Joseph Galloway family papers, 1743-1823.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 260 items; 1 container; 0.4 linear ftSubject(s): - Galloway, Elizabeth, approximately 1754- -- Correspondence
- Galloway, Grace Growden, -1789 -- Correspondence
- Nickelson, Thomas -- Correspondence
- Galloway family
- Pennsylvania. General Assembly
- United States. Continental Congress
- American loyalists
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
- Legislators -- Pennsylvania
Open to research.
Chiefly family correspondence of Galloway, his wife, Grace Growden Galloway, their daughter, Elizabeth, and Mrs. Galloway's brother, Thomas Nickelson, of Dorset, England. Includes travel notebook (1770-1808) and letters (1776-1781) of Galloway to his wife; verses written and collected by Grace Galloway, together with letters describing her trials as a Loyalist wife during the American Revolution; and correspondence of Elizabeth with English friends.
Loyalist and member of the Continental Congress and Pennsylvania Assembly.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010071
Collection material in English.
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