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Charles Francis Jenkins autograph collection

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Held at: Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Contact Us]1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
1402
Repository:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent:
1.6 linear feet (; 4 boxes )
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Charles F. Jenkins autograph collection (Collection 1402), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date:
1765-1810 (bulk) and 1750-1827 (inclusive)
Creator:
Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951
Abstract:
The Charles Francis Jenkins autograph collection dates from 1750 to 1827 and consists of alphabetically-arranged letters, receipts, legal documents, portraits, and other materials containing the signatures of early members of the United States Congress. These individuals include delegates to the First and Second Continental Congresses, signers of the Delaration of Independence and Constitution as well as members of the Congress of the Confederation (under the Articles of Confederation). Also included are individuals who were elected to Congress but did not attend.

Gift of Charles F. Jenkins, 1945.

Subject

Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Megan Sheffer Evans
Finding Aid Date
; 2016.
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Collection Inventory

Andrew Adams (Connecticut), 1777 September 4.
Samuel Adams (Massacheusetts), 1782 July 6.
Thomas Adams (Virginia), 1787 June 20.
Robert Alexander (Maryland), 1790 July 30.
Andrew Allen (Pennsylvania), 1775 November 27.
John Alsop (New York), 1764 February 14.
Benjamin Andrew (Georgia), 1767 July 25.
John Armstrong, Sr. (Pennsylvania), 1770 April 23.
John Armstrong, Jr. (Pennsylvania), 1784 July 29.
Jonathan Arnold (Rhode Island), 1783 October 26.
Peleg Arnold (Rhode Island), 1760 June 7.
John B. Ashe (North Carolina), 1797 September 20.
Samuel John Atlee (Pennsylvania), 1781 February 10.
Abraham Baldwin (Georgia), 1794 December 11.
John Banister (Virginia), 1783 April 17.
Robert Barnwell (South Carolina), 1797 December 14.
Josiah Bartlett (New Hampshire), 1791 December 23.
Richard Bassett (Delaware), 1770 December 20.
John Bayard (Pennsylvania), 1776 March 8.
John Beatty (New Jersey), 1798 October 5.
Gunning Bedford, Jr. (Delaware), 1805 October 21.
Gunning Bedford, Sr. (Delaware), 1776 August 2.
Thomas Bee (South Carolina), 1793 August 2.
Benjamin Bellows (New Hampshire), 1762 March 17.
Egbert Benson (New York), 1800 January 20.
Richard Beresford (South Carolina), 1784 November 22.
Edward Biddle (Pennsylvania), 1778 September 1.
William Bingham (Pennsylvania), 1793 May 1.
John Blair (Viriginia), 1773 April 1.
Jonathan Blanchard (New Hampshire), 1784 June 2.
Richard Bland (Virginia), 1771 July 20.
Theodoric Bland (Virginia), 1778 December 8.
Timothy Bloodworth (North Carolina), 1780 May 9.
William Blount (North Carolina), 1795 October 26.
James Bowdoin (Massacheusetts), 1783 April 21.
Elias Boudinot (New Jersey), 1803 April 29.
William Bradford (Rhode Island), 1775 June 2.
Carter Braxton (Virginia), 1784 July 23.
John Brown (Virginia), 1805 September 1.
John Brown (Rhode Island), 1784 May 11.
Nathan Brownson (Georgia), 1774 December 9.
John Bull (South Carolina), 1783 July 24.
Archibald Bulloch (Georgia), 1776 November 22.
Thomas Burke (North Carolina), 1782 March 13.
Robert Burton (North Carolina), 1796 August 15.
Pierce Butler (South Carolina), 1808 December 1.
Lambert Cadwalader (New Jersey), 1771 August 26.
John Canfield (Connecticut), 1777 June 25.
William Carmichael (Maryland), 1781 June 24.
Edward Carrington (Virginia).
Charles Carroll (Maryland), 1762 July 1.
