North American Land Company ledger, 1795-1805 1795-1805

South Carolina.

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Brig. Gen. James Simons of the South Carolina Militia was given command of Morris Island early in 1861, as the nascent Confederate forces turned their attention to the federal garrison in Fort Sumter. With two brigades under his command, Morris presided over the reduction of Sumter and was later placed in command of the 4th Brigade, South Carolina Militia, stationed in and near Charleston. From the guide to the South Carolina Militia orderly book, South Carolina Militia,...

Fitzsimons, Thomas, 1741-1811

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Thomas Fitzsimons (October 1741 – August 26, 1811) was an Irish-American merchant, slaveholder, and statesman from Philadelphia. He represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States House of Representatives. He was a signatory of the Constitution of the United States and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Born in the Kingdom of Ireland, his family immigrated to Philadelphia in the mid-1750s. Fitzsimons enter...

Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824

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Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755 – July 17, 1824) was an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788–1789. He wrote under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian," and was known to his political enemies as "Mr. Facing Bothways." Born in Philadelphia, Tench received his education in the Philadelphia schools and intended to study law, but his father determined to make him a merchant, and he was placed in the counting-house of Coxe & Furman, becoming a partner...

Ingersoll, Jared, 1749-1822

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Jared Ingersoll (October 24, 1749 – October 31, 1822) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and statesman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a signer of the United States Constitution. He served as DeWitt Clinton's running mate in the 1812 election, but Clinton and Ingersoll were defeated by James Madison and Elbridge Gerry. Born in New Haven in the Colony of Connecticut, r Ingersoll completed Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven in 1762, grad...

Wilson, James, 1742-1798

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James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798) was an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, and Founding Father who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. He was elected twice to the Continental Congress, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence, and was a major force in drafting the United States Constitution. A leading legal theorist, he was one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the...

Walton, George, c. 1749-1804

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George Walton (c. 1749 – February 2, 1804), a Founding Father of the United States, signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia and also served as the second Chief Executive of Georgia. Born in Cumberland County, Virginia, Walton was a studious, self-taught young man. After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter under his uncle, he moved to Savannah, Georgia to study law. Admitted to the bar in 1774, by the eve of the American Revolution, he was on...

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

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Robert Morris, Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution...

Vaughan, John, 1756-1841

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John Vaughan (1756–1841, APS 1784) was a wine merchant, philanthropist, and long-time treasurer and librarian of the American Philosophical Society. A native of England, Vaughan moved to Philadelphia in 1782. He soon was one of the most respected members of Philadelphia society, largely because of his tireless support of numerous literary, scientific and benevolent causes. Over the course of his five decades of service to the American Philosophical Society, Vaughan met and correspo...

Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus Conrad, 1750-1801

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Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, second son of renowned Lutheran pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1750. Sent with his brothers Peter and Henry to the University of Halle, Germany, in 1763, Frederick returned to America in 1770 and was ordained a Lutheran minister. On October 15, 1771, Frederick married Catherine Schaeffer, the daughter of wealthy Philadelphia sugar refiner David Schaeffer. Frederick served congregations in the area of Scha...

North American Land Company

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Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. From the description of Papers of the North American Land Company [manuscript], 1794-1805. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813190 Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. Morris and Nicholson were eventually imprisoned as...

Warren, Richard, -1628

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Epithet: MD; of Add MS 35614 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000283 Epithet: MD; of Add MS 38223 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x000284 ...

Nicholson, John, 1757-1800

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Land speculator. From the description of John Nicholson papers, 1795 16 Feb.-10 Mar. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70953089 Financier and land speculator. From the description of John Nicholson family papers, 1786-1868. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981679 Pennsylvania state official and land promoter. From the description of ALS : to Thomas Mifflin, 1791 Nov. 8. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat reco...

