Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1834">1834</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

George Mifflin Dallas Collection, 1815-1864 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of selected correspondence of George Mifflin Dallas, nineteenth-century American senator and vice-president.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Remsen Family Collection, 1764-1835 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence and documents of members of the Remsen family of New York.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Samuel Ladd Howell Family Collection, 1797-1838 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected eighteenth- and nineteenth-century papers of Samuel Ladd Howell and other members of the Howell family of Woodbury, Gloucester, and Princeton, New Jersey.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Twining Family Papers, 1778-1934 (inclusive) 1845-1900 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence received by various members of the Twining family, originally of New Haven and Litchfield, Connecticut, and later of New York. There are letters both personal and professional in nature.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

John Macpherson Berrien Collection, 1768-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of several letters and a few family documents of John MacPherson Berrien, Princeton graduate (Class of 1796) and senator from Georgia.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Collection, 1807-1850 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of selected correspondence of the Duke of Wellington, chiefly with Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Wellington is best known as the British general who defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo (1815).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Miscellaneous Ottoman Turkish Collection, 1802-1929 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected official and legal documents from the period of the late Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Stoddard Family Collection, 1806-1839 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected nineteenth-century documents of Increase Billings Stoddard and his father, Robert Stoddard, landowners and farmers in New York State and Connecticut.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Anna Eliza Bray Collection, 1823-1852 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected letters by Anna Eliza Bray, a nineteenth-century English novelist best known for fictionalizing the histories of prominent British families.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

John and Martha Bowen Letter Book Concerning Bowen Hall Sugar Plantation, 1822-1848 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of 136 letters from John Bowen (1794-1835) and his wife Martha Powell Anthony Bowen (1797-1849) of Philadelphia (Pa.) documenting in great detail the management of Bowen Hall, their sugar plantation located in Vere, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, including its varied finances, seasonal production and export of sugar and rum, and the treatment allocated to its enslaved workers and newly-emancipated population. The letters provide insights into the final throes of the institution of slavery in Jamaica and the abolishment of the practice in 1834; the Jamaican sugar industry; and British politics of the early 19th century in relation to its colonies and trade.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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