Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
The Carlisle and Local Newspaper Collection consists of various newspapers that were produced in south central Pennsylvania, or feature articles which concern local events. The newspapers are arranged alphabetically by title and then chronologically; a description of the contents and donor...
Location: Carlisle and Local - Newspaper Collection 1769-2001
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Military Affairs and Conflict, Native Americans, Politics and Government
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1960-1979, 2000-2019
Collection Inventory: 
Carlisle and Local - Annotated Newspaper List
Collection Inventory: Carlisle and Local - Subject Index
Attorney James Wilson prepares this legal document about auditing accounts for the case of Stevenson & Thompson v. Ross & Cole. Both sides agree that "matters of account between them" will be referred to John Potts, John Patton, and Ephraim Blaine. The issue of Ross's discharge from...
Location: I-SpahrB-1959-11
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1760-1779
This legal notice, which is related to the case of Robert Urie v. Joseph Hudson, calls for the Sheriff of Cumberland County to collect the debt that Hudon owes Urie. Judge James Wilson signed this document and John Armstrong witnessed it.
Location: I-Friends-1995-3
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1760-1779
Attorney James Wilson writes to Jasper Yeates and discusses upcoming cases he will try in Cumberland, York, and Northumberland counties. Wilson also announces the birth of his son.
Location: I-SpahrB-1966-21
Subject: Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1760-1779
Continental Congressman John Dickinson writes to his colleague, James Wilson, and asks him to support General Charles Lee's request for financial assistance related to " his Estate being confiscated in England." "I do most earnestly beg of You to advocate [Lee's] Cause, and to speak to as many...
Location: MC 2001.13, B1, F1
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1760-1779
James Wilson, United States Supreme Court Justice and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to Francis Hopkinson, Judge of the Court of Admiralty of Pennsylvania, regarding the Brigantine Ariel. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-14
Subject: Legal Affairs, Military Affairs and Conflict
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Dickinson College Trustee James Wilson writes to William Bingham regarding a loan Wilson seeks from an unspecified Mr. Lettsom. Wilson also discusses the opening of Land Offices and the possibility of changes to the Pennsylvania state constitution. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-1964-11
Subject: Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson invites William Bingham to spend an hour the following evening visiting with him.
Location: I-Friends-1975-26
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
John Dickinson writes Robert Magaw and asks him to conduct a "strict Enquiry" into "a [mortgage] by James Wilson Esquire on my Land near Carlisle." Transcript included.
Location: I-ValeM-1947-69
Subject: Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson, United States Supreme Court Justice and signer of the Declaration of Independence, writes to United States Treasurer Samuel Meredith. Wilson requests the immediate payment of his month's salary. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-15
Subject: Economics and Finance, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson writes a love letter to Miss Hannah Grey and explains that he will not be able to visit her in Boston as he had hoped. Wilson asks her to "authorize me to think and call you mine." Three months after Wilson sends this letter, James Wilson and Hannah Grey are married. Transcript...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-16
Subject: Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson writes James Meredith to request that his salary be paid to his son, William Wilson, who, as noted by Meredith's comments on the back, has power of attorney. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-17
Subject: Economics and Finance, Legal Affairs, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
After James Wilson sells land in Pennsylvania (tract no. 5055) to Dr. Benjamin Rush on April 19, 1794, Dr. Rush sells that property to a Richard Stockton of New Jersey on May 28, 1794. John C. Otto, one of the witnesses to the transaction in 1794, later confirms on October 23, 1830 that "he was...
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-13
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson sends this note to Thomas Fitzsimons for a sum of $4500.
Location: I-SpahrB-1970-3
Subject: Economics and Finance
Format: Financial Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
Francis Mowing Jr. sells James Wilson 400 acres of land in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-48
Subject: Land and Real Estate
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson sends this promissory note to James McNeal for a sum of roughly 627 pounds. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-29
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance
Format: Financial Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
A check from the Bank of the United States to James Wilson for $1,000.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-47
Subject: Economics and Finance
Format: Financial Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson's promissory note to George Harrison for $1700 that has to be paid within sixty days. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-47
Subject: Economics and Finance
Format: Financial Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
James Wilson sends this promissory note to Henry Lee for a sum of $5,748.14. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-28
Subject: Economics and Finance
Format: Financial Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
Author Robert Waln, Jr. writes Pennsylvania politician Samuel Sitgreaves to ask for information about the life of James Wilson for a book entitled Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Waln poses nine questions to Sitgreaves regarding Wilson's personal and...
Location: I-Friends-1992-6
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1820-1839
Publisher: New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
Volume 2 of the Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana series includes essays from scholars that focus on various aspects of Dickinson College's history.
Table of Contents:
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Location: SC 378.748 D553b
Subject: Dickinson College History, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Technology, Social Reform and Advocacy
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1940-1959
