Papers, 1799-1843.

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Papers, 1799-1843.

Correspondence of William Jarvis, businessman and consul at Lisbon, Portugal, concerns privateering, the impressment of U.S. seamen, the effects of the Napoleonic Wars on trade, and the loss of the frigate Philadelphia. Correspondents include John M. Baker, John M. Forbes (1771-1831), George Erving, John Treadwell, Jacob Collamer, Horace Everett, and Daniel Humphreys. Letters from Collamer and Everett focus on a Daniel Webster debate in Congress (1830), the decline of the Federalist Party, and the anticipated wresting of political power from John Calhoun during the Van Buren administration.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

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Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. As one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, he argued over 200 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1814 and his death in 1852. During his life, he was a member of the Federalist Party, the Nati...

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

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John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority states' rights in politics. He did this in the context of protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, mo...

Treadwell, John, 1745-1823

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John Treadwell, Connecticut's fourth governor, was born at Farmington, CT, on November 23, 1745. He graduated from Yale in 1767. In 1776 his townsmen elected him as their representative in the General Assembly, an office he held for the next seven years, when in 1783, he was elevated to the governor's council, where he continued until 1798. Treadwell also served in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786, and was one of the delegates to the convention at Hartford that ratified the Constitutio...

Baker, John M. (John Martin)

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Humphreys, Daniel, 1753-1812

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Collamer, Jacob, 1791-1865

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Jarvis, William, 1770-1859

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Diplomat and businessman. From the description of Papers of William Jarvis, 1803-1810. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423970 William Jarvis was born in 1770 in Boston, Mass. He became involved in the trading business and settled in Lisbon in 1802. From 1802-1811 he maintained a trading house there and served as U.S. charge d'affaires and consul to Portugal. He returned to the U.S. in 1811, settling in Weathersfield, Vt., where he bred and sold merino sheep whi...

Federal Party (U.S.)

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Philadelphia (Frigate)

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Mastered by William Bainbridge. From the description of Accounts of the frigate Philadelphia, 1803-1804. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 191803707 ...

Everett, Horace, 1779-1851

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Erving, George William, 1769-1850

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Diplomat. From the description of George William Erving papers, 1801-1815. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980360 George William Erving (1769-1850) was a United States diplomat. From the description of Letter : Bourdeaux, to L. Jarvis, Paris, 1814 March 1. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191282772 ...

Forbes, John Murray, 1771-1831

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Lawyer and diplomat. From the description of John Murray Forbes papers, 1817-1830. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450685 ...