Papers of Susanna Rowson [manuscript], 1770-1879.

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Papers of Susanna Rowson [manuscript], 1770-1879.

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The collection contains ca. 20 manuscripts, correspondence and miscellaneous items, including naturalization papers for William Rowson, portraits and engravings, clippings, financial and legal papers, and papers pertinant to the Elias Nason biography. Of interest is an 1807 Commission signed by Thomas Jefferson for the appointment of John Montresor Haswell into the United States Navy. Correspondents include Manton Eastburn, Edward Everett, Charles Lean.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

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Edward Everett was an American statesman, clergyman, and orator, as well as professor of Greek at Harvard University and president of Harvard University, 1846-1849. Everett was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard with highest honors in 1811, completing an M.A. in Divinity in 1814. After a brief stint as a minister, Harvard offered him the newly created position of Professor of Greek; brilliant but untrained, Everett went to Göttingen to prepare for...

Nason, Elias, 1811-1887

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Nason was a Massachusetts schoolmaster, writer, lecturer, and Congregational cleryman. From the description of Executions in Massachusetts, ca. 1863? (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236087767 Elias Nason (1811-1887) was at various times in his life an editor, writer, teacher, public lecturer, and Congregational minister. He graduated from Brown University in 1835. Nason wrote many books and pamphlets on topics of New England history and biography. ...

Lean, Charles, fl. 1819,

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Rowson, Mrs., 1762-1824

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English-American author and editor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to the wife of Captain [Hugh] McCall in Savannah, [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619186 ...

Eastburn, Manton, 1801-1872

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Manton Eastburn was rector of New York City's Church of the Ascension. Two years after this trip, he was consecrated Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts. From the description of Journal of a tour in England, Scotland, Flanders, Germany, Switzerland, and France, in the year 1840, volume second, 1840 August 7-October 18. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 46492211 Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts. From the description of Manton Eastburn p...

Haswell, John Montrressor, fl. 1807.

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...