| 3 | Creator: | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Account of the robbery of the papers of Arthur Lee, American agent at Berlin, June 26, 1777 - July 5, 1777
| | | | Dates: | June 26, 1777 - July 5, 1977 | | | | Abstract: | The proceedings before the criminal judge, of the Government of Prussia, in relation to the robbery of Lee's official papers, while Minister at that court in the time of Frederick the Great (as described in letter from Richard Henry Lee to Dr. Mease, 1826 May 31). | | | | Call #: | Mss.973.3.Ac2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Criminal law. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Proceedings. | Prussia (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1740-1786. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Pennsylvania (Province). | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Minutes of Indian treaties and conferences, 1721-1760, [n.d.].
| | | | Dates: | 1721-1760 | | | | Abstract: | The first volume in the collection, "Particulars of an Indian treaty at Conestogoe between his excellency Sir William Keith, bart, governor of Pennsilvania and the deputies of the Five Nations [July 5-8, 1721]," is a manuscript copy of a printed work by Andrew Bradford, with a preface dated July 26. See
Colonial Records, 3: 121. The volume regards a meeting between Sinnekaes, Onondagoes, Cayoogoes, Keith, and James Logan. Freeman Guide: 138 and 1769. | | | | Call #: | Mss.970.5.P26 | | | | Extent: | 7.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Indians of North America--Treaties | Keith, William, 1680-1749 | Maps. | Native America | Native American Materials | Norris, Isaac, 1671-1735 | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Seven Years' War | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Treaties. | Treaties. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Burrough, Marmaduke, ca. 1798-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Marmaduke Burrough papers 1829-1847
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1847 | | | | Abstract: | The material in this collection is primarily the receipts for books, clothes, passages, a rhinoceros, etc., while he was in Calcutta. There is also a small volume (approximately 50 pages), a duplicate receipt book which he kept as the Consul for the U.S. in Vera Cruz, Mexico. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B946 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Bills. | Burrough, Marmaduke, ca. 1798-1844 | Business Records and Accounts | Consuls -- United States. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Diplomats -- United States. | General Correspondence | Official Government Documents and Records | Receipts. | Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Short, William, 1759-1849 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Short correspondence, 1787-1838
| | | | Dates: | 1787-1838 | | | | Abstract: | This correspondence is chiefly of a personal nature between Short and the Duchesse de La Rochefoucauld concerning his desire to marry her and bring her to America. The Duchesse's letters describe life in a powerful, wealthy, and noble French family under the ancien régime, including events of the Revolution and the Reign of Terror, and life in France thereafter. The collection also includes letters from Lafayette, Count Luigi Castiglioni, Pauline Castiglioni, and the Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sh83 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Castiglioni, Luigi, 1757-1832 | Castiglioni, Pauline | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. | France -- Social life and customs -- 1789-1815. | La Rochefoucauld, Duchesse de. | La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747-1827 | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Marriage and Family Life | Short, William, 1759-1849 | Social Life and Custom | |
| 9 | Creator: | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Timothy Horsfield Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1684, 1733-1771 | | | | Abstract: | An early settler and prominent citizen in the Moravian heartland near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Timothy Horsfield was named justice of the peace when Northampton County was formed out of Bucks in 1752, and was one of those given responsibility for the defence of the local white and Christian Indian populations during the French and Indian War.
The Horsfield Papers offer a window onto the tumultuous history of northeastern Pennsylvania during the 1750s and 1760s. Comprised largely of correspondence and related documents between Horsfield, William Parsons, and provincial and military authorities, the collection includes important information on the Indian assaults on the region in 1756 and 1757 and the military and diplomatic response. | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.H78 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Colonial Politics | Delaware Indians | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Government relations--To 1789 | Iroquois Indians | Maps | Miami Indians | Military History | Military Records | Moravian Indians | Moravians--Pennsylvania--History | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776 | Political Correspondence | Seven Years' War | Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781 | Teedyuscung, ca. 1700-1763 | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | |
| 11 | Creator: | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Vaughan Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1746-1900 | | | | Abstract: | Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS
