Jno. W. Jordan letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Ethel Whitney, Washington, D.C. : ALS, 1901 Dec. 7.

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Jno. W. Jordan letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Ethel Whitney, Washington, D.C. : ALS, 1901 Dec. 7.

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Letter written on letterhead of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. States that the second and third series of Pennsylvania Archives, containing the rolls of the soldiers of the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution, are housed at the Library of Congress. And that she may be able to identify someone, who may have been a Delaware Indian.

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Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921

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John Woolf Jordan, an editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, also had a long association with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He began his life membership in 1864, was secretary of the Council from 1873 to 1879; corresponding secretary from 1874 to 1880; associate librarian from 1885 to 1903, when he became the librarian, an office he held until his death in 1921. From the...

Whitney, Ethel.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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The Historical Society of Pennsylvania was established in 1824 by seven young Philadelphians who were inspired by the patriotic celebrations and renewed civic pride brought on by the Marquis d Lafayette's visit to the United States. The aim of their fledgling organization was to collect and preserve evidence related to history of the commonwealth, to encourage scholarly research, and to stimulate public interest in American history. This mission remains central to the wo...