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Italy -- Politics and government, 1718-1943 2444 items

This large series contains 2444 items and includes formats such as pamphlets, almanacs, newspapers, clippings, and broadsides, some quite large. Some items contain illustrations, usually photographs or charts, but also engravings. The genres represented are quite varied, including many speeches, articles, reports, and propagandistic literature, which can include poetry.

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940

Catalonia: Instruccion para el Servicio Uniforme, que se ha de hazer en todas las plazas del Principado de Cataluña, 1719 January 1 340 pages
Box 6 > Volume 4

Detailed orders, in 26 chapters and 630 paragraphs, for the governors and garrisons of the fortresses of Catalonia. The second half of the heading on f1, including the words printed above in square brackets, and all the writing on the last two pages have been inked over, but the orders appear to have been issued by the Marquis of Ciudad Rodrigo from Barcelona on 1 January 1719.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

McKeen-Duren family papers, 1720-1945 and undated, bulk 1855-1900 12.6 Linear Feet (16 boxes; 1 oversize folder) Approximately 3240 items

Collection documents in great detail the histories of the McKeen and Duren families, particularly of Silas, Phebe, and Philena McKeen. Topics of note documented through correpondence, diaries and journals, other peronal papers, printed material, and images include: religious thought and institutions in New England; the education of women and the careers of female educators; photography throughout the 19th century; the Civil War and its effects on New England society; westward migration patterns; social life in Massachusetts and Vermont; family relations in the 19th century; 19th century New England women writers and their activities; and New England genealogy. There are also many clippings in the scrapbooks debating the abolition of slavery, many written by minister Silas McKeen. The photographs series is large and offers many fine examples of 19th century portraiture and photographic processes, including ambrotypes, cyanotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes, albumen prints, postcards, and early gelatin silver and platinum prints. The majority are portraits but there are also interiors of family rooms and images of educational institutions, especially Abbott Female Academy in Andover, Massachusetts (now Abbot Academy), whose principal over several decades was Philena McKeen. Three photograph albums round out the photograph series.
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John Humphrey Small papers, 1720-1946, bulk 1850-1870, 1912-1937 13 Linear Feet 9,721 Items

Lawyer and U.S. Representative from North Carolina. Correspondence, legal documents, and other papers (chiefly 1850-1870 and 1912-1937) of John Humphrey Small; of his father-in-law, Col. Rufus W. Wharton, lawyer and planter; and of Col. David M. Carter, lawyer, planter, businessman, and court official, of Fairfield, N.C. Small's papers form the bulk of the collection and concern his North Carolina agricultural interests, his legal practice, his activities in Congress, river and harbor improvements, the Intracoastal Waterway, patronage, Southern financial conditions, U.S. and North Carolina politics, World War I labor problems, and the 1929 Depression. The papers before 1850 are mainly deeds, family papers, and legal documents. Wharton's and Carter's papers relate largely to the legal profession and to their agricultural interests.
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Papeles politicos y militares, 1721-1726 48 items (48 manuscripts)
Box 7 > Volume 5

Materials largely relate to Catalonia. Includes a long 'Instrucción para el Govierno político de Catthalunia' by the Marques de Castelrodrigo (1721); account by Montemar himself of ceremonies observed by him on various occasions in Barcelona (82 pp); 'Instrucciones para el mando general militar de el exercito y Principado de Cattaluna', 1721, 2 copies; a memorial on the increase of robbery and crime in general (1724); correspondence with the Marques de Risbourg and the Marques de Castelrodrigo on the wartime organization of Catalonia, with reports on the production of bread, distribution of meat, etc.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

Thomas Prince letters, 1721-1738 0.2 Linear Feet

Thomas Prince (1687-1758) was a graduate of Harvard College, a clergyman, scholar, historian, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, Mass. from 1718 to 1758, and author of A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals (1736). Collection includes three letters, dated 1721, 1726, and 1738, to Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South Church in Boston. There are two letters from Prince's sister Abigail in Middleborough, Mass., dated January 4, 1721 and February 25, 1726, both discussing family matters such as health, various leases and deeds, and other subjects. In another letter, dated 1738, Prince's mother-in-law Grace Denny, of Old Newton, England, discusses her anxiety about not hearing from Prince, her declining health, and politics and the royal family in England. In a postscript, Denny notes that she has "heard of a printed account about Great Conversions in Hampshire...by the the Rev'd Doctor Watts and Doctor Guyse."
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Letterbook of outgoing correspondence of Montemar, 1722 June 13-1724 February 5 252 items (223 copies of letters, 13 duplicate copies, and 16 returns or reports)
Box 8 > Volume 6

