Miscellaneous manuscripts removed from bound scrapbooks, 1650-1800
- Collection Name:
- Moffatt and Whipple Family Papers, 1651-1883
- Title:
- Miscellaneous manuscripts removed from bound scrapbooks, 1650-1800
- Accession / Call Number:
- 1895.002
- Object ID:
- 1895.002.005
- Date:
- 1650-1800
- Physical Description:
- 1 box ; 53 folders
- Scope and Content:
- Series four includes miscellaneous manuscripts dated between 1650 and 1800. The materials were removed from bound volumes at an unknown date and kept in the same order that they were in the volume, which is roughly chronological. The items include legal documents regarding the founding of towns, distribution of lots therein and establishment of their borders, depositions in court cases, arguments among church members, petitions and reports to royalty and royal governors from both ordinary citizens and royal officials, pleas for payment for supplies and salaries for soldier in both the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary Wars, and documents that indicate relationships with the 'Indians' were violent in the 1720s. Some items are small fragments, while other are oversize proclamations. See the finding aid for an item level description.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Alfred L. Elwyn.
- Restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Level Description:
- Series
- Box Number:
- 4
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