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Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

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Edmund Jennings Randolph (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney and politician. He was the 7th Governor of Virginia, and, as a delegate from Virginia, he attended the Constitutional Convention and helped to create the national constitution while serving on its Committee of Detail. He was the first United States Attorney General (1789-1794) and the second Secretary of State (1794-1795) during George Washington's presidency. Born in Williamsburg in the Colony of Virgini...

Sullivan, John, 1740-1795

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John Sullivan (February 17, 1740 – January 23, 1795) was a Founding Father of the United States and an American General in the Revolutionary War winning several key battles most notably the Delaware crossing. He was a delegate in the Continental Congress, where he signed the Continental Association, the third governor of New Hampshire, and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. Born in Somersworth in the Province of New Hampshire,...

Reed, Joseph, 1741-1785

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Joseph Reed (August 27, 1741 – March 5, 1785) was a Founding Father of the United States and a lawyer, military officer, and statesman of the American Revolutionary Era who lived the majority of his life in Pennsylvania. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and, while in Congress, signed the Articles of Confederation. He also served as President of Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council, a position analogous to the modern office of Governor. Reed was born in Trenton in the Pr...

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...

Moylan, Stephen, 1737-1811

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Stephen Moylan (1737-1811) was a prominent Irish American patriot leader during the American Revolutionary War. He had several positions in the Continental Army including Muster-Master General, Secretary and Aide to General George Washington, Quartermaster General, Commander of The Fourth Continental Light Dragoons and Commander of the Cavalry of the Continental Army. He was born in Cork, Ireland, and settled in what would be Philadelphia to start a shipping business. He joined the Continental A...

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was chartered by the legislature of Massachusetts in 1780 and is the second oldest learned society in the U.S. Among its incorporators were James Bowdoin, John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock. From the description of Records of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1775-1800 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122413111 ...

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866

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Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was the President of Harvard University from February 1, 1849 to February 10, 1853. He was also a Unitarian minister, editor, and historian. Jared Sparks was born to Joseph Sparks and Elinor (Orcut) Sparks on May 10, 1789 in Willington, Connecticut. Sparks was one of nine children and came from a family of modest means. When he turned six years old, Sparks went to live with an aunt and uncle in Camden, New York, to help relieve the family of a mout...

Baldwin, Loammi, 1744-1807

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Colonel Loammi Baldwin (January 10, 1744 – October 20, 1807) was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Baldwin is known as the Father of American Civil Engineering. His five sons, Cyrus Baldwin (1773–1854), Benjamin Franklin Baldwin (1777–1821), Loammi Baldwin, Jr. (1780–1834), James Fowle Baldwin (1782–1862), and George Rumford Baldwin (1798–1888) were also well-known engineers. He surveyed and was responsible for the construction of the Middl...

Thompson, John

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Epithet: MA, of Cambridge University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0000e5 Epithet: Secretary, Newcastle Independent Labour Party British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0000f3 Epithet: surgeon's mate, 16th Light Dragoons British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81...

Spooner, John, 1929-

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Epithet: Custom-House Officer at Southwold British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000169.0x0000b0 ...

Cuvier's

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Baldwin, James Fowle, 1782-1862

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James Fowle Baldwin (1782-1862), the son of Loammi (for whom the Baldwin apple was named) and Mary Fowle Baldwin, was a civil engineer. He helped his brother, Loammi, construct the dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard. In 1828, he was appointed by the state of Massachusetts as a commissioner to make surveys for a railroad from Boston to Albany, and from 1830 to 1835, he built the Boston and Lowell road. He was a state senator from Suffolk. He was born on 29 April 1782 in Woburn, Mass., married Sara...

Warrington

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Walker, Joseph Burbeen, 1822-1912

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Collector. From the description of Joseph Burbeen Walker collection, 1774-1779. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78626672 ...

Thompson, Samuel, 1731-1820

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Samuel Thompson (1738-1811) was a farmer and physician of Setauket, Long Island, New York. From the description of Samuel Thompson papers, 1710-1858, bulk (1800-1808). (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122598035 ...

Baldwin, James Fowle, 1782-1862

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Blodget, Samuel, 1724-1807

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Merchant and manufacturer. From the description of Samuel Blodget papers, 1758-1813. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123955599 ...

