Account book, 1796-1814.

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Account book, 1796-1814.

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Manuscript journal of a Maryland attorney. Contains private entries relating to cases involving prominent Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland families. Entries concern the executors of the estate of George Washington, various business transactions, and personal transactions between various families. Names include: Gilpin, Fitzhugh, Mason, Hartshorne, Evans, Barnes, Carroll, etc.

1 v. (350 leaves) ; 33 x 22 cm.

Princeton University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8236492

Princeton University Library

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Dulany family.

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De Coppet, Andre, 1892-1953

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Andre De Coppet (1892-1953) was an American broker and collector of Americana. He was born in New York in 1892 to Edward J. and Pauline De Coppet. A 1915 graduate of Princeton University, he inherited a position in the family stock exchange firm of De Coppet & Doremus after the death of his father in 1916. In 1920 he wed Clara Barclay Onativia in New York. In the mid-1920s he took an interest in Haiti and invested in a sisal plantation there. Through the 1920s and 1930s, De Coppet amassed a ...

Evans family.

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Fitzhugh family.

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Barnes family.

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Mason family.

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Carroll family.

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Hartshorne family.

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Gilpin family.

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