Winthrop Sargent papers, 1771-1948; bulk: 1785-1801.

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Winthrop Sargent papers, 1771-1948; bulk: 1785-1801.

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Papers of Winthrop Sargent (1753-1820), Revolutionary Army officer, Ohio Company agent, secretary of the Northwest Territory, and governor of the Mississippi Territory. Personal, business, and official correspondence; diaries; orderly books; lists of Ohio Company agents and sales; petitions; contracts; pamphlets; wills, tax slips, receipts, and other documents relating to the Sargent estate; weather records and agricultural notebooks; plats and survey reports; and other papers relating to the St. Clair expedition against the Indians of which Sargent was adjutant general; to Sargent's survey of the 5th range, Northwest Territory; a trip from Marietta, Ohio, to Cahokia, Ill., with Governor Arthur St. Clair; Sargent's plantations near Natchez, Miss.,; the Congressional investigation of Sargent's administration of the Mississippi Territory and his dismissal; the Ohio Company; the early settlement and administration of the Northwest Territory; relations with the Spanish governments of Louisiana and West Florida; and military, business, and family matters.

8 boxes, 12 vols., and 1 folder.

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Mississippi. Governor (1798-1801 : Sargent)

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Sargent family.

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Ohio Company

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St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

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Born in Thurso, Scotland, 1734, o.s. ; studied medicine in Edinburgh; served in the British Army in America, 1757-1762; surveyor of Cumberland, 1770; colonel of Pennsylvania militia, 1775; brigadier general, 1777 to the close of the Revolution; commander of the Army, 1791-1792; delegate to the Constitutional Congress, 1785-1787, and president, 1787; governor of Northwest Territory, 1789-1802; died in Greensburg, Pa., August 31, 1818. (Bio. Cong. Dir., 1928 ed. ; Dic. Am.Biog. --gives b. date, 17...

Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820

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Governor of the Mississippi Territory and army officer. From the description of Winthrop Sargent papers, 1790-1815 (bulk 1798-1799). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980393 Winthrop Sargent was governor of the Mississippi Territory. From the description of Surveys, 1754-1807. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122579743 Soldier and territorial administrator. Born in Gloucester, Mass., and educated at Harvar...