Samuel Green papers, 1793-1842.

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Samuel Green papers, 1793-1842.

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Chiefly family letters of Samuel Green, Elijah Green, and William Green, students at Brown University, to Timothy Green, New York, N.Y. and Worcester, Mass.; business and personal correspondence of Timothy Green re land speculation in Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina. Including thirty-three letters, 1791-1813, business papers and correspondence of Samuel Green, Columbia, S.C., to Timothy Green, Provindence, R.I., Worcester, Mass., and New York, N.Y., re orders for mercantile supplies and drugs; debate over paper money; political situation in R.I. and S.C.; social activities in Columbia, S.C.; trade possibilities in Nashville, Tenn.; purchase of nearly ten thousand acres of pine barren lands near Columbia or Camden, S.C.; and offer made to the North American Land Company. Eighty-five letters, 12 Apr. 1793-21 Dec. 1797, Columbia, S.C. and London, England, S. Green to Timothy Green, Providence, R.I. and New York, N.Y., re recent fire and its destruction, outbreak of smallpox in Columbia, S.C., disturbances with Indians, hopes for a bright future in Columbia, S.C., potential relocation to Augusta, Ga., ordering medicines and books, crops and rain, planting indigo, and sending slaves to work on the [Columbia] Canal, and appointment as postmaster of Columbia, S.C. Twenty-seven letters, 3 May 1795-9 May 1801, Columbia, S.C., to Thomas Green, New York, N.Y., re profits from land speculation including the Yazoo Company, [James] Gunn's Company, and [William] Blount's Company, meeting and investing with Thomas Fitzpatrick in Georgia lands, the debt the United States owed S.C., work as postmaster in Columbia, S.C., mercantile interests in Columbia, S.C., economic conditions, crops, social activities in Charleston, public opinion re Jay Treaty, and selling his interest in a tannery. Letter, 21 Dec. 1797, from Thomas Green, London, England, re his arrival and business prospects, the prospects of an invasion, immigration, and rumors of massive tax increases; letter, 22 Feb. 1802, New York, N.Y., Timothy Green to Charles M. Lide, Columbia, S.C., re his business since a recent court case, and suggesting Samuel Green as postmaster of Columbia, S.C. Also including letter, 20 Mar. 1813, Columbia, S.C., S. Green, to Mrs. Timothy Green, re his brother's winter travel, her lack of information on business matters, and anxiety for her and the children in T. Green's absence; letter, 15 Apr. 1842, Columbia, S.C., F. W[illiam] Green to John W[roughton] Mitchell, re a recent fire and the its destruction.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Blount, William, 1749-1800

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William Blount (March 26, 1749 – March 21, 1800) was an American Founding Father, statesman, and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution. He was a member of the North Carolina delegation at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and led the efforts for North Carolina to ratify the Constitution in 1789 at the Fayetteville Convention. He then served as the only governor of the Southwest Territory and played a leading role in helping the territory gain admission to the union as the...

North American Land Company

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Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. From the description of Papers of the North American Land Company [manuscript], 1794-1805. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813190 Company organized in Philadelphia, 1795, by Robert Morris, John Nicholson and James Greenleaf, to develop and sell 6,000,000 frontier acres. Morris and Nicholson were eventually imprisoned as...

Fitzpatrick, Thomas, 1845-1912

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Green, Timothy Cooper

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Green, Thomas, 1769-1825

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Thomas Green (1769-1825) was a writer. His most well-known work is Diary of a Lover of Literature, first published in 1810, though his friend John Mitford of Benhall also printed additional portions of it between 1834 and 1843 in the Gentleman's Magazine. Green also published pamphlets on such diverse subjects as the Aeneid, political justice, and art. He died at Ipswich on 6 January 1825. From the description of Thomas Green letters to John Mitford, 1812 Jan 17 - 1824 Dec 17. (Unkno...

Lide, Charles M., fl. 1801.

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Gunn, James, 1900-

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Green, Samuel, 1767-1837.

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Merchant, physician, and postmaster of Columbia, S.C.; brother of Timothy Green, of New York and New England. From the description of Samuel Green papers, 1793-1842. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 42664865 ...

Green, F. William

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Green family.

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Green, Elijah, 1777-1865

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...

Mitchell, John Wroughton, 1796-1878

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Attorney. From the description of Papers, 1798-1865 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41546373 Charleston, S.C. attorney. In the 1830s he moved to New York, N.Y. From the description of John W. Mitchell letters, 1840-1842. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36866118 Charleston, S.C. attorney and prominent Episcopal layman. In the 1830s he moved to New York, N.Y. From the description of Letter : ...