ENCollections taggedThe Revolution and Early America
Practicing Law in the Early American Republic
The papers offered here feature documents written by major figures from the American Revolutionary era. These include Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and future Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; President James Monroe and future president John...
William Henry Harrison letters, 1811-1824.
This collection consists of letters written to Colonel James Taylor and Major (later General) Thomas Bodley by General William Henry Harrison. The first letter, written to Taylor on Dec. 28, 1811, discusses the arrival of hospital stores at a military post. The other letters, written between...
Francis Taylor Diary
Francis Taylor (1747-1799) was an officer in the American Revolution and later a planter in Orange County, Va. Taylor lived at Midland Plantation with his father, Colonel George Taylor (died 1794). The collection includes a typed transcription of a diary, 1786-1799, of the daily activities,...
Virginia District Court Judge Appointments, 1789 and 1790
Judges appointments for Staunton, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, and Dumfries, these district court judges were allotted in 1789: James Mercer and Richard Parker, Richard Cary and Cuthbert Bullitt (copy), Joseph Prentis and John Tyler (copy), and James Henry and Joseph Jones in 1790. 4...
District Superior Court Records
Collection Status: Temporarily Closed Due to Technical Difficulties Transcription Difficulty Rating: Expert About the Collection The supreme courts of justice system, in effect briefly from 1755 to 1759, served as the immediate predecessor and the pattern on which the district...
Wisconsin Citizen Petitions, 1836-1891
This collection comprises citizen petitions written to the legislatures of the Wisconsin Territory and later the State of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1891. At the time, petitions were the only direct means for citizens to communicate with the government. From requesting dams, roads, and money to...
Rockingham County Circuit Court Minute Books
The Rockingham County Circuit Court provides digital access to historical court records, facilitating research into the county's early documents. Among these records, the Minute Books meticulously maintained by early court clerks stand out, offering a window into legal transactions,...
Regulator Movement
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection The Regulator Movement was a brief uprising in eastern North Carolina from 1768 to 1771, before the start of the American Revolution. North Carolinians became angry with...
Revolutionary War Era
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection The American Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, secured the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and established a constitutional democracy. Following...
Troop Rosters (1747-1893)
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection This collection is comprised of Troop Returns from the State Archives of North Carolina Military Collection. Troop Returns (1747-1893) include lists, returns, records of...
General Assembly Session Records (1760-1762)
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate/Experienced About the Collection The General Assembly Session Records digital collection features records of early North Carolina state legislatures found within the holdings of the State...
Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index
The Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index (SSHI) will provide a single point of access to hundreds of thousands of hymn settings in over 1,300 significant books of vernacular sacred music from the southern United States published between 1850 and 1925.
Colonial North America: Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...
Colonial North America: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...
Colonial North America: Baker Library
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...
Carter Family Letterbook
Robert “King” Carter (1662/3-1731) was born in Lancaster, Virginia, the son of John Carter and Sarah Ludlow Carter. One of the wealthiest colonists in eighteenth-century Virginia, by the time of his death in 1732, Carter owned over 300,000 acres of land, 48 plantations, and over seven hundred...
Margaret Bayard Smith Transcription Project
The Margaret Bayard Smith Digital Edition is a project to transcribe and annotate the more than 3,000 letters, diaries, and commonplace books, written by Smith during her lifetime (1778-1844). The manuscripts are owned by the Library of Congress and a handful of letters are held by other...
John D. Lee Case File
Collection Status: Transcription Complete Explore the Subjects tab to see all the names and places getting linked from within documents. About the Collection Case files document criminal cases as they proceed through the court system and subsequently become the official files of individual...
Journal of Hezekiah Starbuck, 1770-1775
This collection contains the journal of Hezekiah Starbuck (1749-1830), a whaler from Nantucket, Massachusetts, detailing his daily observations and records on whaling voyages in the early 1770s prior to the American Revolutionary War.
Resurrecting the First American West
This project has "resurrected" and expanded the Library of Congress American Memory Project, First American West, the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (FAW), which was taken down in 2016. The Filson Historical Society, the University of Chicago, and the Library of Congress contributed material to...
P.W. Johnson Diary
In the fall of 2024, this diary was used in the class, "Environmental Issues of the Earth's Cold Regions". Each of the students were assigned a page to transcribe and index, and they all did a great job! Now we need your help in finishing and correcting the transcriptions. Please leave...
Voyages, Adventures and Situation of the French Emigrants, translated by A Lady
This work contains information about French Emigrants to America over the years 1789-1799, and provides a history of the French Revolution. The work was originally in French, and was translated into English by an anonymous translator using the pen name, "A Lady." Published in 1800 in...
Works on Naval Diplomacy
This collection of documents relates to the U.S. Navy and U.S. diplomatic agents at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.
Shopping Stories Transcription Project - Invoice Book (Inventories)
When Robert Townsend Hooe initially opened his store in 1770 in Alexandria, Virginia, with his partner Frederick Stone, they created an Invoice Book to document all the raw material the store exported and the goods they imported to make available for sale in the store. This book continued to be...
Shopping Stories Transcription Project - Invoice Book (Imports)
When Robert Townsend Hooe initially opened his store in 1770 in Alexandria, Virginia, with his partner Frederick Stone, they created an Invoice Book to document all the raw material the store exported and the goods they imported to make available for sale in the store. This book continued to...