Montemar's letter-book for the period 13 June 1722 to 5 February 1724, written while commanding officer in Catalonia, mostly to the Minister of War, the Marques de Castelar; containing 223 copies of letters, plus 13 duplicate copies, and including 16 returns or reports, on guns and swords held by cavalry regiments, on the Barcelona sabre factories, etc. A scrap of material, a sample of the lining of the uniform of the Seville Regiment is attached to p. 228. With an index.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

Estate settlement (Thomas Turner), 1723-1821, undated 2 folders
Box 13

Includes an appraisal and inventory of Thomas Turner's personal estate and Turner's last will and testament. The inventory of Turner's personal estate lists enslaved persons: Fillis, Sam, Judith, Hester, Isaac, Rawleigh, Moses, Nancy, Airy, Lucy, Susan, Charles, and Delila. Also contains an inventory of enslaved persons and the personal estate of Ruth Turner, which lists enslaved persons: Juda, Easter, Angelina, Delilah, and Maryan. Includes an appraisal of Dennis, an enslaved man.

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  2. Ann Henshaw Gardiner papers, 1723-1981
  3. Legal Papers, 1723-1981

Legal Papers, 1723-1981

Contains articles of agreement, sale bills including those for the enslaved people, estate settlements, land office records, land surveys, road orders, wills, deeds, bonds, depositions, tax records, military records, and warrants. Contains grants from Lord Fairfax when Berkeley County was still a part of Frederick County, Virginia. Both the Snodgrass and the Henshaw families had members that were justices of the peace, militia leaders, county office holders, and members of the Virginia House of Delegates. Some the legal papers reflect their positions in these offices. A large group of legal papers concerns the acquisition of land and estate settlements. The Turner and Gorrell families had intermarried with the Snodgrasses and Henshaws, and their estate settlements are included in the collection as well. The surveys contain the names of early settlers. Schools, roads, fugitives from slavery, and the trafficking of enslaved persons also are concerns which occupy the papers.

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  2. Ann Henshaw Gardiner papers, 1723-1981

Ann Henshaw Gardiner papers, 1723-1981 14.75 Linear Feet (37 boxes and 2 oversize folders) 651 Megabytes

Ann Henshaw Gardiner was a white nurse, scientist, historian, and co-founder of the School of Nursing at Duke University. The Henshaw and Snodgrass families were enslavers, farmers, and politicians in Virginia and West Virginia throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The Ann Henshaw Gardiner papers include legal and financial documents for the family, including materials related to enslaved people, as well as photographs, scrapbooks, local history and genealogical materials, and materials documenting Ann Henshaw Gardiner's career as a nurse in World War I and at Duke University.
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I Presidente [sic], e Conseruatori della Sanità dello Stato di Milano. Si leuano da questa Città di Milano, sanissima per Dio gratia, e liberissima d'ogni sospittione di contaggio pestiferoso, gl'infrascritti Colli di robba forastiera..., 1723 April 20
Box 1 > Item RL11337-MS-04

This bill of health issued in Milano relates to overland movement of goods (handkerchiefs from Amsterdam) in containers ("Colli").

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  2. Italian public health documents declaring ships and goods to be disease-free, 1630-1818

Tocante a Cavalleria, 1724-1745 4 Volumes

Four volumes containing about 235 mss., mainly dating from Montemar's period of office as Inspector-General of Cavalry. This large and interesting collection of papers includes correspondence with the Marques de la Ensenada, Sebastian de la Quadra and other ministers, together with letters to and from the Inspectors of Cavalry who worked under Montemar, on every subject to do with the cavalry; a long report by Montemar to Castelar on breeding horses for the cavalry; estimates supplies for troops passing through France, confidential reports on officers, dragoon regiments, the progress of the Italian War, etc.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

James Iredell Sr. and James Iredell Jr. papers, 1724-1890, undated 9.5 Linear Feet

