05763cpcaa2200949 a 4500 mm 78032177 DLC 20260227111625.0 cr ||||||||||| 781030|||||||||||| eng mm 78032177 ms 68002053 mm 85004543 DLC dacs DLC DLC C lcmd McHenry, James, 1753-1816. James McHenry papers, 1775-1862 (bulk 1775-1816). 3,600 items. 15 containers plus 1 oversize. 6 microfilm reels. 4.6 linear feet. Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1775-1862; Series 2: Miscellany, 1783-1829; Series 3: Addition, 1797-1798; and Series 4: Oversize, 1787. Open to research. Correspondence, memoranda, financial papers, and other papers relating to McHenry's service as U.S. secretary of war in the administrations of George Washington and John Adams; and as a Continental Army officer, particularly as secretary to George Washington and on the staff of the Marquis de Lafayette. Subjects include Indian affairs, frigate construction, fortification of ports and harbors, defense of the frontier, army regulations, and U.S. relations with France, Great Britain, and Spain. Includes a diary (1787) kept by McHenry as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Correspondents include John Adams; Charles Carroll; Samuel Chase; Philemon Dickinson; Nathanael Greene; Alexander Hamilton; David Henley; William Hindman; Henry Knox; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette; Thomas Sim Lee; Nathaniel Macon; William Vans Murray; Timothy Pickering; Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; Benjamin Rush; Benjamin Stoddert; Benjamin Tallmadge; Uriah Tracy; George Washington; James Wilkinson; Hugh Williamson; and Oliver Wolcott. Microfilm edition available, excluding addition, no. 19,006. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984. In part, photocopies. [S.l.]. U.S. secretary of war, member of the Continental Congress from Maryland, Continental Army officer, and physician. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008012 Card index available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room. One letter (1797) was previously cataloged separately as part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection. Adams, John, 1735-1826. Adams, John, 1735-1826 Correspondence. Carroll, Charles, 1737-1832 Correspondence. Chase, Samuel, 1741-1811 Correspondence. Dickinson, Philemon, 1739-1809 Correspondence. Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786 Correspondence. Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 Correspondence. Henley, David, 1749-1823 Correspondence. Hindman, William, 1743-1822 Correspondence. Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 Correspondence. Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834. Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834 Correspondence. Lee, Thomas Sim, 1745-1819 Correspondence. Macon, Nathaniel, 1758-1837 Correspondence. Murray, William Vans, 1760-1803 Correspondence. Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 Correspondence. Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825 Correspondence. Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 Correspondence. Stoddert, Benjamin, 1751-1813 Correspondence. Tallmadge, Benjamin, 1754-1835 Correspondence. Tracy, Uriah, 1755-1807 Correspondence. Washington, George, 1732-1799. Washington, George, 1732-1799 Correspondence. Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825 Correspondence. Williamson, Hugh, 1735-1819 Correspondence. Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833 Correspondence. United States. Army. United States. Constitutional Convention (1787) United States. Continental Army. United States. War Department. Coast defenses. Indians of North America Government relations. Shipbuilding. France Foreign relations United States. Great Britain Foreign relations United States. Spain Foreign relations United States. United States Foreign relations Great Britain. United States Foreign relations France. United States Foreign relations Spain. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783. United States Politics and government 1783-1809. West (U.S.) Army officers. itoamc Cabinet officers. itoamc Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress Maryland. itoamc Physicians. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008012 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008012.3 39955 39955