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United States. Commissioners of the City of Washington. Letter : Washington, to George Washington, Mount Vernon, 1798 Oct. 18.

Title: Letter : Washington, to George Washington, Mount Vernon, 1798 Oct. 18.

Letter signed by Scott, Thornton, and White; enclosed an estimate of the cost of houses Washington proposed to build in Washington; Washington later agreed to the terms for building two houses.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 26 cm.

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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.)

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Beatty, Ia. Argosy collection additional [manuscript] 1773-1839.

Title: Argosy collection additional [manuscript] 1773-1839.

Correspondents and recipients are: Ia. Beatty, Sylvanius Bourne, Daniel Call, John Carter, J.M. Daniel, John Fitzgerald, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Charles Fenton Mercer, Joseph Nourse, John M. O'Conner, Richard E. Parker, Robert Randolph, Thomas Ritchie, William Henry Roane, Gustavus Scott, Mich. I. Stone, Lewis Warrington, and Alexander White. Subject matter is that of business.--Survey map, 1799, of Mt. Vieux, Westmorland Co., Va. for Daniel Carmi [sheet. 24 37 cm. holograph signed by P. Steward].

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

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United States Commissioners of the City of Washington records, 1791-1869

Title: United States Commissioners of the City of Washington records, 1791-1869

Correspondence, proclamations, recommendations, and related documents concerning initial construction of the Federal City and later site designations for public use. Includes correspondence between Presidents Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren (as Vice President), Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson and commissioners John B. Blake, Daniel Carroll, William Eagby, Benjamin B. French, Thomas Johnson, Samuel Lane, Richard Bland Lee, William Noland, Tench Ringgold, Gustavus Scott, David Stuart, William Thornton, John P. Van Ness, and Alexander White. Material dates chiefly from the administrations of Washington and Jefferson.

ArchivalResource: 125 items.1 oversize container.1 microfilm reel.

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Scott, Gustavus, 1753-1800. Gustavus Scott correspondence, 1797-1800.

Title: Gustavus Scott correspondence, 1797-1800.

ALS (1797 April 24) written by Scott to John Nicholson relating to politics and a letter (1800 January 7) from Scott and William Thornton to the Bank of Columbia regarding a financial matter.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980423 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.)

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Webster, Parmelee and Company. Webster, Parmelee and Company document, 1828.

Title: Webster, Parmelee and Company document, 1828.

The collection consists of a document filed with the Inferior Court of Wilkes County, Georgia, at the May term 1828, for answer on 12 November 1828. It is the petition of Webster, Parmelee and Company versus James D. Dewberry and Gustavus Scott for the collection of a claim in the amount of $251.04.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 linear feet.

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Bayard, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1796-1868. Papers of the Tayloe family [manuscript], 1756-1893.

Title: Papers of the Tayloe family [manuscript], 1756-1893.

The collection contains the family and business correspondence of the Tayloe family, particularly John Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, William Henry Tayloe, Edward T. Tayloe and Henry Tayloe. Much of the correspondence concerns family plantations in Virginia, Maryland and Alabama. Topics include plantation management; cotton cultivation in Alabama and transactions with cotton brokers in New Orleans and Mobile; the Civil War and difficulties of running a plantation under wartime conditions; transportation of slaves from Virginia to Alabama, slave sales and runaways; the Octagon House, Washington, D.C.; horse racing and breeding; and family finances and legal affairs. Of interest is a letter from Edward Tayloe to Benjamin O. Tayloe, 1824 September 19, describing a visit to Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Business papers, 1795-1820, concern real estate transactions in Georgetown and Washington, D.C. In addition there are letterbooks and a diary of Mrs. Ogle Tayloe. Of interest are letters from Edward Thornton Tayloe in Mexico and Bogotà discussing the countries, their government, people, religion, and mining operations and mentioning Joel Poinsett, David Porter, Simón Bolivár, Vicente Guerrero, William Henry Harrison, José María Córdova, and James Henderson.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647837130 View