Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1785">1785</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1789">1789</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Captain John Matthews Papers, 1785-1797 (bulk) 1785-1842 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 3.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers of Captain John Matthews (d. 1798), a British naval officer involved in the transatlantic commerce in enslaved Africans in Sierra Leone in the 1780s and 1790s. Four detailed journals document Matthews's employment as an agent for the African Company of Merchants between 1785 and 1787; as captain of the HMS Vulcan and the HMS Courageux in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1793 campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars; and as captain of the HMS Maidstone, a British patrol ship monitoring trade in Sierra Leone and the Caribbean in 1797 and 1798. Also present are watercolor illustrations of colonial forts along the West African coast and several personal and family documents of John Matthews, including an anti-abolitionist deposition Matthews gave regarding the slave trade.

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New Jersey Documents Collection, 1750-1890 (bulk) 1601-1983 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 1.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Westfield, New Jersey, was part of Elizabethtown from the time it was settled in late 1664 until 1794, when the Township of Westfield was created. The New Jersey Documents Collections, 1601 to 1983, consists of New Jersey legal documents, the bulk of which are from the town of Westfield, Union County, and include land records, financial records, estate records, and court records, many of which were created by various members of the Baker, Downer, Hetfield, Johnson, Miller, Pierson, Ripley, Ross, and Woodruff families. The majority of the collection material dates from 1750 to 1890.

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Frederick Crafts Photographs Collection, 1788-1861 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes
Abstract:: The Frederick Crafts Photographs Collection consists of ambrotype and tintype photographs, and a pony skin box of the American photographer Frederick Crafts (fl. 1850-1860s).

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William Tipping Papers, 1688-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 2.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Conists of personal papers of William Tipping Esq, of Brasted Park, Sevenoaks, in Kent, and Avray near Paris. He was the son of the successful Liverpool merchant John Tipping, who in his twenties traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East before turning to Tory politics and serving as director of the London and North Western Railway.

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Selected Papers of Edward L. Howe, 1763-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, documents, and memorabilia of the American banker and Princeton graduate (Class of 1891) Edward Leavitt Howe (1870-1952).

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Samuel Stanhope Smith Collection, 1772-1817 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of manuscripts, letters, and documents of Samuel Stanhope Smith, covering, for the most part, the years (1795-1812) he served as president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton.

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Hamilton Cottier Papers, 1752-1977 (inclusive)

Extent:: 17 boxes and 8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, account books (1925-1975), financial papers, and printed matter of Hamilton Cottier (Princeton Class of 1922, professor of English, 1925-1962), and material relating to "Southlawn," the home of his father, Alonzo Cottier, in Scarsdale, N.Y.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Patrick Henry Materials, 1743-1796 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected manuscript material by and about American attorney, politician, and planter Patrick Henry (1736-1799).

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Jonathan Belcher Collection, 1708-1950 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence and documents of Jonathan Belcher, dating from his early years in Massachusetts to his days as colonial governor of New Jersey.

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Guild Family Collection, 1787-1823 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence and documents of the Guild family of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, including papers of brothers Benjamin and Ralph Guild.

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