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Scope and Contents Earliest documents (1774-75, 1778, 1783) are miscellaneous deeds and accounts. Letter of Andrew Shriver to his father, David Shriver, Sr., for advice regarding his marriage to Elizabeth Shultz, 1785. Letter of William Deakins, Jr. of Georgetown, Maryland, to Andrew Shriver to buy land along the Monocacy River to profit from the canal being built at the Great Falls, 1793. A few letters from David Shriver, Jr. while serving in the militia (1794-95) and discussing his trip to Kentucky (1796)....