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1Creator:  Hartley, David. ca. 1731-1813.Requires cookie*
 Title:  David Hartley papers, [ca. 1770-1784]     
 Dates:  Circa 1770-1784 
 Abstract:  These papers include material relating to Hartley's activities before and during the American Revolution and at the peace conference. Benjamin Franklin is included among the correspondents. 
 Call #:  Mss.Film.1326 
 Extent:  1.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America. | Hartley, David. ca. 1731-1813. | Microfilm Collection | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. 
2Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  A note on the history of the Jefferson manuscript draught of the Declaration of Independence in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, 1898     
 Dates:  1898 
 Abstract:  Accompanying this reprint from A.P.S. "Proceedings" 37(1898):88-107, are facsimilies of the Jefferson draft of the Declaration of Independence; 3 original letters from Richard Henry Lee, Jr., to John Vaughan, 1836 and 1840; an original letter from Isaac Lea to Vaughan, 1840; a note on the manuscript by Vaughan; and two original letters between Vaughan and George Combe, 1841. 
 Call #:  Mss.973.3.H33n 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  American Philosophical Society. Library. | Hays , I. Minis, (Isaac Minis), 1847-1925 | Lea, Isaac, 1792-1886 | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. 
3Creator:  Klein, Randolph Shipley.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The American Philosophical Society and the American Revolution, 1965     
 Dates:  1965 
 Abstract:  This is Klein's master's thesis for Brown University. 
 Call #:  Mss.506.73.Am4xk 
 Extent:  1.0 Volume(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  American Philosophical Society. | Klein, Randolph Shipley. | Science -- United States -- Societies, etc. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. 
4Creator:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826Requires cookie*
 Title:  Thomas Jefferson papers, 1732-1828     
 Dates:  1732-1828 
 Abstract:  From originals in the University of Virginia Library. For the printed guide, see Douglas W. Tanner, ed., Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, 1732-1828 (Charlottesville, 1977). 
 Call #:  Mss.Film.1376 
 Extent:  10.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Microfilm Collection | Politicians -- United States. | Presidents -- United States. | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Virginia -- History. | Virginia -- Politics and government. 
6Creator:  Gary, Anne Thomas.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The political and economic relations of English and American Quakers (1750-1785), 1935     
 Dates:  1935 
 Abstract:  This dissertation analyzes Quaker political and economic attitudes in relation to the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, Indians, and slaves. 
 Call #:  Mss.Film.1137 
 Extent:  1.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Dissertations. | Gary, Anne Thomas. | Indians of North America--Commerce | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763. | Slavery -- United States. | Society of Friends -- Great Britain. | Society of Friends -- United States. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. 
7Creator:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826Requires cookie*
 Title:  Thomas Jefferson papers, 1771-[ca. 1826]     
 Dates:  1771-[circa 1826] 
 Abstract:   none  
 Call #:  Mss.Film.1152 
 Extent:  1.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Microfilm Collection | Politicians -- United States. | Presidents -- United States. | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- Politics and government. | Virginia -- History. 
8Creator:  Lee family.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Lee family papers, 1742-1795     
 Dates:  1742-1795 
 Abstract:  Includes correspondence, reports, and papers of Richard Lee, Thomas Lee, Richard Henry Lee, William Lee, and Arthur Lee. 
 Call #:  Mss.Film.1240 
 Extent:  8.0 Microfilm reel(s) 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Lee family. | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794 | Lee, Richard, 1611-1684 | Lee, Thomas, 1690-1750 | Lee, William, 1739-1795 | Microfilm Collection | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Virginia -- History. 
9Creator:  Savile, George,Sir,1726-1784.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Sir George Savile papers, 1761-1782     
 Dates:  1761-1782 
 Abstract:  These papers include letters and documents concerning the American Revolution, from British and American perspectives, as well as issues involving trade, fishing, and trapping in America. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.Sa92 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  American Revolution | Commerce. | Fishing--America | Foljambe, F.F. | Harrison, Joseph | Neiles, Thomas M. | Official Government Documents and Records | Political Correspondence | Priestley, Joseph, -- 1733-1804. -- Unitarianism explained and defended. | Savile, George,Sir,1726-1784. | Trapping -- America. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. 
10Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Papers of American Loyalists, 1782-1798     
 Dates:  1782-1798 
 Abstract:  There are letters, petitions, and reports concerning the Loyalists and the losses they sustained in the Revolutionary War. Includes the Committee of American Merchants, Observations on trade (1783), Banished American merchants petition (1789), and Classes of American loyalists and their claims. 
 Call #:  Mss.973.314.L95 
 Extent:  10.0 Item(s) 
 Sections:   Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  American Revolution | American loyalists. | Colonial Politics | Commerce. | Government Affairs | Land and Speculation | Legal Records | Official Government Documents and Records | Petitions. | Political Correspondence | Reports. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. 
11Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Documents, 1728-1816, relating to the province of Pennsylvania and to the American Revolution     
 Dates:  1728-1816 
 Abstract:  This volume includes messages and proclamations of governors of the province, a petition to the King from the province of Georgia [n.d.], the draft of an address of the University of the State of Pennsylvania to George Washington (1781), a letter from Arthur Lee to Alexander Wedderburn (1774), letters of Timothy Matlack to Abiel Holmes (1819), and George Wythe's draft resolutions (1775). 
 Call #:  Mss.974.8.D65 
 Extent:  1.0 volume, 50 p. 
 Sections:   Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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 Subjects:  American Revolution | Colonial Politics | Georgia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Government Affairs | Holmes, Abiel, 1763-1837 | Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792 | Matlack, Timothy, 1736-1829 | Official Government Documents and Records | Pennsylvania -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- To 1775. | Pennsylvania History | Petitions. | Proclamations. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | Various authors | Wedderburn, Alexander | Wythe, George, 1726-1806 
12Creator:  Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813Requires 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:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information

