Papers, 1789-1874.

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Papers, 1789-1874.

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A collection of miscellaneous papers relating chiefly to the business affairs of John Hamilton and John M. Wood, Philadelphia merchants. There are bills, receipts, accounts, correspondence, bills of lading, 1789-1842, data on the economic trends of the period, prices of commodities, transportation, etc. Included are: customhouse certificates of imports, 1821-1829; military papers, ordnance-stores requisitions, receipts, 1828-1829, bearing the signature of officers of Jefferson Barracks; Isaac H. Whyte, personal and business correspondence, receipts and bills, 1840-1874; legal papers, indentures, wills, land transactions.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6681860

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