James Iredell Sr. was a statesman and one of the first justices of the Supreme Court of the United States serving from 1790 to 1799. James Iredell Jr. was the governor of North Carolina (1827-1828) as well as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina (1828-1831). Topics in this collection include revolutionary sentiment in North Carolina, North Carolina's ratification of the U.S. constitution, national politics, the legal and political careers of both James Iredell Jr. and Sr., correspondence from family and friends in England and Ireland, and other family affairs.
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Wesley family papers, 1726-1889 and undated 3 Linear Feet 46 Items

The brothers John Wesley (1703-1791) and Charles Wesley (1707-1788) were Church of England clergymen and two of the founders of Methodism; Sarah Wesley (1726-1822) and Sarah Wesley (1759-1828) were the wife and daughter of Charles Wesley. The Wesley family papers span the years 1726-1889 and mainly comprise the correspondence of John and Charles Wesley, with single items from the wife and daughter of Charles, both named Sarah; there is also an inventory of John Wesley's library taken at the time of his death, 1791, and a photograph album, 1889, of English sites related to the Wesleys and the history of Methodism. Correspondence discusses John Wesley's life as a student at Lincoln College, the administration of Kingswood School, the brothers' mission to Georgia in the 1730s, and Methodism's eventual separation from the Church of England. Correspondents and people mentioned in the letters include the Countess of Huntingdon, George Whitefield, James Oglethorpe, Joseph Benson, and Samuel Bradburn.
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Battaile Muse papers, 1726-1891, bulk 1777-1800 7.2 Linear Feet (18 boxes)

Battaile Muse (1750-1803) was a planters' agent, of Berkeley Co., Va. (now Jefferson Co., W. Va.). Collection includes correspondence, account books, memoranda, and other papers. The collection concerns the movement from Tidewater farms to western Virginia, the progress of the Revolutionary War, sale of farm produce, the treatment of slaves, business operations, the Mercer (1776-1783) plantations and Fairfax estates, and Muse's career as a rental agent for George Washington in Frederick and Fauquier counties, Va. (1784-1792). Correspondents include W. M. Cary, Bryan Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, G. W. Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, J. L. Gervais, Tobias Lear, Richard Bland Lee, Warner Lewis, Stevens T. Mason, James Mercer, John Francis Mercer, Hugh Nelson, George Nicholas, John Hatley Norton, Thomas Rutherford, Magnus Tate, Hannah Fairfax Washington, George Washington, and Warner Washington.
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John Berkley Grimball papers, 1727-1930 3 Linear Feet 1610 Items

Planter, of Charleston, S.C. Correspondence and other papers of Grimball, of his family, and of the VanderHorst family. The bulk of the material is for 1840-1900 and pertains to the life of a planter during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Correspondence concerns life in the Confederate services, wartime depredations in South Carolina, the Confederate migration to Mexico and life and politics in that country after 1865, and life and economic conditions in the South during Reconstruction.
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Robert L. Eichelberger papers, 1728-1998, bulk 1942-1949 54 Linear Feet 29,056 items

Robert Eichelberger (1886-1961) commanded the Eighth United States Army in the Southwest Pacific during World War II and the Occupation of Japan. Collection includes personal and official correspondence, including letters written while Eichelberger was a student at the U.S. Military Academy, 1905, and letters from a number of Japanese concerning Eichelberger's part in the occupation, 1948. Other materials contain information on military intelligence in the Philippine Department, 1920-1921; on the Siberian Expedition; reports on operations which Eichelberger commanded during World War II, and on the planned invasion of Japan. The collection also contains correspondence from Eichelberger's work on the North Carolina Ports Authority, 1957-1960, as well as diaries, interviews, statements and speeches, photograph albums and West Point yearbooks.
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Charles S. Sydnor papers, 1729-1978 and undated 14.8 Linear Feet circa 11,159 items

