Letters: to Col. John Morrow, Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, 1814-1816.

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Letters: to Col. John Morrow, Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, Virginia, 1814-1816.

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Susan K. Skiles and her son, James Rumsey Skiles, request that John Morrow send them letter written by her father, inventor James Rumsey. The letters refer to the Boteler manuscripts, a collection at the Duke University Library of Alexander Robinson Boteler who researched Rumsey's claims to have built the first steamship. Rumsey's papers are at Duke also.

4 leaves, typescript carbon.

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Skiles family.

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Skiles, Susan K.

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Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792

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Engineer and inventor. From the description of Papers of James Rumsey, 1784-1802. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015416 Inventor, of Shepherdstown, Va. (now W. Va.). From the description of Papers, 1785-1816. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20159048 James Rumsey (1743-1792) invented a steam-powered boat in 1787 and developed an improved steamboiler, grist mill, and sawmill. He secured English and U.S. patents on the boiler and steamboat ...

Skiles, James Rumsey.

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Morrow, John Howard, 1944-....

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