MAN. Manuscript Collections

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Collection of records related to customs duties. Includes manifest books, account books, and lists of vessels and cargoes entering or clearing the ports of Baltimore, Annapolis, Patuxent, and Oxford, Maryland.

Abstract The Purviance papers contains correspondence pertaining to the Maryland Committee of Safety, of which Robert and Samuel Purviance were both members during the Revolutionary war. These letters describe the progress of the campaigns, as well as the efforts to provide supplies of salt, guns, and ammunition for the soldiers of the Continental Army. Also included in the collection is Robert Purviance Jr.'s handwritten manuscript, A Narrative of Events which Occurred in...

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This collection documents the Randall-Brune-Philpot families from 1760-1983.

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This collection primarily contains the papers of Daniel R. Randall (1864-1936), a lawyer and historian based in Baltimore and Annapolis. His papers include a scrapbook with illustrations clipped from Harper's Magazine; an account book listing estates handled; essays, notes, speeches; and correspondence concerning efforts to locate the grave of Governor Robert Eden. Material from other Randall family members is also included in the collection.

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The papers in the Ranft Collection span the years 1943 to 1976, with the bulk of the collection falling between the years 1948-1962. The collection consists of letters, news articles, financial records, travel information, interviews, and over a hundred photographs. The collection has been arranged around Joseph and Adele Ranft.

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This collection consists of genealogical data compiled by Raymond B. Clark, Jr., and Adele Moody, great-great-granddaughter of Joshua Johnson (1742-1802).

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The collection primarily contains letters written to Rebecca Shippen as well as ephemera saved by the Shippen family, such as church sermons.

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The Redwood collection includes correspondence of Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood (1879-1940), genealogical correspondence and research notes (1907-1935), estate papers (1815-1917), and diaries and notebooks (1806-1865) of members of the Buchanan, Coale, Dorsey, Proud, Hopkinson and related families.

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This collection contains primarily letters from Lt. George Buchanan Redwood (1888-1918) to his mother Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood (1861-1940) as well as the sympathy letters she received after he was killed in action on May 28, 1918 during World War I. Also included in the collection is the correspondence of William E. Coale (1816-1865) and George Buchanan Coale (1819-1887) and a volume of poems entitled "Random Rhymes at Truant Times" belonging to John Greene Proud, Jr. (1813-1883).

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The papers in this collection belonged to Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood, and consist of some of her personal letters, letters to George B. Coale and Charles Bradenbaugh, four loose-leaf binders of copied letters and records about her son, George B. Redwood, transcribed papers of the Hopkinson, Duche, Dorsey, Coale and other families, and copies of essays and poems.