml View

Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800. Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to [John Baynton and George Morgan, Philadelphia, Pa.], 1765 Mar. 19.

Title: Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to [John Baynton and George Morgan, Philadelphia, Pa.], 1765 Mar. 19.

March 19, 1765, letter to partners John Baynton and George Morgan, regarding the firm's losses and strategies to employ in gaining approval from General Thomas Gage to engage in the Indian trade in the west.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40826841 View

Indiana Company. Records relating to claim against Virginia, 1779-1792.

Title: Records relating to claim against Virginia, 1779-1792.

Contains two drafts of a bill of equity presented to the U.S. Supreme Court, 11 August, 1792, asking the court to inquire into the claim and require Virginia to make full compensation for the company's losses and their expenses in pursuing the claim. The bill sets forth the history of the company's claim and the charters, deeds, and treaties on which it is based; and includes transcripts of the company's memorials to the Virginia legislature and the legislature's resolutions and notices to the company. The collection contains also copies of the company's memorials to the Continental Congress, 11 September 1779 and 30 November 1780; a list of shareholders; a list of documents required for preparing the bill of equity; a broadside account of the debates on the company's memorial in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1 November 1791; a blank company deed and survey warrant; extracts from Indian treaties; and three letters concerning the claim and other company business. Persons represented include Richard Bache, John Baynton, Theodorick Bland, George Croghan, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, David Franks, Joseph Galloway, Barnard Gratz, Sir William Johnson, Levy Andrew Levy, William Lewis, James Madison, George Morgan, William Rawle, Joseph Simon, William Trent, Samuel Wharton, Thomas Wharton, and James Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (13 items) ; 41 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122591444 View

Baynton and Wharton. Letterbook, 1758-1760.

Title: Letterbook, 1758-1760.

[John] Baynton and [Samuel] Wharton, Philadelphia merchants, letterbook, 1758-1760. Major correspondents are Robert Bulley, St. Johns, Newfoundland; Richard Neave, London; Sargent, Aufrere? John Tillotson, Duck Creek, Cecil County, Md.; Gersham Williams, New Providence, Bahamas.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122609394 View

Read Family Papers, 1568-1906, (bulk 1775-1906)

Title: Read Family Papers 1568-1906 (bulk 1775-1906)

Read (Reed) family of New Castle, Delaware, later of Pennsylvania. Correspondence, deeds and indentures, genealogical records, commissions, printed matter, and other material. Papers of George Read relate chiefly to his activities during the American Revolution and his law practice in New Castle. Papers of John Read include a notebook of correspondence and memoranda which he kept as secretary of the Asylum Company, a land company of Philadelphia. Those of John Meredith Read pertain primarily to his involvement in Pennsylvania state politics, and papers of John Meredith Read, Jr., include correspondence and genealogical material pertaining to his book about Henry Hudson, correspondence regarding the sale of Read’s collection of Robert Morris papers, and English legal documents.

ArchivalResource: 35 items; 8 containers; 2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009240 View

Jones family. Jones family papers, 1681-1869.

Title: Jones family papers, 1681-1869.

The Jones Family Papers are comprised of the correspondence, financial papers, legal papers, land information, and other miscellaneous papers of Owen Jones (d. 1825), his brother Jonathan Jones (d. 1821), Jonathan's son Owen (d. 1878), members of the Wharton family, and other contemporaries. The papers have been divided into five series and span from 1681 to 1869 with most of the documents having been produced in the eighteenth century. The papers offer a limited glimpse into merchant activities in eighteenth and nineteenth century Philadelphia; land matters in Philadelphia and the surrounding area; and estate matters.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes, 26 vols., (5.5 lin. feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83104782 View

Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799. Letterbook, 1774-1793.

Title: Letterbook, 1774-1793.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474070 View

Wharton, Samuel, 1732-1800. Samuel Wharton manuscript, [ca. 1770-1772].

Title: Samuel Wharton manuscript, [ca. 1770-1772].

This collection contains a manuscript volume of various notes and memoranda on Native Americans' rights to property and titles in colonial North America. Compiled by Samuel Wharton in the years 1770 through 1775, the volume contains 144 pages of citations, mostly from Grotius, Douglass, and Smith's History of New Jersey, with the purpose of providing English legal interpretation and precedents on the proper transfer of title of tracts of property in North America. Ultimately, these notes formed the basis of Wharton's argument before the Lords of the Committee of Council to grant the parcel of land to Wharton and his partners what came to be known as the Walpole Grant.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53018196 View

Indiana Company. Records, 1775-1779.

Title: Records, 1775-1779.

Contains manuscript copies of three indentures signed in January 1776, reorganizing the venture as a joint stock company, setting out a schedule of shares and detailing the rights of shareholders; rules and regulations adopted on 20 March 1776 concerning the company's meetings and officers and the surveying and sale of land; commissions of Robert Lettis Hooper as surveyor general and George Morgan as receiver general; and minutes of meetings in 1776 and 1779. Shareholders, officers, and others mentioned include Richard Bache, John Baynton, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, David Franks, Joseph Galloway, Barnard Gratz, Robert Lettis Hooper, Levy Andrew Levy, George Morgan, Joseph Simon, William Trent, Samuel Wharton, and Thomas Wharton.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (59 p.) in case ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524836 View