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Federal Adelphi Society records (MS-1Q-F1)

Brown University Library

Box A, John Hay Library
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2148
Fax: 401-863-2093
email: archives@brown.edu

Inventory

Series 1. Records and correspondence (loose items)

Request to call a meeting
Box 1, Folder 11
Signed by Paul Allen, John Holroyd, Nathaniel Searle, Lucius Cary, Philip Crapo, Amos Maine Atwell

Container Description Date
Container Description Date
Box 1, Folder 1 Certificates
undated
Box 1, Folder 2 Members propounded
Contents Note: Signatures include: Benjamin Allen (n.d.); Paul Allen (n.d., 1804, 1809); Amos Maine Atwell (n.d., 1803, 1804, 1808); John Bailey (1808); Sumner Barton (n.d.); Samuel W. Bridgham (1806); Sylvester Fuller Bucklin (n.d.); Tristam Burges (n.d.); Thomas Burgess (n.d., 1808); Thomas Carlile (n.d., 1806); Lucius Cary (1803); Thomas Cook (1817); Philip Crapo (n.d., 1803, 1805, 1808); Walter Raleigh Danforth (n.d., 1808, 1809); Israel Day (1808, 1809); Stephen W. Eddy (n.d., 1808, 1809); Ferdinand Ellis (n.d.); James Ellis (1806); Elisha Fisk (n.d.); John Holroyd (1803, 1805) George Jackson (1808); John McKie (n.d., 1804, 1808); Dutee J. Pearce (1808); Nathaniel Searle (1803); John Burgess Snow (1808, 1809); Jonathan Thayer (n.d.); William Randall Theus (n.d.); Daniel Thomas (n.d.); Daniel Turner (n.d.); John Whipple (n.d.); Jabez Whitaker (1803, 1804); Henry Wheaton (n.d., 1808); William Wilkinson (n.d.)
1803-1817
Box 1, Folder 3 Promissory notes
Contents Note: Signatures of: Jasper Adams (1815); Benjamin F. Allen (1817); Armand Auboyneau (1808); Isaac Bailey (1810); William Bates (1809); Nicholas Brown (1811); Henry F. Clark (1809); Joseph Clarke (1815); Joshua Dean (1809); Samuel Dexter (1806); Pardon B. Farrington (1817); Philip Manchester Fiske (1808); Benjamin Ives Gilman (1812); Simon Ray Greene (1809); Jacob Hill (1810); Hezekiah Holmes (1809); John Holroyd (1803, 1805, 1806); Warren Lovering (1817); Jonathan Thayer (1806); Daniel Thomas (1806); Charles Turner (1815); Thomas Williams (1809)
1803-1817
Box 1, Folder 4 Undated records and correspondence
undated
Box 1, Folder 4 Cary, Lucius to Henry Wheaton
Contents Note: Letter declining oratorial responsiblities
Accession Number: A3654(1)
undated
Box 1, Folder 4 A catalogue of books with their prices...
Contents Note: List of books purchased by counselors of Federal Adelphi
Accession Number: A3654(6)
Box 1, Folder 4 Papers belonging to...Notes in favor
Contents Note: Four cover papers describing contents (now dispersed)
Accession Number: A3654(7)
undated
Box 1, Folder 5 Records
1796
Box 1, Folder 5 Allen, Benjamin to E.T. Waring
Contents Note: Order to pay three dollars to counselors of Adelphi to buy books.
Accession Number: A3652(1)
1796 Aug 30
Box 1, Folder 5 Receipt
Contents Note: "Received of John Witherspoon for the Political Adelphi Society two dollars for Independent Gazeteer..." Signed Carter and Wilkinson
Accession Number: A3200
1796 Oct 17
Box 1, Folder 5 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment $3.50, signed by Benjamin Allen
Accession Number: A3652(3)
1796 Oct 26
Box 1, Folder 6 Records
1797
Box 1, Folder 6 List of books purchased
Contents Note: Signed by J. Sabin and J. Witherspoon
Accession Number: A3237
1797 Feb 15
Box 1, Folder 6 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment of five dollars, signed by James Ervin
Accession Number: A3652(5)
1797 Feb 16
Box 1, Folder 6 Receipt for books
Contents Note: Signed by Samuel Ervin
Accession Number: A3654(2)
1797 Feb 16
Box 1, Folder 6 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment of six shllings, signed by James Ervin
Accession Number: A3652(6)
1797 March
Box 1, Folder 6 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment of two dollars, signed by Conrade Webb
Accession Number: A3652(8)
1797 June 7
Box 1, Folder 6 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment of fifty cents, signed by Conrade Webb
Accession Number: A3652(10)
1797 June 11
Box 1, Folder 6 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment of four dollars, signed by Conrade Webb
Accession Number: A3652(9)
1797 June 17
Box 1, Folder 6 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment of one dollar, signed by Conrade Webb
Accession Number: A3652(11)
1797 Oct 14
Box 1, Folder 6 Order for payment
Contents Note: Order for payment of 4/6, signed by James Ervin, Pres.
Accession Number: A3652(7)
undated
Box 1, Folder 6 Report of the Committe for devising a Name
Contents Note: Statement declaring the name of the Impartialist for the society's first periodical publication, signed by Jeremiah Howell, Tristam Burges, Elisha Fisk
1797 Dec. 23
Box 1, Folder 7 Records and correspondence
1800
