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Charles Gookin speeches and a response by Jasper Yeates

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0062
Abstract

Written copy of speech delivered by Deputy Governor of Colonial Pennsylvania, Charles Gookin, to the Delaware Assembly, on March 27, 1716, together with the response from the Assembly's Speaker, Jasper Yeates. Also included is a written copy of a speech delivered by Gookin to the Assembly on May 2, 1716. The speeches and the response concern difficulties between Gookin and the Assembly.

Dates: 1716 March 27-1716 May 2

Caesar Rodney letter to Thomas Rodney

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0058
Abstract

Autograph letter from Caesar Rodney to his brother Thomas Rodney. Caesar wrote to his brother from New York, where he was attending the Stamp Act Congress as a member of the Delaware delegation, that he expected he would not be home before the Delaware Assembly, which he was also a member of, ended its session in New Castle because the Congress would "not end in less than eight or ten days."

Dates: 1765 October 7

Samuel Vanleuvenigh land survey for Benjamin Swett

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Identifier: MSS 0098-F0192
Abstract

A manuscript land survey of plots of land in Town of New Castle, in the name of New Castle merchant Samuel Vanleuvenigh but probably written by a clerk, dated May 28, 1752.

Dates: 1752 May 28

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