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Maryland), 1822 December 29.
Daniel Carroll (Maryland), 1789 August 14.
Richard Caswell (North Carolina), 1775 April 6.
George Champlin (Rhode Island), 1778 February 15.
Charles Church Chandler (Connecticut), 1777 August 29.
Jeremiah T. Chase (Maryland), 1779 November 24.
John Chester (Connecticut), 1801 June 17.
Abraham Clark (New Jersey), 1776 April 8.
Mathew Clarkson (Pennsylvania), 1780 July 17.
Joseph Clay (Georgia), 1786.
William Clingan (Pennsylvania), 1784 June.
George Clinton (New York), 1780 May 20.
George Clymer (Philadelphia), 1788 April 19.
John Collins (Rhode Island), 1780 July 8, October 28.
Silas Condict (New Jersey), 1784 May 3.
Benjamin Contee (Maryland), 1787 June 2.
Joseph P. Cooke (Connecticut), 1776 June 19.
John Cooper (New Jersey), 1782 June.
Ezekiel Cornell (Rhode Island), 1779 November 6.
Tench Coxe (Pennsylvania), 1791 April 21.
Stephen Crane (New Jersey), 1765 April 22.
William Cumming (North Carolina), undated.
Nathan Cushing (Massacheusetts), 1779 May.
Thomas Cushing (Massacheusetts), 1786 December 30.
Tristram Dalton (Massacheusetts), 1814 April 23.
Francis Dana (Massacheusetts), 1771 December 13.
Nathan Dane (Massacheusetts), 1787 August 17.
John Dawson (Virginia), 1793 January 30.
Elias Dayton (New Jersey), undated.
Jonathan Dayton (New Jersey), 1798 April 15.
Silas Deane (Connecticut), 1777 October 9.
John DeHart (New Jersey), 1783 March 31.
Charles DeWitt (New York), 1784 August 18.
Samuel Dick (New Jersey), 1797 November 15.
John Dickinson (Pennsylvania), 1787 July 25.
Philemon Dickinson (Delaware), 1792 July 15.
William Henry Drayton (South Carolina), 1777 July 10.
James Duane (New York), 1780 October 6.
Jacob Duché (Pennsylvania) [portrait], undated.
William Duer (New York), 1786 May 25.
Samuel Duffield (Pennsylvania), 1794 July 11.
Eliphalet Dyer (Connecticut), 1791 September 12.
Pierpont Edwards (Connecticut), 1803 October 29.
Samuel Elbert (Georgia), 1787 February 20.
William Ellery (Rhode Island), 1814 July 25.
Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut), 1778 December 1.
Jonathan Elmer (New Jersey), 1787 December 8.
John Evans (Delaware), 1783 April 29.
Nicholas Eveleigh (South Carolina), 1790 June 9.
John Fell (New Jersey), 1780 September 18.
William Few (Georgia), 1801 January 27.
William Fitzhugh (Virginia), 1779 February 22.
Thomas Fitzsimmons (Pennsylvania), 1796 May 24.
William Fleming (Virginia), 1781 September 28.
William Floyd (New York), 1785 July 1.
Nathaniel Folsom (New Hamphsire), 1776 July 11.
Uriah Forrest (Maryland), 1800 April 6.
Abiel Foster (New Hampshire), 1795 January 26.
Theodore Frelinghuysen (New Jersey), 1787 April 20.
George Frost (New Hampshire), 1776 December 2.

William Grayson (Virginia), 1776 October 11.
Cyrus Griffin (Virginia), 1810 November 15.
James Gunn (Georgia), 1799 October 23.
John Habersham (Georgia), 1782 September 10.
Joseph Habersham (Georgia), 1787 September 24.
John Hall (Maryland), 1762 October 14.
Lyman Hall (Georgia), 1769 August 11.
John Hancock (Massacheusetts) [facsimilies], undated.
