Compare Constellations

Dickinson, John Dean, 1767-1841. John Dean Dickinson papers, 1796-1834.

Title: John Dean Dickinson papers, 1796-1834.

Letters, deeds, and retained copies of legal documents kept as an attorney and landowner.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122575127 View

Franklin, Thomas, d. 1830. Letter book, 1791-1809.

Title: Letter book, 1791-1809.

Franklin's letter book containing copies of letters sent (1797-1809), both personal and those in the course of his work with Franklin & Doty (1792-1800) and Seaman & Franklin (1791-1792). Correspondence concerns his business in importing of goods from England (evidently much ironware but little indication of the actual goods in his letters), land transactions, and personal matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (316 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58664272 View

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

Gwathmey collection, 1708-1852

Title: Gwathmey collection, 1708-1852.

Letters, autographs, papers, illustrations, and portraits relating to Revolutionary and early nineteenth century statesmen believed to have been assembled as an autograph collection by Julia M. Dickinson Tayloe early in the nineteenth century. Includes a U.S. War Dept. broadside, 1794 May 19.

ArchivalResource: 170 items.

https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/archival/items/u2652666 View

Committee of Freeholders of Lansingburgh. Letter and minutes, 1792.

Title: Letter and minutes, 1792.

Letter signed by John Van Rensselaer, James Dole, Horace Seymore, Levinus Lansing, John Lovett, Stephen Gorham, John D. Dickinson, and Peter Edmund Elmendorff as a committee of freeholders of Lansingburgh to Philip Schuyler. Thanks Schuyler for efforts made on behalf of town and includes the minutes of the meeting at which they decided to send this letter. Minutes mention the committee's support of John Jay as candidate for governor and Stephen Van Rensselaer as candidate for Lieutenant governor over George Clinton and Pierre Van Cortlandt in the next election. Written at Lansingburgh, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 1 page.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122488029 View