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Papers relating to Bourbon county, Georgia, 1785-1786
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1785-1786
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A collection of 850 items from 1750 to 1814, which contains correspondence from the War Office; the material was accumulated by Sir George Yonge during his term of office as Secretary at War from 1782 to 1794, together with some material of his predecessors and successors in office. The collection includes routine correspondence, consisting of letters regarding promotions, commissions, retirements, accounts, desertions, and troop movements. The papers contain many references to past service of officers in America, the West Indies, India, Gibraltar and elsewhere on the continent. Officials represented, in addition to Yonge, are: William Wildman Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington; Charles Jenkinson; William Windham; Sir James Murray-Pulteney, 7th Bart.; and Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston.
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Georgia-Wilkinson County. Land deeds and papers
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A collection of approximately 3000 items from 1770 to 1871, it consists of the personal and professional papers of John Arnold Rockwell, chiefly his incoming and outgoing correspondence. The papers document Rockwell's legal career; the development of the U.S. Court of Claims; politics; the Constitutional Union Party of 1860; land development, particularly in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan; transportation, including land grants in aid of canals and railroads such as the Illinois Central and the projected Pacific Railroads; mining; and banking. Correspondents include, among others, John William Allen, Reverdy Johnson, Charles William Rockwell, and Dixwell Lathrop, who was a member of the Rockwell Land Company and one of the founders of Rockwell Colony in La Salle, Illinois. Also included are a letter book, plats, Dixwell Lathrop's notebooks, newspaper clippings, and the 1857 legal brief in the case of the United States, appellants vs. Charles Fossatt, regarding the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines. The earliest portion of Rockwell's correspondence includes letters from his father Charles Rockwell and brother Charles William Rockwell who had moved to Savannah, Georgia in 1817 to run a shipping business. The post-1861 part of the collection consists mainly of the incoming correspondence of John A. Rockwell's youngest son Alfred Perkins Rockwell, a Yale graduate, mining engineer, Civil War veteran, and businessman. Also included is correspondence of the Perkins and Tisdale families, including Rockwell's father-in-law Joseph Perkins who died in 1832 and was a Revolutionary War soldier, a Major in the Connecticut militia, physician, and businessman; also, Simon Perkins, John Tisdale, Elkanah Tisdale, and others. This correspondence deals chiefly with the properties in Connecticut and the Western Reserve.
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The lounger. : A periodical paper, published at Edinburgh in the years 1785 and 1786. In three volumes. Vol. I[-III]
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An account of the duties on malt, in the years 1783, 1784, 1785, and 1786
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236022 (1787):17
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An account of the duties on malt, in the years 1783, 1784, 1785, and 1786
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236022 (1787):29