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Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu |
Compiled by:
Lisa Sasaki
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Date completed:
1996
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EAD encoding:
Mireille Lee, June 2000
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© 2000 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
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Adams
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Abigail Adams
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Box 1 |
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John Adams
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Box 1 |
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John Quincy Adams
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Box 1 |
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Charles Adams
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Box 1 |
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Sarah Adams
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Boxes 1, 2, 5 |
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Johnson
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Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Boxes 2, 5 |
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Alexander B. Johnson
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Box 2 |
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William Clarkson Johnson
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Box 2 |
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Arthur B. Johnson
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Box 2 |
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Savage
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John Savage
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Box 3 |
| Series II. Documents | |
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Edward Savage
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Boxes 5, 6, 11 |
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John Savage
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Boxes 3, 5, 6, 11 |
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Savage family
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Box 3 |
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Adams family
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Box 4 |
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Johnson family
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Boxes 4, 5, 6 |
| Series III. Miscellaneous | |
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Genealogy/Family History
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Boes 4, 5, 7 |
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Photographs
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Box 4 |
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Miscellaneous Adams, Savage, and Johnson Family Items
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Boxes 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
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Documents Not Related to the Adams, Savage, and Johnson Families
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Box 3 |
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Presidential Signatures
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Boxes 5, 4, 6, 11 |
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Description
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Container
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Series I. Correspondence
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Adams
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Abigail Adams
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Abigail Adams to her daughter-in-law Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
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4 letters: February 23, 1806; January 20, 1808; July 3, 1814; December 20, 1814
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Abigail Adams to Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
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3 letters: April 24, 1816; May 20, 1816; July 28, 1816
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Abigail Adams to Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
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5 letters: March 20, 1817; April 12, 1817; May 5, 1817; May 28, 1817; August 3, 1817
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A letter from Sarah Adams to Abigail Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
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Abigail Adams to her granddaughter Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
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5 letters: July 23, 1811; March 5, 1812; September 9, 1813; October 26, 1814; December 9, 1816
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John Adams
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John Adams to his daughter-in-law Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 6 |
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2 letters: October 26, 1814; October 2, 1820
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A letter from John Adams to his granddaughter's husband Alexander B. Johnson
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
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December 17, 1820
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John Quincy Adams
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Miscellaneous letters to and from John Quincy Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
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3 letters - to Samuel Shaw: September 27, 1824; to and from his niece Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson: February 22, 1825
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Charles Adams
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Charles Adams to his brother Thomas B. Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
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5 letters: May 23, 1790; May 29, 1790; November 21, 1790; August 30, 1791; September 18, 1791
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Sarah Adams
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Susan B. Adams to her mother Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
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Susan B. Adams to Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
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5 letters: July 31, 1816; September 14, 1816; October 3, 1816; March 11, 1817; April 8, 1817
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Charles Thomas Clark to his mother-in-law Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
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2 letters: May 20, 1816; March 23, 1818
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Susan B. Clark to her mother Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
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7 letters: July 12, 1826; August 14, 1826; March 10, 1827; March 23, 1827; April 5, 1827; April 30, 1827; May 21, 1827
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A letter from Susan M. Clark to her grandmother Sarah Adams
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
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August 13, 1827
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Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson to her mother Sarah Adams
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
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3 letters: October 10, 1823; October 22, 1826; October 23, 1826
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Belinda Clarkson to her sister Sarah Adams
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
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7 letters: May 14, 1815; April 1, 1818; May 12, 1818; April 28, 1819; February 24, 1820; September 28, n.y.; November 14,
n.y.)
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Margaret de St. Hilaire to her sister Sarah Adams
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
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4 letters: August 5, 1815; October 3, 1815; November 16, 1815; February 15, 1822
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Miscellaneous letters to Sarah Adams
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
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4 letters - from G. Le Ray de Chaumont: August 15, 1808; Peter Whitney: June 5, 1813; her niece Mary Ann Smith: September
4, 1826; her brother William Smith: n.d.)
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Miscellaneous letters from Sarah Adams
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
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4 letters - to her daughter Susan B. Adams: May 10, 1812; her sister Margaret de St. Hilaire: August 19, 1815; her sister
Nancy: June 27, 1816; her brother William Smith: February 8, 1817
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Ann Masters to her sister Sarah Adams
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Box 5 | Folder 1 |
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2 letters: October 13, 1817; December 22, 1819
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Margaret Smith to her sister Sarah Adams
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Box 5 | Folder 2 |
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2 letters: n.d.
