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Andrew Allen | Espy L. Anderson | J. P. Anderson |
Thomas Astley | Robert H. Awl | Richard Bache |
Hugh Barclay | John Y. Barclay | William Barton |
William J. Bell | Horace Binney | James Blaine |
Samuel Breck | Enos Bronson | Edward Burd |
Pierce Butler | Thomas Cadwalader | George Campbell |
William Cathcart | Richard Caton | John Reynolds Coates |
Robert H. Coleman | Charles Coxe | John Coxe |
Richard Coxe | Tench Coxe | William Coxe |
Henry Drinker, Jr. | James Dunlop | Peter Stephen DuPonceau |
Joseph Joshua Dyster | James Eakin | Isaac Eaton |
David Espy | James Finley | James C. Fisher |
Samuel W. Fisher | George D. Foulke | Hyman Gratz |
Simon Gratz | Robert Hambleton | James Hamilton |
William Hartley | Isaac Hazlehurst | William Hodgson |
John Holliday | Henry Hollingsworth | Thomas Jones |
John Kidd | Abraham Kintzing | George Latimer |
James Latimer | David Lenox | George A. Madeira |
John F. Mifflin | William Orbison | Jeremiah Parker |
William Parker | Isaac Parrish | Robert Patterson |
Richard Peters | William Phillips | John Pickering |
Octavius Pickering | Samuel Pleasants | William Proctor, Jr. |
James Ross | Dr. Benjamin Rush | Alexander Scott |
James Searight | George Sheaff | George W. Smith |
Joseph Smith | Richard Smith | William Peters Smith |
William Steel | Thomas Stewardson | Samuel Stillman |
William W. Taylor | John Tod | William H. Tod |
George Vaux | Duncan S. Walker | Jonathan H. Walker |
William Waln | Henry Wertz, Jr. | Joseph Warton |
Samuel Wharton | Rev. William White | Jacob C. Wikoff |
Jasper Yeates |
Land Papers, 1684-1838
Miscellaneous papers, 2 cu. ft.
General Accounts, 1761-1840
Accounts, 2.5 cu. ft., including day books, 1811-1823, 5 vols., of Dr. John
Anderson; as well as miscellaneous accounts of the Bedford County Court House
and Prison; of the Bedford Academy; of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike
Company; of the Allegheny Bank of Pennsylvania, Bedford; and of the Bedford
and Stoystown Turnpike Company.
Bedford Mineral Springs Records, 1762-1904
Included are 1.3 cu. ft. of accounts, 1796-1887; broadsides, 1832-1840;
land papers, 1762-1817; legal papers, 1854-1882; pamphlets, 1825-1904; and photographs,
1817-1898. Also found is correspondence, 1832-1887, with the following individuals:
Robert H. Awl | Thomas R. Bird | James Boyd |
John H. Briggs | Charles Brodhead | John H. Carroll |
Thomas Carstairs | John Cessna | Mrs. S. S. Halderman Chickies |
John Devereux | Henry A. Dreer | George Espy |
William H. Hager | John H. Hampton | F. A. Kelker |
George W. Lyon | Henry McCormick | Wistar Morris |
H. B. Pennock | George Wharton Pepper | Edmund J. Plowden |
M. S. Quay | Cadwalader Ringgold | Dr. Fairfax Schley |
Joseph Swift | A. B. Warford |
Papers of George Woods, 1762-1827
Papers of George Woods (d. 1795), a noted surveyor, who laid out the city
of Pittsburgh, 1784; treasurer of Bedford County, 1773, 1774; member of the
General Assembly, 1773; member of the Committee of Correspondence, Bedford County,
1774, 1775; colonel of the Second Battalion, Bedford County Militia from 1776
until the end of the Revolution; member of the Supreme Executive Council, 1777-1779;
member of the State Board of Property, 1788, 1789; judge of Bedford County courts,
1790; and grandfather of Mary Espy Anderson. Included are land papers, 1762-1808;
accounts, including the estate settlement, 1795-1827; and correspondence, with
such correspondents as:
