The Winthrop Sargent papers
By: Frederick S. Allis, Jr., editor ; Roy Bartolomei, associate editor.
Contributors: Allis, Frederick S. 1913-; Bartolomei, Roy.; Pershing, Benjamin Harrison, 1888-1966.; Massachusetts Historical Society.; United States. National Historical Publications Commission.
Series: Massachusetts Historical Society microfilm publication ;; no. 1.
Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 -- Manuscripts.; Ohio Company (1786-1795); Northwest, Old -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources.; Mississippi -- Politics and government -- To 1865 -- Sources.
Genres: Manuscripts.; Sources.
Other titles: Guide to the microfilm edition of the Winthrop Sargent papers.
Description: Reproduces personal, business, and official correspondence; diaries; orderly book; lists of Ohio Company agents and sales; petitions; contracts; pamphlets; wills, tax slips, receipts, and other documents relating to the Sargent estate; an agricultural notebook; plats and survey reports; and other papers relating to the St. Clair expedition of which Sargent was adjutant general; to Sargent's survey of the 5th range, Northwest Territory; a trip from Marietta, Ohio, to Cahokia, Ill., with Governor Arthur St. Clair; Sargent's plantations near Natchez; the Congressional investigation of Sargent's administration of the Mississippi Territory and his dismissal; the Ohio Company; the early settlement and administration of the Northwest Territory; relations with the Spanish governments of Louisiana and West Florida; and military, business, and family matters.
Notes: Guide available for use in the Manuscript Reading Room.
Filmed from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Sponsored by the National Historical Publications Commission.
"Winthrop Sargent: a builder in the Old Northwest, by Benjamin Harrison Pershing" appears at beginning of reel 1.
Accompanied by a printed guide entitled: Guide to the microfilm edition of the Winthrop Sargent papers.
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