Papers of James Maury

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Papers of James Maury

1769-1917

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Includes correspondence, ledgers, bills, receipts, broadsides, and other papers, 1780-1917, relating to James Maury's mercantile business and overseas trade extending to Europe, various points in America, the East Indies, and China. Subjects include crops, prices, tobacco, cotton, ships and shipping, trade restrictions, insurance, and family matters. Correspondents include Abraham Maury, Ann Maury, James Fontaine Maury, James Sifrein Maury, Matthew Maury, Richard Maury, Rutson Maury, William Maury, the Maury Brothers Co., and various English and American merchants. Also include scrapbook, 1769-1795, of Thomas Gilpin containing correspondence, articles, documents, and other papers relating to the wheat fly, herring (with map showing migration), plans for a windmill and for a chain bridge across the Schuylkill River at Philadelphia, for a public school in Wilmington, Del. (with lists of subscribers), and accounts, written by his wife, of James Maury's death in 1778 and their daughter's death in 1795; and a copy of letter from Benjamin Franklin on windmills. The scrapbook also contains correspondence, 1777-1778, describing dispute between Thomas Gilpin, the Committee of Fifty, and the Pennsylvania Board of War over shipping flour, resulting in Gilpin's removal to Virginia. Also include correspondence, 1770-1827, of Gilpin family, chiefly Joshua Gilpin, pertaining to Boston Tea Party, mail route between Baltimore and Philadelphia, freight schedules (1772) for wagon and canal traffic and of Philadelphia, the hanging of Major John André, internal improvements, the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and Delaware and national politics. Also include letter, 1829, from Henry Clay re: social matters; letters, 1830-31, from James Madison on social matters and nullification; letter, 1831, from Dolley Madison re: social matters; letter, 1831, from John C. Calhoun re: his character; letter, 1836, William Ellery Channing re: social news; and letter, 1840, from Thomas Hart Benton re: the Graduation Bill. Also include autographs of David G. Farragut, Ulysses S. Grant, and William Wilberforce; and a white marble bust, n.d., of James Maury.

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