| 1 | Creator: | Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anthony Wayne receipt book, 1785-1792
| | | | Dates: | 1785-1792 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains signed receipts for Wayne's payment, in money or kind, of debts, taxes, land, and commodities. Contains also prescriptions for curing certain diseases, and receipt for six warrants, Sept. 1, 1786, paid by order of B.Franklin. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.W36r | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Receipts. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sir Edward Sabine papers,[ca. 1826-1853].
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1826-1853 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include correspondence to Sabine, and miscellaneous accounts, receipts, and military records. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1373 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | Geophysics. | Microfilm Collection | Receipts. | Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883 | |
| 4 | Creator: | Francis, John Wakefield, 1789-1861 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Wakefield Francis papers, 1808-1861
| | | | Dates: | 1808-1861 | | | | Abstract: | Physician John Wakefield Francis (1789-1861) cofounded the New York Academy of Medicine. He served as the second president of the Academy, taught at Bellevue Hospital, wrote medical texts, and edited professional journals. Collection consists of correspondence, financial papers, writings, by-laws and minutes, and related papers of Francis and others. Correspondence of others include letters to Francis's associates and family members. Financial documents, 1798-1851, are accounts, receipts, receipt books, checks, and collection notices. Writings are speeches, lectures and notes of Francis and others. Also, minutes and by-laws, 1807-1810, of the Medical and Surgical Society of the University of New York State; and printed material. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.1568 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Correspondence. | Francis, John Wakefield, 1789-1861 | Lectures. | Microfilm Collection | Receipts. | Speeches. | |
| 5 | Creator: | La Roche, R., (René), 1795-1872 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | R. (René) La Roche papers, 1827-1901
| | | | Dates: | 1827-1901 | | | | Abstract: | Passports, 1827, membership certificates, receipts, family letters, and 20 letters to La Roche from Thomas Dunn and Ayres Phillips Merrill on scientific, medical, and personal topics. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.L322 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Certificates. | Dunn, Thomas | Epidemiology. | La Roche, R., (René), 1795-1872 | Medicine. | Merrill, A. P., (Ayres Phillips), 1793-1873 | Miscellaneous | Official Government Documents and Records | Passports. | Receipts. | |
| 6 | Creator: | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | David Rittenhouse receipt book, 1779-1785
| | | | Dates: | 1779-1785 | | | | Abstract: | This volume records payments principally by John Hart, treasurer of Bucks County, Pa., of taxes, such as militia fines, forfeited debts, supplies, monthly taxes, second-class tax, and excise taxes. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.R51r | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Business Records and Accounts | Government Affairs | Hart, John | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Receipts. | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Taxation -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County. | |
| 7 | Creator: | Shippen, Edward,1729-1806. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Edward Shippen receipts, 1754-1789
| | | | Dates: | 1754-1789 | | | | Abstract: | These are receipts from tradesmen, mechanics, and storekeepers for sewing, carriage work, the making and repair of shoes, madeira, fabrics, sugar, hair-dressing, and clothing. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.Sh621 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Revolution | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Household supplies -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Marriage and Family Life | Receipts. | Shippen, Edward,1729-1806. | Social Life and Custom | Trade | |
| 8 | Creator: | Miller, Peter,1724?-1794. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Register Book H, 1765-1777
| | | | Dates: | 1765-1777 | | | | Abstract: | This volume contains copies of depositions sworn before Peter Miller, letters of attorney, bonds, receipts, bills of sale, and contracts of marriage, etc. There is an index of names, which lists, among many others, George Glentworth, John Kearsley, Reese Meredith, Frederick Phile, and James Ralph. See date of 18 May 1768 for B. Franklin; 30 October 1773 for Kearsley. Film 54-67 Frame 136. | | | | Call #: | Mss.347.96.M615 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Depositions. | Glentworth, George | Kearsley, John, -- d. 1772. | Legal Records | Legal documents. | Meredith, Reese | Miller, Peter,1724?-1794. | Notaries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Philadelphia History | Phile, Frederick | Ralph, James | Receipts. | |
| 11 | 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. | |
| 12 | Creator: | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Joseph Carson papers, 1810-1877
| | | | Dates: | 1810-1877 | | | | Abstract: | This collection contains material relating to his legal affairs, medical publications, receipts for books purchased, and information on botany. Important correspondents include Edward H. Clarke, George Mifflin Dallas, Samuel David Gross, and Joseph Henry. There is also family history in these papers. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C239 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Botany. | Business Records and Accounts | Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876 | Clarke, Edward H., (Edward Hammond), 1820-1877 | Dallas, George Mifflin, 1792-1864 | Education | Educational Material | General Correspondence | Gross, Samuel D., (Samuel David), 1805-1884 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Medical publishing | Medicine | Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Notebooks | Receipts. | Trade | |
