William Henry Lyttelton papers, 1730-1806.

William L. Clements Library

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William Clements was a Bay City businessman who served as regent from 1910 to 1933. An Early interest in collecting books crystallized around gathering rare books related to American history that were printed before 1800. In 1921, he gave his collection of books, manuscripts and maps to the university and provided a building to house them, which was opened in 1923. Mr. Clements continued to serve on the Committee of Management of the Clements Library until his death in 1934. He wo...

Pownall, John, 1720-1795

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Atkin, Edmond

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Epithet: Superintendent of Indian Affairs in N America British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001187.0x0002a2 ...

Glen, James, 1701-1777

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Information not available at present. From the guide to the Glen, James, 1749, (Senate House Library, University of London) Colonial governor of South Carolina. From the description of Autograph document signed : to Thomas Charnock and William Davis, 1753 August 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269561375 Governor of S.C. 1738-1756; resident in S.C., 1743-1761; native of Linlithgow, Scotland; Glen's sister, Margaret, married S.C. planter John Drayton, J...

Tinker, John B.

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British army officer and governor of the Bahama Islands. From the description of Order of John Tinker, 1756 July 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980831 ...

Ellis, Henry, 1721-1806

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Governor of Georgia, 1757-1760. From the description of Warrant, 1759 Dec. 4, to Henry Yonge and William De Brahm. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122610693 Henry Ellis (1721-1806), hydrographer and explorer, was the second royal governor of Georgia. Born in Ireland, he came to Savannah in 1757. Due to poor health, Ellis left Georgia in 1760. He returned to England and died in Naples, Italy, in 1806. From the description of Henry Ellis paper...

Lyttelton, William Henry Lyttelton, Baron, 1724-1808

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Governor of Jamaica (1762-1766). From the description of Letter book, 1763-1766. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19936479 From the description of Letter book, 1763-1766. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270767 English diplomat, Governor of South Carolina 1755-1762. From the description of Autograph letter signed, 1771 Dec. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270590218 From the description of Autograph letter signed...

Halifax, George Montagu-Dunk, Earl of, 1716-1771

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English colonist and statesman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bushey Park, to an unidentified correspondent, 1763 Oct. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270498832 ...

Abercromby, James, 1706-1781

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Army general, second in command of the British forces in America, 1756-1758, and commander of the Albany, N.Y., garrison. From the description of Letter : Albany, [N.Y.], to Sir Wm. Johnson, 1757 Dec. 27. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 35988285 British army officer. From the description of James Abercromby correspondence, 1758. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449865 In 1756 James Abercromby was appointed second in command to John Campbell, 4th ...

Bernard, Francis, Sir, 1712?-1779

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Bernard was Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. From the description of DS, 1762 January 28. : Boston. Appointment. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 14194099 Governor of Massachusetts Bay (Colony). From the description of Sir Francis Bernard commission, 1768. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456180 Sir Francis Bernard was born in England in July 1712. After graduating from Oxford University i...

Amherst, Jeffery Amherst, Baron, 1717-1797

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British army officer. From the description of Papers of Jeffery Amherst, Baron Amherst, 1759-1762. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062467 English field-marshal. From the description of Document signed : Office of Ordnance [London], 1773 Mar. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132562 Army officer and governor general of British North America. From the description of Jeffery Amherst, Baron Amherst, papers, 1759. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771

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Pownall, Thomas, 1722-1805

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British politician and antiquary. From the description of Memorandum on examination of John Hustler, 1781 October 31 : Lincoln, Eng. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19465117 From the description of Memorandum on examination of John Hustler, 1781 October 31 : Lincoln, Eng. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154270559 Thomas Pownall was a British colonial politician and author. In 1776 he wrote a one volume work called A Topographical Descri...

Shaw, Lachlan, 1692-1777

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Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778

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English statesman. From the description of Letter signed : [London], to an unidentified correspondent, 1760 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270891755 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Charles Townshend, 1761 Sept. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623045 From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to [Lord Sackville], 1758 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623042 From the description of Autog...

Wyly, Sam

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Fauquier, Francis, 1704?-1768

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Francis Fauquier was Lt. Governor of Virginia between 1758-1768. From the description of Correspondence, 1758-1768. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). WorldCat record id: 26924538 Francis Fauquier (1703-3 March 1768) was a Lieutenant Governor of the colony of Virginia and served as acting governor from 1758 until his death in 1768. From the guide to the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, 1761 August 15, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foun...

Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793

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William Wildman Barrington, second Viscount Barrington, English politician. His political career was notorious, as he held continuous public office for over thirty years throughout a whole series of ministerial changes. Barrington was a regular target of the anonymous critic of British politics known as Junius. From the description of William Wildman Barrington manuscript material : 1 item, 1766 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 75428351 From the guide to the Wi...

