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    <title>Levi Woodbury family papers, 1638-1914 (bulk 1804-1897)</title>
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    <namePart>Woodbury, Levi</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1789-1851</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial and legal papers, genealogical notes, autograph collections, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers chiefly of Levi Woodbury and also of his son, Charles Levi Woodbury, and other family members.</abstract>
  <abstract>Papers of Levi Woodbury document his service as U.S. secretary of the navy in Andrew Jackson's cabinet, U.S. secretary of the treasury in the Jackson and Martin Van Buren administrations, U.S. senator from New Hampshire, governor of New Hampshire, lawyer, and judge.  Subjects include the second Bank of the United States, removal of deposits, the specie circular, panic of 1837, operation of customs houses and land offices, and local and presidential elections of 1824, 1828, 1836, 1840, and 1844. Correspondents include George Bancroft, Thomas Hart Benton, John Helferstein, Isaac Hill, Jesse Hoyt, Henry Hubbard, Andrew Jackson, Dutee Jerauld Pearce, Robert Rantoul, William C. Rives, Richard Rush, Martin Van Buren, Nathaniel West, Campbell Patrick White, and Silas Wright.</abstract>
  <abstract>Papers of Charles Levi Woodbury (1820-1898), state legislator and U.S. district attorney, of Boston, Mass., include material relating to the U.S.-Canadian fisheries dispute in the 1880s, the seizure of U.S. vessels, and Woodbury's work toward modification of the Washington Treaty of 1871; the Morse telegraph patent; and the estate of Mary A. Taylor.  Correspondents include William L. Putnam, George Washington Steele, Charles H. Woodbury, and Gordon Woodbury.</abstract>
  <abstract>Also includes correspondence between Levi Woodbury and his wife, Elizabeth Williams Clapp Woodbury; journal (1829) kept by Capt. John Cahoone aboard the Vigilant; ships's logs (1780-1781) kept by Capt. Levi Woodbury; correspondence (1861-1865) and naval documents of Gustavus Vasa Fox; diary (1860-1878) and correspondence of Virginia L. Woodbury Fox; two Indian treaties (1713, 1717); contemporary copies of letters from King Charles II and Queen Anne of Great Britain; and letter (1777) from John Hancock to his wife.  Other persons represented include Isaac O. Barnes, Montgomery Blair, Asa Clapp, Asa W.H. Clapp, Nehemiah Eastman, and Ellen C.D.Q. Woodbury.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 19,232.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1985.</note>
  <note>U.S. senator from and governor of New Hampshire, U.S. secretary of the navy, U.S. secretary of the treasury, and Supreme Court justice, and lawyer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Anne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1665-1714</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Bancroft, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1800-1891</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Barnes, Isaac O</namePart>
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      <namePart>Benton, Thomas Hart</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1858</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Blair, Montgomery</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1883</namePart>
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      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">II, King of England</namePart>
      <namePart>Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1630-1685</namePart>
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      <namePart>Clapp, Asa</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1762-1848</namePart>
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      <namePart>Clapp, Asa W. H. (Asa William Henry)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1891</namePart>
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      <namePart>Eastman, Nehemiah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1856</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hancock, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1737-1793</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Helferstein, John</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Hill, Isaac</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1851</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hoyt, Jesse</namePart>
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      <namePart>Hubbard, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1784-1857</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jackson, Andrew</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1767-1845</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Morse, Samuel Finley Breese</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1791-1872</namePart>
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      <namePart>Pearce, Dutee Jerauld</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1849</namePart>
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      <namePart>Putnam, William L. (William Le Baron)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1835-1918</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rantoul, Robert</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1852</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rives, William C. (William Cabell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1793-1868</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Rush, Richard</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1780-1859</namePart>
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      <namePart>Steele, George Washington</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1839-1922</namePart>
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      <namePart>Taylor, Mary A</namePart>
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      <namePart>Van Buren, Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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      <namePart>Van Buren, Martin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1782-1862</namePart>
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      <namePart>West, Nathaniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1794-1864</namePart>
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      <namePart>White, Campbell Patrick</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1787-1859</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodbury, Charles H. (Charles Howe)</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodbury, Ellen C. D. Q. (Ellen Carolina De Quincy)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1909</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodbury, Gordon</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1863-</namePart>
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      <namePart>Wright, Silas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1847</namePart>
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      <namePart>Woodbury family</namePart>
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      <namePart>Department of the Treasury.</namePart>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy</namePart>
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    <topic>History</topic>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Navy Department.</namePart>
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      <namePart>Bank of the United States (1816-1836)</namePart>
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    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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      <namePart>1871 May 8.</namePart>
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    <occupation>Jurists</occupation>
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