Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport.

  • Charles McLean Andrews
Date:
1908
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Credit: Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    25115. A volume containing copies of various petitions presented to the Council of Trade, earliest dated, November 13, 1660, and latest, March 12, 1661/2. 25117-25125. The Coventry Papers (Henry Coventry, Secretary of State, 1672-1680) were presented by the Duke of Northumberland in 1863. Consist of letter-books chiefly. Only 25120 is of import¬ ance here. This is entitled “ Letters to Governors of Plantations in North America and the West Indies, 1674-1679 ”. Some of these letters are calendared in Cal. Col., but a number of them are not calendared and supplement the documents in the Public Record Office. ff. 41-151. Letters from Henry Coventry to Gov. Atkins of Barba- does, Gov. Vaughan of Jamaica, Sir Henry Morgan of Jamaica, the buccaneer, knighted by Charles II., chiefly in connection with the enterprises at Panama, etc. {Cf. 11268, 11410.) Some of the letters to Atkins are calendared. Letter to Gov. Berkeley of Vir¬ ginia, July 10, 1676, about sending troops to put down Bacon’s rebellion (ff. 82-83, not cal.); another, July 14, 1676, about the same, (f. 88, not cal.); a third, November 15, 1676 (f. 94, cal.). Letters to Mr. Witham at Barbadoes, and to the Earl of Carlisle. Important letter to Jeffreys, Berkeley’s successor as governor of Virginia, dated December 5, 1678, contains this suggestive state¬ ment (f. 136, not cal.), “The difficulties we are in at present by reason of a late Conspiracy discovered of the utmost consequence, and the combined and long sittings of Parliament, have given us so little time to consult at the Committee of Plantations, that you will want many directions which else you would have had.” Cf. also f. 138 (not cal.). Letter to Sir Henry Chicheley, governor of Virginia, April 1, 1679, is calendared. Another to Maj. Andrews (Andros), governor of New York, September 26, 1679, bidding him receive Mr. Randolph kindly, is not calendared. Letter to the governor of New Plymouth, same date, brought as was that to Andros by Randolph, is calendared. 25302. f. 96. Regarding a suit at law, between Cecil Calvert, Lord Balti¬ more, Sir Thomas Reynell and others. 1639 [?]. 25463. f. 78. Founders of New Plymouth, in the Hunter Collection. Cf. 25466. 25466. “ Collections concerning the Early History of the Founders of New Plymouth ” by Joseph Hunter. (An imperfect draft of the work published by Hunter, London, 1849, with slightly different title. Differs, also, in some respects from the printed version.) 25490. f. 31. Observations upon the attack made by Commodore Sir Peter Parker upon Fort Sullivan, South Carolina, June 28, 1776. (Evidently written by some one connected with the land forces.) 25699. Chronicles of the Indians of North America, by S. G. Drake. Boston, 1836. 25893-25895. “ Extracts for a fair and impartial history of Paul Jones.” In ten copy-books, lettered A-K, partly printed, manuscript auto¬ graph, by Dr. Richard Filkin.