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Monroe, James, 1758-1831. Letter, 1827 April 16.

Title: Letter, 1827 April 16.

Letter to Capt. Alden Partridge, in Middletown, Conn., thanking him for his offer to instruct in the discipline of military science, should the University of the State decide to introduce it. Written at Oak Hill, Va.

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb, 1807-1825

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIb 1807-1825

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Monroe, James, 1758-1831. Manuscripts (collection), 1789-1827.

Title: Manuscripts (collection), 1789-1827.

This collection includes the following items: 1.) Letter of James Monroe to Larkin Stanard, 1 March 1789. 2.) Letter of James Monroe to Capt. Alden Partridge, 16 April 1827. 3.) Commission of Appointment of Abraham Wendell as 3rd lieutenant of U.S. Army Corps of Artillery. 4.) Land warrant granting 160 acres in Arkansas (territory) to Adam Wart, 15 April 1822. 5.) A copy of a report to the U.S. Secretary of War, 11 March 1815, regarding compensation relative to the participation of the Six Nations (Iroquois Indians) on behalf of the United States during the War of 1812,

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Delaplaine, Joseph. Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Captain A. Partridge in Norwich, Vermont, 1819 Feb. 9.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Captain A. Partridge in Norwich, Vermont, 1819 Feb. 9.

Concerning the portrait of the latter by Vanderlyn, and mentioning Partridge's "contemplated institution"--Norwick University.

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

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Wendell, Abraham, 1796-1817. Papers, 1813-1818.

Title: Papers, 1813-1818.

Army officer. Papers include orders, bills, and a notebook containing verses to songs sung as a cadet.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

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Johnson, Philip M. Letter, 1843 October 25.

Title: Letter, 1843 October 25.

Letter to Mrs. Alden Partridge at Norwich, Vt., declining an invitation to dinner.

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

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United States Military Philosophical Society. Records, 1789-1813.

Title: Records, 1789-1813.

Records, 1789-1813, consisting mainly of correspondence, and papers presented at meetings of the Society. The records include: minutes of meetings during 1802-1813, at West Point and New York City; constitution; list of members; ca. 210 letters, mostly to the president, Col. Jonathan Williams, accepting or declining membership, proposing new members, sending donations or remittances, etc.; accounts of the society. The papers include a few documents in French, and deal mainly with scientific or geographical issues of military significance, for example: an explanation of the theory of M. Pothenot (trigonometry); a description of the falls of the Ohio River; Capt. Richard Whiley's survey of the harbor of Michilimackinac;remarks on Edward Clark's project of harbor defense; plans for fortifying the harbor of New York; report and plan of defense relative to the harbor of Cape Fear River, Noth Carolina; plan of Fort McHenry; Lt. Alden Prtridge's barometrical and thermometrical observations at West Point; principles of marine batteries; indent of necessary supplies for a company of horse artillery; sketch of Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; dimensions of a parallel ruler gun; courses of the meanders of French Creek, Pennsylvania; draft of military regulations for government of the army; papers and memoranda relative to the surveys for building a fortification near Black Rock, on the Niagara; memorandum of survey of the fort at Presque Isle; Gen. Alexander Hamilton's plan for the establishment of a military academy, 1799; memoir of a new construction of a floating battery or double gun boat; memoranda of experiments in the carrying power of long and short muskets; sketch of Fort Pickering, Salem, Massachusetts; plan of Fort Independence, Boston; plan of the blockhouse at Marblehead, Massachusetts; a fort at Smithville, Cape Fear River; sketch of a fort on Bedloe's Island, New York; sketch at Fort Lilly, Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts; memorandum of the measurement of the harbor of Charleston,South Carolina, and the forts there; general descriptions of sundry forts; etc.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 linear feet (2 boxes, ca 300 items)

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Pearce, Henry, 1821-1843. Henry Pearce papers, 1811-1819 and 1840-1843.

Title: Henry Pearce papers, 1811-1819 and 1840-1843.

The collection consists of photocopied material from a private collection and is not the property of Norwich University. The material was copied with the owner's permission in 1979 and is for reference purposes only. The papers pertain to pedestrian excursions, 1840, and the writings of Alden Partridge, 1811-1819, which were copied by Henry Pearce during his time at Norwich. Also included is a copy of Pearce's degree from Norwich University, 1841. A detailed content listing can be found in the finding aid.

ArchivalResource: 3 Files

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Alden Partridge Papers, 1807-1959, (bulk 1817-1842)

Title: Alden Partridge Papers 1807-1959 (bulk 1817-1842)

U.S. Army officer, engineer, educator, and state legislator from Vermont. Principally letters (1817-1842) received by Partridge from students and their parents relating to educational matters at the United States Military Academy, the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy, and other academies with which Partridge was associated from 1808-1850; letters and documents concerning military activities during the War of 1812, a dispute between Sylvanus Thayer and Partridge over the administration of the United States Military Academy and Partridge’s court martial; a library journal; student rolls; and letters or copies of letters written by Partridge, including several to James Monroe.