Edward Hand (Pennsylvania), 1784 July 19.
Christopher Gadsden (South Carolina), 1774 April 10.
Joseph Gallowary (Pennsylvania), 1792 April 10.
Leonard Gansevoort (New York), 1784 October 7.
John Gardner (Rhode Island), 1757 June 2.
Joseph Gardner (Pennsylvania), 1778 September 12.
Silvester Gardner (Rhode Island), 1775 October .
David Gelston (New York), 1801 July 28.
John Lewis Gervais (South Carolina), 1784 May 5.
John Taylor Gilman (New Hampshire), 1787 March 1.
William Gibbons (Georgia), 1782 January 4.
Nicholas Gilman (New Hampshire), 1794 April 22.
Robert Goldsborough (Maryland), 1786 November 5.
Nathaniel Gorham (Massacheusetts), 1786 April 5.
John Hanson (Maryland), 1780 November 7.
Samuel Hardy (Virginia), 1783 January 24.
John Haring (New York), 1785.
Cornelius Harnett (North Carolina), 1778 January 31.
Benjamin Harrison (Virginia), 1782 August 8.
William Harrison (Maryland), 1806 January 25.
John Hart (New Jersey), 1776 March 25.
Thomas Hartley (Pennsylvania), 1787 August 27.
John Harvie (Virginia), 1791 May 9.
John Hathorn (New York), 1795 April 9.
Benjamin Hawkins (North Carolina), 1798 June 5.
Jonathan J. Hazard (Rhode Island), 1788 May 8.
William Hemsley (Maryland), 1786 March 24.
Thomas Henderson (New Jersey), 1816 September 6.
James Henry (Virginia), 1789 June 13.
John Henry (Maryland), 1798 June 11.
Patrick Henry (Virginia), 1795 March 1.
William Henry (Pennsylvania), 1777 November 22.
Thomas Heyward, Jr. (South Carolina), 1787 November 28.
Stephen Higginson (Massacheusetts), 1791April 27.
Whitmill Hill (North Carolina), 1786 April 11.
James Hillhouse (Connecticut), 1794 March 5.
William Hillhouse (Connecticut), 1772 May 18.
William Hindman (Maryland), 1775 May 16.
Thomas Holden (Rhode Island), 1777 December 12.
Samuel Holton (Massacheusetts), 1813 January 15.
Stephen Hopkins (Rhode Island), 1756 June 12.
Francis Hopkinson (New Jersey), 1769 April 6.
William Hooper (North Carolina), 1789 June 27.
Josiah Hornblower (New Jersey), 1782 August 1.
Titus Hosmer (Connecticut), 1776 September 20.
John Houstoun (Georgia), 1784 October 19.
William Houstoun (Georgia), 1788 February 8.
William Churchill Houston (New Jersey), 1782 May .
John Eager Howard (Maryland), 1818 March 20.
David Howell (Rhode Island), 1782 October 9.
Richard Howley (Georgia), 1782 August 28.
Daniel Huger (South Carolina), 1804 May 5.
Charles Humphreys (Pennsylvania), 1772 April 3.
Benjamin Huntington (Connecticut), 1791 April 3.
Samuel Huntington (Connecticut), 1773 December 15.
Richard Hutson (South Carolina), 1785 May 13.
Jared Ingersoll (Pennsylvania), 1794 June 7.
William Irvine (Pennsylvania), 1780 June 15.
Ralph Izard (South Carolina), 1797 January 25.
David Jackson (Pennsylvania), 1798 May 31.
Jonathan Jackson (Massacheusetts), 1791 March 4.
John Jay (New York), 1810 November 21.
Thomas Jefferson (Virginia), 1778 October 19.
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (Maryland), 1770 October 22.
Samuel Johnston (North Carolina), 1786 July 18.
Thomas Johnson (Maryland), 1817.
William Samuel Johnson, 1802 April 3.