Loudoun, John Campbell, Earl of, 1705-1782

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Born in 1705. Entered army in 1727. Commissioned major general in 1755, and appointed the following year as commander-in-chief of British forces in America during the French and Indian War, and named titular governor of Virginia. Died at Loudoun Castle, the family seat in Ayrshire, in 1782. From the description of Memorandum book, 1757 Jan. 1-Apr. 1 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122612272 John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun (5 May 1705 - 27 Apr. 1782) was the...

Miln, Alexander, Corporal

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Dinwiddie, Robert, 1693-1770

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Governor of Virginia. From the description of Transcripts of correspondence edited by Louis Knott Koontz, 1739-1769. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067647 From the description of Autograph signature (clipped) from a document : [n.p.]., 1754 Apr. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270534556 Colonial official; lieutenant governor of Virginia 1751-1758. From the description of LS : Williamsburg, Va., to Robert Hunter Morris, 1754 Mar. 1. (Rosenbach Museum...

Waddell, Hugh, 1734?-1773

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Boscawen, Edward, 1711-1761

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English naval officer; "Old Dreadnought." From the description of Document signed : [n.p.], 1747 Oct. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270536618 Epithet: of Add MS 10131 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000302.0x00026e Epithet: Admiral British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000302.0x00029f ...

Moore, Henry, Sir, 1713-1769

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Sir Henry Moore, 1st Baronet, was colonial governor of New York from 1765 to 1769. From the description of Henry Moore letters, 1767-1769. (New-York Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 715264680 Colonial governor of New York. From the description of Autograph signature to a letter : Fort George, 1768 July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270638890 Acting governor of Jamaica, 1756-1762; governor of New York. From the description ...

Wright, James, Sir, 1716-1785

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British royal governor of Georgia (1760-1776, 1779-1782) who returned to England after the Revolution. From the description of Sir James Wright correspondence, 1784 September 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983534 British royal governor of Georgia (1760-1776, 1779-1782), who returned to England after the Revolution. From the description of Papers, 1784. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149569 Sir James Wright (1716-1785) was a lawyer in Charleston, ...

Blair, John, 1687-1771

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John Blair served as president of the Council and acting governor of Virginia from the time Governor Dinwiddie left Virginia in January 1758 until Governor Fauquier arrived in June of that year. He returned to that capacity after Fauquier's death in March 1768, serving until the arrival of Lord Botetourt in October. From the guide to the Land Grant to Samuel Lusk, 1768 July 20, (John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation) President of the [Virginia] C...

Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774

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Henry Fox, first Baron Holland of Foxley, British politician. From the description of Henry Fox, Lord Holland manuscript material : 2 items, 1756-1763 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 427418296 Fox was born on June 21, 1854 at Beaver Island (Mich.). At age 16, he married Matilda Steele on Nov. 6, 1870 in Pine Lake (Mich.). Together they had at least five children. Fox died on Sept. 24, 1933 in Mich. after an adventurous life filled with travel. From...

McIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806

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Army officer and delegate to U.S. Continental Congress form Georgia. From the description of Letters of Lachlan McIntosh, 1777-1778. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454519 Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806), Army General, married Sarah Threadcraft McIntosh. From the description of Lachlan McIntosh family papers, 1755-1829. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477289 Lachlan McIntosh (1725-1806), Revolutionary War brigadier general and delegate from Georgia to the...

De Brahm, John Gerar William, 1717-approximately 1799

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Savannah, Ga. resident. From the description of Papers, 1755-1790. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38518935 Surveyor General, geographer, military engineer, naturalist, author. Description of the first attempts to order the plant communities of South Florida were published by DeBrahm in 1772 and 1773. Although DeBrahm wrote a guide to navigators in 1772, his final report to England is more complete. In the final report he recognized fo...

Gambier, James, 1723-1789

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Bull, William, 1710-1791

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Epithet: of Aylesbury British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000875.0x0001a5 Lieutenant governor and commander-in-chief in S.C. during colonial period. From the description of Papers, 1770, 1774. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43737901 Peter Collinson (1694 – 1768) was an English merchant and botanist. From the guide to the Peter Collinson papers, 1560-1811 (inclusive),...

McGillivray, Lachlan

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Bouquet, Henry, 1719-1765

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British colonel. From the description of Speech at Fort Pitt, 1764 Sept. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70974526 Henry Bouquet was a colonel in the Southern Brigade of British forces in the United States in 1765. From the description of The Henry Bouquet papers, 1765. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50140401 British army officer. From the description of Henry Bouquet papers, 1765-1788. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 794...

Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765

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Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765) was an Irish author, statesman and governor of North Carolina. From the description of Arthur Dobbs papers [manuscript], circa 1683-1722. (Oregon Historical Society Research Library). WorldCat record id: 688618133 From the guide to the Arthur Dobbs papers, circa 1683-1722, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) Arthur Dobbs was the Governor of North Carolina fron 1754 to 1762. From the description of Letters, 1756-1757, to ...

Stuart, John, 1718-1779

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