Papers of Samuel Smith, 1729-1924.

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Papers of Samuel Smith, 1729-1924.

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Correspondence, account books, patents, deeds, wills, indentures, scrapbooks, portraits, genealogical material and other papers of Smith, and of his brother, Robert Smith, his son, John Spear Smith, and their families. The collection concerns mercantile and other business activities, politics, naval affairs, the Burr conspiracy, the embargo, the tariff, and various other public affairs in the U.S. during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Includes material collected by Cary Nicholas Fink for a biography of Samuel Smith; biographical sketches of Wilson Cary Nicholas, George Nicholas, John Spear Smith, and Robert Carter Smith; genealogical material concerning the Smith and Nicholas families; and a copy of the Koran in Arabic. Correspondents and other persons mentioned include John Quincy Adams, Joseph Anderson, Joshua Barney, Richard Henry Bayard, James Breckinridge, John Carroll Brent, Thomas S.S. Brent, William Brent, Jr., James Bryden, James A. Buchanan, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin Butler, John Caldwell Calhoun, Luke Callaghan, Wilson Miles Cary, Langdon Cheves, Frank P. Clark, Henry Clay, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, William H. Crawford, Alexander J. Dallas, Joseph Hamilton Daveiss, and Albert Gallatin. Also included are Archibald Gracie, George Graham, Ben Hardin, R.M. Heath, Thomas Higginbotham, Christopher Hughes, Laura Sophia Smith Hughes, Thomas Jefferson, John George Jackson, Robert Johnston, J.H. Keene, John R. Kenly, the Marquis de Lafayette, Walter Leake, Edward Livingston, George Madison, James Madison, Sir James Mansfield, Mary Buchanan Smith Mansfield, the Maryland Historical Society, I.D. Maulsby, Lewis Maxwell, Moover and Töpken, James Morrison, Thomas Newton. Others include Robert Carter Nicholas, Henry Nicholls, Charles Oldham, Thomas S. Page, Charles Phelps, John Purviance, Jefferson Randolph, Richard Rush, John Louis Smith, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, Martin Van Buren, Solomon Van Rensselaer, William Wirt, A. Wolcott, and George Work.

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