The Charles S. Sydnor Papers roughly span the period 1729-1978, the bulk dated 1923 to 1954. They include correspondence, research notes, writings, printed materials, and clippings, chiefly relating to Sydnor's teaching career at Duke University, as well as at Harvard and Queen's College, Oxford. The collection also includes information about his involvement with various historical associations and committees, including the American Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, and the Advisory Committee of the Office of the Chief of Military History for the United States Army. There is background information pertaining to his various writings, including The Development of Southern Sectionalism (Volume V of the work A History of the South) (Baton Rouge, La., 1948), Gentleman Freeholders: Political Practices in Washington's Virginia (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1952), A Gentleman of the Old Natchez Region: Benjamin L. C. Wailes (Durham, N.C., 1938), Mississippi History (New York, N.Y., 1930), and Slavery in Mississippi (New York, N.Y., 1933). The papers contain notes and examinations for various history courses taught by Sydnor, student roll books, grade books, and papers. Additionally, there are a few notebooks and papers of Sydnor's while he was a student.

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Papeles tocantes a los caravineros, 1730 72 items
Box 13 > Volume 11

72 letters and papers on the Corps of Carabineers, of which Montemar was appointed Inspector in 1730, including letters by Jose Patino and the Marques de Castelar and a long and interesting petition to Philip V by Montemar, recounting his service career.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

George E. and Eleanore C. Walton Papers, 1730-1958

Most of the earliest items pertain to Mrs. Walton's family, the Bakers, who had settled in Hingham, Massachusetts at least by the eighteenth-century. Letters to Mrs. Walton comprise a major segment of this series, including those to her from her father, James Baker, 1880-1882. Included are courtship letters from George Walton, a physician who attended Eleanore Walton while she was convalescing near Deland, Florida. Most were written from 1891-1892, after she returned to her home in Chicago. Letters from George Walton after the marriage suggest financial hardship and indicate that the couple was frequently separated from the beginning of their marriage and during the early childhood of their son Loring. After 1895, there is a gap in the correspondence.

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  2. Walton family papers, 1730-1980 and undated, bulk 1890-1975

Walton family papers, 1730-1980 and undated, bulk 1890-1975 4.5 Linear Feet (9 boxes; 2 oversize folders)

The papers of the Walton family comprise journals and diaries; correspondence; writings; photographic materials; clippings; and printed material. Early items pertain to the Baker family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and letters document the Walton's courtship and early marriage. Papers from the 1920s to 1948 relate to Eleanore Walton's work with societies and clubs, and as a motion picture censor in Kansas City, Missouri. The larger Loring B. Walton Series documents Walton's student days, his service as a U.S. Army officer in the American Expeditionary Force in France and Germany, 1918-1919, and his lengthy correspondence with his mother, Eleanore, and with A. Goderic A. Hodges, a British Army officer. In addition there are a few letters from authors such as Wilmon Brewer, Count Sforza, Maurice Holleaux, and Anatole France, and a poem by Edmund Wilson. Walton's involvement with Duke University as a Romance Languages faculty member is also documented to a lesser degree. Photographs and negatives are of family member portraits, Princeton and Harvard campuses, 1920, Fort Douglas, Utah, also 1920, Hingham, Massachusetts, and unidentified subjects.
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Jewish woman with her veil and rich ornaments, mentioned in Isaiah 3d.16.17--25., [1730 or later]
Box 2 > Folder 3

Text accompanying image: P. 54. Vol. III. T. A version of this engraving appears in English-language editions of Calmet's "Dictionary of the Holy Bible"

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  2. Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina graphic arts collection, 1803-1988 and undated
  3. Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina graphic arts collection, 1803-1989 and undated

Campbell family papers, 1731-1969 20 Linear Feet

Family, business, and political correspondence of David Campbell, Governor of Virginia; William Bowen Campbell, Governor of Tennessee; Arthur Campbell, soldier in the Revolutionary War who fought indigenous peoples in North America; John Campbell, Virginia statesman and U.S. Treasurer; James Campbell, lawyer and member of the Tennessee legislature; Virginia Tabitha Jane (Campbell) Sutton; and other members of the Campbell family; and papers of related families, including the Owens, Montgomerys, Kelleys, and Newnans. Topics covered include national political issues such as the War of 1812, the formation of the national banking system, Jacksonian party politics, and social and economic reforms, as well as Virginia and Tennessee state politics and education, and general discussions of educational experiences, personal philosophy, and family news.
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George Van Metre papers, 1732-1943, bulk 1830-1910 9 Linear Feet

