TY  - GEN
AU  - Read,George
AU  - Read,George
AU  - Read,James
AU  - Read,John
AU  - Read,John M.
AU  - Read,John Meredith
TI  - Read family papers,
KW  - Bayard, John Bubenheim,
KW  - Buchanan, James,
KW  - Cadwalader, Thomas,
KW  - Cameron, Simon,
KW  - Clymer, George,
KW  - Dickinson, John,
KW  - Dickinson, Philemon,
KW  - Galloway, Joseph,
KW  - Grant, Ulysses S.
KW  - Hudson, Henry,
KW  - Kemble, Gouverneur,
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Lincoln, Mary Todd,
KW  - Meredith, Samuel,
KW  - Morris, Robert,
KW  - Nicolay, John G.
KW  - Rodney, Caesar,
KW  - Tilghman, Tench,
KW  - Wharton, Samuel,
KW  - Wilson, James,
KW  - Witherspoon, John,
KW  - Hudson family.
KW  - Reed family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Continental Congress
KW  - Marine Committee
KW  - Asylum Company
KW  - Land companies
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - Legal instruments
KW  - England
KW  - Practice of law
KW  - Delaware
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - New Castle (Del.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, deeds and indentures, a journal, notebooks, legal documents, genealogical records, commissions, printed material, and other papers.  Papers of George Read relate chiefly to his activities during the American Revolution and his law practice in New Castle, Del.  Includes a journal containing memoranda (1782-1784) kept by James Read as secretary of the Continental Congress Marine Committee and a record of his personal accounts (1794-1812).  Papers of John Read include a notebook (1809-1818) of correspondence and memoranda which he kept as secretary of the Asylum Company, a land company of Philadelphia, Pa.  Those of John Meredith Read pertain primarily to his involvement in Pennsylvania state politics, and papers of John Meredith Read, Jr., include correspondence and genealogical material pertaining to his book about Henry Hudson, correspondence regarding the sale of Read's collection of Robert Morris papers, and English legal documents (1568-1696, undated) from his manuscript collection; Correspondents include John Bubenheim Bayard, James Buchanan, Thomas Cadwalader, Simon Cameron, George Clymer, John Dickinson, Philemon Dickinson, Joseph Galloway, Ulysses S. Grant, Gouverneur Kemble, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, Samuel Meredith, John G. Nicolay, Caesar Rodney, Tench Tilghman, Samuel Wharton, James Wilson, and John Witherspoon
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009240
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009240.3
ER  -