Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
The collection contains papers related to John Armstrong's service as a surveyor in Cumberland County between 1755 and 1783. These papers include correspondence with the Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania and Delaware, John Lukens, complaints from his clients, and several survey maps drawn by...
Location: MC 2001.4
Subject: Business and Industry, Land and Real Estate
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799
Collection Inventory: 
mc2001.04.pdf
The collection consists of the papers of Charles Gilbert Beetem, a Carlisle, PA rug manufacturer, local historian and genealogist, amateur artist, and omnivorous collector. Diaries, manuscripts, letters, advertisements, greeting cards, and extensive runs of Philadelphia and Carlisle turn-of-the-...
Location: MC 2002.7
Subject: Business and Industry, Carlisle and Cumberland County, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Land and Real Estate, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life, Religion and Spirituality, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Diaries and Journals, Fiction and Drama, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Notes and Notebooks, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: mc2002.07.pdf
The collection contains materials relating to family life on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and in Ohio. The central figure is Daniel Bowdle (1796-1876), who as a young man moved to Cincinnati and became the successful business man of his family, with real estate and other interests. He aided his...
Location: MC 1998.3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Speeches and Sermons
Time Period: 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939
Collection Inventory: mc1998.03.pdf
The collection includes business letters and legal papers of the Burd family, early deeds and patents, settlement of the Edward Shippen Burd estate 1848-1870, and correspondence concerning bequests for St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia, the Burd memorial there, and the "Burd Orphan Asylum."
Location: MC 1999.10
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879
Collection Inventory: mc1999.10.pdf
George Dum (c.1863-1918) served as secretary and treasurer for the Perry County-based Oak Grove Lumber Company. This collection contains materials pertaining to his interest in this venture, as well as his family's legal dealings with the associated Oak Grove and Kennedy's Valley timber tracts...
Location: MC 2008.1
Subject: Business and Industry, Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: mc2008.01.pdf
Robert Emory (1814-1848) taught Latin and Greek at Dickinson between 1834 and 1840 and served as acting president in 1842-43 and 1845-47. This collection contains personal correspondence, as well legal and financial documents, primarily regarding the management of land.
Location: MC 2007.4
Subject: Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Collection Inventory: mc2007.04.pdf
T. Edward Munce Jr. (1914-1980) graduated from Dickinson College (class of 1939) and the Dickinson School of Law. He was a World War II veteran, State Department employee, and lawyer for the Public Utility Commission. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence and Christmas cards...
Location: MC 2005.5
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Literary Pursuits, Military Affairs and Conflict, Politics and Government
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1780-1799, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979, 1980-1999
Collection Inventory: mc2005.05.pdf
The collection documents the lives of the members of the Potter, Guererro, James, and Lord families from the 1850s to the 1940s, beginning with Henry Cardwell Potter (1822-1902), a Philadelphia businessman who through his business dealings became Consul of Nicaragua for the city. Potter's...
Location: MC 1998.8
Subject: Business and Industry, Health and Medicine, Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life, Sport and Recreation, Travel and Tourism
Format: Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959
Collection Inventory: mc1998.08.pdf
The collection documents several generations of the Poulson family and its role in publishing Poulson's American Daily Advertiser. It includes submissions, woodcuts, and sample issues from the Daily Advertiser; correspondence; genalogical materials; and financial and legal...
Location: MC 2006.2
Subject: Economics and Finance, Education, Genealogy and Family History, Health and Medicine, Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Poetry and Lyrics, Scrapbooks
Time Period: 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919
Collection Inventory: mc2006.02.pdf
The collection consists of the papers of the families of Jacob and Cornelius Vanderbilt, farmers and tax assessors of Newton Township, Cumberland County, Pa. Accounts of the Civil War are included among family correspondence, bills, accounts, and tax lists. Also included in the collection are a...
