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Francis W. Pickens papers, 1772-1900 1 Linear Feet (2 boxes and 2 oversize folders)

Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805-1869) was a white politician, enslaver, and plantation owner of Edgefield, South Carolina. He was the governor of South Carolina from 1860-1862. This collection consists of the political and personal correspondence (chiefly 1809-1886) and legal papers of Pickens and his family, concerning secession, the outbreak of the Civil War, slavery, and other matters. The majority of the material dating from 1863-1864 consists of the correspondence and other records of Milledge L. Bonham, Pickens' successor as governor of South Carolina. The collection includes one volume of plantation records (1839-1864) and several bills of sale for enslaved persons. Correspondents include P. G. T. Beauregard, M. L. Bonham, Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Brown, Armistead Burt, Lewis Cass, W.M. Churchwell, Jefferson Davis, R.W. Gibbes, Isaac W. Hayne, J.L. Orr, and William H. Seward.
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Otho Scott papers, 1772-1910 and undated, bulk 1820-1859 3 Linear Feet Approx. 2172 Items

Lawyer of Harford City, Maryland. Collection comprises personal, legal and financial papers of Otho Scott, a Maryland lawyer active in the first half of the 19th century, and of his partner, Henry Dorsey Farnandis (1817-1900), also a Democratic state legislator. Materials include papers relating to the administration of estates, lawsuits, and land disputes; circular letters concerning the strength of Andrew Jackson and of the Whigs and Henry Clay in Maryland; a will of William Chesney providing for the manumission of his slaves; mortgages; bills and receipts; a few sheriff's books from Harford County with lists of fees for collection; papers relating to railroads and canals in Maryland, 1820s; and fragments of almanacs containing scattered diary entries, 1836-1847, chiefly about the weather.
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Harden family papers, 1772-1940 4 Linear Feet (6 boxes, 2,531 items including 27 volumes.)

Collection includes correspondence, diaries, account books, daybooks, and legal and other papers, of Edward Harden, planter, lawyer, and politician, of Athens, Ga.; of his son, Edward Randolph Harden, lawyer and politician; and of other members of their family. The material concerns U.S. and Georgia politics, Cherokee Indian affairs (1840s), military recruitment in the Civil War, the 44th Georgia Infantry, military operations in the Confederacy, Reconstruction and economic conditions, the Republican Party in the south, social life and customs, genealogy, and other matters. Also includes a diary kept by Evelyn Harden Jackson during the last months of the war referring to the general alarm preceding Sherman's activities in Georgia.
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James Davidson papers, 1773-1791 9 items

Holograph documents, signed. Mostly account statements from medical suppliers, Richard Speaight and Langharne of New York City and Chris. Jr. and Charles Marshall of Philadelphia. Statements list purchased items and their prices. Also a bond, Davidson to Sarah Ashbridge and Robert Martin, for 612 pounds.
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William Buchan papers, [Edinburgh], 1773-1801 6 items

Letters (ALS), including instructions for the third edition of Buchan's "Domestic Medicine". In the same letter he also relates anecdotes of incidents in which people made use of the book's medical advice. A letter to Cadell and Davies (booksellers and publishers) concerns his Medical advice to mothers and his Treatise on venereal disease. This letter was removed from the Thomas Cadell collection. A holograph note, in an anonymous hand, provides biographical information.
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John Pawson letters and documents, 1773-1806 5 items
Folder P2

Letters and documents from and about John Pawson (1737-1806), who entered itinerant ministry in 1762 and was then ordained by John Wesley for work in Scotland in 1785. He was involved in many Methodist controversies, especially after Wesley's death, some of which are alluded to in the letters. Burton provides an extensive account of Pawson's efforts to "die well" in his last weeks; Buckley sends condolences on his death and ruminates on the afterlife.

