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The Winthrop Sargent papers

Title
The Winthrop Sargent papers / Frederick S. Allis, Jr., editor ; Roy Bartolomei, associate editor.
Author
Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society, 1965.

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Additional Authors
  • Allis, Frederick S., Jr. (Frederick Scouller), 1913-1993
  • Bartolomei, Roy.
  • Pershing, Benjamin Harrison, 1888-1966.
  • Massachusetts Historical Society.
  • United States. National Historical Publications Commission.
Description
7 microfilm reels; 35 mm.
Summary
Reproduces personal, business, and official correspondence; diaries; orderly book; lists of Ohio Company agents and sales; petitions; contracts; pamphlets; wills, tax slips, receipts, and other documents relating to the Sargent estate; an agricultural notebook; plats and survey reports; and other papers relating to the St. Clair expedition of which Sargent was adjutant general; to Sargent's survey of the 5th range, Northwest Territory; a trip from Marietta, Ohio, to Cahokia, Ill., with Governor Arthur St. Clair; Sargent's plantations near Natchez; the Congressional investigation of Sargent's administration of the Mississippi Territory and his dismissal; the Ohio Company; the early settlement and administration of the Northwest Territory; relations with the Spanish governments of Louisiana and West Florida; and military, business, and family matters.
Series Statement
  • Massachusetts Historical Society. Microfilm publication ; no. 1
  • Massachusetts Historical Society. Microfilm publication ; no. 1.
Uniform Title
Massachusetts Historical Society microfilm publication ; no. 1.
Alternative Title
Guide to the microfilm edition of the Winthrop Sargent papers.
Subject
  • Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 > Manuscripts
  • Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820
  • Ohio Company (1786-1796)
  • To 1865
  • Politics and government
  • Northwest, Old > History > 1775-1865 > Sources
  • Mississippi > Politics and government > To 1865 > Sources
  • Mississippi
  • United States > Old Northwest
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Manuscripts.
  • Sources.
Note
  • Filmed from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
  • Sponsored by the National Historical Publications Commission.
  • "Winthrop Sargent: a builder in the Old Northwest, by Benjamin Harrison Pershing" appears at beginning of reel 1.
  • Accompanied by a printed guide entitled: Guide to the microfilm edition of the Winthrop Sargent papers.
LCCN
  • 99190895
  • MSS51524
OCLC
  • ocm41137933
  • 41137933
  • SCSB-1148197
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library