Papers, 1733-1862 (inclusive), 1733, 1780-1835, 1862 (bulk).

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Papers, 1733-1862 (inclusive), 1733, 1780-1835, 1862 (bulk).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122524256

The collection includes miscellaneous quartermaster accounts, ca. 1778-1781; papers relating to Jacob Weiss and Jacob Weiss, Jr. coal mining interests, 1795-1832; Weiss family correspondence, 1780-1837; and miscellaneous receipts, legal papers, loose accounts, and draughts of land. The collection also contains "Smith Book on Cookery and Cures, making sundry Wines, etc." ca. 1810, photographs, and portraits.

130 items.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6749134

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Weiss, Jacob, 1775-

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Weiss, Jacob, 1750-1839

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The Weiss family was prominent in the coal business in eastern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s and the 1800s. Colonel Jacob Weiss (1750-1839) was born in Philadelphia, the son of a German immigrant who was passionate about the causes of the American Revolution. Not surprisingly, Jacob Weiss volunteered for service in the Continental Army, first in a company of Philadelphia volunteers, then as deputy quartermaster-general, and finally as assistant deputy quartermaster-general at E...

Weiss family.

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Jacob Weiss, Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General for Northampton County during the Revolution, who settled in Towamensing Township, Carbon County, where he was a farmer, lumberman, and a founder of the Lehigh Coal Mine Company, the first anthracite coal mining company of the Lehigh region. From the description of Papers, 1733-1862 (inclusive), 1733, 1780-1835, 1862 (bulk). (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122524256 ...

Lehigh Coal Mine Company

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The Lehigh Coal Mine Company was an unincorporated joint-stock company formed on February 12, 1792, by sixteen persons including Jacob Weiss, John Nicholson, Michael Hillegas and Godfrey Haga. The intent was to develop a deposit of anthracite coal discovered by Weiss and others at what is now Summit Hill in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. The company acquired 7,100 acres embracing most of the coal basin between the Lehigh and Little Schuylkill Rivers. Numerous attempts to develop the property faile...