Collection consists of correspondence (1730-37), land records (1703, 1727-37), financial records (1731-37), and memoranda (1734-37) of the Baltimore Company, an ironworks in Baltimore County.

This collection contains receipts, bills, and accounts of George Besore, dry goods merchant of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, largely with Baltimore firms. Invoices, notes, delivery orders, receipts, and letters are all to Besore.

Collection relates mostly to the business affairs of William Cooke, as attorney and tobaco commisson merchant; about 150 letters (1785-1819); accounts; papers on the settlement of the estates of John Cooke and Mrs. William Young and John O'Donnell.