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Toner, Joseph M. (Joseph Meredith), 1825-1896,. Joseph Meredith Toner Collection, newspaper clippings, 1816-1895 (bulk 1833-1895).

Title: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection, newspaper clippings, 1816-1895 (bulk 1833-1895).

Miscellaneous newspaper, magazine, etc. clippings on a wide variety of subjects.

ArchivalResource: 892 items (39 boxes) : coats of arms, facsims., ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62409212 View

Duché, Jacob, 1738-1798. ALS : Chelsea, to F. Smith, 1792 June 16.

Title: ALS : Chelsea, to F. Smith, 1792 June 16.

Sends regards to F. Smith and his family. Discusses plans for a visit to Bath and Hertfordshire.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122541852 View

Powel family. Powel family papers, 1681-1938.

Title: Powel family papers, 1681-1938.

This collection is broad in scope, containing materials that relate to members of the Powel, Hare, and Johnston families, as well as their more distant relatives and associates. Most of the series, including those devoted to Samuel Powel (b. 1673), Samuel Powel (1738-1793), Elizabeth Powel, Samuel Powel (1818-1885), John Hare Powel, Mary Johnston Powel, Catherine Cole Taylor Johnston, and John Taylor, are comprised of correspondence, legal documents, and financial records. The collection as a whole is notable, however, for its rich documentation of both male and female family members and the variety of trades and business ventures (civic positions, shipping, medicine, plantation ownership) and locales (Philadelphia, London, Newport, and Jamaica, to name a few) represented. Robert Johnston's series contains journals as well as fascinating plantation records and drawings documenting his travels and his life in Jamaica during the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. The materials relating to Mary Edith Powel include garden books, photographs, printed materials, diaries, and genealogical records. Her interest in family history resulted in the compilation of much of the documentation and information making up this collection.

ArchivalResource: 70 boxes, 385 v. (50 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122590265 View

Redwood, Francis T., Mrs. Collection, 1762-1936

Title: Mrs. Francis T. Redwood collection 1762-1936

Letters of the Rev. Thomas and Mary Hopkinson, of colonial Philadelphia, on social and religious subjects. Included are letters of Benjamin Franklin, 1765; Thomas McKean, 1767; John Morgan, 1776; Mary Hopkinson; Mary Morgan; Esther Duché; Jacob Duché; Joseph Hopkinson; John Quincy Adams, 1835.

ArchivalResource: 69 items.

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Jacobs papers, 1681-1838.

Title: Jacobs papers, 1681-1838.

The papers of John Jacobs, member of Assembly for Chester County; Joseph Jacobs, saddler; Israel Jacobs, weaver, member of Congress, 1791; Isaac Jacobs, mayor of Philadelphia, 1767-1768; Benjamin Jacobs, surveyor, appointed by the Continental Congress to sign and number bills of credit, 1776. Among the papers are patents of land granted to early pioneers, one issued to Clement Dungan, Bucks County, 1684, signed by William Penn; another to Joseph Tanner, 1681, signed by William Parr; and a map of land on Delaware Bay, N.J., laid out and surveyed by John Woolidge and John Budd, 1691, containing a list of names of settlers. There are also records of the names of the first purchasers of land within the extended boundaries of Bedford, Sussex, Cumberland, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Philadelphia, and Bucks counties, on the Allegheny and Susquehanna rivers, on the Perkiomen, Yellow and Briar creeks, and other localities, 1729-1770, and an agreement pertaining to purchase of land in Nova Scotia, 1766. There are letters and documents of William Maclay, David Rittenhouse, Michael Hillegas, Edward Shippen, H. Vanderslice, John Robinson, Robert H. Morris, James Hamilton, Thomas Lawrence, Owen Biddle, Jacob Duché, Robert Bass, Nicholas Scull, John Lukens, Joseph Hilbon, treasurer of Pennsylvania Hospital, and many others, 1744-1769. Commerce and prices of commodities are shown in Joseph Jacobs ledger, 1760-1765; Joseph Jacobs and Samuel Wallis ledger, 1762-1766; Israel Jacobs ledger, 1776-1810; John Jacobs ledger, 1784-1818; Benjamin Jacobs ledger, 1765-1775; Juanita Iron Company stock books, 1766; bills of exchange, bills of lading, bonds, receipts, accounts. A large portion of the papers pertain to incidents during the period of the Revolution: Sargent Chambers, London merchant, letter, 1766, gives an account of Benjamin Franklin's efforts before Parliament for repeal of the Stamp Act; other letters are from John Galloway, R. Strettel Jones, Francis Johnston, commissioner to negotiate with the Indians, Benjamin Lightfoot, mobbed as a Tory, Jacob Richardson, who conducted the British army into Philadelphia, and others.

