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Huston, Susannah,. [Widow's pension documents], 1784-1787.

Title: [Widow's pension documents], 1784-1787.

Five manuscript documents pertaining to the petition of Susannah Huston for a pension from the state of Pennsylvania. Huston was the widow of Pennsylvania lieutenant William Huston, who died in 1785 while in military service at West Point. Signers of the documents include Joseph Carleton, secretary of the U.S. War Office (1784); William North, inspector of the U.S. Army (1785); and Joseph Shippen, one of three justices at an Orphans' Court held in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1787).

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (5 sheets)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/407124731 View

Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810. Autograph copy of part of an original return of "search and viewing the ground for a road or King's High-way" : Philadelphia, to Lieut. Governor John Penn, 1772 May 30.

Title: Autograph copy of part of an original return of "search and viewing the ground for a road or King's High-way" : Philadelphia, to Lieut. Governor John Penn, 1772 May 30.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270662015 View

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

Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806. ALS : Philadelphia, to Joseph Shippen, Jr., 1788 June 26.

Title: ALS : Philadelphia, to Joseph Shippen, Jr., 1788 June 26.

Edward Shippen informs his brother that Trevose, a farm in Bucks County, previously in the hands of the Galloways, will be up for sale. Postcript notes that the New Hampshire Convention has ratified the Constitution.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122645547 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, 1749-1860.

Title: Papers, 1749-1860.

Letterbook, 1753-1770, of William Allen, colonial Pennsylvania Chief Justice, concerns his business interests as partner of Allen and Turner, a merchant firm which was also active in iron manufacturing and copper mining. Much of the correspondence is with David Barclay & Son, London, to whom Allen also includes reports on the French and Indian War and the Pennsylvania 1764 election. The volume continues as Edward Shippen letterbook, 1782-1806, and relates to family lands and finances. Shippen writes to his daughter Margaret Arnold, his brother Joseph Shippen, brother-in-law James Tilghman, and nephew-in-law Jasper Yeates. A miscellany of Burd, Hubley, Shippen, and Yeates letters make up the loose correspondence. Although referring mostly to family activities, including the marriage of James Burd, Jr., to which his family objected. There are some references to public events among which is the arrival of the Indian delegation to the Mason-Dixon survey party in 1767. Some of the writers are Margaret Shippen Arnold, James Burd, and Sarah Shippen Burd and others.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122633019 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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Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810. Oratio salutatoria habita in comitus Academicis novarcae in Nova-Caesaria, sexto calendas octobris, 1753 ...

Title: Oratio salutatoria habita in comitus Academicis novarcae in Nova-Caesaria, sexto calendas octobris, 1753 ... 1753.

ArchivalResource: 24 (i.e. 23) numb. ℓ. 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41879561 View

Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810. ALS : Philadelphia, to John Penn, 1767 July 22.

Title: ALS : Philadelphia, to John Penn, 1767 July 22.

Concerns improvements to Penn's house and garden.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122610945 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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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)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sh62.j-ead.xml 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

Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810. Diaries, 1760-1761.

Title: Diaries, 1760-1761.

Travel diaries, 1760-1761, describing a journey through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and England.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.; 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489217 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, 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

Shippen, Joseph, 1732-1810. An act for regulating the fishery in the river Connestogoe in the County of Lancaster : manuscript, 1774.

Title: An act for regulating the fishery in the river Connestogoe in the County of Lancaster : manuscript, 1774.

Consists of an 18th-century manuscript legal document regarding fishing regulations for the Conestoga River in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ( 8 leaves, unbound) ; 46 x 36.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320899246 View

Letter to Robert Rutherford

Title: Letter to Robert Rutherford

Letter to Robert Rutherford from Joseph Shippen, June 28, 1764, concerning paintings by Benjamin West, and other news.

ArchivalResource:

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Shippen family. Papers, 1749-1899.

Title: Papers, 1749-1899.

