Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. .1 linear foot (1 folder)

Summary

1. Record of a journey on horseback taken by Philadelphia merchant Benjamin Mifflin (1718-1787) from Philadelphia to Dover, Delaware, between 26 July and 14 August, 1762. Mifflin traveled through Chester, Wilmington, Ogletown, and Charlestown, Delaware; and through Bushtown, Baltimore, Annapolis, Kent Island, and Queenstown, Maryland to Dover, where he visited relatives and transacted private business, returning through Delaware to Philadelphia. Diary describes towns, shipping facilities and mills, persons met with, relatives of Shurmer and Loockerman families, travel conditions, etc.

Subject

1. Merchants > Diaries
2. Diaries
3. Merchants > Pennsylvania > 18th century
4. Maryland > Description and travel > 18th century
5. Merchants > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > 18th century
6. Loockerman family
7. Shurmer family
8. Delaware > Genealogy
9. Delaware > Description and travel > 18th century

Genre/Form

1. Diaries.

Call number

1. MssCol 4546

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Publications (note)

1. Printed in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 39, pp. 423-438, edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits.

Author

1. Mifflin, Benjamin, 1718-1787.

Title

1. Benjamin Mifflin journal, 1762.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Publications

1. Printed in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 39, pp. 423-438, edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits.

Occupation

1. Merchants Pennsylvania 18th century.

Research call number

1. MssCol 4546