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Journals and accounts of Isaac Norris

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Description: Accounts and three journals kept by Norris between 1743 and 1749. The journals were penned on the back of the account ledger.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1733-1749.
Call number: mssHM 3057
Creator: Norris, Isaac (1701-1766)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Also included are: a list of "common places on reading of Minutes of Assembly" (ff. 10), the genealogical charts of German, Spanish, French, and Danish royalty (ff. 11-12); a list of English leading politicians and what Norris saw as their Roman counterparts (e.g. "M. Tullius Cicero -- Sir Robert Walpole.")

Miscellaneous writings of Joseph Norris, 1723-1776

Manuscripts

A ledger containing miscellaneous writings by Joseph Norris penned between 1723 and 1733. After Norris's death, the book was apparently taken over and continued by his brother Isaac Norris (1701-1766), and then by Isaac Norris's daughter Mary Norris Dickinson (1740 - 1803).

mssHM 164

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Philetus W. Norris journals

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A manuscript originally bound in three volumes; volume I covers the years 1870 to 1875, volume II 1877 to 1878, and volume III 1876 to 1894. Volume I is made up of Norris' original printed letters to Michigan papers pasted down on paper sheets, with extensive additions, corrections, and notes; Norris was revising this material to publish in book form. Volume II contains another trip to the west in 1877 and volume III contains miscellaneous material which Norris intended to incorporate into his book. The volumes include interesting details and reports of the state of the west at that time, and also mention the battlefield of General George A. Custer and Yellowstone National Park; volume III contains an autograph map of the general area of the park, dated 1894. The pages were removed from the original damaged boards by the Huntington Conservation Department and placed in folders and three boxes; the original boards were retained and kept with the disbound material.

mssHM 506

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Isaac Wilde diary

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A small pocket diary, with entries running from Feb. 21 to Nov. 21, 1862; the bulk penned between Apr. 4 and the late May. The brief entries cover the advance to Manassas, Va. (Mar. 10-15), Howards Mill (Apr. 4), Warwick Road (Apr. 5), Siege of Yorktown (Apr. 5-May 4), Battle of Williamsburg (May 5), Expedition to James River (May 25-26), and the Battle of Fair Oaks (May 31-June 1). The entries for June 25 ? July 1 (Seven Days before Richmond) are blank except for a short entry on June 28. The rest of the occasional entries are mostly miscellaneous notes and accounts.

mssHM 68425

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Enoch Poor His Book 1759 : A Journal From Newbury to Saint John's

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Journal that Enoch Poor kept during his military service, including his accounts of three expeditions upstream in July and September 1759, the negotiations with the Acadians who had surrendered at the fort following the fall of Quebec, and soldiers' discontent over their pay.

mssHM 610

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Journal and account books

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Professional and personal papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith including his journals, ledgers, accounts, military records, and personal and official correspondence, chiefly related to his post-Mexican War service. His journals were kept during his service in California and his letters to his wife recount his life in the West, including details of the death of John Williams Gunnison and his encounters with Mormons. Also included are two annotated maps of New Mexico Territory, California, and Utah, Beckwith's records of spiritualistic seances from 1860 to 1872, and some photographs. The collection also contains letters of John Laurence Fox to his parents, wife, and son written between 1837 and 1864. Included are letters dealing with the Exploring Expedition, the mission to the Mediterranean, slave trade in West Africa, Matthew C. Perry's mission to Japan, foreign intervention in China, Taiping Rebellion, and the American Civil War. This portion of the collection also contains his surgeon's commission in 1847, and newspapers clippings related to the death of Charles Eben Fox.

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Account book

Manuscripts

An account book kept during 1843 and dated from New York, Atlantic Ocean, Paris, Havre, and London. Labelled "diary" on the back.

mssHM 6045

Journals and accounts of Isaac Norris

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