Thomas Astley | William Barton | Baynton, Wharton & Morgan |
Frederick R. Beates | Mark John Biddle | Ephraim Blaine |
Hugh Henry Brackenridge | James Bringhurst | David Brodhead |
James Burnside | George Campbell | John Canan |
Andrew Carson | Patrick Cassidy | John Cessna |
George Chambers | Benjamin Chew | George Clymer |
John R. Coates | Thomas Collins | Charles Coxe |
James Coxe | John Coxe | William Coxe |
Thomas Crossan | James Dickinson | Henry Drinker, Jr. |
Thomas Duncan | George Elder | Samuel Finley |
Alexander Fullerton | Robert Galbraith | Mary Gettys |
Josiah W. Gibbs | Sebastian Graff | Reuben Haines |
James Hamilton | Edward Hand | James Harris |
John Heaton | Michael Hillegas | Levi Hollingsworth |
R. L. Hooper, Jr. | James Hunter | Jared Ingersoll |
William Irvine | Joseph Kirkbride | William Lane |
George Latimer | Nathan Lufborough | John Lukens |
William Lyons | John McKissick | John Marshall |
Hugh Means | John F. Mifflin | William Montgomery |
Benjamin R. Morgan | Israel Morris | Robert Morris |
William Mott | Richard Neave, Jr. | John Nicholson |
John Nixon | James Orbison | John Ormsby |
Jeremiah Parker | William Parker | Richard Peters |
Jonathan Potts | Samuel Powell | Augustus Prevost |
James Purviance, Jr. | John H. Purviance | Robert Purviance |
Samuel Rhoads | James Ross | Dr. Benjamin Rush |
William Sheaff | Robert Sinclaire | John Skinner |
John Smith | Thomas Smith | Samuel Stillman |
Richard Tea | William H. Tod | Joseph Vickroy |
John Wells | George Wescott | Joseph Wharton |
John Woods | John Young |
Papers of David Espy, 1771-1804
Papers of David Espy (b. 1730, d. 1795), lawyer; member of the Council of
Public Safety, 1776; colonel of the Bedford County Militia, 1776; prothonotary
of Bedford County, 1778-1790; and father of Mary Espy Anderson. Correspondents
include James Armstrong, A. J. Dallas, Daniel Duncan, Benjamin Elliot, William
Hartley, David Hoge, John Hubley, John Nicholson, John Ormsby, Thomas Smith,
James Trimble, Samuel Waugh, John Woods and Paul Zantzinger. Also present are
legal papers, 1771-1795, and accounts, including estate settlement, 1795-1804.
Papers of Espy L. Anderson, 1820-1872
Papers, 1.5 cu. ft., of Espy L. Anderson (b. 18 10, d. 1866), son of Dr.
John Anderson and Mary Espy Anderson. Included are accounts, 1820-1872, and
printed items, 1839-1858, including Rules and Regulations for the Government
of the Transportation Department of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad, 1858.
Correspondents include:
Major William Watson Anderson |
Thomas R. Bird | James Blaine |
Thomas S. Blair | James Boyd | John H. Briggs |
Benjamin Chambers | George Chambers, Jr. | Samuel Chew |
Andrew Gregg Curtin | John White Geary | Jacob M. Haldeman |
Francis Jordan | Kelker & Brothers | J. H. McCauley |
Henry McCormick | Charles B. Penrose | Rev. Alonzo Potter |
James Ross | Casper Shunk | Richard Smith |
Thomas Smith | Thaddeus Stevens | A. B. Taliaferro |
S. Morris Waln | John Watson |
Papers of William Watson Anderson, 1857-1866
Papers of William Watson Anderson (b. 1839, d. 1865), son of Espy L. Anderson;
major, 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry; killed at Harpers Ferry, 1865. Papers contain
Civil War letters, 1861-1865; correspondence with John Cessna, William Orbison,
and A. S. Russell; accounts, 1860-1866; military papers, 1861-1865; and photographs,
n. d.
Family Papers, 1762-1900
Included are papers of the following family members:
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