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David McNeely Stauffer collection on Westcott's History of Philadelphia
David McNeely Stauffer was an eminent civil engineer, author, and antiquarian. From 1893 to 1913 he devoted much of his time to the extra-illustration of "Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1829" as printed in the Sunday Dispatch. The total collection amounted to 32 folio volu...
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| Collection: | David McNeely Stauffer Collection On Westcott's History of Philadelphia |
| Collection Number: | 1095 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| 520 | |a David McNeely Stauffer was an eminent civil engineer, author, and antiquarian. From 1893 to 1913 he devoted much of his time to the extra-illustration of "Westcott's History of Philadelphia, 1609-1829" as printed in the Sunday Dispatch. The total collection amounted to 32 folio volumes and contained portraits of people mentioned in the text, signed letters, manuscripts relating to the city, maps, plans, prints and drawings. The volumes have since been disbound. Letters of Queen Kristina of Sweden, 1644; John Printz, 1644; Peter Stuyvesant, 1653; Sir William Penn, 1655; William Penn to the Indians in Pennsylvania, 1681; James Harrison and William Turner to William Penn, 1686, 1690, 1697; William Markham and James Pemberton letters relating to lands and surveys, 1693, 1694; petitions for licenses for public houses, grand jury lists, mortgages, bonds, shipping bills, receipts, marriage and court records, 1709-1767; miscellaneous documents relating to extension of the frontier toward the Susquehanna River, whale boats on the Oswago, Indian affairs, Fort Augusta, Fort Allen, Fort Pitt, treaty of Easton, French and Indian War, embargoes, smallpox epidemics, 1701-1763. Letters of Jaspar Yeates, Sir William Johnson, Edward Penington, Sir William Keith, Jacob Arndt, John Bayard, William Parsons, Phineas Pemberton, Thomas Leach, Edmund Physick, Jacob Duché, Springett Penn, Nicholas Scull, Anne Caesar de la Luzerne, Isaac Norris, Thomas Bradford, George Washington, William Shippen, Dr. Caspar Wistar, Rembrandt Peale, Mary Masters Penn, Franklin Bache, Thomas McKean, Clement Biddle, and Joseph Watson; petitions of Mennonites and Quakers relating to the oath of allegiance, 1778; Revolutionary War items relating to confiscation of property, raising of troops, medical supplies, finance, distress on the frontiers, pensions to families of soldiers, armaments, enlistment, 1775-1783; portraits of eminent Americans and Europeans; views of colonial Philadelphia churches, inns, mills, bridges, and homes; miscellaneous maps, facsimiles, sketches, drawings, and broadsides. | ||
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| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b David McNeely Stauffer Collection On Westcott's History of Philadelphia |l 1095 | ||