Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Callister, Henry, approximately 1716-approximately 1768.
2. Callister, Sarah Trippe, 1731-1805.

Description

1. 5 volumes (in one carton)

Summary

1. Correspondence, business records, and miscellaneous manuscripts of members of the Callister family, chiefly Henry Callister, merchant (ca. 1716-ca. 1768) and his wife, Sarah Trippe Callister (1731-1805), including items about Mrs. Callister's schools for girls in Chestertown and Baltimore (1783-1788). Henry Callister came to Maryland as factor for Foster Cunliffe & Sons, of Liverpool, England, and was resident at Oxford, Talbot County, and "Townside", an estate in Kent and Queen Anne's Counties, Md. Original manuscripts have not been counted, but photostatic reproductions fill 869 pages, plus an index volume. They contain a wealth of information concerning economic, mercantile, political, social, and cultural conditions on the Eastern Shore during the period, and include correspondence with persons in Great Britain; with Rev. Thomas Bacon (came to Maryland, 1745, d. 1768), compiler of The Laws of Maryland, organizer of the first charity school in the British colonies, and a pioneer in relations with the African American population; with Robert Morris, merchant of Talbot County, and his son, Robert Morris, Jr. (1734-1806), financier of the American Revolution; and with members of the Bolton, Bordley, Comegys, Earle, Eccleston, Goldsborough, Ridout, Gordon, Hesselius, Hollyday, Lloyd, Ringgold, Wright, and many other Maryland families.

Subject

1. Wright family > Correspondence
2. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > Economic conditions > 18th century
3. Eccleston family > Correspondence
4. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > Politics and government > 18th century
5. Eggleston family > Correspondence
6. Plantation owners > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
7. Bolton family > Correspondence
8. Goldsborough family > Correspondence
9. Ridout family > Correspondence
10. Business records > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
11. Great Britain > Commerce > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
12. Girls > Education > Maryland > Chestertown
13. Foster Cunliffe & Sons (Liverpool, England)
14. Bacon, Thomas, approximately 1700-1768 > Correspondence
15. Bordley family > Correspondence
16. Family papers > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
17. Morris, Robert, 1710 or 1711-1750 > Correspondence
18. Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 > Correspondence
19. Lloyd family > Correspondence
20. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > History > 18th century
21. Commission merchants > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
22. Merchants > Great Britain > Correspondence
23. Schools > Maryland > Chestertown
24. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > Commerce > Great Britain
25. Holliday family > Correspondence
26. Agriculture > Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
27. Schools > Maryland > Baltimore
28. Gordon family > Correspondence
29. Girls > Education > Maryland > Baltimore
30. Merchants > Maryland > Correspondence
31. Ringgold family > Correspondence
32. Earle family > Correspondence
33. Comegys family > Correspondence
34. Callister family
35. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) > Social life and customs > 18th century
36. Hollyday family > Correspondence
37. Hesselius family > Correspondence

Genre/Form

1. Business records – Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
2. Family papers – Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)

Access (note)

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

Reproduction (note)

1. Photostats.

Original location (note)

1. Originals held by the Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Episcopal Diocesan Center, Baltimore, Md.

Source (note)

1. Maryland Diocesan Library

Language (note)

1. Materials in English.

Title

1. Callister family papers, approximately 1741-1788.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Reproduction

1. Photostats.

Original location

1. Originals held by the Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Episcopal Diocesan Center, Baltimore, Md.

Access

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

Language

1. Materials in English.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Commission merchants Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
2. Plantation owners Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)

Added author

1. Callister, Henry, approximately 1716-approximately 1768.
2. Callister, Sarah Trippe, 1731-1805.