Scrapbook, 1834-1888.

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Scrapbook, 1834-1888.

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The collection consists of a scrapbook and an exchange of two letters between John Penington's daughter Elizabeth Penington Baird (1827- ), and Brinton Coxe (1833-1892) of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. The scrapbook, bearing the title, "Scraps," on its spine, contains eighty-one leaves of lined pages alternating with three of Penington's published pamphlets. It includes "An Examination of Beauchamp Plantagenet's Description of the Province of New Albion" (1840), in which Penington discredits the unfulfilled colony's chartered grantee, Sir Edmund Plowden. New Albion was geographically at the crux of the struggle in the 1630's--1660's between the English, Dutch and Swedes for the critical trade route territory between and along the Chesapeake and Delaware bays and along the Delaware River. The letters between Elizabeth Penington Baird and Brinton Coxe of March, 1888, disagree, in part, with her father's findings and include a handwritten copy of the Royal Council of State Day's Proceedings in which Plowden was given charter, and the absence of Council member Sir Isaac Penington was recorded. Other pamphlets in the scrapbook are: "Contributions to the United States Review: Ante-Colonial History" (1834), and "Scraps, Osteologic and Archaeological" (1841). The lined pages contain notes by Penington on the publication and critical history of each pamphlet. A note on the first page dated 1961 notes a lost second volume entitled, "Essays."

1 v. ; octavo.1 folder (4 items)

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