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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

Yeates, Jasper, 1745-1817. Jasper Yeates papers 1733 - 1876

Title: Jasper Yeates papers 1733 - 1876

Jaspar Yeates papers, 1764-1816, reflect his activities as a leading lawyer in Lancaster County and as a judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; they contain his notes on trials, evidence, arguments, depositions, and judicial opinions rendered in numerous legal cases. A large portion of the papers is his personal correspondence, 1780-1816, with noted men, such as Richard Peters, Edward Burd, Thomas Hartley, William Tilghman, and others, which deals with political events, public questions, congressional and administrative affairs; John Yeates papers, 1738-1865, relate chiefly to commerce, shipping between the Middle Atlantic colonies and Barbadoes, Antigua, and other islands in the West Indies; survey of Richard Hill's plantation in Philadelphia, by Jacob Taylor, 1718; Redmond Conyngham letters, essays, etc., 1822; Peter Grubb estate papers, accounts, etc., 1750-1759; Jasper Yeates Cunningham family papers, 1856-1876; chronology of the history of the world, from the creation to 1750; Yeates genealogical notes. The Jasper Yeates papers (1733-1876; bulk 1733-1816) contain information on the business affairs of Yeates and his father John Yeates, as well as their correspondence, which further illuminates their professional careers and family matters. Jasper Yeates's legal papers form the bulk of this collection. His tenure as a lawyer in Lancaster and associate justice of the Supreme Court offers a look into the legal history of Pennsylvania. The collection is divided into three series: Series 1, Business and Financial, which spans from 1740 to 1876, Series 2, Correspondence, spanning from 1733 to 1876, and Series 3, Legal and Miscellaneous, spanning from 1737 to 1831. Despite the divisions of the collections, the subject matter of the series often overlaps, as people and events that appear in Series 1 often appear in Series 2 and 3. Papers in each series are arranged mostly in chronological order.Series 1 primarily consists of bills, invoices, and receipts concerning Jasper Yeates's clients while he was a lawyer in Lancaster and provides a look into his own personal expenses. This series also contains John Yeates's invoices, bills, and receipts when he was a merchant in Barbados and Pennsylvania. The end of the first series includes minimal material on the business affairs of Jasper Yeates's daughter Catherine Yeates. Series 2 has a small number of John Yeates's letters from other merchants in the Caribbean which provides a look at commerce with the West Indies. The highlight of this series, however, is its insight into Jasper Yeates's life during the Revolutionary War and the early Republic. It contains correspondence with his wife as well as prominent Pennsylvanians such as Edward Burd, Sarah Yeates's brother and future associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as well as James Hamilton, one of the founders of Lancaster. Also included is a rough draft of the Lancaster Committee⁰́₉s letter to the Pennsylvania Continental Congress, and correspondence concerning the Lancaster militia and the Commission of Indian Affairs. The correspondence and speeches of Yeates's son-in-law Redmond Conyngham and his grandson, Jasper Yeates Conyngham, round out the collection. Other items of interest include the Yeates geneaology, meteorological observations, and a book titled Chronology of the History of the World, from the creation to 1750. Series 3 contains John Yeates papers as a lawyer in Lancaster and an Associate Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Yeates's Supreme Court papers contain his notes on the arguments, evidence, in legal cases as well as the opinions of his colleagues. The end of the collection contains Redmond Conyngham's legal papers and undated materials. Jasper Yeates (1745-1817) was a leading lawyer in Lancaster County and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; the collection contains his notes on trials, evidence, arguments, depositions, and judicial opinions rendered in numerous legal cases. Making up a large portion of the papers is his personal correspondence with noted men such as Edward Burd, Thomas Hartley, Richard Peters, William Tilghman, and others, which deals with political events, public questions, and congressional and administrative affairs. There is also Yeates's personal correspondence with his wife Sarah Yeates. The collection also contains papers of John Yeates that relate chiefly to commerce and shipping between the Middle Atlantic colonies and Barbados, Antigua, and other islands in the West Indies. Other items include Redmond Conyngham letters and essays, Peter Grubb estate papers and accounts, Jasper Yeates Cunningham family papers, the work Chronology of the History of the World, and Yeates family genealogical notes.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear ft.19.2 Linear feet ; 50 boxes

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474456 View

Smith, James, ca. 1719-1806. ALS, 1784 August 10 : York, to Edward Burd, Superior Court, Philadelphia.

