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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Petition, 1759.

Title: Petition, 1759.

Copy by William Smith of his own petition to Charles Pratt, attorney general of George III, seeking protection from further harassment and redress for imprisonment by the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1758 for publishing a libelous work by Judge William Moore.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 leaves).

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Lecture notes on theology, 1767-1769.

Title: Lecture notes on theology, 1767-1769.

Notes in Smith's hand for "Theological Exercises," lectures reviewing theological concepts.

ArchivalResource: 4 items (2 booklets, 2 volumes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431658 View

Smith family. Papers, 1757-1861.

Title: Papers, 1757-1861.

Documents in the case between the Pennsylvania Assembly and William Moore, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, and the Rev. William Smith, Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, 1757-1759. Among the papers are: statement of the case, with testimony taken before the House of Assembly; affidavits of J. Ross and William Peters; printed address of William Moore; Dr. Smith's letters to Attorney General Pratt and to Solicitor General Yorke; report of the attorney general and solicitor general; trial order of the King and Council; Dr. Smith's petition to Governor Hamilton; included are sketches of historical landmarks and of men concerned in the case, 1773-1861.

ArchivalResource: 300 items.

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Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc. Records, 1930-1991 (bulk 1937-1986)

Title: Records

Business and some personal correspondence; ledgers and other business records. The collection includes correspondence of Pierre Berès (1948-1954), with personal letters regarding Berès' divorce from his wife Huguette, as well as bound and unbound catalogs and special lists issued by Berès in Paris and New York (1933-ca. 1955). The business correspondence of Lucien Goldschmidt includes letters from, among others: Jean Adheḿar, Louis Auchincloss, Gabriel Austin, Leonard Baskin, J. Rives Childs, Caresse Crosby, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Gay, Philip Hofer, Ada Louise Huxtable, Mary Hyde, William A. Jackson, and Andre ́Jammes. Also: Abe Lerner, A. Hyatt Mayor, Paul Mellon, Robert Nikirk, Howard M. Nixon, Charles Ryskamp, Lessing Rosenwald, Herbert Schimmel, Leo Steinberg, Francis Steegmuller, and Donald Wing. The correspondence files also include material about film director Michael Wilson's purchase of a collection of works by artist Felicien Rops. The unbound collection of catalogs issued by Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc. between 1957 and 1986 includes annotations regarding prices, purchasers, and dates catalogs were mailed to customers. There is also a visitors' book that documents visitors to Goldschmidt exhibitions from abot 1950 to 1968. Included also are galley proofs for the edition of the Unpublished Correspondence of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec edited by Lucien Goldschmidt and Herbert D. Schimmel. Miscellaneous material includes extensive collection of obituary and other articles on rare book and fine arts dealers; appraisals of the collections of Frank Altschul and Claus von Bülow; documents relating to William Smith (1727-1803), Provost of the College of Philadelphia; galley proofs for Unpublished Correspondence of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, edited by Lucien Goldschmidt and Herbert D. Schimmel (London: Phaidon, 1969); and several lists of materials prepared by Goldschmidt's wife, Marguerite Goldschmidt.

ArchivalResource: 12 boxes (7 linear ft.), 16 bound volumes, 7 photographs

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Stauffer, David McNeely, 1845-1913. Scrapbook, 1749-1763.

Title: Scrapbook, 1749-1763.

Original material relating to what is now the University of Pennsylvania and to the education of Germans in Pennsylvania. Includes a printed constitution of the University, 1749; graduation exercises, 1763; documents by William Smith discussing funding for the University.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.; 33.5 cm.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Sermon addressed to students, n.d.

Title: Sermon addressed to students, n.d.

Sermon on the study of scripture.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431650 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. A sermon on diligence in our temporal and spiritual callings : manuscript, 1766.

Title: A sermon on diligence in our temporal and spiritual callings : manuscript, 1766.

Sermon on 1 Corinthians 7.24 in Smith's hand. His notes on the verso of the first leaf indicate that he preached this sermon in Philadelphia in 1766, New York in 1773, and Bristol in 1774.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (17 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431648 View

Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876,. Letters, 1789-1858.

Title: Letters, 1789-1858.

