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Logan, James, 1674-1751. ALS : to the House of Representatives, Province of Pennsylvania, 1705 Nov. 8.

Title: ALS : to the House of Representatives, Province of Pennsylvania, 1705 Nov. 8.

Suggests that he receive £40 per annum, retroactive five years, as compensation for his services as secretary and clerk of the Council of the Province of Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

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Logan, James, 1674-1751. D.S. / by James Logan, Edward Antill, Edward Singleton, John Denniss et al, September 12, 1700.

Title: D.S. / by James Logan, Edward Antill, Edward Singleton, John Denniss et al, September 12, 1700.

Writing on behalf of William Penn, Logan states that the Susquehannah and Shevnahs (Shawnees?) request that only under certificate from Penn may anyone live amongst them, bring liquor or other goods to sell or dispose among the Indians or suggest that the English are not their friends.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 41 cm.

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Penn, William, 1644-1718. Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1665-1801.

Title: Miscellaneous letters and documents, 1665-1801.

Three volumes contain letters, laws, charters, reports, proclamations, petitions, and other official and semi-official documents relating principally to early Pennsylvania and New Jersey, signed by or addressed to William Penn, among others. A fourth volume is Penn's cash book, 1699-1703, which records expeditures, payments of quit rents, etc. Tipped in is "Catalogue of Goods left at Pensbury," and of goods left at Philadelphia, 1701.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. (125 items).

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Logan-Fisher-Fox family papers, 1703-1940.

Title: Logan-Fisher-Fox family papers, 1703-1940.

The Logan-Fisher-Fox collection focuses on the members of three prominent Philadelphia Quaker families. The material offers a study of the minds and lifestyles of several generations of active members of the Society of Friends and is a valuable source of information on family life, highlighting the position of women in the family. There is much correspondence, especially in William Logan's and Thomas Fisher's papers, concerning trans-Atlantic trade and the Anglo-American Quaker community. The collection also documents the families' involvement in the anti-slavery movement, Indian relief efforts and educational projects involving both Indians and African Americans. The Logan section concerns James Logan, Secretary to William Penn, his eldest son, William and William's son, William Jr., an apothecary apprentice of Dr. Joseph Fry and medical student. William Logan's correspondence (approximately 200 items) reflect Quaker perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on the growing conflicts between Great Britain and her colonies. Of additional interest is correspondence, 1763-1800, concerning the courtship and marriage of Sally Portsmouth and William Logan, Jr., which was discouraged by his family, and the guardianship of William Portsmouth Logan, their child, after the death of his father. The Fisher section includes 500 items of the Post-Revolutionary correspondence of Thomas Fisher, merchant and brewer, 1780-1810. In addition to business concerns Thomas Fisher's correspondence documents his active role in the formation of Westtown, a Quaker boarding school, his views on the Non-importation Agreement and free trade, and his interest in the education of Indians and the abolition of slavery. The William Logan Fisher papers document his apprenticeship in a counting house, and his later whaling business through extensive family correspondence. They are particularly useful for their commentary on the economy, politics, slavery and abolition. Also included here are the manuscripts of Sarah Lindley Fisher, second wife of William Logan Fisher, Elizabeth R. Fisher and Mary Fisher Fox important for their depiction of the life of the 19th century wife and mother. The Fox section focuses on the letters of Samuel and George to their brother Joseph M. Fox. Both Samuel and George graduated from medical school, but Samuel left the profession in 1828 to work in his father-in-law's New York counting house. Included in this section is a small group of Lindley family material, the bulk of which concerns Jacob Lidley, a missionary to the Indians. The Miscellaneous section includes photographs, newspaper clippings and other printed material.

ArchivalResource: 44 boxes, 73 vols., 33 linear ft.

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William Penn miscellaneous letters and documents, 1665-1801, 1665-1801

Title: William Penn miscellaneous letters and documents, 1665-1801 1665-1801

Three volumes contain letters, laws, charters, reports, proclamations, petitions, and other official and semi-official documents relating principally to early Pennsylvania and New Jersey, signed by or addressed to William Penn, among others. A fourth volume is Penn's cash book, 1699-1703, which records expeditures, payments of quit rents, etc. Tipped in is "Catalogue of Goods left at Pensbury," and of goods left at Philadelphia, 1701.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Volume(s), 4 volumes, 125 items

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Logan, James, 1674-1751. Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750.

Title: Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750.

Copied by Mrs. Deborah Norris Logan from original letters and papers in her family, with additions by J. Francis Fisher and Redmond Conyngham. Includes Logan's correspondence with William Penn, Hannah Callowhill Penn, and Isaac Norris, on early Philadelphia and Indian and colonial affairs.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. : copies.

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Logan, James, 1674-1751. At a council held at Edward [unreadable] 1712 May 19.

Title: At a council held at Edward [unreadable] 1712 May 19.

