Pearsall/Coles miscellaneous family papers, 1702-1931.

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Pearsall/Coles miscellaneous family papers, 1702-1931.

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Bills, accounts, stock shares, legal papers, letters, deeds, programs, clippings, verses, family records, genealogy notes, land survey, pew rent receipts, and other items of Frances Pearsall, Thomas Pearsall, Thomas C. Pearsall, James Pearsall, Nathaniel Coles, John B. Coles, and Franklin Coles. Letters concern financial matters, offer of marriage, family news, ships, and shipping merchandise. Items of note include wills of Henry Brevoort, 1782, and of Richard Williams, 1769; printed circular letter from George Washington written from Newburgh Headquarters, 1783; results of Town vote on land division in Town of Hempstead, N.Y., 1705/06; letters of Col. Archibald Hamilton and other loyalists, 1778-1782, concerning guard duties of the Queens County Militia on Long Island; and maps of property owned by John B. Coles in Jersey City and New York City, 1840-1853.

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Hofstra University Library, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library

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Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965

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Queens County (N.Y.). Militia.

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Pearsall, James

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Coles family.

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Brevoort, Henry, 1782-1848

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Pearsall, Frances.

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Williams, Richard S., Jr.

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Richard Williams was a Pitt County, N.C., physician and slave owner. From the description of Richard Williams daybook, 1847-1869 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 667271236 ...

Pearsall, Thomas E.

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Hamilton, Archibald, active 1795-1799

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Pearsall, Thomas E.

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Pearsall family.

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Coles, John Butler, 1760-1827

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Coles, Franklin.

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