| 15 | Creator: | Rogers, Robert,1731-1795. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Estimate of the Fur and Peltry Trade in the District of Michilimackinac
| | | | Dates: | 1767 | | | | Abstract: | A New Hampshireman and one of the most famous military figures in colonial America, Robert Rogers saw brief service in the militia during King George's War, but found fame as a commander of rangers during the Seven Years War. An efficient leader and crack woodsman, Rogers gained a hard driving reputation in leading his rangers against the Abnaki Indians at St. Francis Quebec, and for service at Quebec, Montreal, Fort Pitt, and Detroit. After voyaging to England in 1765 to advance his career, he was appointed to the command of Fort Michilimackinac at the tip of the southern peninsula of Michigan, but was recalled less than two years later for impropriety and suspected treason. He later offered his services to George Washington before serving in the Loyalist Queen's Rangers.
As Commander of Fort Michilimackinac from 1766-1768, Rogers sat at the critical nexus of the British fur trade, the point connecting the vast interior of the western Great Lakes and northern plains to the trading centers at Montreal and elsewhere in the east. His "Estimate of the Fur and Peltry Trade in the District of Michilimackinac, according to the bounds and limits, assign'd to it by the French, when under their government: together with an account of the situation and names of the several out-posts" is, as the title suggests, an overview of this most important area of economic activity. Rogers gave this manuscript to Jonathan Carver (the man he has sent on an expedition to find the Northwest Passage), who relayed it to Thomas Barton of Lancaster, Pa., who, in turn, sent it to the American Philosophical Society. It was received at the APS and referred to the Committee on Trade and Commerce on December 20, 1768. | | | | Call #: | Mss.970.1.R63 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barton, Thomas | Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780 | Colonial Politics | Fort Michilimackinac (Mackinaw City, Mich.) | Fur trade--Great Lakes | Government Affairs | International Trade. | Manuscript Essays | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Rogers, Robert,1731-1795. | Trade | |
| 16 | Creator: | Great Britain.Board of Trade. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Papers on the West Indies, 1707-1709
| | | | Dates: | 1707-1709 | | | | Abstract: | These are miscellaneous documents relating to appointments, money acts, defense, etc., mostly addressed to Charles Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Secretary of State for the Southern Department. Contain signatures of important Englishmen, among whom are: Wm.Blathwayt, Jas. Craggs. Mitford Crow, Dartmouth, Herbert, Sir P.Meadows, Wm. Popple, Jr., Matthew Prior, John Smith, Stamford, Sunderland,etc. | | | | Call #: | Mss.972.9.G81 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Colonial Politics | Government Affairs | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration. | International Affairs | Military History | Official Government Documents and Records | Political Correspondence | Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722 | West Indies, British -- History -- 18th century. | |
| 18 | Creator: | New Sweden Company. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | New Sweden Records
| | | | Dates: | 1650-1655 (1820) | | | | Abstract: | The New Sweden Company was founded as a joint stock enterprise in 1637 including Swedish, Dutch, and German investors seeking to trade in American furs and tobacco. Centered at Fort Christina, near present day Wilmington, Delaware, the colony expanded up both sides of Delaware Bay and the Delaware Reiver to present day Philadelphia, but capitulated to the Dutch in 1655.
This volume contains selected transcripts in Swedish and German of documents in Swedish archives relating to the settling and governance of the colony of New Sweden in Delaware and Pennsylvania, made at the expense of Jonathan Russel, United States minister to Sweden, 1820. The documents have all been translated into French, and were printed in
Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, vol. 4 (1829), 177-8,200, 314-315, 373-374, 398-400; vol. 5, 14-15, 219-221. No. 27 was not printed. Bound in at the end of the volume is Ch. 5 of Per Lindeström, "Description de la nouvelle Suède et des Indes Occidentales, 1691." | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.Sw2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Colonial Politics | General Correspondence | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | New Sweden--History | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Printz, Johan, 1592-1663 | Russell, Jonathan, 1771-1832 | Sweden--Colonies | Swedes--United States | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
| 19 | Creator: | Watson, John,d. 1826. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Narrative of the Indian walk, 1822
| | | | Dates: | 1822 | | | | Abstract: | This copy of John Watson Sr.'s narrative of the 1737 Walking Purchase, written in 1815, was made by Watson's son in 1822. The elder Watson's narrative was printed with corrections and additions by the son in the Pennsylvania Correspondent, Doylestown. The volume includes the younger Watson's report of the recollections of Moses Bartram, his own commentary on the Walking Purchase, and a letter (1822) about this manuscript. | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.W32 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Colonial Politics | Delaware Indians | Indians of North America | Land and Speculation | Land speculation | Manuscript Essays | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Watson, John, Jr. | Watson, John,d. 1826. | |
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