| 13 | Creator: | Mifflin, John F.(John Fishbourne),1759-1813. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John F. (John Fishbourne) Mifflin receipt book, 1800-1813
| | | | Dates: | 1800-1813 | | | | Abstract: | This volume includes receipts for payments of taxes, ground rents, rents, judgements, bills of exchange, and settlements of estates. Some are for monies collected for the American Philosophical Society, and for Major Zebulon Pike's expedition (1811). The names of Samuel Breck, James Mease, Robert Millegan, and John Vaughan appear. Under date of Feb. 11, 1804 is receipt signed by Jn. Vaughan for admission fee to the American Philosophical Society. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M585 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | Breck, Samuel, 1771-1862 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Legal documents. | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Mifflin, John F.(John Fishbourne),1759-1813. | Millegan, Robert | Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813 | Receipts. | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | |
| 14 | Creator: | Moore, Ira. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ira Moore papers, 1848-1856
| | | | Dates: | 1848-1856 | | | | Abstract: | These papers include letters from relatives, friends, and former students, chiefly on family affairs, social events, and schools in Maine, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Also included are receipts for personal expenditures, and letters of recommendation for teaching positions and from J. P. Lesley for admission to Yale College, where Moore received the Ph.B. degree in 1855. Moore was Lesley's assistant in preparing the Pennsylvania Railroad maps of western Pennsylvania. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M79 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Business Records and Accounts | Education | Family Correspondence | General Correspondence | Lesley, J. P., (J. Peter), 1819-1903 | Moore, Ira. | Receipts. | Schools -- Connecticut. | Schools -- Maine. | Schools -- Massachusetts. | Social Life and Custom | Yale College (1718-1887) | |
| 15 | Creator: | O'Reilly, Henry,1806-1886,collector. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Selections from papers relating to the Six Nations, 1789-1820
| | | | Dates: | 1789-1820 | | | | Abstract: | These selections include letters, bills, accounts, receipts, memoranda, and official communications and documents relating to the Iroquois in New York state, selected from volumes 6-15 of O'Reilly's collections, "Mementos of western settlement," together with copies of documents from the American State Papers, etc. Included are letters of Phelps, Gorham, Chapin, Brant, Kirkland, Knox, Pickering, Irvine, and Morris. Many manuscripts appear to be from the papers of General Israel Chapin, an Indian agent. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.639 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Accounts. | Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807 | Cazenove, Théophile, 1740-1811 | Chapin, Israel | Cleaveland, Moses. | Ellicott, Joseph, 1760-1826 | Iroquois Indians | Jay, John, 1745- 1829 | Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 | McHenry, James, 1753-1816 | Memoranda. | Microfilm Collection | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | Morris, Thomas | O'Reilly, Henry,1806-1886,collector. | Philips, Oliver | Receipts. | Schuyler, Philip John, 1733-1804 | Sergeant, John. | |
| 16 | Creator: | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | David Hosack letters and papers, 1795-1835
| | | | Dates: | 1795-1835 | | | | Abstract: | These letters and papers include a memorandum book (1795-1827), lectures on botany and medicine, genealogical materials, committee reports from Columbia College, speeches, minutes of the New York Horticultural Society (1822-1828), letters to Sir James Edward Smith (1817-1826), a receipt book of Alexander Hosack (1781-1801), and diaries of Thomas K. Wharton (1830-1862). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.885.1-.7 | | | | Extent: | 3.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Botany. | Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) | Diaries. | Horticultural Society of New York. | Horticulturists. | Hosack, Alexander, d. 1834 | Hosack, David, 1769-1835 | Lectures. | Medical Society of the County of New York. | Medicine. | Microfilm Collection | Minutes. | Natural history. | Receipts. | Rutgers Medical College. | Smith, James Edward, Sir, 1759-1828 | Speeches. | Wharton, Thomas Kelah, 1814-1862 | |
| 17 | Creator: | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Requires cookie* | | | | Hunter, Samuel | | | | Title: | Pennsylvania (Province). French and Indian War Military records and accounts, 1753-1763
| | | | Dates: | 1753-1763 | | | | Abstract: | The 6 volumes in the collection include orderly books, account books and diaries kept by James Burd, Sanuel Hunter, and others during the French and Indian War. The first two volumes in the collection, housed together, are an account book, a record of purchases of stockings, shoes, hats, knives, shirts, and sundries by soldiers, 19 February 21 May 1756; the second volume, Receipt Book, Camp at Shamokin, 1756 lists soldiers' receipts for pay, 21 July 22 October 1756. | | | | Call #: | Mss.973.2.B89rs | | | | Extent: | 8.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | Burd, James, 1726-1793 | Business Records and Accounts | Diaries. | Great Britain -- History, Military. | Hunter, Samuel | Law | Legal Records | Military Records | Military supplies. | Muster rolls. | Native America | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania History | Receipts. | Seven Years' War | Trade | United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763. | |
