Abstract |
Material in this collection is a random selection of correspondence, financial papers, legal records, shipping records, and miscellaneous items. Correspondence concerns public education in New York in the 1840s, a proposed constitutional amendment that would provide for the popular election of judges, the scarcity of labor in Mississippi in 1867, and 1890s politics in Pennsylvania. Also contains a copy of a letter by Henry Ward Beecher that discusses the Blaine-Cleveland presidential campaign of 1884. Financial records consist of receipts; cotton accounts at Mobile, Ala., and Petersburg, Va.; and prices for household goods. Also included are legal and shipping records. Legal records consist of North Carolina land grants to Nathaniel Drake in Edgecombe County and Thomas Mann in Nash County, a grant for western lands signed by President John Adams, a deed for land in Vermont, and a document pertaining to the dissolution of C. Stetson and Company. Shipping records include a list of ships inspected by a customs inspector in Philadelphia and the annual circular for Daniel Buchanon and Sons of Liverpool, England. |