These letters of American Philosophical Society members and prominent early American scientists were selected from Carson's extra-illustrated draft of "A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania" (Philadelphia, 1869).

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122523529 View

Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796. Papers, ca. 1755-1802.

Title: Papers, ca. 1755-1802.

Photostats of David Rittenhouse's miscellaneous documents, correspondence, and scientific writings: "Mss. Notes of Rittenhouse's Observations at Wilmington for determining the Longitude," 1784; "Commonplace Book, Rittenhouse letters, etc.," 1755-1780, containing extracts from the Rev. Thomas Barton's letter on Indian warfare, massacres, etc.; "Letters, Documents," 1793-1802, including Thomas Jefferson letters, 1791-1793, letters from Dr. William Smith concerning University of Pennsylvania, 1793, and others.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Papers, 1690-1871 (bulk 1748-1804).

Title: Papers, 1690-1871 (bulk 1748-1804).

The William Smith Papers primarily document the public and political activities of William Smith from 1753 to 1775. William Smith's staunch support and advocacy of the Penn family, the Proprietors of colonial Pennsylvania, is well documented in the collection. There is extensive correspondence between William Smith and Thomas Penn for the years 1754 to 1770 which provides detailed reports of, and observations on, the state of the Proprietor's political interest in Pennsylvania. William Smith's staunch support and advocacy of the Penn family, the Proprietors of colonial Pennsylvania, is well documented in the collection. In addition to the Penn correspondence, the collection contains the legal briefs, petitions, and supporting documentation used to defend Smith in the libel suit brought by the Pennsylvania Assembly for his pamphleteering against it. The role of William Smith as an educator and fundraiser looms large in the collection, particularly in his correspondence with Richard Peters, the head of the College's Board of Trustees. The Peters correspondence covers the period 1762 to 1764, during which Smith conducted his extensive tour of Great Britain raising money for the College. The fund raising trip is also documented in a diary covering the months of November and December 1762. In addition to the correspondence with Thomas Penn, William Smith's work as Provost is found in four notebooks of the commencement exercises of 1765 to 1768. Smith's interest in education, in general, is documented in the bound book of minutes and correspondence of the German Free School movement conducted in Pennsylvania from 1754 to 1756. The collection also contains a small number of letters between various members of William Smith's family. The largest of these are between of his wife, Rebecca Moore Smith, and Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson. Some very personal reflections on the passing of William Smith's wife can be found in his correspondence with Benjamin Rush. There is also some correspondence of Charles Smith, William's son. The family correspondence stretches into the first three decades of the nineteenth century. In addition to the family correspondence there are some literary writings, primarily poems, authored both by Smith himself and by other members of his family.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic feet.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Charter, laws, & regulations for the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, 1771-1789.

Title: Charter, laws, & regulations for the College, Academy, and Charitable School of Philadelphia, 1771-1789.

Copies by Smith of the 1753 charter and the 1755 additional charter; Rules and statutes of the College, Academy and Charity School of Philadelphia; Rules and ordinances for the discipline and good government of the students & scholars belonging to the College, Academy and Charity Schools of Philadelphia; Laws respecting religion and good behavior; Minute of the Trustees relative to the French School, 1772; Holidays, 1772; and information on the medical schools, 1789, signed by Benjamin Franklin as president of the Trustees. Date in Smith's hand inside front cover, December 26th, 1771.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (48 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431677 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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Brinton, Jasper Yeates, b. 1878. Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

Title: Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

The Jasper Yeates Brinton collection consists of personal and business correspondence, shipping invoices, receipts, account books, and land records pertaining to Brinton's forebears John Steinmetz, William Smith, and Charles Smith, as well as his father John Hill Brinton, his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and his older brother Ward Brinton. John Steinmetz's papers offer insight into general trade and shipping in Philadelphia immediately before and after the Revolutionary war, and also include a small amount of correspondence regarding the divorce of his son John Henry Steinmetz (b. 1766). The papers of William Smith address the management of land holdings in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Nova Scotia, and also include some records of the family's financial transactions. Charles Smith's papers consist of documentation on the settlement of William Smith's estate, and legal documents pertaining both to cases Charles Smith handled as an attorney and cases the family was involved in. Also included in the collection are land and legal papers of Jasper Yeates Brinton's father John Hill Brinton (1832-1907), correspondence between his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and her mother, and numerous letters sent by his brother Lt. Ward Brinton while he served with the Reserve Medical Corps in Texas in 1916.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes, 10 vols., (17 linear ft.)

