Manuscripts of Early National and Antebellum America

1 vol., 11 x 17 cm.., 98 leaves, with 99 pages of entries in various hands; 21 additional manuscripts. A receipt book, with attendant loose manuscripts, of Rebecca Cadwalader Dickinson (1746-1821) of Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey. Rebecca Cadwalader was a daughter of the prominent physician Dr. Thomas Cadwalader, and second wife (m. 1804) of General Philemon Dickinson, commander of the New Jersey militia in the Revolution and later (1790-93) U.S senator. The book includes receipts for cash purchases made by Rebecca Cadwalader over some thirty years; many are for firewood, bought along the Delaware wharves; others are for corn or oats. There are also receipts for tax payments made by Cadwalader on a property in Philadelphia's Middle Ward. Individual entries may be in Cadwalader's hand or in the hand of the seller, though they are typically signed by the latter. MSN/EA 2101-1 to MSN/EA 2101-4; MSN/EA 2101-5-B.

1 document. A deed of sale recording the transfer of two parcels of land from Oliver Ormsby to Dunning and Anne McNair, for the sum of $1,400. The parcels are located on Front Street in the borough of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. With endorsements by McNair, by a judge of the county Court of Common Pleas, and by the county recorder. MSN/EA 2100-1-F2.

1 vol., 35 cm., with 46 pages of manuscript. Constitution, by-laws, and meeting minutes of an organization called the Regiment Association of Rifle Maryland Volunteers, whose membership consisted of officers of the various Maryland militia companies making up the 1st Rifle Regiment, Maryland Volunteers. MSN/EA 10005-01.