Manuscripts

Pay master general papers

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Description: 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.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1766-1827.
Call number: mssHM 82876-82893
Creator: Great Britain

Arguments of the 12 judges in the Exchequer Chamber about ship money : manuscript

Manuscripts

A manuscript copy of the court proceedings in the 1637 case "R v Hampden, 3 Howell State Trials, 825," in which Buckinghamshire gentleman landowner John Hampden refused to pay ship money levied by Charles I. The case was finally heard by all 12 judges in the Court of Exchequer Chamber; Hampden lost the case, seven judges to five. This copy is in a modern binding with marbled covers; on spine: "Parliamentary Papers. M.S.," spine is damaged and fragile; with modern pencil autograph notes on verso of first page.

mssHM 204

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Brock Collection: Fairfax Proprietary papers

Manuscripts

Chiefly correspondence and documents covering the routine business affairs of the Northern Neck Proprietary, including survey warrants issued by several agents to the country surveyors (1722-1760); county rental returns (1721-1780), and letters, office records and memoranda of Robert "King" Carter, Sir William Fairfax, George William Fairfax, and Thomas Bryan Martin. Included are Robert Carter's letterbook (1720-1721), land grants in the Northern Neck counties, and survey warrants to George Washington (1749-1752).

mssBR Boxes 227-233

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William K. Anthony papers

Manuscripts

Primarily U.S. Army pay records, correspondence, and pension documents relating to the U.S. Civil War.

mssHM 39404-39423

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Copies of papers transmitted to the Council Office

Manuscripts

Copies of papers transmitted to the Council Office regarding the assemblys of Massachusetts Bay and New York.

mssHM 2587

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James Abercromby warrant to William Johnston, Deputy Pay Master General

Manuscripts

The collection primarily contains letters and documents relating to Hugh Campbell, 3rd Earl of Loudoun; his son, John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun; other Campbell family members; and various political and military associates. John Campbells military activities during the 1745 to 1746 Jacobite uprising in Scotland and the Seven Years War in North America in 1756 and 1757 are especially documented. Materials in the collection include correspondence, memorials, and petitions; muster rolls, returns, orders, and other military records; appointments; estate records including accounts, bills, receipts, and inventories; and land and government documents.

LO 1224

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Frederick Kesler papers

Manuscripts

A collection of 184 items from 1852 to 1898; it consists of correspondence and journals relating to Frederick Kesler and his duties as a master millwright and bishop of the 16th Ward, as well as financial papers and newspaper clippings. Correspondents in the collection include John M. Bernhisel, George Reynolds, Joseph F. Smith, and Brigham Young. A major portion of the correspondence and manuscripts relate to the divorce between Frederick Kesler and Jane Elizabeth Pratt Kesler and Abigail Dow Snow Kesler. The material covers the reasons for the divorces as well as the financial compensation they would receive from Kesler per the instructions of Brigham Young. The 58 journals written by Frederick Kesler primarily contain notes on mills, tithing records and receipts for expenditures in the ward. A journal written by Alexander Ott includes the names of and provisions provided to Mormon immigrants.

mssHM 63493-63537

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