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Pinkney family. Papers, 1804-1906.

Title: Papers, 1804-1906.

Papers of the Pinkney (or Pinckney) family, consisting chiefly papers of William Pinkney (1764-1822), his brother Ninian Pinkney (1776-1825), and Ninian's son, Bishop William Pinkney (1810-1883). Included is an invitation to a dinner to honor William Pinkney upon his return from England after serving as U.S. commissioner to negotiate claims under Jay's Treaty. Material relating to Ninian Pinkney concerns his position as clerk of the executive council of Maryland and relates to expenditures for militia expenses, 1813, and to the Baltimore and Potomac Canal Survey, 1823-1824. Correspondents include Senator Robert Henry Goldsborough and William Howard. Letters to Bishop William Pinkney are from Orlando Hutton, 1844-1879, and concern Pinkney's ecclesiastical career.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Howard, John Eager, 1752-1827. Papers, 1789-1829.

Title: Papers, 1789-1829.

Official papers of Governor Howard. Also, a notebook kept by his son, William Howard, while a pupil of the phrenologist Franz Josef Gall, containing biographical comments on Gall and phrenological theories, and afterwards as a civil engineer, containing a sketch of the ramparts of a fort.

ArchivalResource: 8 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19793591 View