| 6 | Creator: | Price, Eli K., (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eli K. (Eli Kirk) Price papers, 1820-1853
| | | | Dates: | 1820-1853 | | | | Abstract: | These papers concern business and legal affairs, and include Price's writings on the law of real and personal property, and private wrongs. Also includes a letter to Daniel Webster. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P926 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | African American | Business Records and Accounts | Commercial law -- United States. | Early National Politics | Education | Essays. | General Correspondence | International Trade. | Law | Legal Records | Manuscript Essays | Personal property. | Price, Eli K., (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 | Real property. | Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Brice, James | Requires cookie* | | | | Erb, Lawrence | | | | Title: | Materials on revenue from the distilling and retailing of liquors, 1794-1803
| | | | Dates: | 1794-1803 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains applications to possess and operate stills and to retail spirits and liquors, receipts for distilled liquors, accounts of monies collected by Lawrence Erb and James Brice. Pennsylvania counties covered are Berks, Fayette, Franklin, Philadelphia, and York. | | | | Call #: | Mss.336.27.M414 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Berks County (Pa.) | Brice, James | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Early National Politics | Erb, Lawrence | Fayette County (Pa.) | Franklin County (Pa.) | Government Affairs | Liquor industry -- Pennsylvania. | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania. | Philadelphia County (Pa.) | Tariff on liquors -- Pennsylvania. | York County (Pa.) | |
| 8 | Creator: | Dawes, Elizabeth F.,collector. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellaneous documents on American history, 1681-1921
| | | | Dates: | 1681-1921 | | | | Abstract: | These documents are principally of Pennsylvania interest, 1757-1809, including letters to Richard I. Manning from John C. Calhoun, Marquis de Lafayette, George McDuffie, and William Wirt. There are also letters of Clement C. Biddle, James Buchanan, Francis J. Grund, James Madison, Timothy Pickering, and William H. Seward. In addition, there are several musical scores (n.d.) and 19 cancelled checks (1861-1871) drawn by Ticknor and Fields in Boston, to the order of various American authors. | | | | Call #: | Mss.973.D32 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Biddle, Clement C., (Clement Cornell), 1784-1855 | Business Records and Accounts | Calhoun, John C., (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 | Colony and State Specific History | Dawes, Elizabeth F.,collector. | Early National Politics | General Correspondence | Miscellaneous | Musical scores. | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century. | Pennsylvania History | Publishers and publishing. | Ticknor and Fields. | |
| 9 | Creator: | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sarah Franklin Bache Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1768-1807 | | | | Abstract: | Sarah Franklin Bache (1743-1808), a Revolutionary War patriot and daughter of Benjamin Franklin, led an active public life according to the standards of womanhood in the late eighteenth century. As the daughter of Benjamin Franklin she had an unusual access, for a woman, to the political life in revolutionary Philadelphia. Although her primary role was of caretaker of her family and home, Bache played an active role in the Revolution through her relief work and as her father's political hostess.
The Sarah Franklin Bache papers consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence ranging from 1768 to 1807 mostly of a personal nature to and from friends and relatives. The correspondence of her relatives includes her nephew William Temple Franklin, her brother William Franklin and her children. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B1245 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Bache, Richard, 1737-1811 | Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808 | Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803 | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Greene, Catherine Ray, 1731-1794 | International Affairs | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine | Philadelphia (Pa.)-History--Revolution, 1775-1783. | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Social Life and Custom | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | Women's History | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century. | |
| 10 | Creator: | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,collector. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sol Feinstone Slavery collection, 1773-1888
| | | | Dates: | 1773-1888 | | | | Abstract: | This collection of documents includes letters, broadsides, bills of sale, deeds of purchase, and wills, relating to various slaves. There are also documents from notable Americans concerning the slave question, such as John Brown, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Andrew Jackson. | | | | Call #: | Mss.326.F33 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | African Americans--History--To 1863 | Brown, John, 1800-1859 | Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 | Early National Politics | Feinstone, Sol,1888-1980,collector. | Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 | Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845 | Legal Records | Miscellaneous | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Reconstruction | Slavery -- United States. | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | |
