Box 5

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Includes: Craig, Hugh to Burd Patterson. Shippensburg, [Pa.], 1862 2/26 re: old graveyard to be taken over by Presbyterians where some of Patterson's family was buried, the certificate of approval of Burd Patterson's appointment to the World's Fair Committee, History of the Sanderson family by Burd Patterson, n.d., and Resolution on the death of Burd Patterson to establish the Burd Patterson School of Mines,1867.

Scope and Contents Materials related to George Patterson include a letter to his wife from April 12, 1812, a letter from James Patterson to George Patterson from April 30, 1789, a promissory note dated Feb. 27, 1809 between George Patterson and George Rex, and a letter from Andrew Gregg to George Patterson on January 28, 1813 re: Patterson's patent which was presented to the department by Gregg. Materials related to consists of an agreement between Samuel Bryson and Patterson allowing Bryson to board at James...

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Includes: correspondence between James. B. Patterson and S. Warren Ingersoll re: the Patterson's mortguage, 1879-1883; a certificate of James B. Patterson's membership in the Centennial Assocation of Montogomery Coutny, PA, 1884; a copy of the patent filed by Malcom D. Patterson on "Making Photographic Prints," 1889; and miscellaneous accounts and receipts.

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Includes correspondence with US Patent Office and Scientific American (re Patterson’s new photographic camera and patent process) and other documents,1887-8. and a deed of George Pawling to Francis Patterson, October 7, 1897.

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Includes an inventory of the "goods, chattels, rights, and credits of the Estate of Mary Patterson," 1785; a letter from Theo. F. Patterson to J. R. Patterson re: a need for funds to travel West, 1870; an estate inventory appraised by Jane Patterson, n.d.; Notes of M. Patterson on placement of railroad tracks and re: Louis Hubley; genealogical information of the Patterson family; and four letters to additional Patterson family members, 1814-1853

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Four receipts of payment received by Mary J. Peale from Mrs. James B. Patterson [Matilda (Dowers) Patterson?] and James B. Patterson, Oct. 1857 and Oct. 1861; Two letters from A. C. Peale to Mrs. James B. Patterson [Matilda (Dowers) Patterson?], September 1893

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Letters are regarding land and estates written as a lawyer, sometimes to his son, as well as personal to his son, Edward Shippen, Jr.

Scope and Contents Primarily on legal matters: land, bonds, wills, estates. Letter writers include: James Alexander, Margaret Alford, Samuel Budd, James Burd, Richard Cary, Stephen Chambers, Benjamin Chew, Isaac Cox, Tench Coxe, Rosina Diehl, Isabel Graham, Thomas Hartley, D.A. Henderson, John Henry, John Kenny, John Ladd, David Ogden, Charles Pettit, Joseph Reed, Jacob Richman, James Riddle, John Scott, Mathias Slough, Thomas Smith, William Smith, Archibald Stewart, Adam Thompson, Jo Turner, James Wallace,...