Proceedings 95 (1951): 246-249. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V46p | | | | Extent: | 13.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | American Revolution | Animal magnetism. | Architecture | Astronomy | Beyond Early America | Blake, Anne Susannah | Bowdoin College | Breeding. | Colonial Politics | Diplomacy. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Diseases | Dueling. | Early National Politics | Electricity | Family Correspondence | Genealogies | General Correspondence | Hallowell (Me.) | Harlowe, Harris | Hunter, John, 1728-1793 | Hunter, John, d. 1809 | Land and Speculation | Lectures | Littlefield, William B. | Locke, John, 1632-1704 | Manufactures | Maps and Surveys | Medicine | Mesmerism | Meteorology | Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831 | Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 | Notes | Pennell, Jacob | Plantations | Punctuation | Raymond, Edward | Religion | Science and Technology | Silk industry. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Taxation | Unitarianism | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
| 12 | Creator: | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Aaron Young papers, [ca. 1839-1894]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1839-1894 | | | | Abstract: | This is primarily a collection of letters, with some additional documents, concerning Young's interest in botany, geology, mineralogy, and natural history. There is information about Bowdoin College, where he studied under Parker Cleaveland. There is also much on the natural history of Maine, where he was the State Botanist in 1847-1849, and also on the Bangor Natural History Society. There are materials on Brazil in relation to Young's service there as the U.S. consul to Rio Grande do Sul from 1863 to 1873. There are also letters from his brother, John C. Young, and his sister, Sarah Augusta Young. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Y81 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, George N. | Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 | Albumen prints | Americans Abroad | Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 | Bangor Natural History Society. | Bartlett, John | Blake, Charles M. | Botany. | Bowditch, Henry I., (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892 | Bowdoin College -- Students. | Brazil -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Chute, Ariel P. | Cleaveland, Parker, 1780-1858 | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Education | Educational Material | Emerson, John | Geology. | Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Holmes, Ezekiel, 1801-1865 | International Travel | Mead, S. B. | Mineralogy. | Natural history -- Maine. | Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Science and Technology | Thurber, George, 1821-1890 | Torrey, John, 1796-1873 | Warren, John | Young, Aaron,b. 1819. | Young, John C. | Young, Sarah Augusta | |
| 13 | Creator: | Woodruff, Robert. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Robert Woodruff journal. December 17, 1785 - May 1, 1788
| | | | Dates: | 1785-1788 | | | | Abstract: | Robert Woodruff was secretary to John Anstey, Loyalists' Claims Commissioner. This journal relates his travels with John Anstey. He describes the towns he visited, and comments on episodes of the American Revolution and on the Federal Convention and state ratifying conventions. The journal covers a trip through New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Thode Island, Massachusetts, South Carolina and Georgia. He and Anstey spent a night at Mount Vernon in 1786. Mentions B. Franklin, G. Washington, APS Hall. Also refers to Five Nations country, Georgia's warfare with Creek Indians, and Chief McGillivray. For identification, see G. Washington's Diary, Dec.11, 1786. | | | | Call #: | Mss.917.4.W852 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anstey, John, d. 1819 | Constitutional conventions -- United States. | Delaware -- Description and travel. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Early National Politics | Georgia -- Description and travel. | Indians of North America | Journals (notebooks). | Maryland -- Description and travel. | Massachusetts -- Description and travel. | Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) | Native America | New Jersey -- Description and travel. | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | North Carolina -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania -- Description and travel. | Rhode Island -- Description and travel. | South Carolina -- Description and travel. | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Virginia -- Description and travel. | Woodruff, Robert. | |
| 14 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775
| | | | Dates: | 1737-1775 | | | | Abstract: | Reports on conferences and treaties with the Indians and miscellaneous Indian affairs in Pennsylvania, with emphasis upon the French and Indian War. Correspondents include: John Armstrong Thomas Barton Edward Braddock Daniel Claus George Croghan James Hamilton James Logan Hugh Mercer Andrew Montour Robert Hunter Morris Robert Orme Ferdinand J. Paris Thomas Penn Horatio Sharpe Joseph Shippen William Shirley John Stanwix Robert Stobo William Trent Conrad Weiser | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.8.P19 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Armstrong, John | Barton, Thomas | Braddock, Edward, 1695-1755 | Claus, Christian Daniel, 1727-1781 | Colonial Politics | Croghan, George, d.1782 | Delaware Indians | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Government Affairs | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Indians of North America--Pennsylvania | Logan, Jim, (James) | Mercer, Hugh, 1726-1777 | Military History | Military Records | Montour, Andrew | Morris, Robert Hunter, 1713-1764 | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Orme, Robert, 1728-1801 | Paris, Ferdinand John | Penn, Thomas | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Seven Years' War | Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790 | Shippen, Joseph | Shirley, William, 1694-1771 | Social Life and Custom | Stanwix, John, 1690?-1766 | Stobo, Robert, 1726-1770 | Surveying and Maps | Teedyuscung, ca. 1700-1763 | Trent, William | United States--History--French and Indian war, 1755-1763 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | |
| 15 | Creator: | Braddock, Edward, 1695-1755 | Requires cookie* | | | | Logan, Deborah Norris, 1761-1839 | | | | | Post, Christian Frederick,1710?-1785. | | | | | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | | | | | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | | | | Title: | Manuscripts on Indian affairs, 1755-1792, [n.d.]
