TY  - GEN
AU  - Nicholson,John
TI  - John Nicholson family papers,
KW  - Bedwell, Thomas
KW  - Broom, James M.
KW  - Morris, Robert,
KW  - Joubert, Thomas
KW  - Livingston, Edward,
KW  - McLane, Louis,
KW  - Taney, Roger Brooke,
KW  - Nichols family.
KW  - Asylum Company
KW  - Pennsylvania Land Company
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Northwest, Old
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Land speculation
KW  - Financiers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Land speculators
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, diary fragments (1796-1797), business and financial records, and printed matter.  The papers relate primarily to the Pennsylvania Land Company, the Asylum Company, and to Nicholson's other land holdings in Pennsylvania, the western territories, and Washington, D.C.  Papers of Nicholson's heirs relate to attempts by them to regain properties that had been alienated.  Correspondents include Thomas Bedwell, James M. Broom, Thomas Joubert, Edward Livingston, Louis McLane, Robert Morris, and Roger Brooke Taney
ER  -