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Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Title: Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s

Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)

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Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified

Index to ownership/provenance information primarily from printed books at Houghton Library.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Sermons, 1748-1836.

Title: Sermons, 1748-1836.

A collection of manuscript sermons, mostly by Philadelphia clergymen, containing two sermons for Advent and Christmas in the hand of William Smith, 1765; an explanation of the catechism by George Boyd of St. John's Church, Philadelphia, 1836; a sermon on Proverbs 4.23 by John Andrews, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, ca. 1812; The danger of neglecting salvation, by the Rev. Boyd, 1817; a sermon on religious zeal by the Rev. Andrews, principal of Episcopal Academy, 1787; a sermon on the Lord's Supper by the Rev. Andrews, 1782; and a sermon on Matthew 26.42, 1748, possibly by William Cotes of St. George's, Dorchester, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

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U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Title: U.S. History mss., 1612-1977

Consists of individual items acquiredseparately either as a gift, purchase, transfer, or removal from a variety ofsources, relating to the United States. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 551 items

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Livingston, Robert R., 1746-1813. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1763.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1763.

Two letters to his father, Robert R. Livingston, written from Cambridge in April and October 1763. The letter of April 1763 describes the fundraising of William Smith and James Jay in England for the colleges of Philadelphia and New York.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431628 View

Stillé, Charles J. (Charles Janeway), 1819-1899. Miscellaneous manuscripts, n.d.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, n.d.

Ms. memoir of the Rev. William Smith, first Provost of the College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia, which later became the University of Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (87 leaves).

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Account book, 1772.

Title: Account book, 1772.

Records of donations by prominent Philadelphians to the College, Academy, and Charitable Schools of Philadelphia, with names, amounts of donations, and some autograph signatures of donors. A label on the first leaf somewhat more recent than the booklet itself reads "Original subscription list to the College, Academy &c., 1772."

ArchivalResource: 1 booklet (11 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431663 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803,. Chemistry notebook : manuscript, [1700-1774] / attributed to William Smith.

Title: Chemistry notebook : manuscript, [1700-1774] / attributed to William Smith.

Letter tipped in dated 22 October 1923 from Edgar Fahs Smith to E.W. Mumford, secretary of the University of Pennsylvania, describes this notebook as "evidently the notes of a student who heard chemistry here in the University somewhere before 1774. I have compared the handwriting with that of Provost William Smith. They are very much alike, and it is possible that these are notes of the old Doctor." First leaf is missing. Subjects include the effects of fire, solutions, attractions, fusion.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (25 leaves)

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa 1743-1806

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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Smith, William, 1727-1803. The substance of a course of lectures in natural philosophy : lecture notes, 1760.

Title: The substance of a course of lectures in natural philosophy : lecture notes, 1760.

Notes taken by Jasper Yeates (A.B., 1761, College of Philadelphia) from Smith's lectures on physics. Topics include "falling bodies," pendulums, projectiles, simple machines, and fluids. Illustrated with numerous diagrams, a few of which are decorated with an ink wash (pp. 111, 127, 131, 133).

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431653 View

White, William, 1748-1836. Papers, 1784-1873

Title: William White papers, 1784-1873.