| 11 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Priestley Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1771-1803 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence of Joseph Priestley, scientist, Unitarian minister, and republican theorist. The collection includes 41 letters written to John Vaughan, 1791-1800, 5 letters to other correspondents, and manuscripts and photostats of 68 items in the Municipal Library, Warrington, England, on theological issues, the internal development of the United States, the French Revolution and its aftermath, Unitarianism, science, his publications, and American Philosophical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P931 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society | Belsham, Thomas, 1750-1829 | Business Records and Accounts | Cardale, Paul | Chemistry--18th century | Church and State--Great Britain--18th century | Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 | Early National Politics | France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799 | Great Britain--Politics and government--1789-1820 | Legal Records | Lindsey, Theophilus | Mansell, Judith | Oxygen | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Phlogiston | Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 | Riots--England--Birmingham | Science and technology | Scientific Correspondence | Taxation | Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Wilkinson, John, 1789-1802 | Withering, William, 1741-1799 | |
| 12 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Rush commonplace book, 1792-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1792-1813 | | | | Abstract: | This item contains entries about prominent people (primarily accounts of their deaths); Philadelphia events and gossip; the Pennsylvania Hospital; questions for Meriwether Lewis on Indian physical history, medicine, morals, and religion; and his views on marriage, religion, physicians, etc. Also includes meeting with Captain Wells and Little Turtle; speculations on Indian skin color at the equator. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89c | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business and Skilled Trades | Commonplace Book | Diaries | Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 | Early National Politics | Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 | Hay, John | Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Indians of North America | Land and Speculation | Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 | Marriage. | Medicine | Medicine. | Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia History | Physicians. | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Religion. | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Science and Technology | Woodhouse, James, 1770-1809 | |
| 13 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Travels through life:or an account of sundry incidents and events in the life of Benjamin Rush...written for the use of his children, [1800]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1800 | | | | Abstract: | This autobiography relates Rush's experiences in college and medical school; his meetings with notable doctors; his life in Scotland, England, and France; his medical views; the military and politics during the Revolutionary War; and brief sketches of personalities of that period. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89t | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Autobiographies. | Autobiography | Diaries | Early National Politics | England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Epidemics--United States | Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 | France -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Indians of North America | Marriage and Family Life | Medicine | Medicine. | Philadelphia History | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Scotland -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. | Social Life and Custom | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. | Yellow fever -- United States. | |
| 14 | Creator: | Voight family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Voight family papers 1788-1839
| | | | Dates: | 1788-1839 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes letters, deeds, receipts. There are several letters concerning the ordering and delivery of scales and weights to various banks, including the Farmers Bank of Virginia, and the U.S. Bank in Savannah, Georgia. There are numerous documents relating to the Voights, namely deeds, real estate transactions, and indenture contracts. There is also a copy of a letter from Elias Boudinot of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia concerning directions for closing the Mint in case of a yellow fever outbreak (1803). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.V87 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Banks and banking -- Equipment and supplies. | Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Deeds. | Early National Politics | Early, Eleazer | Farmers Bank of Virginia. | Indentures. | Miscellaneous | Philadelphia History | Real property -- Pennsylvania. | Scales (Weighing instruments) -- Pennsylvania. | U.S. Bank (Savannah, Ga.). | United States Mint. | Voight family. | Voight, Henry | Voight, Thomas | Voigt, Henry | Voigt, Thomas. | Weights and measures. | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| 15 | Creator: | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Catharine Wistar Bache Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1788-1822 | | | | Abstract: | Catherine Wistar Bache (1805-1886) was the point of connection between two of Philadelphia's most illustrious families of the late eighteenth century. Daughter of the physician Caspar Wistar, in November 1797 she married Dr. William Bache, who was the son of Richard Bache and the grandson of Benjamin Franklin.