ArchivalResource: 500 items in 3 v. ; 44 cm.

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Washington, George, 1732-1799. Papers, 1766-1790.

Title: Papers, 1766-1790.

Collection includes letters, letters received, and miscellaneous papers. Letters: 1780 Aug. 1 to Arthur St. Clair (fragment); mentions the Marquis de Lafayette. 1781 Oct. 27 to Maj. Gen. Schuyler; mentions the activities of Alexander Hamilton, and the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. 1783 May 21 to Lt. Col. (William Stephens?) Smith; a list of books to be sent from New York. 1783 Aug. 10 to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; on the peace with Great Britain. 1790 Aug. 17 to King David's Lodge, Newport; copy of the official welcome, with Washington's reply. Letters received: 1777 Oct. 8 from Jacob Duché (18th c. copy); on current affairs and the state of the colonies. n.d. from his tenant farmer, G.W. Case; with news from Mt. Vernon. Misc. papers: 1766 lease of land surveyed by Washington, owned by Thomas Fairfax. 1769 Sept. bill in chancery; Dalyell, et. al. vs. Posey and Washington. n.d. "The Army's Prayer;" a parody based on the Lord's Prayer attributed to John Sherman. Speech to the Delaware Chiefs, 1779 May 12, Middle Brook (secretarial copy).

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

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Duché, Jacob, 1738-1798. Letter to George Washington [manuscript], 1777 October 8.

Title: Letter to George Washington [manuscript], 1777 October 8.

Duch:e explains his opposition to independence, elaborates on the poor quality of the men in Congress, lack of discipline in the Army, and futility of hoping for French aid, and urges Washington to use his influence to rescind the Declaration of Independence and negotiate for peace.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647820264 View

Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume III, Miscellany, 1756-1807

Title: Washington Irving's Life of George Washington Volume III, Miscellany, 1756-1807

Portraits, prints, letters, maps, and documents tipped into Volume 3 of the extra-illustrated quarto edition of Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855-1856) (Rare E 312.I72++ 1898). Portraits: Edmund Pendleton, Samuel Adams (2), Patrick Henry (2), Jacob Duche (2), John Adams, John Dickinson (3), John Jay, William Pitt (2), Israel Putnam, Charles Lee (2), Lord George Sackville, Horatio Gates, Joseph Warren (3), Timothy Pickering, Benedict Arnold, Philip Schuyler, John Adams, John Hancock, Thomas Mifflin, Henry Clinton, William Howe, George Harris, Richard Howe, Jonathan Trumbull, Gilbert Stuart. Prints: Faneuil Hall 1776; Le President du Congres; Bunker Hill Monument; Journee de Lexington; Das erste Burger Blut, zu Grundung der Americanischen Freyheit, vergossen bey Lexington am 19ten April 1775; First Action between the English and Americans, at Concord in 1775; [Putnam hearing the news of the battle of Lexington]; several prints on the Battle of Bunker Hill; A View of the Niagara Fort, taken by Sir William Johnson, on the 25th of July 1759. Letters: correspondents include Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Cols. Fleming and Preston, Richard Henry Lee, Benjamin Lincoln; John Houstoun, Governor of Georgia; John Dickinson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Gage, Artemus Ward, General Thomas, Horatio Gates, Andrew Adams, Gen. Joseph Warren, William Heath, Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne; Lord Percy, Duke of Northumberland; Lord Auckland, Thomas Cushing, Meshech Weare, Samuel Adams, Thomas Rice, John Hancock, a Selectman of Boston, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, Benjamin Lincoln, Clement Biddle, the Massachusetts (Colony) Committee of Supply, Israel Putnam, Robert Howe, Elbridge Gerry, the Massachusetts Legislature, F.M. Lamb, Philip Schuyler, Peter T. Curtenius, Samuel Broome, John Lamb, Maj. Gen. Worster, William Johnson, and Charles Willson Peale. Documents: A[aman.]DS, [bill of exchange for George Croghan, signed by Thomas Gage], April 9, 1766; ADS, [New York committee for inquiry into conspiracies, signed by John Jay, chairman], Jan. 3, 1777; A[aman.]DS, [instructions to John Powell to remit payment to Col. Valentine Jones, signed by Thomas Gage], Feb. 10, 1773; ADS, [request by Massachusetts Gov. John Hancock to the Senate and House for appropriation of funds for troops, signed by Tristram Dalton and Samuel Adams], Oct. 22, 1783; A[aman.]DS, [authorization sent to Lord Henry Duke of Newcastle for a payment to Henry Shelley, signed by William Pitt], Aug. 31, 1787; ADS, [orders for Gen. Thomas from the Massachusetts Council of Safety], April 29, 1775; A[aman.]DS, [Proclamation by Massachusetts Gov. John Hancock for a day of thanksgiving], Oct. 28, 1784; A[aman]DS, [Proclamation by Massachusetts Gov. John Hancock of a fast], March 13, 1788; D[form]S, [commission from the Massachusetts Council for John Parker], March 13, 1780; A[aman.]DS, [request to the Massachusetts Senate and House from Gov. John Hancock for funds for the artillery], June 18, 1791; ADS, [referral and settlement of a case of trespass by Isaac Tyson, with signatures of Thomas Mifflin, et al.], March 30, 1773/June 18, 1773; ADS, [resolution by the Massachusetts House of Representatives approving payment to Oliver Teir for supplies to the Northern Army, signed by John Avery, et al.], Nov. 14, 1776. Documents (continued): AD[contemporary copy]S, [Massachusetts [Committee of Supply?] certifying to Congress Col. Gridley's need of a horse, with signatures of Elbridge Gerry, et al.], July 1, 1786; AD, [John Trumbull?], [pallet employed in the small copy of the Resignation of General Washington], [n.d.]. Maps: Plan of the Town of Boston with the Attack on Bunkers-Hill in the Peninsula of Charlestown.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (94 items).

