Contents
Collection Summary
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Arrangement of the Papers
Selected Search Terms
Container List
British Museum
Additional manuscripts 11411,
32695, and 3288, and selected folios and pages
Oxford University All Souls College
Library, Oxford, England
Public Record Office
Colonial Office 1 and 5, selections
from various volumes
Colonial Office, selections from
various colonial offices and volumes
Miscellaneous
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Charles McLean Andrews Collection Concerning Colonial
History
A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Manuscript Division Staff
2009
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Collector
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Andrews, Charles McLean,
1863-1943 |
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Title
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Charles McLean Andrews
Collection Concerning Colonial History
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Span Dates
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1623-1800 |
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Abstract:
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Historian, educator,
and author. Chiefly transcripts of manuscripts in various repositories in
England. The material relates to admiralty courts and cases as well as trade
and political matters. |
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Extent:
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1,200
items3 containers1 linear foot |
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Language:
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Collection material in
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Identification:
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MSS75765 |
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Date
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Event
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1863, Feb. 23 |
Born, Wethersfield, Conn. |
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1884 |
A.B., Trinity College, Hartfold, Conn. |
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1889 |
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
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1889-1907 |
Professor, Bryn Mawr College, Hartford, Conn. |
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1895 |
Married Evangeline Holcombe Walker (1869-1962) |
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1904 |
Published
Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689. New York,
London: Harper & Brothers |
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1907-1910 |
Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. |
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1908 |
Published
Guide to the Manuscript Materials for the History of the
United States to 1783 in the British Museum and Other Depositories.
Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington |
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1910-1931 |
Professor, American History, Yale University, New Haven,
Conn. |
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1924 |
Published
The Colonial Background of the American Revolution.
Haven: Yale University Press |
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1925 |
President, American Historical Association, Washington,
D.C. |
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1935 |
Pulitzer Prize in history,
The Colonial Period of American History. New Haven:
Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press |
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1937 |
Awarded gold medal for history and biography, National
Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y. |
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1943, Sept. 9 |
Died, New Haven, Conn. |
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The Charles McLean Andrews Collection Concerning Colonial History
consists of transcripts of manuscripts in various repositories in England and
spans the years 1623-1800. The materials were accumulated by Andrews for use in
his writings on American colonial history and cover admiralty courts and cases,
trade, and political matters. Andrews authored
Lists of Transcript from the British Museum and the Bodleian
Library . . . (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington,
1908) that lists the transcripts acquired by the Library of Congress.
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People
- Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943.
Subjects
- Admiralty--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Admiralty--United States.
- Commercial law--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Commercial law--United States.
- Courts--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Courts--United States.
- Maritime law--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Maritime law--United States.
Places
- Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.
- Great Britain--Commerce--United States.
- United States--Commerce--Great Britain.
- United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- United States--Politics and government--To 1775.
Occupations
- Authors.
- Educators.
- Historians.
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This collection is arranged by source of material.
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British Museum
Egerton manuscripts 2395, 2543,
and 2670, selected folios (2
folders)
Lansdowne manuscripts 1032, folio
128
Additional manuscripts 11411,
32695, and 3288, and selected folios and pages (3
folders)
Oxford University All Souls College
Library, Oxford, England
Information on Captain Henry
Wilkinson
Public Record Office
Admiralty 1, 2, and 7, selections
from various volumes (3
folders)
Admiralty High Court libel files,
136, no. 210
Admiralty Courts jurisdiction,
cases, related matter, and memoranda and extracts from various volumes
Admiralty jurisdiction in the
colonies, selections from various volumes
Admiralty Office, Library
manuscript 30
Chancery 54, selections
Colonial Office 1 and 5, selections
from various volumes (3
folders)
Colonial Office, selections from
various colonial offices and volumes (2
folders)
Foreign Office, miscellaneous 2
Gifts and deposits 8, vol. 95,
Chatham manuscripts 95
Gifts and deposits 24,
Shaftesbury papers
State papers, vols. 29 and 330,
miscellaneous
Treasury, selections from various
treasury volumes
Miscellaneous
Altham, Emanuel, and John Bridge,
letters, 1623-1624
Banister, John v. Brown, John,
1743
Boston News-Letter, May-Aug., 1721, extracts
Commissioners for Trade and
Plantations, 1735
"Connecticut," Mr. Dudley's
papers on the governments of New England and New York, [1693]
Correspondence regarding laws of
Connecticut, 1728-1733, 1740, 1752
Dartmouth, Lord manuscripts,
1778-1783
Diary of journey from Wilmington,
Del., to New York and New England, June-Nov. 1800
Halton, Robert, will and
administrative bond, 1748-1749
Headings of book showing the
general customs establishment in America prior to 1767, Sept.
Laurens, Henry, letterbook,
1767-1771 selections
London Chronicle, vol. 26, no. 2031, extracts,
1769
Miscellaneous trade statistics,
vol. 7
North, Lord, establishment of a
plantation office, [1734]
Reference to the fees in prize
cases
Robinson, Thomas, complaint to
General Court, 1681 or 1682
Russell, Judge Chambers, letter,
1743 (?)
A short view of the smuggling
trade. . . and Representation of the Board of Trade. . . 1733-1734
Sylvester, Joshua,
Tobacco. . . , a poem, 1672
Warren, Joseph, letter, 1775,
Apr.
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