Scope and content

Correspondence with Carpenter Wharton from Henry Hollingsworth, Robert Morris, Joseph Trumbull, George Washington, Jeremiah Wadsworth, John Hancock, Richard Peters, George Clymer, and George Walton and transcriptions of all correspondence.

Scope and content Journal (1776) of Colonel Ebeneezer Francis which relates his activities from the time he set out from Cambridge camp and his contacts with General Washington, other patriot officers, and the Continental Congress, describes many New England towns, skirmishes, and ship-movements, repeats army gossip, and tells of a plot by the Mayor of New York to seize General Washington; Francis family letters describing a visit to Harvard College (1787), and discussing the division of family property, the...

Abstract

The Johnson Family Papers consist of correspondence, wills, diplomas, marriage certificates, obituaries, photographs, genealogical notes and family histories, land grant certificates, military documents, a book of autographs, and other papers and documents of the Johnson and related families, direct descendants of the Presidential Adams family. The family was located chiefly in Utica, New York.

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Letters, leases, and notices of suits to Salter in Buffalo, New York; also, a letter from J. H. Edmonds of Utica, New York concerning possible letters of General Washington still in existence in the possession of Mr. Mann of the Legislature at Albany; letters to George A. Moore concerning shipments of salt and cheese by canal.