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Peters, William. Statement of Wm. Peters & J. Duché, 1757.

Title: Statement of Wm. Peters & J. Duché, 1757.

1757 statement of William Peters and Jacob Duché, members of the proprietary entourage at Easton, charging that Israel Pemberton, Joseph Galloway, and other Quakers had managed and directed the actions of Teedyuscung and his party at the negotiations.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.) ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39383843 View

Stauffer, David McNeely, 1845-1913,. Collection, ca. 1644-1884.

Title: Collection, ca. 1644-1884.

Letters of Queen Kristina of Sweden, 1644; John Printz, 1644; Peter Stuyvesant, 1653; Sir William Penn, 1655; William Penn to the Indians in Pennsylvania, 1681; James Harrison and William Turner to William Penn, 1686, 1690, 1697; William Markham and James Pemberton letters relating to lands and surveys, 1693, 1694; petitions for licences for public houses, grand jury lists, mortgages, bonds, shipping bills, receipts, marriage and court records, 1709-1767; miscellaneous documents relating to extension of the frontier toward the Susquehanna River, whale boats on the Oswago, Indian affairs, Fort Augusta, Fort Allen, Fort Pitt, treaty of Easton, French and Indian War, embargoes, smallpox epidemics, 1701-1763. Letters of Jaspar Yeates, Sir William Johnson, Edward Penington, Sir William Keith, Jacob Arndt, John Bayard, William Parsons, Phineas Pemberton, Thomas Leach, Edmund Physick, Jacob Duché, Springett Penn, Nicholas Scull, Anne Caesar de la Luzerne, Isaac Norris, Thomas Bradford, George Washington, William Shippen, Dr. Caspar Wistar, Rembrandt Peale, Mary Masters Penn, Franklin Bache, Thomas McKean, Clement Biddle, and Joseph Watson; petitions of Mennonites and Quakers relating to the oath of allegiance, 1778; Revolutionary War items relating to confiscation of property, raising of troops, medical supplies, finance, distress on the frontiers, pensions to families of soldiers, armaments, enlistment, 1775-1783; portraits of eminent Americans and Europeans; views of colonial Philadelphia churches, inns, mills, bridges, and homes; miscellaneous maps, facsimiles, sketches, drawings, and broadsides.

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Tax book for Chestnut, Walnut and Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, April 1767., 1767

Title: Tax book for Chestnut, Walnut and Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, April 1767. 1767

This volume is the tax book of William Savery, an overseer of the poor, for collecting the poor tax in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s)

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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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Philadelphia (Pa.). Overseers of the Poor. Tax book for Chestnut, Walnut and Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, April 1767.

Title: Tax book for Chestnut, Walnut and Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, April 1767.

This volume is the tax book of William Savery, one of the overseers of the poor, for collecting the poor tax in Philadelphia.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122473817 View

Carter family. Papers of the Carter family, 1682-1789.

Title: Papers of the Carter family, 1682-1789.

