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  <titleInfo>
    <title>George Chalmers collection, 1640-1825</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Chalmers, George</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1742-1825</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>1,383</extent>
    <extent>31</extent>
    <extent>8</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, journals, accounts, reports, petitions, notes, financial records, and other papers collected by Chalmers concerning British colonial administration, especially in the Americas, and British activity in the American Revolution.  Pertains to Africa, the Bahamas, Barbados, Caledonia (Darien, Panama and Columbia), Falkland Islands, Grenada, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Minorca, New South Wales, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Québec, Saint Vincent, West Florida, and the West Indies.  Includes papers relating to British and Scottish trade, trade with Havana (Cuba), British naval affairs in Brazil, and the Anglican Church in America; papers (1782) concerning the British garrison in Charleston, S.C.; appeal (1746) of the Mohegan Indians against the colony of Connecticut; account (1773) of the Mississippi River; and New Hampshire census materials (1773-1774).</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondence, journals, accounts, reports, petitions, notes, financial records, and other papers collected by Chalmers concerning British colonial administration, especially in the Americas, and British activity in the American Revolution.  Pertains to Africa, the Bahamas, Barbados, Caledonia (Darien, Panama and Columbia), Falkland Islands, Grenada, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Minorca, New South Wales, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Québec, Saint Vincent, São Miguel (Azores), West Florida, and the West Indies.  Includes papers relating to British and Scottish trade, trade with Havana (Cuba), British naval affairs in Brazil, and the Anglican Church in America; papers (1782) concerning the British garrison in Charleston, S.C.; appeal (1746) of the Mohegan Indians against the colony of Connecticut; account (1773) of the Mississippi River; and New Hampshire census materials (1773-1774).</abstract>
  <abstract>Individuals represented include Baron William Eden Auckland, John Russell (Duke of Bedford), Sir Francis Bernard, Peter Chester, Thomas Gage, Nathanael Greene, Whitehead Hicks, John Mathews, Robert Monckton, Charles Pinfold, William Pitt, William Tryon, Benning Wentworth, and Sir William Young.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 17,137 (reels 1-8).</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.</note>
  <note>Historian and antiquarian.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Peter Force papers and collection (Series 8A : entries 1-63).</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baron</namePart>
      <namePart>Auckland, William Eden</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1744-1814</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Duke of</namePart>
      <namePart>Bedford, John Russell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1710-1771</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Bernard, Francis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1712-1779</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chester, Peter</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">approximately 1717-1799</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gage, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1721-1787</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greene, Nathanael</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1742-1786</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Hicks, Whitehead</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1728-1780</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mathews, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1744-1802</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Monckton, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1726-1782</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pinfold, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1677-1754</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Pitt, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1759-1806</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tryon, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1729-1788</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wentworth, Benning</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1696-1770</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Sir</namePart>
      <namePart>Young, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1749-1815</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Great Britain.</namePart>
      <namePart>Army</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Colonial forces</topic>
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Great Britain.</namePart>
      <namePart>Royal Navy</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Foreign service</topic>
    <geographic>Brazil</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Episcopal Church.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Indians of North America</topic>
    <geographic>Connecticut</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mohegan Indians</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Africa</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1884</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Azores</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Bahamas</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Barbados</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1763 (New France)</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Canada</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1763-1791</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Charleston (S.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Colombia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Darien (Panama and Colombia)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Falkland Islands</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Colonies</topic>
    <topic>Administration</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Colonies</topic>
    <geographic>America</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>Cuba</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>History, Naval</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Grenada</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Havana (Cuba)</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Honduras</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1838</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>India</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Jamaica</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1962</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Minorca (Spain)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>New South Wales</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Newfoundland</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Nova Scotia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Panama</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>To 1903</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Québec (Province)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Saint Vincent</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>São Miguel Island (Azores)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Scotland</geographic>
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>British forces</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>West Florida</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>West Indies</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Antiquarians</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Historians</occupation>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 77015487</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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