MSA SC 1394-1-1
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photocopy, digital
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00/09/04/02
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Description
Extract from the journal of Joseph Nourse.
Includes photocopy (4 pages) of the original and a transcription ( 2 pages) of the same, starting: "My Father's family is traced back for a considerable number of years."
And ending: "neither can I withhold a most grateful expression of thanksgiving to God Almighty that I should have descended from a root so evidently a child of God and that a link of the chain should remain in myself, as the God son, of son of this parent."
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MSA SC 1394-1-2
No copies.
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1783
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photocopy, microfilm, digital
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00/09/04/02
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Description
Occasional Memorandums for '83
Sarah F. Nourse was the wife of James Nourse
5 pages, photocopied from the original in the University of Virginia Library.
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MSA SC 1394-1-3
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1805
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Photo, electronic
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00/10/05/77
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Description
"Indenture of Three Parts," September 9, 1805.
Settlement of the estate of James Nourse (d. 1784 in Annapolis, Maryland) among the Nourse family.
7 pages, oversized.
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MSA SC 1394-1-4
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1768
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microfilm, digital
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
Diary of James Nourse, April 4, 1768 - ?
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MSA SC 1394-1-5
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1769
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microfilm, digital
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
Diary of James Nourse, August 1, 1769 - September 29, 1769
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MSA SC 1394-1-6
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1775, 1779-1780
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microfilm, digital
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
Diary of James Nourse's trips to and around Kentucky.
Original available the University of Chicago Library.
Transcriptions available for the 1775 trip, available from The Journal of American History Vol. XIX, Nos. 2-4, 1925:
Transcriptions available for the 1779 trip, available from The Filson Club History Quarterly, Vol. 47, No.3, 1973 here.
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MSA SC 1394-1-7
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1777
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microfilm, digital
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
Diary of Joseph Nourse, February 2, 1777 - March 1, 1777
Joseph Nourse was with the Continental Army at their winter quarters at Morristown, New Jersey. His journal for the month of February, 1777 includes a description of a skirmish with the British with about 400 militia and volunteers on the American side and mentions of:
- Lord Sterling/Stirling
- George Washington
- Major General Green(e)
The last few pages of the journal are mostly ripped out and therefore illegible.
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MSA SC 1394-1-8
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1753-1778
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microfilm, digital
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
Excerpt from the Nourse Family Bible, September 30, 1753 - September 1, 1778
Birth notices for children of James and Sarah Nourse. Also includes information about christening and the deaths of some children.
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MSA SC 1394-1-9
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1816
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microfilm, digital
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Description
Letter from Lafayatte, April 26, 1816
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MSA SC 1394-1-10
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1784-1789
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microfilm, digital
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Description
Nourse family correspondence, 1784 - 1789
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MSA SC 1394-1-11
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1796-1798
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microfilm, digital
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
Nourse family correspondence, 1796 - 1798
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MSA SC 1394-1-12
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1800-1803
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microfilm, digital
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Description
Nourse family correspondence, 1800 - 1803
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MSA SC 1394-1-13
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1804-1805
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microfilm, digital
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Description
Nourse family correspondence, 1804 - 1805
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MSA SC 1394-1-14
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1806-1817
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microfilm, digital
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Description
Nourse family correspondence, 1806 - 1817
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MSA SC 1394-1-15
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1806-1808
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microfilm, digital
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Contact the Department of Special Collections for location.
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Description
Nourse family correspondence, 1806 - 1808
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