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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Arthur St. Clair papers, 1774-1796</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>St. Clair, Arthur</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1734-1818</namePart>
    <role>
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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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  <abstract>Sheriff's writ (1774 July 7) from Westmoreland County, Pa.; decree (1788 Aug. 30) establishing a general court for the Northwest Territory at Marietta, Ohio; photocopy of St. Clair's presidential appointment (1789 Sept. 1) by George Washington as governor of the Northwest Territory; and ALS from St. Clair to Benjamin Talmadge relating to Ohio Company land warrants.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>In part, negative photocopy. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, army officer, and governor of the  Northwest Territory.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Talmadge, Benjamin</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Washington, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1732-1799</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Ohio Company (1786-1795)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Courts</topic>
    <geographic>Northwest Territory</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Land titles</topic>
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sheriffs</topic>
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <geographic>Westmoreland County</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Marietta (Ohio)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Northwest Territory</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Ohio</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>1787-1865</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Pennsylvania</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Westmoreland County (Pa.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Governors</occupation>
  </subject>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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