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General Lafayette’s Tour of the United States
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0124
Abstract
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings from the arrival of the Marquis de Lafayette in August 1884 at New York to his visit to Norfolk, Virginia in October 1824. Among the newspaper articles are five engravings depicting General Lafayette.
Dates:
August-October 1824
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Girdler Family Records
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0247
Abstract
An extensive collection of correspondence, information and genealogical searches made by current family members to trace ancestors into the Seventeenth Century when it is believed the first of the Girdlers came to the American colonies. The early ancestors settled in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts and were involved in the mariner trade as sailors, masters and captains of merchant ships. Perhaps the most famous was Lewis Girdler, master of the “Betsy” who was a licensed privateer...
Dates:
1783 to 1995; Majority of material found within 1802 to 1915
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Dixey, Richard W., 1809-1860 1
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- Johannot, Antoine, 1803-1852 1
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