| 18 | Creator: | Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. | Requires cookie* | | | | Carpenters' Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.). | | | | | Friendship Carpenters' Company. | | | | Title: | Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia Records, 1683-1983
| | | | Dates: | 1683-1983 | | | | Abstract: | The papers include: minutes, 1794, 1802-1942; minutes of the Managing Committee and Committee of Seven, 1791-1950; rough minutes of the Managing Committee, 1819-1857; minutes of the Wardens, 1769-1919 (with some gaps); roll of members, 1841-1875; price books, 1786, ca. 1804, 1827, 1852; Price Book Committee minutes, 1786-1791, 1827-1897; price book of the Second Carpenters' Company, 1784; cash books, 1889-1952; treasurer's account, 1874-1907; ledgers, 1801-1896; record of certificates granted to measurers of carpenters' work, 1827-1889; account book, 1763-1834; minutes of the Building Committee, 1810 11; minutes of the Committee on fitting up the Old Hall, 1857; minutes of the Committees of Accounts and Rents, 1780-1784; minutes of the Library Committee, 1853-1889; receipts for books and library record of borrowers, 1846-1890; by-laws and rules and regulations and standing resolutions, ca. 1866-1869; minutes of the Friendship Carpenters' Company, 1770-1775; account of the Friendship Carpenters' Company, 1769-1799; rules and regulations of the Friendship Carpenters' Company and specifications for building, 1769; relief given to 12 widows, 1818; scrapbook, 1887-1892; Antiques, Curiosities, and Memorabilia, 1683-1855; autographs, pictures, etc., relating to the Centennial Anniversary, 1874; Trustees' minute book, 1895 1941; book of "Dementtions" of carpenter's work by Samuel Jones, 1784; real estate record, 1905-1918; receipt books, 1795-1918; and other materials. The whole collection has been filmed by APS. Recent deposits include: Miscellaneous bills, and bills and receipts relating to widows relief (1800-1854), Managing Committee minutes (1857, 1859, 1860), library bills (1795-1854). There are also more contemporary records on deposit (1952-1980s), relating to all aspects of the Company's activities (with restrictions on the use of some of this material). | | | | Call #: | Mss.974.811.C22.a | | | | Extent: | 18.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Account books. | Autographs. | Broadsides. | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Bylaws. | Carpenters -- Labor unions -- United States. | Cashbooks. | Guilds -- United States. | Institutional Records | Jones, Samuel | Ledgers. | Minutes. | Miscellaneous | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History. | Philadelphia History | Photoprints. | Receipt books. | Receipts. | Regulations | Rolls. | Scrapbooks. | Specifications. | |
| 19 | Creator: | Pennock, C. W.(Caspar Wistar),1799-1867. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | C. W. (Caspar Wistar) Pennock papers, 1829-1891
| | | | Dates: | 1829-1891 | | | | Abstract: | These are primarily letters, with some receipts for medical services rendered included. They relate to the general social and intellectural life of Philadelphia and to publications on medical topics. Many of the letters are introductions to Europeans when Pennock first visited there. Letters dated post-1867 are to relatives and colleagues (?). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.P3825 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Americans Abroad | Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Comstock, Andrew | Griscom, John, 1774-1852 | Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843 | Hays, Isaac,1796-1879. | International Travel | Manuscript Essays | Medicine | Medicine. | Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Pennock, C. W.(Caspar Wistar),1799-1867. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Receipts. | Travel Narratives and Journals | Travers, Benjamin, 1783-1858 | Vaux, Roberts,1786-1836. | |
| 20 | Creator: | Coates, Samuel, 1748-1830 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Samuel Coates account and memoranda books, 1785-1830
| | | | Dates: | 1785-1830 | | | | Abstract: | Memorandum book, 1785-1825 (1 reel, film from the Pennsylvania Hospital); account book of the estate of Deborah Morris, 1793-1817 (1 vol., ca 68 p.), contains a copy of her will, inventory, records of income and disbursements by the executors; day book, 1796-1816 (1 vol., 32 p.), containing notes of payments and sales, of wills written, mortgages arranged, rentals agreed to, notes signed, etc.. There is also a receipt book, 1803-1830 (1 vol., ca. 308 p., see B C632), containing signed receipts for purchase of hickory wood, ham, stores, oil, varnish, liquors, gravestones, "cyder," and for payment of taxes, wages, painting the house, etc.; vendors include Zaccheus Collins, John Syng Dorsey, Peter S. Du Ponceau, Christian Febiger, Rebecca Jones, and Ann Moore. In this volume, as well, are signatures and engravings (some by Samuel Sartain) of John Barry, Tench Coxe, Charles Chauncey, Isaac T. Hopper, and Zachariah Poulson (presented by Arthur Bloch, 1953); and bank books, 1788-1798 (2 vols., ca. 110 pp.), being a record of checks, bills of exchange, notes, gold, silver, and currency sent to Bank (of North America). | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.C632.1d | | | | Extent: | 5.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Autographs. | Barry, John, 1745-1803 | Business Records and Accounts | Business and Skilled Trades | Chauncey, Charles, 1777-1849 | Coates, Samuel, 1748-1830 | Collins, Zaccheus, 1764-1831 | Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824 | Daybooks. | Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818 | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Engravings. | Febiger, Christian, 1746-1796 | Hopper, Isaac T., (Isaac Tatem ), 1771-1852 | Jones, Rebecca | Law | Legal Records | Legal documents. | Moore, Ann | Morris, Deborah | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia History | Poulson, Zachariah, 1761-1844 | Receipt books. | Receipts. | Sartain, Samuel, 1830-1906 | Wills. | |
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