This large collection, which includes 184 letters by Bishop White, contains much material on the formative years of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in which he took a leading part. Principal clergymen among his correspondents are William West (24 letters, 1785-1790), William E. Wyatt (letters of 1829-1836), and John P.K. Henshaw (1829-1830), all of Baltimore, and Maryland Bishops Thomas John Claggett (letters of 1796-1814), James Kemp (1812-1827), and William Murray Stone (1830-1836). Letters to Bishop Kemp are most numerous, although other holdings are substantial. Other correspondence is addressed to the Reverend Samuel H. Turner and the Reverend Jackson Kemper. One letter recommends the Reverend William Rollinson Whittingham to the Church in general as agent for the Sunday School Union, 1828.The correspondence ranges over most of the concerns and events of the Episcopal Church during the period, with special reference to the Church in Maryland. Only a sampling of subjects can be summarized here. White expresses his opinions on organization and government of the Church; the role of the laity; relations of church and state; proceedings of General Conventions; qualifications for ordination; relations with the Church of England; independence of the American Church; the liturgy of the two Churches, including problems concerning the thirty-nine Articles and the Creeds; aid given by the Church of England to the Episcopal Church; legislation in Parliament, 1786; and correspondence with the Archbishops of Canterbury and York concerrning the new Prayer Book. Much concerns revision and sale of the Prayer Book and donation of proceeds to the Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of Deceased Clergymen. There are also copies of four letters to White by the Reverend Thomas Cradock, the Reverend William West, and Samuel Johnston, 1786-1788, about the election of the Reverend William Smith as Bishop of Maryland and objections to his consecration (whereabouts of the originals not shown). Many other letters concern affairs of the Church in Maryland and Virginia in the last two decades of the eighteenth century. Correspondence from 1800 on includes numerous references to clergymen in Pennsylvania and Maryland, among them Walter C. Gardiner, William L. Gibson, Archibald Walker, John Chandler, John Armstrong, Joseph Jackson, and Bird Wilson, as well as substantial materials about affairs of the Dioceses of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York , and Connecticut. Letters of 1804-1807 concern Methodist Bishop Thomas Coke's negotiations for reunion of Methodists with the Protestant Episcopal Church, including his plan for the reordination of Methodist preachers, and White's views on the Methodist Church and John Wesley's influence. There are frequent references to the election and consecration of early bishops, including objections to the consecration of Philander Chase, 1819, and to White's relations with other bishops. Much concerns the disputed election of James Kemp as Suffragan Bishop of Maryland, 1814-1816, and the conduct and schism of the Reverend George Dashiell during that time. Substantial materials related to dealings with Bishop Thomas John Claggett throughout his episcopate. White writes frequently about affairs of the Diocese of Maryland and the Church in general. He gives his views on church music, architecture, the arrangement of church interiors, placement of organs and furniture, the practice in Pennsylvania regarding use of churches prior to consecration, canon law, and the liturgy and rubrics.There are also numerous references to Richard Mant, Bishop of Killaloe, in Ireland. In 1817, White writes the Reverend Samuel H. Turner expressing his views on slavery, its evils, the need for its gradual elimination, and his belief that Blacks should have part in the vox populi. Letters of 1824 concern the Reverend William Levington, a Negro ordained by White, who founded St. James' First African Church, Baltimore, with mention of his education and work among Blacks in Philadelphia. Other letters of the 1820s discuss White's writings on the history of the Episcopal Church, Calvinism, and other subjects; his controversy with the Reverend Jared Sparks over Unitarianism; and troubles in the Diocese of Pennsylvania over the election of Henry U. Onderdonk as Assistant Bishop. White disapproves of the project for a General Theological Seminary and prefers diocesan seminaries. Papers of 1829-1830 chiefly concern the trial of the Reverend Timothy Clowes, which raised problems of canon law concerning episcopal authority, and the consecration of William Murray Stone as Bishop of Maryland. Correspondence with Bishop Stone is mostly about clergy matters. The collection also references to Bishop White after his death, concerning memorials to him, his theology, his attitude toward sacraments and the Prayer Book, and various tributes.

ArchivalResource: 370 items.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Lecture notes on natural philosophy, 1768-ca. 1778.

Title: Lecture notes on natural philosophy, 1768-ca. 1778.

Three partial sets of notes in Smith's hand for lectures on physics. Topics include motion, fluids, hydraulics, optics, and electricity.

ArchivalResource: 3 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431656 View

Hall & Sellers shop book, 1767-1769, 1767-1769

Title: Hall & Sellers shop book, 1767-1769 1767-1769

This volume is a daily record of purchases of books, paper, quills, ink, and other stationer's supplies. Customers include prominent Philadelphians.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 95 p.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Clipping of protest to Pennsylvania's Assembly, 1788.