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A letter from James Smith to his aunt Sarah Adams
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Box 5 | Folder 3 |
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January 16, 1827
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Johnson
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Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Belinda Clarkson to her niece Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
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4 letters: December 14, 1818; 1820; August 21, 1828; December 13, 1828
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Miscellaneous letters to Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
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4 letters - from her mother Sarah Adams: July 14, 1811; Elizabeth Peabody: January 20, 1815; her aunt Ann Herrod Adams: September
6, 1815; her cousin Louisa C. Smith: December 16, 1818
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Miscellaneous letters to Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
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4 letters - from Louisa: March 2, 1819; her cousin James Smith: January, 1821; Eliza Thompson: October 12, 1821; her aunt
Ann Masters: February 18, n.y.)
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A letter from Alexander Smith Johnson to his mother Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson
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Box 5 | Folder 4 |
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July 26, 1831
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Alexander B. Johnson
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Miscellaneous letters to and from Alexander B. Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
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6 letters - from Sarah Adams: September 27, 1825; to Ann Masters: December 4, 1830; to and from Mrs. Ann Breese: December
11, 1830; to Ed. Crufts: August 17, 1842; to Ward Hunt: May 27, 1858
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William Clarkson Johnson
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Miscellaneous letters to William Clarkson Johnson
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
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4 letters - from his great aunt Louisa C. Adams: February 22, 1844; Chief Justice Samuel Nelson: March 4, 1844; Attorney General
Caleb Cushing: March 24, 1861; W. Phillips: July 27, 1876
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Arthur B. Johnson
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Miscellaneous letters to Arthur B. Johnson including an enclosed letter from the Duke of Wellington to Mrs. Robinson
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Box 2 | Folder 11 |
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2 letters - from Alexander B. Johnson: December 1, 1852; Charles Francis Adams: January 27, 1879
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Savage
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John Savage
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Correspondence between John Savage and A. Burr
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Box 3 | Folder 1 |
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7 letters: May 12, 1820; June 13, 1820; September 9, 1825; October 16, 1825; January 2, 1827; April 6, 1828; September 28,
1832
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Dewitt Clinton to John Savage
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Box 3 | Folder 2 |
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3 letters: July 10, 1816; February 26, 1818; December 31, 1821
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Miscellaneous letters to John Savage
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Box 3 | Folder 3 |
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4 letters - from Governor Daniel D. Tompkins: February 21, 1814; Nat. Cutting: March 24, 1817; J. Montefiore: March 13, 1820;
A. Haring: May 23, 1820
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Miscellaneous letters to John Savage
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
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5 letters - from Harry White: December 14, 1820; John A. Graham: November 26, 1827; Governor Nath. C. Picher: April 17, 1828;
H. Clay: April 19, 1828: Jacob Van Ness: April 28, 1828
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Miscellaneous letters to John Savage
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
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5 letters - from his father Edward Savage: April 6, 1829; Governor E. T. Throop: July 4, 1829; Governor W.C. Marcy: December
31, 1832; John A. Dix: November 18, 1835; Martin Van Buren: July 27, 1837
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Series II. Documents
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Edward Savage
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Edward Savage Records: Pay Rolls of Captain Joshua Conckey's Company of Rangers (1776-1777)
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Box 5 | Folder 5 |
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4 documents
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Edward Savage Records (1776-1786)
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Box 5 | Folder 6 |
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7 documents
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. . . the Secretary's Office, Feb. 16 1784
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Box 11 | Folder 3 |
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Edward Savage Records (1787-1832)
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Box 5 | Folder 7 |
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7 documents
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Edward Savage Records: Pay Roll of Captain Joshua Conckey's Company of Rangers (1776)
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Box 6 | Folder 1 |
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1 document
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Edward Savage Records: Appointments (1783-1813)
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Box 6 | Folder 2 |
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2 documents
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Edward Savage appointment as surrogate, 1783
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Box 11 | Folder 10 |
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John Savage
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Records of John Savage: Union College (1799)
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Box 3 | Folder 7 |
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2 documents
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Records of John Savage: Oration (1803)
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Box 3 | Folder 8 |
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Records of John Savage (1802-1888)
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Box 3 | Folder 9 |
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7 documents
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Admission as Counselor at Law, Supreme Court (1806)
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Box 11 | Folder 1 |
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Admission as Solicitor and Councilor at Law, Court of Chancery (1820)
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Box 11 | Folder 2 |
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"I do here authorize and license him . . ." fourth line down (n.d.)