 
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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. 
13Creator:  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:   Background  |  Scope and Contents Note  |  Administrative Information  |  Inventory  

 
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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. 
14Creator:  Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813Requires 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:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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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. 
15Creator:  unknownRequires cookie*
 Title:  Shippen family papers, 1733-1878     
 Dates:  1733-1878 
 Abstract:  This small but rich collection of letters and documents concern the Shippen family of Pennsylvania. The subjects of the letters are varied and include domestic details, military affairs of the Revolution and the Pennsylvania frontier, politics, trade, and business. 
 Call #:  Mss.B.Sh61f 
 Extent:  0.25 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  American Revolution | Billings, Joseph, 1761-1806 | Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 | Business Records and Accounts | Cam, William | Family Correspondence | Furness, William H. | Izard, Elizabeth C., (Elizabeth Carter), ca. 1774-1826 | Literature | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Marriage and Family Life | Military Records | Morris, Caspar | Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 | Peale, Mary Jane, 1827-1902 | Penn, Ann Allen | Penn, John, 1729-1795 | Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century. | Pennsylvania -- History -- 19th century. | Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 18th century. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Commerce. | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Philadelphia History | Seven Years' War | Shippen family. | Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781 | Shippen, John, 1771-1805 | Shippen, Joseph Galloway, 1783-1857 | Shippen, William, 1712-1801 | Smith, Jacob | Social Life and Custom | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- Politics and government -- 18th century. | United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. | Women's History 
16Creator:  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:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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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. 
17Creator:  Mazzei, Filippo,1730-1816.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Filippo Mazzei papers, 1730-1922 (inclusive), 1780-1816 (bulk)     
 Dates:  Bulk, 1780-1816 
 Abstract:  This collection consists of facsimiles of documents, microfilmed for "Philip Mazzei: the comprehensive microform edition of his papers, 1730-1816" (Kraus International Publications, 1982), and also typescripts and translations into English of other documents. 
 Call #:  Mss.Ms.Coll.47 
 Extent:  21.0 Linear feet 
 Sections:   Background  |  Administrative Information

 
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 Subjects:  Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Adams, Thomas, 1730-1788 | Agriculture -- United States. | Barère, B. , (Bertrand), 1755-1841 | Besenval, Pierre-Victor, -- baron de, -- 1721-1791. | Beyond Early America | Carmignani, Giovanni, 1768-1847 | Catherine -- II, -- Empress of Russia, -- 1729-1796. | Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de, marquis de, 1743-1794 | David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825 | Derieux, Justin Pierre Plumard | Diplomats. | Fabbroni, Giovanni Valentino Mattia, 1752-1822 | Fabbroni, Teresa | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Societies, etc. | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1760-1789. | Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Freiherr von, 1723-1807 | Hennin, Pierre-Michel, 1728-1807 | Heudier, Pierre | Italy -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815. | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François-Alexandre-Frédéric, duc de, 1747-1827 | Louis -- XVI, -- King of France, -- 1754-1793. | Mably, abbé de, 1709-1785 | Madison, James, 1749-1812 | Marchione, Margherita, -- collector. | Mazzei, Filippo,1730-1816. | Netherlands -- Politics and government -- 1714-1795. | Oraczewski, Feliks, -- Count. | Piattoli, Scipione, 1749-1809 | Pini, Andrea, d. 1816 | Pini, Elizabetta Mazzei, 1798-1868 | Poland -- Foreign relations -- 1763-1796. | Russia -- Politics and government -- 1689-1801. | Rzewuski, Seweryn, -- Count. | Société de 1789. | Stanislaw -- II August, -- King of Poland, -- 1732-1798. | Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, -- prince de Bénévent, -- 1754-1838. | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783. | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal histories. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809. | Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783. | Viticulture. 
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