Letters to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1818-1820.

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Letters to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1818-1820.

Two letters (1818 and 1819) report on the milk from the Alderney cow, the first letter mentions receiving a package of indigenous wheat from Oneida County, New York, through Dewitt Clinton, president of the New York Society for Promoting Agriculture. The third item, addressed to Richard Wistar, is a list of items to be read to the Society.

3 items (3 leaves).

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Peters, Richard, 1744-1828

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Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. Born at...

Wistar, Richard

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Richard Wistar was a Philadelphia, PA merchant. From the description of Business and personal papers, 1743-1772, 1759-1772 (bulk). (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122649680 ...

New York Agricultural Society.

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Haines, Reuben, 1790-1853

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Clinton, DeWitt

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