| | | | Dates: | 1755-1792 | | | | Abstract: | The first volume includes extracts from the journals of Conrad Weiser and Christian Frederick Post (1757), Charles Thomson's "An Enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British interest" (1759), and a printed version of Judge Bradford's "Statement of facts and observations respecting the penal laws" (1792). The second volume contains selected letters and documents in the Pennsylvania state records on Indian relations, including transcriptions of several treaties between the Province of Pennsylvania and the Delawares and other Indians (1755-1758); the French and Indian War; and Braddock's campaign. Some manuscripts are written by Deborah Norris Logan and Charles Thomson. | | | | Call #: | Mss.970.4.M415 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Armstrong, John | Barton, Thomas, 1730-1780 | Braddock's Campaign, 1755. | Braddock, Edward, 1695-1755 | Bradford, William, 1755-1795 | Claus, Christian Daniel, 1727-1781 | Croghan, George, d.1782 | Delaware Indians | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Indians of North America--Pennsylvania | Indians of North America--Treaties | Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880 | Law | Logan, Deborah Norris, 1761-1839 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Manuscript Essays | Mercer, Hugh, 1726-1777 | Montour, Andrew | Morris, Robert Hunter, 1713-1764 | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Orme, Robert, 1728-1801 | Paris, Ferdinand John | Penn, Thomas,1702-1775. | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | Post, Christian Frederick,1710?-1785. | Printed Material | Seven Years' War | Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790 | Shawnee Indians | Shippen, Joseph,1706-1793. | Shirley, William, 1694-1771 | Social Life and Custom | Stanwix, John, 1690?-1766 | Stobo, Robert, 1726-1770 | Teedyuscung, ca. 1700-1763 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | Trent, William, 1715-1787? | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763. | Walsh, John | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | |
| 16 | Creator: | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Franklin Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1730-1791 | | | | Abstract: | The Calendar of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin prepared by Isaac Minis Hays for the bicentennial of Franklin's birth in 1906 provides access to the largest portion of the Franklin Papers at the APS. The items were originally bound into volumes in roughly chronological order, with letters to Franklin preceding those from Franklin and at the end of the collection, Franklin's letters owned by the University of Pennsylvania. Each manuscript is still identified by Hays's reference numbers, which include a roman numeral refering to the original volume followed by an arabic number to identify the folio. The electronic version of the finding replicates Hays's calendar, including the introductory material, but will be updated to reflect corrections. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F85 | | | | Extent: | 48.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | Account books. | American Philosophical Society. | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Diaries. | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Electricity--Early works to 1800 | Family Correspondence | France--Foreign relations--United States | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, Deborah Read Rogers, 1708-1774 | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States | Hays , I. Minis, (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | Hodge, Sarah Bache, 1798-1849 | International Travel | Land and Speculation | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Mecom, Jane Franklin, 1712-1794 | Military History | Pen works | Pencil works | Pennsylvania History | Pennsylvania--History--18th century | Pennsylvania--Politics and government--18th century | Political Correspondence | Postal service--United States | Printed Material | Printers--Pennsylvania | Printing and Publishing | Scientific Correspondence | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | United States--Foreign relations--France | United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain | United States--History--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States--Politics and government--Colonial period, ca.1600-1775 | United States--Politics and government--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Williams, Jonathan. | |
| 17 | Creator: | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | William Temple Franklin Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1775-1819 | | | | Abstract: | The son of William Franklin, Royal Governor of New Jersey, William Temple Franklin worked as aide to his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, when the latter served as minister to France during the American Revolution. A bonvivant, Temple received his highest public appointment as Secretary to the American delegation at the Treaty of Versailles in 1782-1783, largely through the influence of his famous grandfather, but never again attained a significant post. As Franklin's literary heir, he edited and published a three volume set of his grandfather's writings in 1817. He married his long time mistress a few months before his death in Paris in 1823.
The William Temple Franklin Papers provides a richly detailed portrait of the life of the grandson of Benjamin Franklin, and consists largely of letters received during the years that Temple served as his grandfather's aide in France, 1776-1785. Although much of the correspondence is routine, during this period, Temple received regular reports from friends and diplomatic colleagues relaying information on the American Revolution, the course of diplomatic and peace negotiations, and French public opinion on Benjamin Franklin and the new United States. The collection is also a rich resource for information on the personal lives of the Franklins, including interesting correspondence from Temple's relatives William Franklin, Elizabeth Franklin, Sarah Franklin Bache, and Jonathan Williams, and his mistress Blanchette Caillot. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.F86 | | | | Extent: | 4.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | American Revolution | Americans Abroad | Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798 | Bache, Richard, 1737-1811 | Balloons--Early works to 1800 | Barclay, Thomas, 1728-1793 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Diplomatic History | Diplomatic Material | Family Correspondence | Fox, George, 1759-1828 | Fox, Joseph Mickle, 1757-1784 | France--Foreign relations--United States | France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793 | France--Social life and customs--18th century | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823 | Franklin, William, 1731-1813 | General Correspondence | Grand, Henri Maximilien, 1757-1827 | International Travel | Jay, John, 1745- 1829 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jones, John Paul, 1747-1792 | Land and Speculation | Le Veillard, Louis-Guillaume, -- 1733-1794. | Malesherbes, Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de,1721-1794. | Marriage and Family Life | Mayo, Joseph, d.1785 | Mesmerism | Military History | Morrelet, Abbé André, 1727-1819 | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--1783-1815 | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Political Correspondence | Ross, John, 1729-1800 | Trumbull, Jonathan, 1710-1785 | United States--Foreign relations--France | United States--History--1783-1815 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace | United States--Politics and government--1783-1815 | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
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