Allen Jones (North Carolina), 1790 June 10.
Gabriel Jones (Virginia), 1762 March.
Joseph Jones (Virginia), 1799 February 18.
Noble W. Jones (Georgia), 1762 March 30.
Samuel Jones (New York), 1792 June 30.
Willie Jones (North Carolina), 1776 October 25.
John Kean (South Carolina), 1787 May 17.
Dyre Kearney (Delaware).
Rufus King (Massacheusetts), 1785 December 7.
Francis Kinloch (South Carolina), 1787 March 12.
James Kinsey (New Jersey), 1784.
John Langdon (New Hampshire), 1795 June 10.
Woodbury Langdon (New Hampshire), 1784 August.
Edward Langworthy (Georgia), 1798 May 8.
John Lansing, Jr. (New York), 1807 February 3.
Henry Latimer (Delaware), 1784 November.
John Laurance (New York), 1808 November 16.
Henry Laurens (South Carolina), 1768 September 28.
Richard Law (Connecticut), 1801 October 1.
Arthur Lee (Virginia), 1787 July 17.
Richard Bland Lee (Virginia), 1824 June 4.
Henry Lee (Virginia), 1802 April 3.
Richard Henry Lee (Virginia), 1791 February 24.
Thomas Sim Lee (Maryland), 1781 June 12.
Francis Lewis (New York), 1761 August 19.
Ezra L'Hommedier (New York), 1783 August.
Levi Lincoln (Massacheusetts), 1805 September 21.
Samuel Livermore (New Hampshire), undated.
Philip Livingston (New York), 1765.
Robert R. Livingston (New York), 1806 January 13.
Walter Livingston (New York), 1789 August 13.
William Livingston (New Jersey), 1781 August 27.
Edward Lloyd (Maryland), 1795 September 20.
James Lloyd (Maryland), 1803 January 9.
Pierse Long (New Hampshire), 1785 June 5.
James Lovell (Massacheusetts), 1781 September 5.
Isaac Low (New York), 1772 August 29.
John Lowell (Massacheusetts), 1786 June 5.
Rawlins Lowndes (South Carolina), 1788 October 2.
Thomas Lynch, Sr. (South Carolina), 1769 June 5.
Thomas Lynch, Jr. (South Carolina) [portrait], undated.
Alexander McDougall (New York), 1773 November 8.
Eleazer McComb (Delaware), 1784 May 10.
James McHenry (Maryland), 1797 December 15.
John McKinly (Delaware), 1775 May 15.
James McLene (Pennsylvania), 1788 September 22.
Lachlan McIntosh (Georgia), 1783 October 15.
Nathaniel Macon (1817 January 29).
Thomas M'Kean (Pennsylvania), 1777 June 2.
James Madison, Jr. (Virginia), 1827 October 25.
Henry Marchant (Rhode Island), 1787 August 7.
James Manning (Rhode Island), 1788 September 10.
Alexander Martin (North Carolina), 1792 October 6.
Luther Martin (Maryland), 1811 March 20.
Timothy Matlack (Pennsylvania), 1781 February 1.
James Mercer (Virginia), 1789 November 19.
John F. Mercer (Virginia), 1785 May 12.
Samuel Meredith (Pennsylvania), 1787 September.

Nathaniel Mitchell (Delaware), 1799 December 30.
Stephen Mix Mitchell (Connecticut), 1786 March 7.
James Monroe (Virginia), 1824 December 25.
John Montgomery (Pennsylvania), 1784 July 26.
Joseph Montgomery (Pennsylvania), 1787 May 24.
William Montgomery (Pennsylvania), 1785 February 7.
William Moore (Pennsylvania), 1780 September 2.
Cadwalader Morris (Pennsylvania), 1784 April 8.
Gouverneur Morris (New York), 1801 October 23.
John Morton (Pennsylvania), 1750 March 6.
Isaac Motte (South Carolina), 1791 March 4.
