| 2 | Creator: | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau letters, 1801-1843, to Albert Gallatin.
| | | | Dates: | 1801-1843 | | | | Abstract: | These forty-five letters concern legal and political matters, Indian languages and linguistics, philological matters, and the American Philosophical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.541 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Indians of North America--Languages | Microfilm Collection | |
| 3 | Creator: | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Indian vocabularies, 1820-1844
| | | | Dates: | 1820-1844 | | | | Abstract: | Copies of 82 vocabularies representing 73 languages with notes and additions made by Du Ponceau and Albert Gallatin. Vocabularies for South American languages are copied from rare printed sources, while North American vocabularies are from both printed and manuscript sources. The first 23 pages of the volume are the Continuance Docket of the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, 1783-1786. Cases noted are those involving Stephen Dutilh, Samuel Garrigues, John Girard, John Holker, Charles J. de Longchamps, and Claude P. Raguet. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.In2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Courts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia County. | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Dutilh, Stephen | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Garrigues, Samuel. | Girard, John | Holker, John | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of South America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Longchamps, Charles Julian de. | Native America | Native American Materials | Raguet, Claude P. | Vocabularies. | |
| 4 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peter Adolph Grotjahn Memoir
| | | | Dates: | 1844-1846 | | | | Abstract: | After emigrating from Germany to Philadelphia in 1796, Peter Adolph Grotjahn established himself within the city's mercantile community, trading opportunistically both inland and coastwise as far as the Caribbean. In 1812, he began publishing a commercial newspaper,
Grotjan's Philadelphia Public Sale Reports and he became increasingly active in local Democratic Party politics.
The APS copy of Peter Grotjahn's memoir is a typescript copy of an original volume held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Written for his grandchildren, the memoir begins with a relatively brief genealogical discussion, but concentrates on his personal and political life and commercial experiences prior to 1817. The last section of the autobiography was completed posthumously from notes, and includes extracts from Grotjahn's diary as late as 1844. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.G913 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autobiographies | Autobiography | Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 | Cholera--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Cuba--Description and travel--19th century | Early National Politics | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Germans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | International Travel | Jamaica--Description and travel--19th century | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westpahlia, 1784-1860 | Lemon Hill (Estate : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | Pennsylvania--Description and travel--18th century | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--19th century | Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--19th century | Printing and Publishing | Privateers--Jamaica | Reading (Pa.)--Description and travel | Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | War of 1812 | Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel--19th century | West Indies--Description and travel--19th century | Woodlands (Estate : Philadelphia, Pa.) | Yellow fever--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia | |
| 5 | Creator: | Muhlenberg family. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Muhlenberg family papers, 1769-1866
| | | | Dates: | 1769-1866 | | | | Abstract: | The papers include miscellaneous letters, letterbooks, books, certificates, and diplomas of various members of the Muhlenberg family. Among them are photostats of letters and papers of General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg and officers of the Continental Army on military affairs in the Southern Department during the American Revolution (1772-1804); photostats of letters to Albert Gallatin, Nathanael Greene, Edward Hand, Winthrop Sargent, Baron von Steuben, William Alexander, and George Washington; photostat of General Muhlenberg's journal of trips to the Ohio (1784, 1797); photostats of letters and notes of Gotthilf H. E. Muhlenberg, including a diary kept at Halle (1771) and extracts of thirty letters to Stephen Elliott of Beaufort and Charleston, South Carolina (1808-1815); photostats of letters of Henry A. Muhlenberg about his biography of General Muhlenberg (1848-1849); and photostats of letters of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). Also included is an original letterbook of Peter Muhlenberg, paymaster of the United States Army, kept at Augusta and Savannah, Georgia (1836-1842). Henry Muhlenberg's notebooks (1784-1813), written in Latin or German script, in a small hand, includes a wealth of botanical observations, with a focus on Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The Henry Muhlenberg journals are a record of daily occurrences, with many features of a commonplace book, containing prescriptions, notes of questions asked candidates for the Lutheran ministry, and the plan of a barn. There is also a biographical account of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M891 | | | | Extent: | 4.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- United States. | Alexander, William, 1726-1783 | American Revolution | Barns. | Botany | Certificates. | Delaware Indians | Diaries. | Diplomas. | Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830 | Family Correspondence | Foreign Language | Fungi. | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | General Correspondence | Grasses. | Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 | Hand, Edward, 1744-1802 | Herbaria. | Journals (notebooks). | Lancaster (Pa.) -- Description and travel. | Letterbooks. | Lichens. | Lutheran Church -- Clergy. | Meteorology - Observations | Military History | Military Records | Muhlenberg family. | Muhlenberg, John Peter Gabriel, 1746-1807 | Native America | Natural History | Natural history. | Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel. | Pennsylvania History | Plants. | Religion | Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 | Shrubs. | Sketches. | Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794 | Travel Narratives and Journals | Trees. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | Zoology -- Vermont. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Bancker family | Requires cookie* | | | | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | | | | Title: | Charles Nicoll Bancker family papers, 1733-1894
| | | | Dates: | 1733-1894 | | | | Abstract: | In addition to correspondence, the collection contains various documents, such as a furniture inventory volume (30pp.); a Daybook, 1795-1800 (120pp.); and a very interesting journal (unidentified, but by one of the Banckers, and filed under "Description of a trip..."), from New York to Albany and back, between July 20-Aug. 15, 1793 (1 vol., 31 pp.). It contains detailed observations of the Hudson River and the towns along the way. C.N. Bancker was in business and trade prior to 1826, and in the insurance business after that date, so there is material relating to those topics in this collection. He owned a substantial library of the period, which was used by Charles Wilkes's Expedition after 1837 (see Reynell Coates to Bancker). This library, along with Bancker's notable scientific instrument collection, was sold after his death and there are published auction catalogues in the collection. There is much family correspondence from: Anne E. Bancker, Charles Gerard Bancker, Evert Bancker, Sarah U. Bancker, Violetta Bancker Talbot, Elizabeth Bancker Teackle, and John Teackle. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.B22.c | | | | Extent: | 3.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | American Revolution | Antebellum Politics | Bancker, Anne E. | Bancker, Charles Gerard | Bancker, Charles Nicoll, 1778-1869 | Bancker, Evert, b. 1734 | Bancker, Sarah U. | Beasley, Frederick, 1777-1845 | Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Catalogs. | Colonial Politics | Colony and State Specific History | Daybooks. | Early National Politics | Education | Family Correspondence | Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | General Correspondence | Girard, Stephen, 1750-1831 | Hazard, Samuel, 1784-1870 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Insurance agents -- United States. | Inventories. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Journals (notebooks). | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves, marquis de, 1757-1834 | Land and Speculation | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Madison, James, 1751-1836 | Manuscript Essays | Marriage and Family Life | Marshall, John G., (John George), 1789-1880 | McIlvaine, H. M. | Merchants - United States | Miller, Samuel, 1769-1850 | Montgomery, James C. | Montgomery, John T., (John Teackle), 1817 | Muhlenberg, William Augustus, 1796-1877 | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia History | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Political Correspondence | Politicians -- United States. | Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866 | Sketchbooks | Smith, Christopher | Social Life and Custom | Stevens, John, 1749-1838 | Talbot, Violetta Bancker | Teackle, Elizabeth Bancker | Teackle, John | Trade | Travel | Travel Narratives and Journals | United States - Commerce - To 1865 | United States - Social conditions - To 1865 | Upshur, Abel Percy | Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829 | Women's History | |
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