]> ms.206 Merchants Collection 1773-1864 Ms. 206 Cynthia H. Requardt Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University
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Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Diwakar Bhandari Finding aid written in English Merchants Collection 1773-1864 Ms. 206 Special CollectionsThe Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University Contact Information Special Collections The Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University 3400 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-8323 Cynthia H. Requardt May l988 Diwakar Bhandari

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 Descriptive Summary Ms. 206 Merchants Collection 1773-1864 Merchants Collection Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections 200 items English The manuscripts in this artificial collection are largely the records of Philadelphia merchants dealing with Baltimoreans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The items are drafts, invoices, and letters from individuals in Baltimore to Philadelphia merchants especially Andrew Clow & Co. and Dutilh & Wachsmuth. The collection does not have the complete records of these two firms, and there are other firms represented such as William Crammond, Thomas Astley, and John Gill also of Philadelphia and John Hargnett of Ligonier. The earliest and largest number of records (l00 items) are those of Andrew Clow & Co. (1785-93, n.d.). Many of the manuscripts are from Archibald Campbell apparently Clow's agent in Baltimore. These drafts, invoices, and letters are supplemented by some manuscripts (1796-1800) of Arthur Jones who was the executor for the firm. Many of the records (1790-99) of the firm of Dutilh & Wachsmuth are in French. There is one later letter (l828) written to Charles Dutilh concerning the collection of a debt. In addition to the merchants' records the collection includes several unrelated items. There is an eulogy on Mrs. Samuel Woolman a Quaker who died in 1773. There is a letter (n.d.) from William Dorsey to John Purviance concerning property around Windsor Mills. There are three letters from A. Murray Stewart in Annapolis writing to George Fenner about arrangements for Stewart's return. In l864 Charlotte Davis wrote to her cousins about life in Englishtown. She mentions the recent election of Uncle Abe. Administrative Information Provenance

These manuscripts appear to have been purchased. They might have been acquired with Ms. 205 the Cecil County (Md.) Poor School Fund Records from Philadelphia autograph dealer Frederick Welty. The collection had been shelved with Ms. l4 Collitz (Hermann) Papers as had Ms. 205. It was removed from Ms. l4 in May l988.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from this collection must be requested in writing from the Manuscripts Librarian, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 21218.

 Preferred Citation

Merchants Collection Ms. 206 Special Collections Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Johns Hopkins University

Related Collection

The records of the firms Andrew Clow & Company and Dutilh & Wachsmuth are scattered among Special Collections, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the New-York Historical Society, and the Baker Library of the Harvard Business School. See the following RLIN-AMC records: PAHV87-A220, PAHV88-A12, NYHW85-A319, and MHAQ85-A379. There is a large collection of Dutilh Papers in the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library and Dutilh & Wachsmuth materials in the Hagely Museum and Library. See the MS 206 processing folder for descriptions of these collections.

 Description of Series/Container List Container List Container List 1 box

Box Contents 1 Andrew Clow & Co. records, 1785-93, n.d. 1 Arthur Jones [for Andrew Clow & Co.], 1796-1800 1 Dutilh & Wachsmuth records, 1790-99, 1828 1 William Crammond records, 1800-11 1 Thomas Astley records, 1805-24 1 John Gill records, 1827, 1830 1 John Hargnett records fragments, 1843-45 1 Mrs. Samuel Woolman elegy, [1773] 1 William Dorsey letter, n.d. 1 A. Murray Stewart, 1855, 1856 1 Charlotte Davis letter, 1864