Cox, Zachariah

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Zachariah Cox, land speculator, involved in the Tennessee Land Company which purchased 4,000,000 acres of land in the region of Tennessee as part of the Yazoo land purchase in 1790. From the description of Letter to Edward Telfair and John Milton, 1790 Jan. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38478024 Zachariah Cox of Montgomery County, Georgia, was an associate of Zachariah Cox and Company, also known as the Tennessee Company, and of the Georgia Company (both Yazoo companies...

Georgia

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Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815

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Army officer and engineer. From the description of ALS : New York, to Jonathan Dayton, 1811 June 6. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316941 From the description of ALS : New York, to W. C. Leffingwell, 1810 Mar. 25. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525040 Nephew of Benjamin Franklin, served as agent of Continental Congress at Nantes. From the description of ALS, 1780 September 12 : Nantes, to James Searle, ...

Bevan, Davis

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Ludlow, Daniel, & Co

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Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, 1776-1825

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Lawyer, member of the directors of the Bank of the United States, clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a founder of the American Colonization Society, of Washington, D.C. From the description of E.B. Caldwell papers, 1814-1821. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70942074 ...

Ludlow, David, & Sons

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Brodie, Robert, 1924-1993

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Barclay & Mitchell

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Shoemaker, Benjamin

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Greenleaf, James, 1765-1843

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James Greenleaf (1765-1843) was born in Boston, Mass., and died in Washington, D.C. In 1793, he was appointed Consul for the U.S. at Amsterdam, where he amassed a large fortune. In 1795, he embarked in land speculation with Robert Morris (1734-1806) and John Nicholson ( -1800), and became one of the founders of the North American Land Company, which resulted in the ruin of its founders. From the description of Papers, 1794-1801. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191...

Fiss, Daniel

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Morris, Joseph Benjamin W

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Dublois, Lewis

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Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814

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Revolutionary patriot. From the description of Document signed : [n.p.], 1792 July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874585 Army officer and merchant. From the description of Clement Biddle correspondence, 1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450649 Biddle informs Wharm that he is going to advertise in Washington and Philadelphia newspapers for a missing letter he sent to Wharm containing two certificates of transfer to General Pinckney. ...

Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823

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William Temple Franklin served as Benjamin Franklin's secretary at the American Philosophical Society, 1786. From the guide to the William Temple Franklin diary, 1785, 1785, (American Philosophical Society) Grandson of Benjamin Franklin. From the description of Autograph letters signed (16) : Philadelphia, New York and London, to M. le Veillard, 1785-1792. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270751145 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Franklin...

Tilghman, Edward, 1750-1815

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Philadelphia lawyer. From the description of ALS : to Mr. Nicklin, 1798 Mar. 7. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 86165790 American lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Herman LeRoy, 1802 Nov. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572603 ...

Wereat, John

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King, Henry, 1592-1669

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Epithet: General; KCB 1835 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000695.0x000127 Henry King (1592-1669), poet, was educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1611; M.A., 1614; D.D., 1625). He became a prebendary of St Paul's, London, 1616; Archdeacon of Colchester, 1617; and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, 1624. He was appointed Dean of Rochester in 1639, and Bishop of Chichester in 1642. King published...

Britton, John (John Richard)

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Epithet: antiquary and topographer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000976.0x000218 Epithet: of Add MS 34567 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x0002a0 ...

L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825

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Soldier and engineer. From the description of Papers of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, 1787-1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78163246 ...

Stoker, Margaret

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White, Elinor

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Cornell, Samuel, 1731-1781

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Pratt, Henry

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Swansey, William

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Ruston, Thomas, approximately 1739-1804

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Epithet: monk of Westminster British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0000b8 Physician of Philadelphia. From the description of Document, 1765, Nov. 26 : Edinburgh, Scotland. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35315005 Thomas Ruston was born in Upper Oxford Township, Chester County, to Job and Mary Ruston. Thomas was the first of twelve children. His parents emigrated from Berwick, Engl...