Memoranda book, 1793-1813.

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Memoranda book, 1793-1813.

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Construction accounts, including payroll, and memoranda recorded by Porter, engineer for construction of the Delaware and Schuylkill canal, 1793-1794; continued by Porter as a personal record of family lands and taxes paid in Western Pennsylvania, 1801-1813. Included, too, are a copy of the will of William Smith, ca. 1800, and a diagram of Count Rumford's Improved Chimney Fireplace, n.d.

1 v. ; 33 cm.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.

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Smith, Will

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Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814

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Scientist and inventor; lived in New Hampshire; also known as Sir Benjamin Thompson Rumford. From the description of Family papers, 1747-1852. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963873 Rumford, an applied physicist and inventor, as well as a soldier of fortune, and philanthropist, was born in Massachusetts, but after siding with the British in the American Revolution, lived mostly in England, Bavaria, and France. He studied heat, gunpowder, coo...

Porter, Andrew, 1743-1813

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