George Van Metre was a civil engineer, real estate dealer, local politician and local recorder of weather conditions at Martinsburg, West Virginia. The collection includes surveying notes, drawings, personal and business correspondence and papers of Van Metre as well as William Ferrel and members of his family. Also included are weather observations, account books and letters from a missionary in India.
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Rime Per Le Felicissime Nozze Della Signora D. Barbara Nata Contessa Anguissola De S. Polo Col Signor Marchese Giovanni Pio Mossi Di Morano: Raccolte, E Alli Nobilissimi Sposi Dedicate Dall'Abate Bernardo Gaetano Conte Anguissola..., 1733
Box 1230 > Item D.427.IX

BINDINGS SPLIT; HANDLE WITH CARE

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  2. Guido Mazzoni pamphlet collection, 1572-1946, bulk 1750-1940
  3. Italian poetry, 1603-1943

Leavenworth Family papers, 1733-1927 and undated 20 Linear Feet 2838 Items

Family originally from Connecticut; later settled in Petersburg, Virginia. Correspondence, journals, memorandum books, sermons, an autograph album (1822), and other papers of Abner Johnson Leavenworth and of his son, Frederick P. Leavenworth. Sermons comprise about half of the manuscript collection. Includes pre-Civil War letters from theological students in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York; a tuition ledger for the Van Buren, Arkansas Female Seminary (1860-1862); and genealogical information on the Leavenworth family. Correspondents include Calvin Colton, Harrison Gray, Otis Dwight, Jeremiah Evarts, Samuel Lee, Benjamin Palmer, and Noah Porter.
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Legal Papers, 1733-1950

Insurance policies, deeds of trust, and land plats pertaining to Bellevue property and W.R. Abbot's property elsewhere in Virginia and in Kansas City; legal papers of Ellen Abbot's pre-Civil War residence in Georgetown; records of W.R. Abbot's partnership with J.P. Holcombe and his assumption of Bellevue subsequent to Holcombe's death; affidavits of family members recording receipt of inheritance; and original deeds of trust recording land grants made in Virginia to John B. Minor from Sir Thomas Carr of Topping Castle.

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  2. Abbot Family papers, 1733-1999 and undated, bulk 1860-1910

Dunlap family papers, 1733-1984 3.2 Linear Feet 741 Items

Family with members in both Ripon, Wis., and Ann Arbor, Mich. Collection contains letters and photocopies of letters between family members, naturalization papers; a poem by Helen E. (Richley) Healy; copies of an undated memoir by Gertrude (Clark) Dunlap; an undated chronicle of the early years of James E. Dunlap; several other memoirs, journals and diaries; descriptions of a voyage in an American clipper ship; Civil War letters; genealogies of various families including the Dunlap, Dunlop, Life, Clark, Cooke, and Delamere families; original photographs; and a land deed. The 2007 addition (2007-0168) (600 items; 2.5 lin. ft.; dated 1821-1910 and undated) contains genealogies and family histories of the Dunlap and Life families and biographies of the family members; diaries dated 1865, 1867, 1873-1898, and 1910; autograph books; letters and a scrapbook from the Civil War; daguerreotypes and ambrotypes; and a bayonet presumably from the Civil War. Also included are transcripts of several of the letters and diaries.
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Abbot Family papers, 1733-1999 and undated, bulk 1860-1910 19 Linear Feet (10 boxes)

The papers of the Abbot family consist mainly of correspondence, but also include financial and legal papers, diaries, a letter-book, clippings, printed material, speeches and photographs (including cartes-de-visite, and some cyanotypes and tintypes). The materials date from 1733 to 1999, the bulk ranging from 1860-1910. A significant portion of the correspondence comprises of personal letters exchanged during the Civil War between William Richardson Abbot, headmaster of Bellevue High School, and his wife, Lucy Minor Abbot. Abbot's letters mention battles and political events of the Civil War, including his experience as an officer in the First Regiment of the Engineers Troops (Army of Virginia). Other correspondence includes exchanges between W.R. Abbot and his immediate family, both during and after the Civil War, as well as numerous letters to Abbot from parents of boys attending Bellevue High School. The collection also includes materials from the lives of the children and grandchildren of William and Lucy Abbot. Letters from the Abbot children consist of personal exchanges, accounts of travel in turn-of-the-century Europe, as well as experiences in the German university system. Also included is a brief memoir by Ann Minor, Lucy's sister, documenting childhood experiences in Virginia during the Civil War. There are also papers belonging to the Minors of Charlottesville (Va.), such as correspondence of Charles and John Minor.
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Robert Anderson papers, 1735-1878, 1908 and undated, bulk 1735-1859 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder)

