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{"value"=>"577", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 577", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1675-1902", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1675/1902"}
{"value"=>"1760s-1850s", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1760/1859"}
{"value"=>"1760s-1850s", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1760/1859"}
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1675
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1902
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1675
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1675
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1902
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Clymer-Meredith-Read family papers"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"13.5 linear feet (14 boxes, 2 v., 1 package)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Clymer, Meredith and Read families of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, related by marriage and business, consisted of merchants, lawyers, judges, soldiers, bankers, entrepreneurs, politicians, two signers of the Declaration of Independence (George Read and George Clymer), and poet and diplomat John Meredith Read, II, United States Consul-General in Paris. Papers reflect the economic, professional and personal histories of the Clymer-Meredith-Read families. Includes correspondence, land papers, legal papers, personal and business accounts, estate papers, writings, scrapbooks, and notebooks of George Read, George Read, II, John Read, John Meredith Read, John Meredith Read, II, John Meredith Read, III, Reese Meredith, Samuel Meredith, Thomas Meredith, George Clymer, Henry Clymer, and Thomas Clymer. Also, diary kept by John Meredith Read, II, during the siege of Paris by the Germans in 1870-1871; some papers of Samuel Dickinson, Hannah Carpenter, and George Ross and family; and letters from James Buchanan."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Clymer-Meredith-Read family papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Related both by intermarriage and business, these three prominent families of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania produced a long line of merchants, lawyers, judges, soldier*, bankers, entrepreneurs, politicians, two Signers of the Declaration of Independence, George Read and George Clymer, the latter of whom also helped to frame the constitutions of the U. S. and Pennsylvania, and a poet-diplomat, John Meredith Read II, who, as U. S. Consul-General at Paris, witnessed the German siege of 1870-1871.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The papers reflect the economic (particularly real property) professional, and personal histories of the Clymer-Meredith-Read families. They span the years 1675-1902. The bulk in, however, of the period 1760s-1850s, and includes correspondence, land papers, legal papers, personal and business accounts, estate papers, writings, scrapbooks, notebooks, of George Read, George Read II, John Read, John Meredith Read, John Meredith Read II, John Meredith Read III, Reese Meredith, Samuel Meredith, Thomas Meredith, George Clymer, Henry Clymer, Thomas Clymer, a diary kept by by Joh Meredith Read II during the siege of Paris by the Germans in 1870-1871, some papers of Samuel Dickinson, Hannah Carpenter, and George Ross and his family, and letters from James Buchanan to John Meredith Read.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Clymer-Meredith-Read family papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/577#c1327472'>Read Family</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/577#c1327521'>Meredith Family</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/577#c1327538'>Clymer Family</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by Richard Salvato, 1983.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Lists of correspondence prepared by Maurice Sloog.</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Sermons of Aeneas Ross available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>John Meredith Read II diary, Paris, 1870-1871, available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-365</p>"}
- extent_statement
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13.5 linear feet (14 boxes, 2 v., 1 package)
- date_bulk_start
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1760
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1859