Box 1, Folder 7 Dodge, Paul to William Wilkinson
Contents Note: Declining honor of oration
Accession Number: A3238
1800 Nov 10
Box 1, Folder 7 Receipt
Contents Note: Signed by Samuel Williams
Accession Number: A3184
1800 Nov 11
Box 1, Folder 7 Bill
Contents Note: For printing Allen's oration
Accession Number: A3654(3)
1800 Nov 07
Box 1, Folder 8 Records and correspondence
1801
Box 1, Folder 8 Thompson, Otis to the Society of Federal Adelphi
Contents Note: Declining honor of oration
Accession Number: A3239
1801 Mar 02
Box 1, Folder 8 Eddy, Zachariah to William Wilkinson
Accession Number: A3251
1801 June 22
Box 1, Folder 9 Dexter, Andrew to William Wilkinson
Contents Note: Declining honor of oration
Accession Number: A3240
1802 July 15
Box 1, Folder 10 Doggett, Simeon to William Wilkinson
Contents Note: Declining honor of oration
Accession Number: A3241
1803 May 28
Box 1, Folder 12 Mackie, John to John Whipple
Contents Note: Declining honor of oration
Accession Number: A3242
1808 Feb 16
Box 1, Folder 13 Records and correspondence
1810
Box 1, Folder 13 Kidder Reuben to the Federal Adelphi Society
Contents Note: Response on hearing the Society has awarded hima gold medal for best dissertation
Accession Number: A3243
1810 Oct 20
Box 1, Folder 13 Kidder Reuben to the Federal Adelphi Society
Contents Note: Requesting Society to deliver gold medal to Dr. Bullard of Boston
Accession Number: A3244
1810 Oct 24
Box 1, Folder 14 Records
1813
Box 1, Folder 14 Bill
Accession Number: A3196
1813 Sept 2
Box 1, Folder 14 Bill
Accession Number: A3193
1813 Sept 25
Box 1, Folder 15 Records
1814
Box 1, Folder 15 Receipt
Accession Number: A3192
1814 July 8
Box 1, Folder 15 Bill
Accession Number: A3178
1814 Sept 16
Box 1, Folder 15 Bill
Accession Number: A3170
1814 Sept 26
Box 1, Folder 15 Records and correspondence
1815
Box 1, Folder 16 Receipt
Accession Number: A3188
1815 Apr 22
Box 1, Folder 16 Carlile, Thomas to Thomas Rivers
Contents Note: Letter accepting oratorial duties in lieu of Wheaton.
Accession Number: A3248
1815 July 30
Box 1, Folder 16 Receipt
Accession Number: A3187
1815 Sept 2
Box 1, Folder 17 Records
1816
Box 1, Folder 17 Receipt
Accession Number: A7194
1816 Sept 5
Box 1, Folder 17 Receipt
Accession Number: A7193
1816 Sept 10
Box 1, Folder 18 Records and correspondence
1817
Box 1, Folder 18 Goddard, C. to Federal Adelphi
Contents Note: Declines oratorial duties due to poor health.
Accession Number: A3250
1817 Aug 4
Box 1, Folder 18 Receipt
Accession Number: A3174
1817 Sept 4
Box 1, Folder 18 Receipt
Accession Number: A3235
1817 Sept 11
Box 1, Folder 18 Receipt
Accession Number: A3172
1817 Nov 5
Box 1, Folder 18 Receipt
Accession Number: A3185
1817 Nov 7
Box 1, Folder 19 Records
1818
Box 1, Folder 19 Two bills
Contents Note: Signed by John Hammond, Thomas Cook, James Olney
Accession Number: A3173
1818 Sept 3
Box 1, Folder 19 Receipt
Accession Number: A3171
1818 Nov 16
Box 1, Folder 19 Receipt
Accession Number: A3191
1818 Dec 1
Box 1, Folder 20 Records and correspondence
1819
Box 1, Folder 20 Six bills
Contents Note: Signed by James Olney, Thomas Cooke,G. Hammond, W. Goddard
Accession Number: A3181, A3554(5), A3179, A3181, A3186, A3175
1819 Sept
Box 1, Folder 20 Hallett, Benjamin Franklin to Peter Pratt
Contents Note: Will not be able to answer his appointment before the society.
Accession Number: A3245
1819 Oct 12
Box 1, Folder 21 Records and correspondence
1820
Box 1, Folder 21 Four bills
Contents Note: Signed by Thomas Cook, Henry Alexander, William Danforth
Accession Number: A3182, A3194, A3189, A3177
1820 Sept
Box 1, Folder 21 Darling, Collins to Peter Pratt
Contents Note: Requesting information regarding posing of questions in discussion
Accession Number: A3246
1820 July 3
Box 1, Folder 22 Records
1821-1822
Box 1, Folder 22 Four bills
Contents Note: Signed by Thomas Cook, G. Hammond, Henry Alexander, William Danforth
Accession Number: A3195, A3176, A3198, A3190,
1821 Sept
Box 1, Folder 22 Receipt
Accession Number: A3197
1822 July 5
Box 1, Folder 23 Records and correspondence
1825-1828
Box 1, Folder 23 Howland, John to the Federal Adelphi
Contents Note: Letter sent with printed copy of the biography of James Manning
Accession Number: A3247
1825 Sept 8
Box 1, Folder 23 Bailey, John to B. F. Hallett
Contents Note: Regrets he is unable to attend literary anniversary.
Accession Number: A3249
1826 Sept 2

Series 2. Records (bound, over-sized)
Box 2x

Container Description Date
Box 2x, Folder 1 Bonds
Contents Note: Signed by Andrew Dexter, Abdrew Dexter, Jr., John Milton Mann, John Padelford, Seth Padelford, Samuel Bridgham, Philip Crapo, Nathaniel Searle, Jr.
1797-1803
Box 2x, Folder 1 Minutes
1797-1833
Box 2x, Folder 2 Records (loose, over-sized)
Contents Note: Includes minutes and order of business
1797-1832