Daniel Mowry, Jr. (Rhode Island), 1781 May 25.
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (Pennsylvania), 1795 March 30.
Paul Mumford (Rhode Island), 1783 March 18.
Abner Nash (North Carolina), 1781 February 23.
John Neilson (New Jersey), 1805 April 6.
Samuel Osgood (Massacheusetts).
Samuel Alleyne Otis (Massacheusetts), 1811 February 16.
Mann Page (Virginia), 1776 October 4.
Robert Treat Paine (Massacheusetts), 1774 June.
John Parker (South Carolina), 1781 October 17.
George Partridge (Massacheusetts), 1780 March.
John Patten (Delaware), 1778 April 7.
Nathaniel Peabody (New Hampshire), 1805 July 7.
William Peery (Delaware), 1787 October 20.
Thomas Miffilin (Pennsylvania), 1791 March 3.
Philip Pell (New York), 1781 July 31.
Edmund Pendleton (Virginia), 1774 February 12.
Richard Peters, Jr. (Pennsylvania), 1787 June 24.
Charles Pettit (Pennsylvania), 1780 July 25.
Peter Phillips (Rhode Island), circa 1784.
John Pickering (New Hampshire), undated.
William Pierce (Georgia), 1781 June 26.
Charles Pinckney (South Carolina), undated.
Thomas Pinckney (South Carolina), 1815 March 30.
William Pitkin (Connecticut), 1788 May 19.
Zephaniah Platt (New York), 1804 February 24.
Nathan Miller (Rhode Island), 1784 March 1.
George Plater (Maryland), 1780 May 9.
Thomas Polk (North Carolina), 1781 March 13.
Richard Potts (Maryland), 1791 June 5.
David Ramsay (South Carolina), 1807 March 17.
Nathaniel Ramsey (Maryland), 1806 June 17.
Edmund Randolph (Virginia), 1791 June 11.
Payton Randolph (Virginia), 1773 January 13.
Jacob Read (South Carolina), 1791 August 24.
Joseph Reed (Pennsylvania), 1780 July 28.
James R. Reid (Pennsylvania), 1786 April 20.
Samuel Rhoads (Pennsylvania), 1774 November 2.
Richard Ridgely (Maryland), 1786 July 20.
Daniel Roberdeau (Pennylvania), 1778 June 6.
Ceasar Rodney (Delaware), 1781 March 22.
Thomas Rodney (Delaware), 1797 April.
John Rogers (Maryland), 1785 June 4.
Jesse Root (Connecticut), 1807 August 8.
David Ross (Maryland), 1781 August 4.
George Ross (Pennsylvania), 1789 April 28.
Benjamin Rumsey (Maryland), 1776 March 7.
Benjamin Rush (Pennsylvania), 1785 January 16.
Edward Rutledge (South Carolina), 1799 January 11.
John Rutledge (South Carolina), undated.
Arthur St. Clair (Pennsylvania), 1781 December 24.
James Schureman (New Jersey), 1813 December 23.
Philip Schuyler (New York), 1783 August 14.
Gustavus Scott (Maryland), 1797 May 10.
John Morin Scott (New York), 1763 March 17.
Nathaniel Scudder (New Jersey), 1779 November 22.
James Searle (Pennsylvania), 1787 February 21.
Theodore Sedgwick (Masacheusetts), 1792 January 26.
Joshua Senzy (Maryland), 1793 August 30.
William Sharpe (North Carolina), 1787 September 4.
Jonathan D. Sergeant (New Jersey), 1779 October 28.
William Shippen (Pennsylvania), 1768 February 6.
John Sitgreaves (North Carolina), 1786 July 2.
James Smith (Pennsylvania), 1776 February.
Jonathan Bayard Smith (Pennsylvania), 1794 April 21.
Melancton Smith (New York), 1786 September 5.
Meriwether Smith (Virginia), 1788 December 21.