Photostat of a document purportedly by James Logan giving an account of a meeting. The document illustrates 34 wampum belts, presented by the Delaware Indian delegation, and gives their meanings. The place where the meeting was held appears to start with Edward or Edwards, but the remainder of the word is not decipherable. The council was presumably held somewhere near Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Other individuals attending the meeting included Edward Shippen, Richard Hill, and other members of the government. Also included with the Photostats are two letters from 1942 between Julian P. Boyd, who was a librarian at Princeton, Edwin K. Burnett, and George G. Heye. Their letters discuss the manuscript and the whereabouts of the wampum belts mentioned in the manuscript. Boyd states that the original manuscript may have been purchased earlier that year by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 6 pages.

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Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Laws, 1682-1719, 1682-1719

Title: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Laws, 1682-1719 1682-1719

Much of the material in both volumes is printed in Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania . . . (Harrisburg, 1879). The first volume, prepared possibly for James Logan, contains copies of Charles II's grant to William Penn of the Lower Counties, 1683, an act of the Privy Council, 1705, the charter of Pennsylvania of 1701, acts of the Assembly, 1682-1719.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Volume(s), 2 volumes, 227 p.

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Logan, Maria Dickinson, 1857-1939,. Family papers, 1671-1890.

Title: Family papers, 1671-1890.

These miscellaneous papers include the letterbook of Jonathan Dickinson, 1698-1701; letterbook of James Logan, 1731-1732, 1741-1742; letters of Mary Norris, 1786-1799; biographical sketch of Dr. George Logan, 1821; a leather-bound manuscript, "Observations in a Voyage of the Low Countries," 1671; and letters and pamphlets relating to religion, politics, and society in Pennsylvania, 1705-1890, by people prominent in the history of Pennsylvania, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson, Hannah Griffitts, John Hancock, Thomas Rodney, Caesar Rodney, Archibald Hamilton Rowan, Conrad Weiser. This collection also contains letters from people in England, including Hannah and William Penn and John Fothergill. There are letters by the botanists John Bartram and John Blackburne. The majority of this collection is letters by the Logan family and their relatives, the Fishers and Norrises, including a letter from Benjamin Franklin to James Logan, 1748.

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Peter Stephen Du Ponceau commonplace book, 1820, 1820

Title: Peter Stephen Du Ponceau commonplace book, 1820 1820

There are notes on the colonial history of Pennsylvania, with emphasis on William Penn and his family, the Society of Friends, James Logan, and the charters granted by Penn, with some notes on the study of languages and definition of words.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, 150 p.

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.D92c-ead.xml View

Penn, William, 1644-1718. Deed, 1718 July 10, Philadelphia, to Jonathan Dickinson.

Title: Deed, 1718 July 10, Philadelphia, to Jonathan Dickinson.

Acting for Penn, his three commissioners, Richard Hill, Isaac Norris, and James Logan, grant title to Jonathan Dickinson for 1048 acres of proprietary land along the Schuylkill River immediately north of Fairmont. Girard College is on this property, which included the whole of Francisville.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) in case : vellum with wax seal ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580839 View

Logan, James, 1674-1751. Letter of James Logan, circa 1742.

Title: Letter of James Logan, circa 1742.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71014956 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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Logan, James, 1674-1751. Letter. 17th of Mar. 1734/5, Stenton [Phila., Pa.] to the Proprietors. [John and Thomas Penn].

Title: Letter. 17th of Mar. 1734/5, Stenton [Phila., Pa.] to the Proprietors. [John and Thomas Penn].

Concerns quit rents due Penns which had not been collected. Suggests they send a letter to a friend in the House to further their claim and details a method of approach. Included with the letter is a lithograph of Logan and clippings concerning him and his residence.

ArchivalResource: [3] p. ; 23 x 19 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3808181 View

Logan family papers, Bulk, 1670-1872, 1638-1964

Title: Logan family papers Bulk, 1670-1872 1638-1964

The Logan family was a prominent Philadelphia family dating back to 1699, when James Logan, the family patriarch, arrived in Philadelphia to serve as the first secretary of the Pennsylvania colony. Through work in agriculture and politics, Logan and his descendants were intimately involved in the development of the Pennsylvania colony and, later, the fledging United States. James Logan's prominence resulted in connections, both professional and familial, with other prominent colonial families, including the Norris and Dickinson families. The Logan family papers, 1638-1964 (bulk 1670-1872), documents James Logan’s personal and professional life, as well as that of several generations of his descendents. There are papers documenting the lives of his son William, his grandson George Logan, his great-grandsons Albanus Charles Logan and Algernon Sydney Logan, and the subsequent relationships with the Dickinson and Norris families. John Dickinson, who married one of James Logan's descendents, is well documented in this collection as are his activities with the Pennsylvania and Delaware governments and his legal practice. This collection is rich in the history of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Delaware, the formation of the colony of Pennsylvania, the relationship of early colonials with the Native Americans, the bid for independence and the later formation of the United States of America. Included in the papers are correspondence, legal records, estate records, financial records, land and property records, diaries, and writings. Not only are prominent political figures (James Logan, George Logan, and John Dickinson) well documented in this collection, but women are also well documented, largely thanks to Deborah Norris Logan who kept a diary for most of her adult life. Her diaries and letters and those of some of her female relations reveal a glimpse into the lives of educated and prominent women in the Philadelphia area during the 18th and 19th centuries.

ArchivalResource: 34.8 Linear feet; 65 boxes, 79 volumes

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