Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
James Wilkinson letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-982
Abstract
Small collection of correspondence and a few orders written by James Wilkinson, military officer, western land speculator, and governor of Louisiana, between 1792 and 1818. The majority of the letters were written at Fort Washington and Fort Hamilton in Ohio and relate to Indian affairs and military operations in the Northwest Territory during the 1790s. The correspondents include quartermaster general Samuel Hodgdon, Pennsylvania militia officer John Armstrong, and Lieutenant William...
Dates:
1792-1818
John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-378
Abstract
A small collection of correspondence (seven letters) written by Heckewelder from his home in Bethlehem, Pa. to three individuals between the years 1790 and 1822.,The largest group of letters were written to William Alexander, a surveyor residing in Carlisle, Pa., dated 23 March 1790 to 8 Feb. 1791. In these letters Heckewelder engages the services of Alexander to survey five warrents of land (650 acres) in eastern Ohio purchased by Heckewelder and others. He also instructs Alexander to...
Dates:
1790-1822
Ohio Company records
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-3091
Abstract
Company formed Mar. 1, 1786, by Revolutionary War officers to raise capital for the acquisition and settlement of federal lands northwest of the Ohio River. Minutes, correspondence, accounts, receipts, powers of attorney, lists, etc. (bulk 1787-1793) of Ohio Company of Associates agent, Benjamin Heywood, a former Continental Army officer and resident of Worcester, Mass. Included are minutes of Worcester area subscribers' meetings (1787-1789) in which Heywood was elected one of three agents...
Dates:
1787-1800; Majority of material found within 1787-1793
Oliver Wolcott letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-921
Abstract
Thirteen letters, Mar. 11, 1795- Dec. 11, 1800, written by Oliver Wolcott, secretary of the treasury, to David Henley, general agent for the War Dept. in the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio, regarding public contracts for military and Indian supplies in what is now Tennessee.,The letters contain rules and regulations regarding the administration of contracts, as well as numerous directives regarding the choice of contractors to supply both the region and the Tellico...
Dates:
1795-1800
Filtered By
- Subject: Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Land settlement -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
- Military supplies -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 2
- Bounties, Military -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Bounties, Military -- United States -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
- Correspondence -- Ohio -- 1751-1800 1
- Correspondence -- Ohio -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem -- 1751-1800 1
- Correspondence -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1751-1800 1
- Correspondence -- Washington (D.C.) -- 1751-1800 1
- Defense contracts -- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Fort Hamilton (Ohio) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Fort Washington (Ohio) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Fruit trees -- Grafting -- Pennsylvania 1
- Gnadenhutten (Ohio) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old -- Government relations -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Tennessee -- Government relations -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Wars -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Land companies -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Marietta (Ohio) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Moravians -- Missions -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Northwest, Old -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel 1
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Public contracts -- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Real property -- Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Tellico Blockhouse Site (Tenn.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Tennessee -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Veterans -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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