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  2. Frank Baker collection of Wesleyana and British Methodism, 1536-1996
  3. Correspondence, 1632-1637, 1710, 1738-1966, 1988, and undated
  4. Alphabetical File: Individual Letters Subseries, 1710-1922, and undated

Terrasson Brothers records, 1773-1869, bulk 1780-1860 2.5 Linear Feet (1245 items)

Collection contains the records of the firm of Terrasson Brothers, established in Philadelphia by Antoine and Barthelemy Terrasson as a branch of their father's firm, John Terrasson and Company, headquartered in Paris and Lyons, France. Early business letters reflect the trade of the firm in grain, the furnishings of supplies to the French and American armies, and the purchase of tobacco at various places throughout the South. The letters contain information on the American Revolution, especially on naval operations, and on post-Revolutionary business conditions. Papers after 1800 concern the family of Mark Prager, members of which apparently married into the Terrasson family. Prager was owner of a trading firm in Holland. These papers contain information on Prager's trading activities until 1820, and on the family of Harriet Prager of Philadelphia. The later letters contain references to family affairs, slavery, politics and sectionalism. Approximately 100 Civil War letters describe conditions in the North.
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Graham family papers, 1773-1885, bulk bulk 2.5 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 1113 items including 11 vols.)

Collection contains correspondence, account books, records, sermons, and other papers (chiefly, 1800-1880) of the Graham family of Virginia. Includes letters of the Rev. William Graham, Presbyterian minister and one of the founders of Liberty Hall Academy (later Washington and Lee University); material relating to the patent on Dr. William A. Graham's fire extinguisher; records (1774-1803) of tuition charges and books bought by Washington College students; and correspondence between Edward Graham and Edmund Ruffin discussing scientific experiments.
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Bills and receipts, 1774-1809
Box 3

Memorandum, receipts, and other documents related to the business and personal transactions of John Chiles, Thomas Chiles, James Meredith, and Joseph Ingram. Includes a bill of sale for two enslaved persons, dated October 30, 1788. Also includes a contract for a one-year mortgage on two enslaved persons.

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  2. Joseph Ingram Sr. papers, 1769-1935 and undated

Proofs of nobility, 1774-1817
Box 1 > Folder 2

Proofs of nobility. Signed certificate of Saint Allais with miniature arms, decorative ribbon. Act of notoriety, signed by residents of St. Dominique. Vte de Poidemc de Roeplan de Lestrade--Soudhie-- de Tourville--Villelongue de St. Morel--de Behague--Desmarets. Painted weapons 1775. 2nd act of notoriety on vellum Certificate from the English consul of Virginia, Hamilton, with his stamp, countersigned by Hammond of Philadelphia 1794

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  2. Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières papers, 1770-1876, bulk bulk 1770-1825

Letters, 1774-1829

The letters sub-series contains letters from Eleanor Butler, Sarah Ponsonby, and Sarah Ponsonby's family. The early letters are from the Fownes, Sir William and Lady Betty, who took in Sarah Ponsonby after her father died. After Sarah eloped with Eleanor Butler to Llangollen, she wrote to her cousin, Sarah Tighe. The majority of the letters are from Sarah Ponsonby to Mrs. Tighe, recounting daily life in Llangollen Vale.

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  2. Ladies of Llangollen collection, 1774-1991
  3. Letters and manuscripts, 1774-1830 and undated

Bradley Family papers, 1774-1882 1 Linear Feet 792 Items

Stephen Row Bradley and his son William Czar Bradley were lawyers who, as residents of Westminster, Vermont, served in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives respectively. Later Stephen moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Many prominent New Englanders corresponded with them about Federalist, Republican, and Democratic politics, patronage, and legal and personal matters. Stephen's son-in-law, Samuel Griswold Goodrich ("Peter Parley") was his most frequent correspondent. Other subjects of the correspondence include the Vermont militia, relations between the U.S. and Tripoli, attitudes toward the War of 1812, surveying of the northeastern boundary between the U.S. and Canada, General Lafayette's visit to Thomas Jefferson in 1824, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson.