Heath, William, 1737-1814

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American Major-General. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Ebenezer Hancock, 1777 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864067 Army officer. From the description of Papers of William Heath, 1776-1782. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061920 Army officer in the Revolution, Massachusetts state senator, and jurist. From the description of Papers of William Heath, 1774-1777. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83784932 ...

Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831

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Thomas was a New England printer and bookseller who strongly supported the American Revolution. He was also a founder of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. From the description of ALS: Worcester [Massachusetts], to Mr. Bress, 1795 Aug. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86160118 Caleb Alexander was born in 1755 in Northfield, Massachusetts, a town founded by his grandfather. He attended Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown Universities, receiving degrees fro...

Ward, Ephraim, 1741-1818

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Ephraim Ward (1741-1818), minister of West Brookfield, Mass., was born in Newton, Mass., and graduated from Harvard in 1763. He taught school in Dedham, Mass., before returning to Harvard to complete his ministerial training. In 1771 Ward was ordained in West Brookfield and remained there until his death in 1818. From the description of Diary, 1787. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 191259833 ...

Stearns, Asahel, 1774-1839

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Stearns graduated from Harvard College (1797), practised law in Chelmsford, Mass. until 1815, taught at Harvard Law School (1815-1829), served as District Attorney for Middlesex County (1813-1823) and edited a series of revisions of the laws of Massachusetts (1798-1821). From the description of Opinion in Richardson v. Coburn, 1817. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234337867 ...

Freeman, Samuel, 1743-1831

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Secretary to the Continental Congress at Watertown; justice of the peace, judge of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and selectman, of Portland, Me. From the description of Samuel Freeman papers, 1798-1809. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 501191640 Deputy postmaster and later postmaster, Falmouth (Portland), Me. From the description of Appointment, 1775. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70974647 Register...

Baldwin, Loammi, 1780-1838

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Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, class of 1800, Harvard College, was a lawyer and later a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. He was in charge of the design and construction of dry docks at the Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, Navy Yards. His father (Loammi Baldwin, 1745-1807) was one of New England's first civil engineers, and his brothers, James Fowle Baldwin and George Rumford B...

Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814

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Scientist and inventor; lived in New Hampshire; also known as Sir Benjamin Thompson Rumford. From the description of Family papers, 1747-1852. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70963873 Rumford, an applied physicist and inventor, as well as a soldier of fortune, and philanthropist, was born in Massachusetts, but after siding with the British in the American Revolution, lived mostly in England, Bavaria, and France. He studied heat, gunpowder, coo...

John Hunt

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Goodwin, John

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Epithet: Practitioner in Mathematics, in London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x000050 Epithet: Consul at Palermo 1834-1869 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x00004a Epithet: of London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000766.0x00004f ...

Holyoke, Edward Augustus, 1728-1829

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Edward Augustus Holyoke was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts on August 1, 1728. He attended Harvard College during his father Edward Holyoke's tenure as President and graduated in 1746. After graduation he worked for a short time as a schoolmaster before beginning to study medicine and became a doctor in Salem, Massachusetts. An active researcher, he was the first president of the Massachusetts Medical Society; he was also one of the founding members and president of the American Academy of Art...

Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823

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Congregational clergyman; botanist; one of the founders of the Ohio Co. which colonized the Ohio River Valley; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. From the description of Manasseh Cutler letter to Benjamin Lincoln [manuscript], 1783 May 18. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191118377 Cutler (Yale University, B.A. 1765 and Harvard, A.M.1770) was appointed minister of Ipswich Hamlet in 1771. He published a botanical paper in the first volume of the...

Whitney, Peter, 1744-1816

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Peter Whitney (1744-1816) was the second minister of the First Congregational Church of Northborough, Massachusetts. He had a great interest in local history and wrote The History of the County of Worcester...Massachusetts..., published by Isaiah Thomas in 1793. This volume contained the first map of Worcester County ever made from an actual survey. From the description of History of the County of Worcester..., c. 1793. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207180174 ...

Lee, Charles, 1731-1782

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Lee was a veteran British Army officer who settled in America in 1773 and was appointed a major general in the Continental Army at the outbreak of the Revolution. In 1778, he was appointed to lead the attack at the Battle of Monmouth, but instead retreated without warning, apparently ignored orders from George Washington, and afterward demanded an apology from him. Lee was suspended and later dismissed from the Army. From the description of ALS, 1776 Jan. 30, Stamford, Ct...

