Box 1

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(30 items: accounts, letters, resolutions, memorials, petitions, etc.) includes:

signed petitions (ca. 1805) against increase in taxes for low-income people and petitions for a change in the system of how those with low incomes are provided for [17 documents]

Scope and Contents (7 items: letter, essay, petitions, etc.) includes:signed petition of the "Minister, Trustees, Elders and Deacons of the German Reformed Congregation in & near Philada." [document, undated but ca. 1808?]signed petition (1796) of the "Evangelical German Lutheran Synod, held at Yorktown, ..." [document]letter, Phila., 1 mo. 23, 1808 to Charles W. Hare, signed by Samuel Pemberton, Nicholas Waln, Henry Drinker, Thomas Morris, Jonathan Evans and Thomas...

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"Report of the joint-committee of the Select and Common Councils, on the city debts and expenditures, and on the city credits and resources." 1800-1801. [2 D, printed]

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(35 items: accounts, letters, deed, resolutions, ordinances, etc.) topics include:

"committee for watering the city"; bridge over the Schuylkill; rental property of the city corporation; fire relief for Dock Street (May 9, 1806); health laws

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(3 items)

Meredith, William Phila., Feb. 10, 1808. (relating to City Corporation business) [letter]

Ralston, Robert Phila., Mar. 18, 1808. (respecting distressed seamen, etc.) [letter]

Wharton, Robert (Mayor) Phila., Feb. 29, 1808. (wants increased penalties against vice and immorality) [letter]

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(2 items)

Executors' account (ca. 1855) of estate of Thomas Pim Cope, marked "Copy" [document]

1813 document remitting fines resulting from importation of goods, signed by secretary of Treasury. [document]

Scope and Contents (ca. 56 items: letters, receipts, bills, subscription lists, broadside, Meeting related papers and papers of Friends committee assisting the Germans to settle here, find land, etc.) includes letters from the following:Allen, William, copy of a letter to Stephen Grellet, 3 mo. 27, 1817Banzhaf, Gottfried, letter in German, also translated copy, dated Oct. 5, 1816Banzhaff, John G[ottfried], translation of letter dated Pittsburgh, 10 mo. 11, 1817,...

Scope and Contents (ca. 24 items: letters, receipts, bills, accounts, map, papers of the Friends committee assisting the Germans to settle here, find land, etc.) includes letters from the following:Baeumler, I.N, letter, Kendal, 11 mo. 23, 1817 to Jacob Meyer [also translation of same]Banzhaf, et al., letter [in German], Zoar, 6 mo. 1, 1818 to John Cook and Friends in Phila. [also translation of same]Baumler, Jos. Mich., copy of letter to John Cooke and the Committee, dated...

Scope and Contents (25 items, 1828-1830: letter, manuscript copies of letters, documents, etc.), includes:letters (letters and copies, ca. 20) re legal aspects of the Separation as regards property [letters and manuscript copies of letters are from Horace Binney, Thomas P. Cope, C.F. Ingersoll, Eli K. Price, Thomas Kittera, John Wurts]"Opinion - on the property and rights of Friends - 3 mo. 19, 1828" manuscript copy]subscription list, "We agree to pay the sum of thirty...

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7 items (re to real estate), includes: "Brief of title. Friends Lot Schuyll. 4th & Mulberry Sts." (1828)