Papers, 1775-1876.

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Papers, 1775-1876.

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A volume in which William H. Bell and Samuel P. Bell of New York City entered a few miscellaneous records of the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, including a sketch of the Rev. Francis Vinton, and copies of documents, 1775-1825, dealing with the Rev. Samuel Peters' claim to the Jonathan Carver grant. Among the latter are Peters' correspondence with the Carver heirs and agents for the estate in England and New England, petitions to Congress, a journal of Peters' expedition to Prairie du Chien in 1817-1818, with a few original letters, and a manuscript map describing Captain Carver's plan for travel to the Upper Mississippi in 1766.

0.3 c.f. (1 black box including 1 v.)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780

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Vinton, Francis, 1809-1872

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Peters, Samuel (Rev.)

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Bell, W. H. (William Henry), 1873-1946

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Protestant Episcopal Church

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