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Box 11 | Folder 9 |
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Records of John Savage (1804-1863)
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Box 5 | Folder 8 |
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6 documents
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Commission for the honorable J. Savage as Chief Justice Jan. 29, 1823
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Box 11 | Folder 8 |
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Records of John Savage (1802-1823)
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Box 6 | Folder 3 |
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9 documents
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Diploma from Union College: J. Savage 1802
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Box 11 | Folder 7 |
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Savage family
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Savage Records: Insurance Deeds (1863-1865)
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Box 3 | Folder 10 |
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4 documents
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Savage Records: Financial (1815-1865)
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Box 3 | Folder 11 |
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5 documents
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Last Will and Testament of John Savage (1863)
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Box 3 | Folder 12 |
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Obituaries of John and Ruth Wheeler Savage (1863-1884)
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Box 3 | Folder 13 |
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2 documents
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Adams family
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Poem by Robert Burns to Sally (Sarah) Adams (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 2 |
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Examination taken by Abigail Louisa Smith Adams (1814)
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Box 4 | Folder 3 |
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Obituary Notices of Abigail Adams (1818)
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Box 4 | Folder 4 |
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2 documents
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Johnson family
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Field Book by George Webster of John Johnson's property (1796)
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Box 4 | Folder 1 |
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Proxy signed by Bryan Johnson, father of Alexander B. Johnson (1818)
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Box 4 | Folder 5 |
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Extract from the Autobiography of Alexander B. Johnson: Lafayette (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 6 |
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Obituary Notices of Abigail Louisa Smith Johnson (1836)
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Box 4 | Folder 7 |
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2 documents
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Marriage Certificate of Arthur B. Johnson and Eliza S. Hunt (1859)
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Box 4 | Folder 8 |
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Last Will and Testament of Alexander B. Johnson (1867)
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Box 4 | Folder 9 |
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Obituary Notices of Alexander B. Johnson (1868)
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Box 4 | Folder 10 |
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Handwritten obituary notice for Mary Ann Savage Hunt who died in 1846. Believed to be written by Montgomery Hunt Johnson Sr.
(n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 11 |
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Obituary Notice of Lieutenant John S. Hunt who died in 1864 (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 12 |
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Notices from the Colonial Dames to Eliza S. Johnson (1905-1906)
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Box 4 | Folder 13 |
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2 documents
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Three stock certificates belonging to Montgomery Hunt Johnson for shares in Utica Plantations, Inc. and Sconondoa Inn, Inc.
(1915-1920)
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Box 4 | Folder 14 |
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Johnson Records (1805-1830)
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Box 5 | Folder 9 |
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4 documents
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Will and settlements of the estate of Maria T. Hunt, second wife of Ward Hunt (1883-1913)
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Box 5 | Folder 10 |
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Wills and settlements of the estate of Eliza S. Johnson (1897-1906)
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Box 5 | Folder 11 |
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3 documents
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Documents regarding Ward Hunt Johnson and his trustees Mary S. Johnson and Montgomery H. Johnson (1909-1937)
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Box 5 | Folder 12 |
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2 documents
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Johnson Records: Arthur B. Johnson's commission as Commissioner of Railroads signed by President Chester A. Arthur (1882)
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
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Series III. Miscellaneous
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Genealogy/Family History
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"Semitic Notes": Johnson Family History (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 21 |
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Genealogy of the Johnson, Adams, Smith, Bosch, Het, Quincy, Fowle, Boylston, Shepard, Norton, and Bass Families (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 16 |
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Handwritten Family Record of the Savage, Wheeler, and Hunt Families (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 17 |
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Ancestral Tablets (n.d.)(photocopy)
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Box 5 | Folder 18 |
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Lyman Family and Wheeler Family Record (n.d.)
