Griffin family correspondence, 1794-1829.

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Griffin family correspondence, 1794-1829.

Letters written from Mamaroneck, Westchester County, N.Y. and Harlaem, N.Y., primarily from George and Mary Baxter to William and Priscilla Griffin (Griffen), about business and family matters. Other correspondents include William Randel and Daniel Hadden. Also, bond for loan of one hundred pounds, 1794.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7910820

Cornell University Library

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Hadden, Susan

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Griffin family.

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The Griffins raised sheep in Enfield, N.Y. and sent fleeces to the Baxters' woolen mill in Mamaroneck. Mary Baxter was the daughter of William Griffin II and Priscilla Hadden Griffin. William Randel, who lived in Harlaem, N.Y., was probably the husband of Priscilla's sister Susan Hadden. From the description of Griffin family correspondence, 1794-1829. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64075282 ...

Randel, William Peirce, 1909-....

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Historian and professor of English, University of Maine. From the description of William Peirce Randel papers, 1852-1986. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32604636 William Peirce Randel, a professor of English at the University of Maine, was born on January 7, 1909, in New York City, the son of William A. and Mabel Peirce Randel. He received a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, a master's from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Columbia. He ta...

Hadden, Daniel.

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Griffin, Priscilla Hadden.

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Griffin, William, II.

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Baxter, George, 1804-1867

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Baxter was born in Lewes, Sussex, England on July 31, 1804; his father was a printer, wood engraver, and publisher; studied at High School at St. Ann's, Lewes, under Mark Anthony Lower, the antiquarian; entered father's business, and in 1925 became a pupil of a Mr. Williams, a London wood engraver; began own business as wood engraver and printer, 1827; invented process of printing pictures in natural colors by using an aquatint key plate, superimposing colors with wood and metal blocks, and obta...

Baxter, Mary

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