ArchivalResource: 650 items; 4 containers; 1.4 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

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American Philosophical Society Archives, 1743-1984

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives 1743-1984

Founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin, the American Philosophical Society was the first learned society in the United States. For over 250 years, the Society has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life. Until the mid-nineteenth century, the Society fulfilled the role of a national academy of science, national library and museum, and even patent office. Early members of the Society included Thomas Jefferson, David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, Stephen Peter Du Ponceau, George Washington, and many other figures prominent in American history. The Archives of the American Philosophical Society consists of 192.25 linear feet of material, organized into thirteen record groups dating back to 1743. The Society's archives extensively documents not only the organization's historical development but also its role in American history and the history of science and technology.

ArchivalResource: 192.25 Linear feet

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Gratiot, Charles, 1788-1855. Proceedings of a court of enquiry [sic] ...

Title: Proceedings of a court of enquiry [sic] ... 1811 April 5.

Order convening board of inquiry to discover the cadets who had damaged cadet barracks signed by Gratiot. Cobb and Partridge who sat on the board presided over by E.D. Wood, questioned the legality of convening such a board. Wood adjourned the court noting the above objection on the verso of the order.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 25 x 19 cm.

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Van Ness, Cornelius Peter, 1782-?. Letter, 1821 April 23.

Title: Letter, 1821 April 23.

Letter to Captain Alden Partridge, Superintendant of the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Institute. Van Ness requests that no money be given his son James as he is concerned over the amounts being spent, and asks that any purchases needed be paid by Partridge and charged to him. Written at Burlington, Vt.

ArchivalResource: 2 pages.

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Wendell, Abraham, 1795-1817. List of artickels [sic] each cadet will want next year.

Title: List of artickels [sic] each cadet will want next year.

Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Artillerists and Engineers. List of cadet personal articles recommended by Alden Partridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. ; 32 x 20 cm.

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Mansfield, Jared, 1759-1830. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1802-1824.

Professor of Philosophy, U.S. Military Academy. Letter, Washington, 4 April 1802, from Abraham Baldwin telling Mansfield of the new law establishing the U.S. Military Academy and offering Mansfield a position as Professor of Philosophy along with commission as Captain; letters discussing the history, curriculum, faculty and cadets of the U.S. Military Academy; correspondence with Dr. Daniel Drake; letters to Captain John M. O'Connor, 1817-1823, discussing the shift of command from Partridge to Major Thayer and praising Thayer's performance as superintendent; two letters to Thomas Jefferson, 1821, one requesting that Jefferson sit for a portrait to be painted by Sully and hung at the Military Academy, the other requesting Jefferson's assistance in getting a USMA chemistry professors' treatise on pyrotechomy published; letter to J.C. Calhoun, then secretary of war, relating Mansfield's view of education and giving some background on the development of the Academy as an academic institution; sketch of Jared Mansfield.

ArchivalResource: 34 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8745217 View

Andrews, Frank D. Collection on Riley M. Adams, 1919-1920.

Title: Collection on Riley M. Adams, 1919-1920.

The collection consists of a series of eight separate articles published in The Vineland Historical Magazine, the journal of the Vineland [NJ] Historical and Antiquarian Society in 1919-1920, Volumes IV and V. The articles comprise the edited diary of Riley Adams, a student who attended the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Norwich, VT, the forerunner of Norwich University. The introduction to the published articles was written by Frank D. Andrews, then owner of the original journal. The published journal itself runs from 17 August-11 December 1824 and deals with the daily life of a homesick cadet as well as a pedestrian excursion to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. A typed transcription of the journal articles was prepared in 1949 and is available with the collection.

ArchivalResource: 2 files

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Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836. Letter, 1828 May 6.

Title: Letter, 1828 May 6.

Letter to Captain Alden Partridge, president of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy. Burr requests that Partridge make the decision as to whether "Charles" (presumably Burr's son) may leave the academy and pass a few days with Mr. Hale. Burr felt that Partridge was more qualified to decide whether Charles was in a position to be absent for a few days. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 p.

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United States Military Academy. [Orders and regulations].

Title: [Orders and regulations]. 1813-1816.

Orders regarding the management and physical plant of the U.S. Military Academy including order placing Partridge in charge of the Academy. Academic regulations specifying dates of examinations, vacations, course of study, faculty prerogatives and quarters, cadet uniforms, qualifications for admission.

ArchivalResource: 12 p. ; 31 x 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8851188 View

Stearns Family. Stearns family papers, 1785-1918.

Title: Stearns family papers, 1785-1918.

Correspondence; family papers; business records; political, governmental, and community papers; genealogical notes; memorabilia; photographs of two branches of the Stearns family.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear feet (4, 600 items + 1 oversize item) ; 17 boxes.

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Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836. Letter to Captain Partridge, 1828 September 2.

Title: Letter to Captain Partridge, 1828 September 2.

Letter to Captain Partridge at the Military Academy in Middletown, Conn. asking for the results of the examinations of his ward Charles, and for a statement of account. Written at New York, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

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Partridge, Alden, 1785-1854. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1808-1853.

