Box 10

Includes: "Proposals for establishing another Bank in the city of Philadelphia," the Constitution of the Bank of Pennsylvania, correspondence re: the establishment of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and a receipt.

A small diary, unknown author

Includes: a letter from the Mayor of Philadelphia to Benjamin Shoemaker re: Shoemaker's appointment as attorney, 1751; numerous proposals and petitions to the Mayor of Philadelphia re: improvements to the City; responses and reports in response to petitions made about the City. Most petitions revolve around the wharfs, ferries, and water management, but there are at least a few petitions re: punishment or imprisonment.

Includes a genealogy of the Shippen family and genealogical and biographical information on the Evans, Gregg, Hubley, Patterson, Potter and Schall families

A large collection of miscellaneous fragments; Includes miscellaneous correspondence, accounts or receipts, and legal doucments

Includes a Fraktur document from 1815, portraits (both printed and photocopies) of James Patterson, Mrs. Edward Shippen, James Yeates, Edward Shippen, Edward Burd, and Margaret Shippen Arnold, and newspaper clippings related to portraiture of the subjects of the collection

A sampler completed by Mary Ann {Dover?] in 1810

Includes: doucments re: the appointment of William Lyons as Attorney, 1762, notes on court cases, two lists of fines forfeited in 1784, and bills of the court.

Includes: list of fines collected; a deposition; Interrogatories and chancery in the case of Welsh v. [Fiddis?]& Others; an incomplete copy of printed legal rules; an inventory of court cases, 1794; a list of subpeonas in Waynesburg, 1799; multiple jury lists 1800-1801; "outstanding debts" of John Elder, 1805; documents from the New York Mayor's Court, 1813-1815, and more.