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Philip Syng Physick papers, 1774-1959, [bulk 1798-1835]. 8 items

Papers include a receipt for the sale of land signed by Physick's father, Edmund Physick, and receipts signed by Physick himself. Physick writes a letter of recommendation for William Milnor; responds to West Point cadet Ellis' inquiries regarding a thigh injury; and writes to Jaspar Yeates about the unsatisfactory progress of Physick's student and Yeates' relative, J. Hand. Yeates' biography is detailed in a letter from Whitfield J. Bell to Henry Schuman.
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McCoy-Love Family papers, 1774-1970 and undated 12.3 Linear Feet circa 9,210 Items

Asheville, N.C. residents. Two prominent members of the families were George William McCoy, Sr. (b. 1901), editor of the Asheville-Citizen Times, and his father-in-law, Harry Weaver Love (b. 1883), YMCA executive. The collection contains personal and business correspondence, genealogical material, financial and legal records, printed material, clippings, addresses and writings, scrapbooks, miscellaneous items, photographs, and a number of volumes. Topics include the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Assoc. Harry Love's business papers include a large number of correspondence, reports, pictures and volumes relating to his work with the YMCA, in the U.S. and abroad; there are a great many items relating to the Philippine Islands. There are a sizable number of papers from Wythe Munford Peyton, a civil and highway engineer, who worked for several N.C. railroads; the papers of William C. Coleman, a businessman who sold and serviced Harley-Davidson motorcycles (1914-1915); and papers of the Frelinghuysen-Southwick family of N.J. and N.Y., one relative being a Senator and another, Emeline Sherman Smith, a poet. There are a few items concerning Thomas Dixon who founded the Mt. Mitchell Assoc. of Arts and Sciences.
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Eugene Clyde Brooks papers, 1774-1971 and undated 4.1 Linear Feet 3,105 Items

Professor of Education at Trinity College, Durham NC. Collection chiefly is composed of letters, educational reports, numerous writings and addresses, and various professional papers, all relating to tobacco relief, education, and agriculture in North Carolina. Specific topics cover the Department of Education of what was then known as Trinity College in Durham, N.C.; the history of North Carolina, from an unpublished draft; and the matter of education for rural populations in N.C. and elsewhere. Materials include a microfilm of Brooks' papers held by the Department of Archives and History in Raleigh, N.C.; telegrams; extensive manuscripts for unpublished works, lecture notes, an address by Supt. Benjamin Lee Smith of Greensboro Public Schools. Other items in the collection include a scrapbook; cards from Brooks to his wife from abroad; original poems written by Brooks; photographs; memorabilia; an itinerary of his trip with other agricultural experts to Europe; a contract in manuscript drawn up in 1774 between citizens of Mecklenburg Co. and John Patterson, a school teacher, who was engaged to teach there; a printed document concerning Judge Walter Clark; and other miscellaneous items. There is also a printed copy of the diary of Dr. J. F. Shaffner, Sr. and blueprints of the N.C. State Fairgrounds.
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Daniel Augustus Tompkins papers, 1774-1976 11 Linear Feet 6432 Items

Engineer, author, and entrepreneur, of Charlotte (Mecklenburg Co.), N.C. Collection contains letters and papers relating to Tompkins' work in the Pennsylvania steel industry, specifically with the Bethlehem Iron Works, his career as an industrial engineer in North Carolina with the Westinghouse Machine Company, his personal life, his activities as co-owner of the Charlotte Observer and his disputes with the editor, J. C. Hemphill, his patents and inventions, his business activities and involvement with the textile, brick, and other industries, and the settlement of his estate. Includes ledgers and a stockholders' minute book of the D. A. Tompkins Company.
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Ladies of Llangollen collection, 1774-1991 9.5 Linear Feet