Collection comprises correspondence, documents and print materials belonging to merchant, land owner, and enslaver Robert Anderson of Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia. The materials date from 1735-1908, with the bulk dating from 1735 to 1859, and consist of over eighty letters, both incoming and outgoing, many legal and financial papers, other manuscript documents, and ephemeral print items such as broadsides and circulars. One folder contains military muster lists and fines stemming from Anderson's service as clerk of the 68th regiment of the Virginia militia. Topics in the correspondence include slavery and the slave trade, particularly in Virginia, colonization efforts, emancipation, the status of mixed-race individuals, Virginia and U.S. politics, Virginia military history, religion and church affairs, and education. Of particular note are several letters and documents relating to Anderson's children, who he fathered with one or more enslaved women; one of these children, Haidee, was sent to Eaglewood, a boarding school run by abolitionists Angelina Grimké Weld and Theodore Dwight Weld. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.
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John McIntosh Kell papers, 1735-1944 and undated 9 Linear Feet

The collection includes papers and volumes created by John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900) of the U.S. Navy and his family. Family correspondence includes letters from John McIntosh Kell's period of service in the U.S. Navy, family and buisness papers from the Kell, Nathan Campbell Munroe, and Tabitha Easter (Napier) Munroe families discussing Georgia policitcs and other local events. Volumes in the collection include logs of the U.S. frigate Savannah, the U.S.S. Falmouth, and Shark. There is also an unpublished manuscript by Kell's wife and scrapbooks she maintained. Includes family legal papers, genealogical materials, writings, and miscellaneous papers.
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Varios Proyectos, 1736 27 items
Box 15 > Volume 13

Includes 'Proyecto para la Guerra de Portugal,' copies of a letter from the Marques de San Gil to Horace Walpole in Hanover about hostilities in America, and Walpole's reply (1736), paper about events in Buenos Aires following the arrival of Brigadier Salzedo and his attempt to organize the frontiers of Sacramento Colony (1736), together with other reports on foreign policy and trade; a project for a state lottery with 3 printed slips of lottery winners in Rome, Naples and Milan; various projects for an Italian war, by Moistemas' and others.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

Sobre la Artilleria y Saludos y Viveres Armamentos Municion..., 1736-1739 2 Volumes

Two volumes, about 75 pieces on artillery and weaponry, including a pen and wash drawing of a salvage ship [removed to oversize folder] and another of a musket, reports on the cannon-foundry at Seville, on the supply of gun-metal, on the state of the Madrid arsenal, on arms shipped from Leghorn to Barcelona in 1736, projects for a multi-barreled rifle and for flares, a long memorandum on the organization of the artillery, an account of the proofing and marking of firearms, and other similar pieces, including 10 privately printed petitions, mainly sent to Montemar as Minister of War.

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  2. José Carrillo de Albornoz (Duke of Montemar) papers, circa 1710-1746

William Henry Hall papers, 1736-1862 1020 items

The Hall family of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, were enslavers and owners of tobacco plantations. Collection includes three generations of the Hall family and documents their involvement with tobacco and other plantation operations in Maryland during the 18th and 19th centuries, including the shift to lumber and wheat after 1800. Also includes information on cotton plantations in South Carolina and the sale of cotton to England, Maryland politics and government in the 1780s, insurrections by enslaved people, and naval impressment at the time of the War of 1812.
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Howland Family Series, 1736-1988, undated

Documents -- chiefly legal and financial papers -- pertaining to the Howland family of Carteret County, N.C. Genealogical materials include photocopies from 20th century genealogical sources, genealogical charts, photocopied information on the family's Civil War activities, and some correspondence between modern descendants. Arranged by individual family members or groups of closely related family members; within folders, arranged in chronological order.

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  2. Howland-Mcintosh Family papers, 1713-1997 (bulk 1830-1989)

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