Title: Clipping of protest to Pennsylvania's Assembly, 1788.

Protest to the Assembly over the voiding of the charter of the College of Philadelphia in 1779 at the time of the establishment of the University of the State of Pennsylvania. Clipped from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 19 March 1788, and pasted to pages of a small notebook, now disbound. A note in a contemporary hand pasted to the front cover reads, "Part of Wm. Smith's last memorial or pamphlet to Assembly."

ArchivalResource: 1 booklet (9 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431670 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Will, 1803.

Title: Will, 1803.

Last will and testament and codicil of William Smith; written in 1803, probated in Philadelphia County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, April 1836.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (8 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78096613 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Papers, 1755-1803.

Title: Papers, 1755-1803.

Personal and professional papers, including correspondence, sermons, lecture notes on natural philosophy and theology, and financial records and minutes from Smith's tenure as provost. Also a small amount of printed material concerning the College of Philadelphia collected by Smith. Smith's efforts to raise money for the college; his roles in the operations of the college as an administrator, a member of the faculty, and a clergyman; and his struggles with political authorities are documented.

ArchivalResource: 33 items (2 boxes)

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. An act for the continuance & encouragement of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, between 1778 and 1789.

Title: An act for the continuance & encouragement of the College and Academy of Philadelphia, between 1778 and 1789.

Draft of a bill in Smith's hand by which the General Assembly would restore the College and Academy of Philadelphia, whose charter was voided in 1779.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431684 View

Smith, William, 1727-1803. Letter to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster [manuscript], 1773 July 15.

Title: Letter to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster [manuscript], 1773 July 15.

Smith writes in re to a legal dispute re the survey, purchase, sale, and previous ownership of land, to be heard in Carlisle Court, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He contends that a Captain Sharpe is due payment from John and Paul Immel, and reviews the history of the tract and his own involvement. Persons mentioned include Frederick Stuber, Mr. Magaw, Mr. Hoops and his heirs, Colonel Armstrong, and Mr. Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1p. on 1l.); 31 cm.

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Hall and Sellers. Shop book, 1767-1769.

Title: Shop book, 1767-1769.

This volume is a daily record of purchases of books, paper, quills, ink, and other stationer's supplies. Customers include prominent Philadelphians.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (95 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122474052 View

Kinnersley, Ebenezer, 1711-1778. Miscellaneous manuscripts (Large), 1757.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts (Large), 1757.

M.A. diploma of Ebenezer Kinnersley, dated 18 May 1757. He was already a member of the faculty when this diploma was awarded. It is on parchment and signed by Provost William Smith.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155886082 View

Penn, William, 1644-1718. Records of the proprietary government, 1629-1828.

Title: Records of the proprietary government, 1629-1828.

