Robert Gilmor and William Trippe papers

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Robert Gilmor and William Trippe papers

1776-1777

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1301

The Robert Gilmor and William Trippe papers bring together the men and places of Dorchester County, a heart-shaped area of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and provides a window on their lives for a seven month period from November 1776 to May 1777. The collection focuses on Captain William Trippe's (1725-1777) schooner "Hazzard" and trips made for Robert Gilmor and Co. for supplies during the Revolutionary War. It includes business accounts for goods received, goods delivered, and wages paid to sailors, as well as correspondence and intelligence reports concerning the British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6970853

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Gilmor, Robert and William Trippe

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Background The Robert Gilmor and William Trippe papers focus on the people and places of Dorchester County, a heart-shaped area of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Dorchester County is bounded on the three sides by water. In the eighteenth century, the people of Dorchester County depended on the rivers and bays for transportation of their products. The Choptank River, the city of Cambridge, the small town of New Market and Ennalls Ferry are on its northern border with Talb...

Robert Gilmore and Co.

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Smoot, John

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Gilmore, Robert, 1941-....

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Robert Gilmore & Co.

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Gilmore, Robert O.

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Robert Gilmore of Ellenburgh, Clinton County, New York, served with the N.Y.S. Volunteers 91st Regt., Company G. From the description of Robert Gilmore Papers, 1862-1865. (St. Lawrence University). WorldCat record id: 39698548 ...

Smoot, John Murray

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Trippe, William, 1725-1777.

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Prominent Maryland landowner and ship captain. From the description of Papers of William Trippe, 1777. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 19816066 ...

Purviance, Robert

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