Rufus Barringer Collection, PC.855

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Rufus Barringer Collection, PC.855

Descriptive Summary

Title
Rufus Barringer Collection
Call Number
PC.855
Creator
Unknown
Date
1770-1778
Repository
State Archives of North Carolina

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    Collection Overview

    Typed copy of memorandum book apparently kept by William Alexander, fur trader, on trips through North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, containing diary of travels and expenses, furs bought, purchases made for others; receipts to him as "comisar," for rations of various military companies (1777-1778); and copies of drafts for payment, one by Gov. Richard Caswell on the Georgia delegates in Congress (1777). Also references to Alexander's father Hezekiah, and to John McKnitt Alexander.

    Contents of the Collection

    Subject Headings

  1. Barringer, Rufus
  2. Alexander, William
  3. Caswell, Richard
  4. Alexander, Hezekiah
  5. Alexander family
  6. Alexander, John McKnitt
  7. United States. Congress
  8. United States. Armed Forces
  9. Governors
  10. Travel
  11. Travel Costs
  12. Cost
  13. Delegates
  14. Fur Traders
  15. Commissaries
  16. Payment
  17. Virginia
  18. Maryland
  19. Pennsylvania
  20. Georgia
  21. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783