Army Officer, acting Superintendent, USMA, 1815-1817, educator, founder of military academies. Orders and papers concerning the daily management of the U.S. Military Academy; correspondence with fellow officers, professors, Secretary of War, cadets and parents of cadets concerning cadet discipline, resignations, furlough pay, daily schedule followed by cadets; papers and correspondence by Douglass, Ellicott, Mansfield and Swift relating to Partridge's administration of the U.S. Military Academy; complaints against Partridge signed by USMA professors; expressions of loyalty from cadets during the courts of inquiry resulting from faculty complaints; correspondence regarding shift of command from Partridge to Thayer; letters from Benjamin O. Tyler warning Partridge of his staff's disloyalty; papers, receipts and correspondence relating to Norwich University.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes.

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Partridge, Alden, 1785-1854. Papers of Alden Partridge, 1834-1835.

Title: Papers of Alden Partridge, 1834-1835.

Roll of Captain Alden Partridge's class in military science at the University of Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815. Papers.

Title: Papers. 1768-1814.

Officer Corps of Engineers, Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1802-1803, 1805-1812. Promisary note 1768; "Statement of the examination of the Cadets of Engineers and Artillery in arithmetic, algebra and geometry, 1806"; contemporary copy of a report submitted by Williams to the president of the U.S., 11 May 1808, on the past, present and future of the Military Academy; contemporary copy of letter, 8 May 1809, discussing Corps of Engineers and Artillerists as well as the Military Academy; letter, 14 February 1810, from office of the purveyor discussing the use of a felt cap rather than a sound hat by the Corps of Cadets; extracts of official correspondence regarding the fortification of New York harbor, 1812; printed circulars signed and annotated by Williams; correspondence, 1800-1811; letter, 17 July 1803, to Major W.W. Burrows explaining Williams' reasons for resignation as superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy; letter, 13 February 1801, from T.H. Cushing regarding a U.S. Military Academy muster roll; correspondence with Henry Dearborn. Correspondence from Callender Irvine; letter from Alexander Macomb, 18 December 1814, discussing the war and including two diagrams of the battle; correspondence with William Macpherson; copy of report to James Madison regarding the publication of a lecture delivered at West Point; letter, 29 March 1813, to General Ogden; letter to Alden Partridge; correspondence from Rodgers; correspondence with Samuel Vernon and Decius Wadsworth; letter to his son John Williams Jr; correspondence regarding harbor fortifications and defenses for New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 box ; 6 cm.

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United States Military Academy. Orders and regulations.

Title: Orders and regulations. 1814 April 1.

Regulations for maintenance of rooms, drills, parades, taps, leaves of absence and settlement of accounts, issued by Alden Partridge.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. ; 33 cm.

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Hancock, John, Jr., d. 1850. John Hancock, Jr., journal, 1824.

Title: John Hancock, Jr., journal, 1824.

The collection includes the journal of John Hancock, Jr., 1 January-3 July 1824. In daily entries, Hancock's journal documents the life of a cadet in the early years of Norwich. He reports on his fellow students, the physical environment both at the Academy and in the village of Norwich, VT, discipline issues, Captain Alden Partridge and his extraordinary pedestrian excursions and teaching methodology, as well as other staff of the Academy. A typed transcription is available with the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume

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Partridge, Alden, 1785-1854. Orders.

Title: Orders. 1816 July 4.

Army officer, Superintendent, USMA, 1815-1817. Orders to cadets regarding special parade to be held commemorating the nation's independence.

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8382803 View

Milroy, Robert Huston, 1816-1890. Robert Houston Milroy papers, 1874.

Title: Robert Houston Milroy papers, 1874.

The collection includes Milroy's 1842 notebook with class notes on fencing, geometry, mathematics and astronomy taken while a student at Norwich University. Also included are Milroy's notes and illustrations from Captain Alden Partridge's lectures on various military topics. There is also manuscript music for flute by Norwich music instructor, Edwin Sturtevant Perkins, used in Milroy's lessons.

ArchivalResource: 2 files

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/639983605 View

Crowell, Edward, b. 1820. Edward Crowell letters, 1839-1840.

Title: Edward Crowell letters, 1839-1840.

The collection includes fifteen letters written by Edward Crowell to his parents, David (1794-1853) and Rebecca Griggs Crowell (1795-1869), and his brother Josiah B. Crowell (1823-1845), in New Jersey, between 24 May 1839 and 7 August 1840. The letters document the life of a cadet at Norwich University. In them, Edward Crowell reports on his studies, his financial obligations, the perils of early travel, the weather and his health. He often mentions Captain Alden Partridge and various pedestrian excursions. Typed transcriptions are available with the collection.

ArchivalResource: 2 files

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/575789811 View

Partridge, Alden, 1785-1854. Papers of Alden Partridge [manuscript], 1815-1836, 1938.

Title: Papers of Alden Partridge [manuscript], 1815-1836, 1938.

The papers consist primarily of lectures at the University of Virginia on military science. Included is correspondence from Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, and a biographical sketch of Captain Partridge.

ArchivalResource: 17 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647914331 View

Cushman, Henry Wyles, 1805-1863. Henry Wyles Cushman letter, 1823.

Title: Henry Wyles Cushman letter, 1823.