Dunlop family papers, 1713-1930 (bulk 1776-1876).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 5,000 items; 20 containers plus 1 oversize; 8.0 linear feetSubject(s): - Buchanan, Andrew, active 1782 -- Correspondence
- Buchanan, David, active 1782 -- Correspondence
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 -- Correspondence
- Campbell, James (Merchant) -- Correspondence
- Downing, Samuel W
- Dunlop, Barbara Laird -- Correspondence
- Dunlop, Grace -- Correspondence
- Hyde, Thomas, -1795 -- Correspondence
- Laird, John, merchant in Greenock -- Correspondence
- Laird, William, active 1815 -- Correspondence
- Nicholls, William S., -1843 -- Correspondence
- Ritchie, Henry, -1792 -- Correspondence
- Ritchie, James, merchant in Glasgow -- Correspondence
- Robertson, James (Merchant) -- Correspondence
- Robertson, William (Merchant) -- Correspondence
- Wallace, Michael, active 1782 -- Correspondence
- Wyllie, Hugh, -1782 -- Correspondence
- Dunlap family
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
- Union Turnpike (Maryland)
- Grain trade -- New York (State) -- New York
- Grain trade -- Scotland -- Glasgow
- Grain trade -- Washington (D.C.)
- Practice of law -- Washington (D.C.)
- Tobacco industry -- New York (State) -- New York
- Tobacco industry -- Scotland -- Glasgow
- Tobacco industry -- Washington (D.C.)
- Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) -- Commerce
- Glasgow (Scotland) -- Commerce
- New York (N.Y.) -- Commerce
- Washington (D.C.) -- Surveys
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Correspondence, speeches, financial papers, business and legal records, wills, indentures, estate papers, land deeds, surveys, genealogical material, printed matter, and other papers chiefly concerning the tobacco and grain trade of James Dunlop (1724-1790) and James Dunlop (1755-1824) in Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), New York, N.Y., and Glasgow, Scotland, and the Washington law practice of Robert P. Dunlop and his brother James Dunlop (b. 1793). Also includes the papers of Francis Key Dunlop and William Dunlop, material concerning the court martial of Samuel W. Downing, Eliza Biddle's diary, and records relating to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company and the Union Turnpike, Maryland. Correspondents include Andrew Buchanan, David Buchanan, James Buchanan, James Campbell, Barbara Laird Dunlop, Grace Dunlop, Thomas Hyde, John Laird, William Laird, William S. Nicholls, Henry Ritchie, James Ritchie, James Robertson, William Robertson, Michael Wallace, and Hugh Wyllie.
Members of the Dunlop (Dunlap) family.
Collection material in English.
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