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Minute book of the Burford to Swindon Turnpike Trust
Manuscripts
The Minute Book records the official meetings, appointment of trustees and officers, management, financing, and operations of the Burford to Swindon Turnpike Trust, particularly the operations on the Second District of the road (from Lechlade to Swindon). Individual trustees have signed their names after their recorded oaths of office and to signify their attendance at individual meetings of the trust. Of particular interest is information about surveying, land purchases, toll rates, and the leasing of individual toll-gates.
mssHM 73723
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Pay master general papers
Manuscripts
The 184 documents include military pay warrants, receipts, and estimates for British forces in the Mediterranean and North America, particularly Nova Scotia, Upper and Lower Canada, and Quebec; pay warrants for the colonial governments of Canada; miscellaneous documents such as returns of provisions and assignments of off-reckoning. This collection includes autograph documents, printed forms, filled in and one printed engraving; many of the documents also contain the penciled notes of a previous owner (perhaps J.B. Learmont) and in some cases are quite extensive, the notes usually contain biographical information or are comments on the authenticity of the signatures.
mssHM 82876-82893
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Series I. Project Records
Visual Materials
This collection spans the years 1906 to 1947 and consists primarily of plans, photographs and drawings of Reginald D. Johnson's architectural projects in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. The collection includes material that was acquired as two separate donations between 1988 and 1993: an album of photographs and drawings of the Baldwin Hills Village planned residential community in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles; an album of photographs of residential projects in Pasadena and Santa Barbara, and three drawings for buildings in San Marino, Pasadena, and Alhambra. An additional donation made in 2011 includes blueprints and photographs of "Penjerrick," the residence of Pierre E. Letchworth in Covina, California, built in 1915. Credited photographers represented in the collection include William M. Clarke, E. M. Pratt, the Padilla Company, and the Gill Engraving Company.
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Detailed statistical abstracts of Treasury accounts of each branch of public revenues and expenditures, (bulk) 1687-1702
Manuscripts
The present matched set of nine volumes are contemporary or nearly contemporary copies of the Treasury's detailed accounts of annual or semi-annual public revenues from commodity-specific customs and excise fees, goods seized, Parliamentary loans, licensing fees, land and hearth taxes, profits from the Mint, shipping and port taxes, marriage and burial fees, and numerous other revenue streams, each amount collected being set off against specific expenditures on the civil service, army, navy, secret service, government pensions and annuities, interest on the new national debt, building and construction, and other "contingents of divers natures". The precise relation of these records to the Treasury's Annual Account series remains to be established. The volumes are as listed below.
mssHM 69953-69955
Orderly book of the 71st Highland Regiment of Foot (Fraser's Highlanders), 1779, Apr. 27 - June 15
Manuscripts
A battalion orderly book covers Prevost's raid. The first entry, April 27, 1779, was penned when the British forces concentrated at Ebenezer, Ga., about to cross into South Carolina; the last is dated June 15, five days before the British victory of Stono Ferry. The orders cover different aspects of the campaign: logistics; Southern loyalists; numerous Negro slaves who "horly resorts to the army," and particularly "great want of Dissiplen." The orders for May 29 noted that "the Batt[alio]n is now become so notorious for maurauding & plundering White & Negroe women of all Denominations, the men absenting themselves from camp day & night without leave asked or given," that the commanding officer had to call on other officers to "to exert their authority in support of their own character & at least to preserve some part of that character given to Scotsmen on the field."
mssHM 72267