Title: ALS, 1784 August 10 : York, to Edward Burd, Superior Court, Philadelphia.

Concerns a bill of costs for witnesses, jury fees, damages, etc. for a court case tried at York.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 32 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13911000 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

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B892-ead.xml View

Burd, James, 1726-1793. Burd-Shippen papers, 1738-1847.

Title: Burd-Shippen papers, 1738-1847.

The Burd-Shippen papers hold personal and business documents from Edward Shippen, Edward Burd, and their families and Philadelphia colleagues. Manyof Major Edward Burd's items concern the Pennsylvania militia during the early Revolutionary War.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707972703 View

Papers, 1765-1886 (inclusive), 1775-1806 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1765-1886 (inclusive), 1775-1806 (bulk).

Papers of American major-general Benedict Arnold.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01257/catalog View

Documents, 1728-1816, relating to the province of Pennsylvania and to the American Revolution, 1728-1816

Title: Documents, 1728-1816, relating to the province of Pennsylvania and to the American Revolution 1728-1816

This volume includes messages and proclamations of governors of the province, a petition to the King from the province of Georgia [n.d.], the draft of an address of the University of the State of Pennsylvania to George Washington (1781), a letter from Arthur Lee to Alexander Wedderburn (1774), letters of Timothy Matlack to Abiel Holmes (1819), and George Wythe's draft resolutions (1775).

ArchivalResource: 1.0 volume, 50 p.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.974.8.D65-ead.xml View

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

Title: Papers, 1833.

Papers consist of parchment copies of Burd's will and trust.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122616703 View

Burd, Edward, 1751-1833. Partition of Estate, 1834.

Title: Partition of Estate, 1834.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540347 View

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

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

Burd, Edward, 1751-1833. Letters to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1820-1822.

Title: Letters to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1820-1822.

Letters and memorandum regarding collecting subscriptions for the Society from Edward Burd, treasurer, to James Mease and Richard Peters.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155904640 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

Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Title: Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

ArchivalResource: 14,250 items

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003008 View

Dorothy Merriman Schall papers, 1686-1897

Title: Dorothy Merriman Schall papers, 1686-1897

The collection consists primarily of the papers of the Burd, Hubley, Patterson, Schall, and Shippen families. The principal authors are Edward Shippen, Sr., Edward Shippen, Jr., and Edward Burd. An additional, significantly represented correspondent is James B. Hubley. Historically prominent letter writers include: David Bacon, Owen Biddle, William Bradford, Benjamin Chew, George Clymer, Tench Coxe, John Dickinson, Josiah Dickinson, Henry Drinker, John Fothergill, Reuben Haines, Thomas Holme, Benjamin Levy, James Logan, Timothy Matlack, Thomas McKean, Anthony Morris, Israel Pemberton, John Penn, William Plumsted, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Nicholas Scull, and Conrad Weiser. The collection as a whole provides an important view, especially of 18th- but also of 19th-century Philadelphia. The greatest emphasis of the collection is on legal matters within the range of cases appearing before the Pennsylvania courts: divorce, assault, trespassing, murder, theft, counterfeiting, burglary, and property. There are also personal financial accounts, which provide a picture of life in 18th-century Philadelphia for people of means.

ArchivalResource: 6 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/hcmc-1182 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

Powel, Elizabeth Willing, 1743-1830. Account books, 1830-1848.

Title: Account books, 1830-1848.

Elizabeth Powel estate account book and bankbook, 1830-1848.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 33 cm or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540404 View

Mifflin, John F. (John Fishbourne), 1759-1813. Account books, 1804-1817.

Title: Account books, 1804-1817.

John F. Mifflin ledgers, 1804-1813; and John F. Mifflin estate receipt book , 1813-1815, and account book, 1815-1817.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. ; 32 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122689787 View

Burd, Edward, 1751-1833. Letter of Edward Burd, 1769.

Title: Letter of Edward Burd, 1769.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79452271 View