Papers relating to the three lower counties, 1629-1774; Penn's deeds, 1639-1759, 1760-1801; leases and mortgages, 1670-1771; governor's proclamations, 1670-1775; county court records, town and county of Deale, 1681-1709; autograph petitions, 1681-1716; receipts for beaver skins for tenure, etc., 1752-1780; addresses to William Penn by Trade Society; petition to Lord Baltimore; petitions from Berks, Bucks, and Chester counties in favor of proprietary government, etc.; Pennsylvania land grants, 1681-1806; Assembly of Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, 1682-1874; the laws of Pennsylvania, 1682-1688; Pennsylvania charters, Frame of Government, with revised forms, 1683-1696, and marriage settlement and will of Thomas Penn, 1751-1774. Official correspondence, 1683-1817: letters from James Logan to John Penn and Hannah Penn, Lord Baltimore, William Penn, Governor Andrew Hamilton, Isaac Norris, W. Popple, Colonel Benjamin Fletcher, on Pennsylvania boundaries, acts for regulating trade, efforts to make Pennsylvania a crown colony, piracy and smuggling, decline in public morals, copper mine beyond Susquehanna, Keith-Logan controversy, Indian treaties, Conrad Weiser's address to the Germans, factions in politics, paper money, yellow fever, Ohio Company, Nicholas Scull, Edward Shippen, George Croghan, Connecticut intrusion, battle of Lexington, etc. Philadelphia land grants, Episcopal Church, Society of Friends, University Island in Delaware, 1684-1772; warrants and surveys, 1684-1776; Connecticut claims, 1684-1799; Planter's Speech to his Neighbors and Countrymen of Pennsylvania, East and West Jersey; Indian affairs, 1687-1801, contain information to Thomas Dongan, governor and vice admiral of New York, on invasion of Indians of the Five Nations, 1787; Governor Logan's speech to Sassoonan, 1731; negotiations with Six Nations; data on German Palatines, Conrad Weiser, Richard Peters, Sir William Johnson, Albany Congress, Connecticut purchase, Delaware controversy; George Croghan's account of Indian affairs, 1748-1749, to Braddock's defeat; maps and documents relating to Indian Walk, etc.; Governor John Blackwell manuscripts, 1689-1690; and acts of assembly, 1700-1763. Pennsylvania cash accounts, 1701-1778; Pennsylvania journals, 1701-1779, contain accounts of lands, quitrents, etc.; James Logan receipt book, 1702-1709, papers relating to iron, peltries, trade, etc., 1712-1817; bonds and powers of attorney, 1714-1828; "Supplementary Saunders Coates," 1720-1766, chiefly Thomas Penn letters to Richard Peters, on administrative affairs; Pennsylvania Assembly messages, 1727-1771; Wyoming controversy papers, 1731-1775, and William Smith and William Moore vs. Assembly, 1758-1759; account of quitrents, 1742; accounts of land in Chester County called "William Penn's Manor," 1747-1750; warrants to affix the great seal, 1749-1775; accounts, provincial tax for Philadelphia, 1759-1768; William Baker letterbook, 1769-1789; John Mifflin letterbook, 1788-1802; receipt book (of Philip Syng), provincial tax, 1759-1770; proprietary manors and lands in Pennsylvania, n.d.

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Commonplace book, n.d.

Title: Commonplace book, n.d.

Excerpts of English poetry, including an extended excerpt from Paradise lost, and a French sonnet by Jacques Vallée des Barreaux with an English translation.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79431660 View

Vaughan, John, 1755-1841. Papers, 1768 - ca. 1936

Title: John Vaughan papers, 1768 - Circa 1936

The collection of about 850 items covers the period from 1782 to c. 1936, with the bulk dating to the 1780s to 1840s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I contains correspondence relating to a wide variety of topics, including French and English politics, business, trade, religious matters, and personal affairs. Many of the items are letters of introduction. There is also information on John Vaughan’s immigration to America, Joseph Priestley, vaccines and inoculation (with Jefferson's comments on the same), Vaughan's business in Philadelphia, and the American Philosophical Society. Also included in this series are 2 boxes with copies of Vaughan correspondence as well as miscellaneous notes by E. W. Madeira, gathered in the course of his research on Vaughan in the 1930s. Series II consists of three volumes. Included are two of Vaughan's commonplace books. One, entitled, "J. Vaughan's book," May 17, 1779 (47 pp., in Latin; 870/L34), includes mostly Latin notations. The other commonplace book, dated 1783 (ca. 66 pp.; B V 462.c), includes comments on several prominent Americans, such as Benjamin Rush and David Rittenhouse, as well as American society generally. The third volume is a copybook with thirty letters spanning the period 1784 to 1801 (B V462.1). Series III includes material relating to Vaughan's administration of the estate of the Philadelphia merchant Samuel Merrick, 1796-1822 (Vaughan-Merrick Papers, B V462.m; 2 boxes). Series IV consists of correspondence between Vaughan and the DuPont Co. for which he served as agent (B V462.4; photocopies of 73 letters).

ArchivalResource: 5.0 Linear feet, Ca. 850 items

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Smith, William, 1727-1803. Account book, 1762-1763.

Title: Account book, 1762-1763.

Records of donations solicited by Smith on a fundraising trip to England and Scotland in 1762 and 1763. Small volume's binding was removed by an earlier owner, leaving two groups of gatherings and a few detached leaves. Caption heading reads, "Account of cash collected by Revd. Dr. Smith for the use of the College of Philadelphia."

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (38 leaves).

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