Non-Virginia miscellaneous papers, 1781-1949.

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Non-Virginia miscellaneous papers, 1781-1949.

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Miscellaneous papers from Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., and scattered foreign countries, collected by Thornton Tayloe Perry. Included are a journal of the siege of Pensacola, Fla., 1781; typescript copies of the personal correspondence, 1791-1840s, of Andrew Jackson; account book, 1805-1825, and loose papers of the Washington Tontine Company, a life insurance company based in Washington, D.C.; account book, 1807-1882, concerning board fees of inmates of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane; account books, 1838-1839 and 1852, of general merchants in Mount Sterling, Ill.; muster rolls, 1861-1863, for the 2nd, 28th, and 143rd regiments, New York State Volunteers, U.S.A.; a letter, 1876, from W.B. Lawrence of Newport, R.I., concerning naturalization law; and correspondence from an officer serving with the A.E.F. in France, 1917.

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