McHenry, James 1753-1816 creator mixed material monographic eng 3,600 15 1 6 4.6 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. Open to research. 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 marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier 1757-1834 marquis de Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier 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 Cabinet officers Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress Physicians mm 78032177 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms008012 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms008012.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008012 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008012.3 Open to research. DLC 781030 20260227111625.0 mm 78032177