United States. Post Office Dept. records
Contributors: United States. General Post Office
Language: eng
Subjects: Correspondence; Postal service; United States. Postmaster General; United States; Cavetown Post Office (Cavetown, Md.); Hamilton Post Office (Hamilton, Ohio); History
Description: Handwritten transcript of a letterbook of (1789 November 28-1805 March 15) containing copies of letters by postmasters general Gideon Granger, Joseph Habersham, Samuel Osgood, and Timothy Pickering; chart (1807) made by Gideon Granger; accounts (1804-1805, 1807) for the post office at Hamilton, Ohio; record book (1899 April 11-1906 September 25) of the post office at Cavetown, Md.; and essay (1912) entitled, Annals of the Post Office Department, 1607-1775, by E.F. Brown.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Thomas A. Dorsey, 1913.

Transfers, 1912-1947.

United States Office of the Postmaster General created by Continental Congress, July 26, 1775; United States General Post Office created by Congress, September 22, 1789, under the direction of the Postmaster General; United States Post Office Department created as government agency by Congress, February 20, 1792; reorganized as United States Postal Service in 1970.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.