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843

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American painter of historical subjects. From the description of ALS : New York, to James Madison, 1823 Oct. 20. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122580911 Painter; New York City. From the description of John Trumbull papers, 1787-1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122557315 John Trumbull (1756-1843) was an American painter and diplomat. From the guide to the John Trumbull papers, 1780-1840, (The New York Public Library...

Quincy, Eliza Susan, 1798-1884

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Eliza Susan Quincy (1798-1884) was the daughter of Josiah Quincy (1772-1864), congressman, Massachusetts state senator, and president of Harvard University. Her great-grandfather was Colonel Josiah Quincy (1710-1784). His fortune was increased when the merchant vessel Bethell, of which he was part owner, captured a Spanish treasure ship. In 1770, he built a large house in that part of Braintree, Massachusetts, which later became Quincy. Eliza Susan and her sisters Abigail Phillips (1803-1893) an...

Young, ...

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Robertson

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Campbell, Archibald, Sir, 1739-1791

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Archibald Campbell was a surveyor. From the description of Map of land adjoining the westside of Lake George, Warren County, New York, 1791. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122573939 Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fort St. George. From the description of Letter : to Henry Dundas, 1789 July 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122581319 Sir Archibald Campbell (1739-1791) was born at Inverneil, Scotland on August 21, 1739, the second son of James Campbell...

American revolutionary general. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Traveller's Rest, to F. Meriwether, Esq., 1787 Jan. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864014 Revolutionary general. Born in England, Gates settled in Virginia in 1772 after a career in the British army that included service in the French and Indian War. He was commissioned adjutant-general of the Continental Army in 1775, and was in command at the pivotal victory of Saratoga. After Saratoga...

Church, Benjamin, 1734-1778

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Physician, poet, author, and traitor; b. Newport, R.I.; graduate of Harvard, 1754; lived in Boston and Raynham, Mass.; after correspondence with British was intercepted in 1775, he was tried by court martial. Continental Congress resolved on Nov. 6, that he should be imprisoned at Norwich, Conn., but because of illness was removed to Massachusetts and put on parole; allowed to sail from Boston in May 1776 for London but ship never heard from again; family was pensioned by the Crown. ...

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

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Timothy Pickering (b. July 17, 1745, Salem, MA–d. January 29, 1829, Salem, MA) was a politician from Massachusetts who served as the third United States Secretary of State under Presidents George Washington and John Adams. He also represented Massachusetts in both houses of Congress as a member of the Federalist Party. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Pickering began a legal career after graduating from Harvard University. He won election to the Massachusetts General Court and served as a cou...

U.S. Army.

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Guild, Benjamin, 1749-1792

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Benjamin Guild lived from 1749 to 1792. Thus, he witnessed the American Revolution from his home in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts on April 17, 1749. He was the son of Benjamin and Abigail (Graves) Guild. Guild received his Bachelor of Arts (1769) and his Master of Arts (1772) degrees from Harvard College. As a Presbyterian pastor he preached in several Massachusetts communities including Dedham, Haverhill, and Cambridge. Guild was a Latin tutor at Harvard College ...

Ward, Joseph

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Epithet: of Skipton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000816.0x0002e7 ...

Jesse Wymen

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Washington, George, 1732-1799

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George Washington (b. Feb. 22, 1732, Westmoreland County, Va.-d. Dec. 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, VA) was the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. Washington came from a family of farmers and landowners. He had little education but showed an aptitude for mathematics. He used this talent to become a surveyor. At 15, Washington took a job as assistant surveyor on a team sent to map the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia. In his early 20s, Washington joined the Virgin...

Committee of Correspondence

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Group of women at the Lincoln Memorial, n.d. Photograph by Alfred Wertheimer The Committee of Correspondence was an American women's internationalist organization that started in New York City in 1952 and disbanded in 1969. A group of women active in internationalist voluntary clubs and professional fields created the Committee as an offshoot of the National Council of Women. The Committee established itself as an independent non-profit organization shortly after it beg...

Hunt, John (John F.)

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Walker, Joseph Burbeen, 1822-1912

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Collector. From the description of Joseph Burbeen Walker collection, 1774-1779. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78626672 ...

Andrews, ...

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