Primarily letters to Mrs. Bache (wife of Dr. William Bache) of Philadelphia, from Mrs. David Hosack (nee Mary Eddy), Mrs. Elizabeth Trist, and Mary Jones. The letters are personal and concern family life, activities of husbands, etc., with many references to Caspar Wistar, There are comments on diseases, education (at William and Mary College), war, and politics. References are also made to the deaths of Richard Bache and Caspar Wistar, and to Benjamin Franklin's Stockado (a musical instrument). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B124 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bache, Catherine Wistar, 1770-1820 | Bache, William, 1773-1820 | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Hosack, Mary Eddy, d. 1824 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jones, Mary Trist | Kemper, Jackson, 1789-1870 | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Marriage and Family Life | Native America | Philadelphia History | Social Life and Custom | Trist, Elizabeth | United States--History--War of 1812 | United States--Politics and government--1783-1809 | War of 1812 | William and Mary College | Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818 | Women's History | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | |
| 16 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Miles Papers, 1776-1802
| | | | Dates: | 1776-1802 | | | | Abstract: | Correspondence and an autobiographical sketch of the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War service of Samuel Miles. A native Pennsylvanian, Miles raised and commanded a regiment of riflemen, but was captured near Flatbush in August 1776, during the battle of Long Island. He was held as a prisoner of war in New York until his exchange in April 1778. Miles subsequently served as Mayor of Philadelphia and was a presidential elector in 1796. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M589 | | | | Extent: | 16.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Autobiographies. | Autobiography | Early National Politics | Howe, William Howe, 5th Viscount, 1729-1814 | Long Island (N.Y.), Battle of, 1776 | Miles, Samuel, 1740-1805 | Military History | Military Records | Nicholson, John | Pennsylvania--Politics and government | Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785 | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Seven Years' War | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1755-1763--Personal narratives | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Personal narratives | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Prisoners and prisons | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | |
| 17 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Pershouse correspondence and papers, 1749-1899
| | | | Dates: | 1749-1899 | | | | Abstract: | This correspondence is principally concerned with business between Pershouse and his brother James in England, with comments on conditions and events in the United States, including anti-British feeling, Thomas Paine's return to America, Jefferson's administration, and immigration. The papers include Pershouse's journal (1800-1838), which includes accounts of travels in England, France, and the United States, letterbooks (1836-1862) of Henry Pershouse, nephew of John, chiefly on business matters, and two volumes of Pershouse genealogical data, compiled by B.M. Pershouse Bayley (1899). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P43 | | | | Extent: | 5.0 volumes; 62 items. | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bayley, B. M. Pershouse | Business Records and Accounts | Diplomatic History | Early National Politics | England -- Description and travel. | Family Correspondence | Genealogies. | General Correspondence | International Travel | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Letterbooks. | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 | Pershouse, Henry | Pershouse, James. | Pershouse, John,1769-1841. | Philadelphia History | Political Correspondence | Social Life and Custom | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States -- Description and travel. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809. | |
| 18 | Creator: | Vaux, George | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | George Vaux papers, 1738-1985
| | | | Dates: | 1738-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The 18th century material includes the trans-Atlantic correspondence of James, Richard, and George V, along with domestic correspondence relating to family and business affairs. Several letters discuss Philadelphia during the British occupation, and seven discuss yellow fever in 1797-1798, with a particularly fine letter by Ann Warder discussing the epidemic of 1798. The participation of George Vaux VII in a Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians in 1803 is well documented. Later correspondence, almost all personal and familial in nature, documents the interest of George Vaux VIII in mineralogy, his travels abroad, and Vaux genealogy. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.73 | | | | Extent: | 3.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolition, emancipation, freedom | African American | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Business Records and Accounts | Early National Politics | Family Correspondence | Genealogy. | General Correspondence | Institutional Records | Land speculation | Legal Records | Maps and Surveys | Marriage and Family Life | Mineralogy. | Native America | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Quakers -- Missions. | Seneca Indians | Slaves, slavery, slave trade | Social Life and Custom | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Surveying and Maps | Travel | Vaux, George | Vaux, George, VI | Vaux, George, VII | Warder , Ann Head, 1758-1829 | Yellow fever. | |
| 19 | Creator: | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Benjamin Rush correspondence, 1759-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1759-1813 | | | | Abstract: | These photostats of letters were collected from various repositories by Lyman H. Butterfield for his book, "Letters of Benjamin Rush" 2 v. American Philosophical Society Memoirs 30(1951). Some of the topics discussed are Philadelphia and United States politics, slavery, Afro-American churches, and medicine. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R89p | | | | Extent: | 2.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abolitionists. | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | African American | African American churches | African Americans--Religion | Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798 | Butterfield, L. H., (Lyman Henry), 1909- | Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 | Early National Politics | General Correspondence | Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 | Hazard, Ebenezer, 1744-1817 | Medicine | Medicine. | Montgomery, John, 1722-1808 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Political Correspondence | Religion | Research Records and Reports | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Rush, James,1786-1869. | Slavery. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1801-1815 -- Sources. | United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century. | Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | |
| 20 | 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 | |
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