Richard Smith (New Jersey), 1764 November 7.
Thomas Smith (Pennsylvania), 1795 June 11.
William Smith (Maryland), 1779 November 23.
Richard Dobbs Spaight, 1795 January 31.
John Sparkawk (New Hampshire), 1772.
Joseph Spencer (Connecticut), 1777 December 31.
John Stevens, Sr. (New Jersey), 1777 September 9.
Charles Stewart (New Jersey), 1780 April 30.
Samuel Stirk (Georgia), 1777 July 12.
Thomas Stone (Maryland), undated.
Caleb Strong (Massacheusetts), 1805 February 15.
Jedediah Strong (Connecticut), 1807 November 26.
Jonathan Sturges (Connecticut), 1786 January 5.
James Sullivan (Massacheusetts), 1791 April 14.
John Sullivan (New Hampshire), 1779 May 22.
Increase Sumner (Massacheusetts), 1789 October 29.
Thomas Sumter (South Carolina), 1781 June 8.
John Swan (North Carolina), 1803 January 22.
James Sykes (Delaware), 1773 August 5.
John Cleves Symmes (New Jersey), 1786 October 3.
George Taylor (Pennsylvania), 1778.
Edward Telfair (Georgia), 1792 July 30.
George Thatcher (Massacheusetts), 1805 October 5.
Ebenezer Thompson (New Hampshire), 1796 March 31.
Matthew Thornton (New Hampshire), 1762 June 25.
Matthew Tilghman (Maryland), 1789 October 1789.
James Tilton (Delaware), 1792 June 4.
Paul Trapier (South Carolina), 1779 October 7.
John Treadwell (Connecticut), 1810 January 26.
Jonathan Trumbull (Connecticut), 1801 May 16.
Joseph Trumbull (Connecticut), 1776 October 7.
Thomas Tudor Tucker (South Carolina), 1801 December 10.
Nicholas Van Dyke (Delaware), 1781 July 23.
James M. Varnum (Rhode Island), 1772 June 17.
John Vining (Delaware), 1794 January 11.
James Wadsworth (Connecticut), 1780 June 5.
Jeremiah Wadsworth (Connecticut), 1778 October 23.
Peleg Wadsworth (Massacheusetts), 1797 May 24.
John Walker (Virginia), 1792 July 31.

Timothy Walker (New Hampshire), 1790 August 7.
George Walton (Georgia), undated.
John Walton (Georgia), 1768 October 5.
George Washington (Virginia), 1772 August 27.
Artemas Ward (Massacheusetts), 1773 June 14.
James Warren (Massacheusetts), 1782 May 5.
John Wentworth, Jr. (New Hampshire), 1769 November 30.
Joshua Wentworth (New Hampshire), 1770, 1784.
Benjamin West (New Hampshire), 1803 March 17.
Samuel Wharton (Delaware), 1784 November 25.
Alexander White (Virginia), 1791 February 27.
James White (North Carolina), 1792 October 31.
Phillips White (New Hampshire), 1782 November 6.
John Williams (North Carolina), 1778 July 10.
Hugh Williamson (North Carolina), undated.
Thomas Willing (Pennsylvania), 1788 August 7.
James Wilson (Pennsylvania), 1794 September 19.
Paine Wingate (New Hampshire), 1792 January 14.
Henry Wisner (New York), 1781 July 2.
Erastus Wolcott (Connecticut), 1771.
Oliver Wolcott (Connecticut), 1777 November 11.
Roger Wolcott, Jr. (Connecticut), 1755 March 20.
Joseph Wood (Georgia), 1785 May 2.
Turbett Wright (Maryland), 1778 October 19.
Henry Wynkoop (Pennsylvania), 1808 September 11.
Abraham Yates, Jr. (New York), 1787 June 5.
Peter W. Yates (New York), 1783 April 16.
John Joachim Zubley (Georgia), 1769, 1775.

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