In the late 18th century, Eleanor Butler (1739-1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1832), also known as the Ladies of Llangollen, left their lives in the upper tiers of Anglo-Irish society and made a home for themselves in Llangollen, Wales, to the disapproval of both their families. Butler and Ponsonby appeared to have understood their relationship as a marriage, and they were known for dressing alike in masculine clothing. They were part of an emerging culture of 'romantic friendship' between same-sex couples. While they lived a life of rural retreat, the Ladies' relative celebrity and social status meant that their home Plas Newydd became a salon. They hosted the many of the intelligensia of the day, including poets such as Wordsworth and Byron, and the reigning Queen Charlotte. The collection is largely made up of letters by the Ladies, as well as materials about Llangollen, the cultural haven of Plas Newydd, and images of the Ladies in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Litta, Agostino. Memoria Idrostatica Del Cavaliere Agostino Litta Socio Dell'Accademia Delle Scienze Di Bologna: Concernente Lo Sperimento Pubblico Fatto Nel 1774 Di Spurgare La Fossa Interiore Del Naviglio Della Città Di Milano ..., 1775
Box 1607 > Item Q.C.646.XIV

DISPLAY: EARLY TREATISE ON CANALS

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940
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Aitken family letter and will, 1775, 1793 1.8 Linear Feet (2 items)

The Aitken family was of Scottish descent. John Aitken, senior, lived in Rashiehill, Scotland. One of his sons, James Aitken, was eventually ordained as a Presbyterian minister in Elizabeth town (Elizabeth City), North Carolina. Collection comprises a letter written by James Aitken to his parents from Wilmingtown (Wilmington), North Carolina, on 1775 June 5, as well as a last will and testament for John Aitken, Senior, as recorded in 1793. In his letter, James describes local people as "genteel" and respected for their "education and good behaviour," and goes on to describe local planters and their various crops, long distances ridden, the situation for Presbyterians and his upcoming ordination and resettlement, his plans to obtain a plantation and purchase or hire slaves, preparations for war with Great Britain, and payment of his debts. In his will, John Aitken, Senior, names his son, John, as his successor, and outlines the distribution of his money, land, and property. The will is witnessed by Charles Lang and William Muirhead.
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Legal Documents and Educational Records, 1775-1795

Present are Benjamin Rush's sworn statement regarding a certificate for Dickinson College, a patent for a tract of land Rush purchased in 1795, along with a certificate of attendance Rush signed for one of his students at the College of Philadelphia Medical School.

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  2. Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush papers, bulk 1766-1845 and undated

Neill Brown deeds and grants, 1775-1799
Oversize-folder 1

Contains a deed from Robert Partin to Neill Brown (photocopy) dated 1779 Feb. 22; a grant from George III to Thomas Kersey, dated 1775 March 11; a grant from North Carolina to Neill Brown, dated 1789 Nov. 26; a grant from North Carolina to Neill Brown, dated 1799 Dec. 24; a grant from North Carolina to Neill Brown, dated 1791 Dec. 20.

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  2. Brown-Buie Family Papers, 1770s-2016
  3. Brown Family materials

Samuel Meredith papers, 1775-1808 22 items

Papers include correspondence from John Jones, David Jackson and William Duncan, and statements of account with a dentist, physicians and pharmacists, including Andrew Spence, Philip S. Physick, Benjamin Rush, Nicholas Belleville, John Hart, John Ott and William Evans.
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Breve Ragionamento Intorno All' Antica E Miracolosa Immagine Del Santissimo Crocifisso Detto Volgarmente Delle Grazie Posta Nell' Insigne Collegiata E Propositura Di S. Andrea D' Empoli Ed Alcuni Componimenti Poetici, 1776
Box 144 > Item B.155.XVIII

DATE TAKEN FROM MAZZONI; DISPLAY; DRAWINGS BY MAZZONÍS CHILDREN ?

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940
  3. Italy -- Church history, 1703-1943

Breve Ragionamento Intorno All' Antica E Miracolosa Immagini Del Santissimo Crocifisso Detto Volgarmente Delle Grazie Posta Nell' Insigne Collegiata E Propositura Di S. Andrea D' Empoli Ed Alcuni Componimenti Poetici, 1776
Box 144 > Item B.155.VIII

DISPLAY; DRAWINGS BY MAZZONÍS CHILDREN ?; DATE TAKEN BY MAZZONI

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940
  3. Italy -- Church history, 1703-1943

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