This collection of personal and professional papers spans several generations of the Shippens and related families. Joseph Shippen [III] was a colonel in the provincial service, a merchant, and a secretary of colonial Pennsylvania and the Governor's Council. Following the Revolution, he was occupied as a gentleman farmer in Chester County. Some of Joseph Shippen's correspondence, 1749-1809 touches on his military and political career, but most of the letters are to and from his brother Edward Shippen [IV] and nephew Edward Burd relating to the family's extensive real estate holdings throughout Pennsylvania. The main body of the collection is incoming correspondence, 1829, 1842-1897, to Edward Shippen, grandson of Joseph Shippen. His correspondents include his father, Joseph Galloway Shippen, his mother, Anna Maria Buckley Shippen, his siblings Anna Maria (Mrs. William) Newell, Harriet Amelia Shippen, and Joseph Shippen, his aunt, Margaret Shippen, and sundry other relatives. These letters relate family and social news, advice to Edward as he begins his legal career, and family business. There are letters, ca. 1849-ca. 1876 to Shippen from his wife, Augusta Chauncey Twiggs, from Georgia where she lived with relatives for several winters and visited frequently. Augusta writes of her efforts in raising her children alone, her several disagreements with her husband over family problems, and the coming of the Civil War. In 1848, Shippen began his own law practice, assuming the business of his uncle, James Gibson. Gibson's letterpress volumes, 1802-1847 and Shippen's letterpress volumes, 1848-1872 are concerned with clients' estates, properties, and stocks. Loose letters and documents also relate to legal affairs including cases involving insurance companies and estates, many concerning family members. Among the estates represented are those of E. B. Bordley, Daniel Buckley, Sarah Burd, Hannah and Jacob L. Florance, Francis Stockton, Twiggs family. Edward Shippen served in several diplomatic posts from 1872 to 1898. He was an officer of the Chilean and Argentinian Commissions to the Centennial Exhibition and served as Philadelphia consul for the two countries at various times, as well as for Japan and Ecuador. This collection holds miscellaneous correspondence, official papers, clippings and memorabilia concerning this aspect of his career. Other papers of members of this extended family who are represented in the papers are incoming letters, 1799-1872 to Margaret Shippen from her brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews; letter fragments, 1852-1883, of Edward's sister Harriet Amelia to her nephews William and Edward Newell which give Harriet's observations on European society and politics, and comparisons with the United States; correspondence of (another) Edward Shippen, M.D., a career surgeon with the U. S. Navy, consists of family letters, 1855-1856, from his wife Mary Katharine Paul, and Dr. Shippen's letters to his wife while he was on tour to Brazil, 1859-1860, and to Europe, 1865-1868. Josiah Harmar, related to the Shippen family through the Buckley branch, was a Revolutionary War officer, commander of the army stationed on the Ohio frontier, 1784-1791, and adjutant-general of Pennsylvania, 1793-1799. A small number of letters in this collection are to Harmar from John Cleves Symmes, which cover his post-Revolutionary military service. A larger group of letters, 1800-1813, are from Harmar's successive agents in Cincinnati, Ohio, reporting on land investments there. After Harmar's death, this correspondence is addressed to his wife Sarah and then to his son William. William Harmar account books, 1827-1868 and loose financial records, 1807-1872, relate mostly to the Josiah Harmar estate. There is Josiah Harmar, Jr., quarry account book, 1842-1847. Also from the Buckley side of the family are 300 pages of prose and poetry for and by Elizabeth Bordley Gibson (Mrs. James). The papers include scattered correspondence of many other Shippens. Additionally there are papers of several individuals of no (known) genetic connection: incoming letters, 1843-1859 of James Burnside, Clearfield County judge, mentions court activities, politics, and personal business; Charles D. Drake's prose and poetic inspirations, 1832-1834, from Cincinnati; Henry Huber's accounts, 1852-1865, as treasurer of the State in Schuylkill; letters and drafts, 1783-1789, of Frederick Smyth, colonial chief justice of New Jersey, mostly concerning his efforts to gain compensation from the British government for deprivations incurred as a result of his loyalist position during the Revolution.

ArchivalResource: 21 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122316594 View

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