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Box 7 | Folder 3 |
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Photographs
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Photograph of the Savage House in Salem, N.Y. (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 17 |
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Photographs of the Garden at the Old Johnson House at 235 Genesee St., Utica, N.Y. (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 19 |
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4 pictures
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Photograph of Ward Hunt (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 20 |
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Miscellaneous Adams, Savage, and Johnson Family Items
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Lock of John Adams' hair (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 16 |
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Report from the President and Directors of the Ontario Bank. Believed to be written by Alexander B. Johnson (n.d.)
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Box 5 | Folder 15 |
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Edward Savage's New York Pocket Almanac (1790)
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Box 7 | Folder 1 |
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John Savage's "Horse Back Journey" (1817)
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
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Music Book Belonging to John Savage (n.d.)
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Box 7 | Folder 4 |
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Autograph Album Belonging to Ward Hunt Johnson
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Box 7 | Folder 5 |
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Includes signatures from R. B. Hayes, Hamilton Fish, M. R. Waite (Chief Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), Nathan Clifford (Assoc.
Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), N. H. Swayne (Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), Sam. J. Miller (Assoc. Justice- U.S. Supreme
Court), David Davis (Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), [Stephen Field] (Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), W. S. Strong
(Assoc. 7 5 1877 (cont.) Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), Jos. P. Bradley (Assoc. Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), Ward Hunt (Assoc.
Justice-U.S. Supreme Court), W. A. Wheeler (Vice President), T. W. Henry (President of the Senate of the U.S.), Francis Kernan,
Wm. M. Evarts, (Secretary of State), John Sherman (Secretary of the Treasury), Geo. W. McCrary (Secretary of War), R. W. Thompson
(Secretary of the Navy), Carl Schurz (Secretary of the Interior ), D. M. Key (Post Master General), Chas. Davis
(Attorney General), W. T. Sherman (General), P. H. Sheridan, Wm. M. Evarts, Alexander Stephens, Joseph Henry
(President of the Smithsonian Institute), illegible, Wm. Ingraham Kip, John G. Whittier, Th. Nast, William Cullen Bryant,
Geo. Bancroft, piece of manuscript with annotation "Part of original of one of Cooper's novels," letter from Alfred B. Street,
Henry W. Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Donald G. Mitchell, Edwin Booth, Henry Ward Beecher, Celia Thaxter.
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Scrapbook containing charcoal and color drawings, some of which are signed by Laura Savage (1838-1856)
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Box 8 | Folder 1 |
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Journal with accounts and essays, possibly belonging to Alexander B. Johnson (1806)
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Box 8 | Folder 2 |
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Alexander Bryan Johnson Autobiography, transcribed by Eliza Stringham Morton (1930)
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Box 9 | |
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Volume I: 1786-1814
Volume II: 1814-1828 |
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Alexander Bryan Johnson Autobiography, transcribed by Eliza Stringham Morton (1930)
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Volume III: 1828-1839
Volume IV: 1839-1867 |
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Documents Not Related to the Adams, Savage, and Johnson Families
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Miscellaneous letters (1796-1852)
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
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7 letters - from Montgomery Hunt to his sister Lydia Wheeler: May 12, 1796; Ann Smith to Julia Rush: May 30, 1809; R. W. [Crawmshield]
to Dr. J. Mairs: April 4, 1815; M. Hunt to Ephraim Hart: January 21, 1820; Martin Van Buren to Ward Hunt: September 26, 1846;
Mrs. [Rainier] to Mr. Hunt: November 16, 1846; [Nath] Sherman to Geo. Peabody: May 27, 1852
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Presidential Signatures
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Discharge of Abraham McKillip signed by President George Washington (1783)
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Box 5 | Folder 13 |
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Land Grant Certificates signed by President James Monroe (1817-1818)
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Box 5 | Folder 14 |
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Grant to Daniel Harrington
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Warrant #4120 to Sylvester Rowley Dec. 19, 1817 (Military)
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Box 11 | Folder 4 |
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Warrant [121] to Eliphalet Peabody Nov. 29, 1817 (Military)
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Box 11 | Folder 5 |
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Warrant #3079 to Benjamin Bailey April 3, 1818
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Box 11 | Folder 6 |
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Autographs of John Quincy Adams (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 15 |
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5 envelopes
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Autographed engraving of Ulysses S. Grant (n.d.)
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Box 4 | Folder 18 |
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Johnson Records: Arthur B. Johnson's commission as Commissioner of Railroads signed by President Chester A. Arthur (1882)
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
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Linen copy of the Declaration of Independence
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