Location: MC 2001.14
Subject: Genealogy and Family History, Land and Real Estate, Military Affairs and Conflict, Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality
Format: Books and Pamphlets, Essays and Dissertations, Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899
Collection Inventory: mc2001.14.pdf
The Anthony Wayne collection consists of four notebooks kept by Anthony, Charles, and Isaac Wayne. The two notebooks belonging to Anthony Wayne, dated 1762 to 1764, contain notes on mathematics and surveying; the notebook of Charles Wayne also includes notes on mathematics. Isaac Wayne's...
Location: MC 2003.11
Subject: Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life, Science and Technology
Format: Diaries and Journals, Notes and Notebooks
Collection Inventory: mc2003.11.pdf
This collection is comprised of letters written to Isaac Wayne, Dickinson College Class of 1792 and Pennsylvania statesman, on various subjects ranging from biographical information on his father (General Anthony Wayne) to Wayne's service in Congress. Also included are a few letters written by...
Location: MC 2001.11
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs, Literary Pursuits, Politics and Government
Format: Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Maps and Diagrams
Collection Inventory: mc2001.11.pdf
John Dickinson writes two letters to attorney George Read concerning legal matters. The first expresses his unwillingness to engage Mr. Gooding in a chancery suit. The second concerns the examination of a witness, Mrs. Mary Allmond, to a deed for land in which Dickinson is interested....
Location: MC 2001.13, B1, F1-2
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
John Dickinson sells the tract of land, "Brothers Portion," near Dove, Kent County in Delaware to William Killen on August 12, 1766. Dickinson signs the deed with his personal seal and Caesar Rodney signs it as the Recorder.
Location: O-SpahrB-1965-3
Subject: Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1760-1779
Continental Congress delegate John Montgomery signs this agreement to take up 150 acres of land on Jack's Creek in Cumberland County.
Location: I-HunterW-1974-1
Subject: Carlisle and Cumberland County, Land and Real Estate
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1760-1779
Attorney John Dickinson writes this legal opinion regarding George Churchman's case, which is centered on a disagreement over land. "I have concluded ... that Churchman's title to the Land in Dispute, is good in Law," as Dickinson notes.
Location: I-SpahrB-1958-18
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
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
John Culbertson receives this deed for 300 acres in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. John Dickinson, as President of the Supreme Executive Council, signs the deed on November 8, 1784.
Location: I-BeachW-2010-2
Subject: Land and Real Estate
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
President of Pennsylvania John Dickinson authorizes John Lukens, Pennsylvania Surveyor General, to survey the land that Joseph Martin purchased in Northampton County. This document is a copy of the original, created in September 1820 by Surveyor General Jacob Spangler. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2001.13, B1, F12
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
John Armstrong, Jr. writes to the Secretary's Office about the notice of sale of lands in the fourth district surveyed by Mr. Cunningham. James Trimble signs the document for Armstrong. Transcript included.
Location: I-SpahrB-undated-1
Subject: Land and Real Estate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
George Thompson writes Robert Magaw about obtaining soldiers' pay owed from service during the Revolutionary War and discusses the conditions for selling "the plantation in my absence." Thompson explains how "we must charge the United States with my Fathers Pay as a Brigadier Genl… from the...
Location: I-ValeM-1947-64
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Military Affairs and Conflict
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
John Dickinson asks Robert Magaw to have representatives of George Stevenson search for a particular survey that might be among his papers. If they find it, Dickinson requests that they "send it to the survey or general's office." Transcript included.
Location: I-ValeM-1947-71
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Benjamin Rush writes to his wife, Julia Stockton Rush, regarding poetry, the division of land, and his medical essays. Transcript included.
Location: I-ButterfieldL-1971-1
Subject: Health and Medicine, Land and Real Estate, Literary Pursuits, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
John Dickinson writes to Robert Magaw regarding rent due from Dickinson's tenant, Paul Randolph. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1787-1
Subject: Economics and Finance, Land and Real Estate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
