Charles McLean Andrews Collection Concerning Colonial History
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Charles McLean Andrews Collection Concerning Colonial History 1623-1800
Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943
Biographical History for: Charles McLean Andrews Collection Concerning Colonial History 1623-1800
Biographical Note Date Event 1863, Feb. 23 Born, Wethersfield, Conn. 1884 A.B., Trinity College, Hartfold, Conn. 1889 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 1889-1907 Professor, Bryn Mawr College, Hartford, Conn. 1895 Married Evangeline Holcombe Walker (1869-1962) 1904 Published Colonial Self-Government, 1652-1689. New York, London: Harper & Brothers 1907-1910 Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 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 1910-1931 Professor, American History, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1924 Published The Colonial Background of the American Revolution. Haven: Yale University Press 1925 President, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. 1935 Pulitzer Prize in history, The Colonial Period of American History. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press 1937 Awarded gold medal for history and biography, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, N.Y. 1943, Sept. 9 Died, New Haven, Conn.
Scope and Content Note 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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British Museum
Egerton manuscripts 2395, 2543, and 2670, selected folios
Lansdowne manuscripts 1032, folio 128
Additional manuscripts 11411, 32695, and 3288, and selected folios and pages
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
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
Colonial Office, selections from various colonial offices and volumes
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.