Include letter, 2 January 1682, from John West, New York, N.Y., to William Penn, Pennsylvania, regarding West's admiration for Penn; letter, 11 November 1733, from Simon Gallard, regarding a shipment of grain; and letter, 11 August 1738, from John Carter, Rosewell, Va., to William Prentis, Williamsburg, Va., regarding the settlement of an account. Also include account, June 1734, of John Carter with William Kennan, for medical treatment for slaves; and letter, 1 July 1737, from John Carter, Corotoman, Va., to George Turberville, Westmoreland County, Va., regarding the settlement of a debt. Also include letter, 8 October 1777, from Jacob Duché, Philadelphia, Pa., to George Washington, giving his reasons for resigning as chaplain of the first Continental Congress, and urging Washington to give up his efforts for United States' independence from Great Britain. Also include receipt, 20 March 1783, signed by Henry Tazewell, for legal fees in a suit in chancery involving the Carter family; letter, 5 May 1789, from Francis Smith to Robert Carter, Nomini Hall, Va., regarding payment for a shipment of corn; and account, n.d., of court costs of a suit between Theodorick Bland and Thomas Waring.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34567065 View

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

Fisher family. Papers, 1761-1868.

Title: Papers, 1761-1868.

The Fisher family papers center on Miers Fisher, with smaller sections of Jabez Maude Fisher, a brother, and other branches. The Miers Fisher section of the papers consists largely of incoming and outgoing correspondence and documents following Fisher's retirement from his law practice in 1793. It concerns family affairs and Miers' activities as agent for foreigners with business in Pennsylvania, but touches on other aspects of his life. Major family correspondents are: son Miers Fisher, Jr., 1797-1813, many of which are Miers, Sr. letters while Miers, Jr. was running a mercantile business in St. Petersburg, Russia; son Redwood Fisher, 1797-1825, 1848-1850, which includes letters from his father exhorting the boy to improve himself; brother Samuel Rowland Fisher, 1792-1817, with letters to Miers concerning family and some business; wife Sarah Redwood Fisher, 1777-1819, mostly letters from Miers reporting on trips away from home; brother Thomas Fisher, 1774-1806, on family affairs and a lot of sickness; son Thomas Fisher, Jr., 1791-1896, primarily letters from his father and other relatives while the younger Fisher was apprenticed to a Baltimore merchant; nephew Joshua Gilpin, 1792-1796, with personal notes and reports on English manufacturing, technology, public affairs. There are additional letters from miscellaneous Fishers, Gilpins and Redwoods. Other correspondents of Miers Fisher, writing from England, are: Maria Ann Dupont Aublay, 1792-1818, concerning the estate of herbrother Francis LeClerc Dupont and including personal news; Robert Barclay, 1775-1817, on trade, public events, and personal matters; James Delancey, 1784-1794, concerning the estate of William Allen; Jacob Duche, 1786-1793, on his American lands, with some mention of spiritual concerns; William Fisher, 1798-1819, about Tobyhanna, Pa. and other real estate in Northhampton and Wayne Counties; Elizabeth Galloway Roberts, 1804-1812, relating to her estate. There is also general correspondence, miscellaneous land and legal papers, and a draft of a portion of the "Journal of the Transactions of the Exiles." Miers' brother Jabez Maude Fisher went to England in 1775 where he died in 1779. Letters, 1774-1779, are primarily from his friends and acquaintances in England, with some letters from home. The correspondence is personal with frequent mention of the state of affairs between Great Britain and the colonies, with later letters being more concerned with commerce. Among the correspondents are Joseph Guerney and Robert Ormston. There are some very general letters, 1820-1865, to Jabez Maude Fisher [II], Miers Fisher's son. Miers Fisher's daughter Lydia married Benjamin Warner, a Philadelphia bookseller. Warner family papers include: Benjamin Warner incoming leters, 1810-1817, and Benjamin's letters, 1815-1821, to Lydia while on business trips through Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Lexington (Ky.), Richmond, etc. Benjamin died in 1821, and apparently his brother Joseph assumed paternal responsibilities for the children. There are several letters to Joseph from the nieces and nephews, particularly from John Warner, 1849-1851, while trying to establish himself in Pottsville, Pa. Joseph Warner's receipt book, 1830-1859, is largely for rent and taxes. There is Redwood Fisher Warner correspondence, 1830-1868, primarily school age letters from siblings and 1867 family news from sister Sarah Warner Lewis while "Red" and his wife are in Europe. Other Redwood Fisher related items are sister-in-law Jane Johnson receipt book, 1840-1884, for general expenses, and Ella I. Yardley estate accounts, 1870-1889, Joseph W. Johnson, Jr., and Redwood F. Warner, trustees of Mary S. Yardley. Finally, there is general correspondence, 1801-1829, of William Redwood and William Redwood, Jr., merchants.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (ca. 2,000 items).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122624890 View