Charles Francis Jenkins autograph collection


Collection 1402

( Bulk, 1765-1810 ) 1750-1827
(1.6 Linear feet ; 4 boxes )

Summary Information

Repository
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator
Jenkins, Charles Francis, 1865-1951
Title
Charles Francis Jenkins autograph collection
ID
1402
Date [bulk]
Bulk, 1765-1810
Date [inclusive]
1750-1827
Extent
1.6 Linear feet ; 4 boxes
Author
Finding aid prepared by Megan Sheffer Evans
Language
English
Abstract
The Charles Francis Jenkins autograph collection dates from 1750 to 1827 and consists of alphabetically-arranged letters, receipts, legal documents, portraits, and other materials containing the signatures of early members of the United States Congress. These individuals include delegates to the First and Second Continental Congresses, signers of the Delaration of Independence and Constitution as well as members of the Congress of the Confederation (under the Articles of Confederation). Also included are individuals who were elected to Congress but did not attend.

Preferred citation

Cite as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Charles F. Jenkins autograph collection (Collection 1402), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; 2016.

1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Provenance

Gift of Charles F. Jenkins, 1945.

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Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • Autographs--Early America
  • United States--History--Continental Congress

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Collection Inventory

Authors A-F 

Box
1

Andrew Adams (Connecticut) 1777 September 4 

Samuel Adams (Massacheusetts) 1782 July 6 

Thomas Adams (Virginia) 1787 June 20 

Robert Alexander (Maryland) 1790 July 30 

Andrew Allen (Pennsylvania) 1775 November 27 

John Alsop (New York) 1764 February 14 

Benjamin Andrew (Georgia) 1767 July 25 

John Armstrong, Sr. (Pennsylvania) 1770 April 23 

John Armstrong, Jr. (Pennsylvania) 1784 July 29 

Jonathan Arnold (Rhode Island) 1783 October 26 

Peleg Arnold (Rhode Island) 1760 June 7 

John B. Ashe (North Carolina) 1797 September 20 

Samuel John Atlee (Pennsylvania) 1781 February 10 

Abraham Baldwin (Georgia) 1794 December 11 

John Banister (Virginia) 1783 April 17 

Robert Barnwell (South Carolina) 1797 December 14 

Josiah Bartlett (New Hampshire) 1791 December 23 

Richard Bassett (Delaware) 1770 December 20 

John Bayard (Pennsylvania) 1776 March 8 

John Beatty (New Jersey) 1798 October 5 

Gunning Bedford, Jr. (Delaware) 1805 October 21 

Gunning Bedford, Sr. (Delaware) 1776 August 2 

Thomas Bee (South Carolina) 1793 August 2 

Benjamin Bellows (New Hampshire) 1762 March 17 

Egbert Benson (New York) 1800 January 20 

Richard Beresford (South Carolina) 1784 November 22 

Edward Biddle (Pennsylvania) 1778 September 1 

William Bingham (Pennsylvania) 1793 May 1 

John Blair (Viriginia) 1773 April 1 

Jonathan Blanchard (New Hampshire) 1784 June 2 

Richard Bland (Virginia) 1771 July 20 

Theodoric Bland (Virginia) 1778 December 8 

Timothy Bloodworth (North Carolina) 1780 May 9 

William Blount (North Carolina) 1795 October 26 

James Bowdoin (Massacheusetts) 1783 April 21 

Elias Boudinot (New Jersey) 1803 April 29 

William Bradford (Rhode Island) 1775 June 2 

Carter Braxton (Virginia) 1784 July 23 

John Brown (Virginia) 1805 September 1 

John Brown (Rhode Island) 1784 May 11 

Nathan Brownson (Georgia) 1774 December 9 

John Bull (South Carolina) 1783 July 24 

Archibald Bulloch (Georgia) 1776 November 22 

Thomas Burke (North Carolina) 1782 March 13 

Robert Burton (North Carolina) 1796 August 15 

Pierce Butler (South Carolina) 1808 December 1 

Lambert Cadwalader (New Jersey) 1771 August 26 

John Canfield (Connecticut) 1777 June 25 

William Carmichael (Maryland) 1781 June 24 

Edward Carrington (Virginia) 

Charles Carroll (Maryland) 1762 July 1 

Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Maryland) 1822 December 29 

Daniel Carroll (Maryland) 1789 August 14 

Richard Caswell (North Carolina) 1775 April 6 

George Champlin (Rhode Island) 1778 February 15 

Charles Church Chandler (Connecticut) 1777 August 29 

Jeremiah T. Chase (Maryland) 1779 November 24 

John Chester (Connecticut) 1801 June 17 

Abraham Clark (New Jersey) 1776 April 8 

Mathew Clarkson (Pennsylvania) 1780 July 17 

Joseph Clay (Georgia) 1786 

William Clingan (Pennsylvania) 1784 June 

George Clinton (New York) 1780 May 20 

George Clymer (Philadelphia) 1788 April 19 

John Collins (Rhode Island) 1780 July 8, October 28 

Silas Condict (New Jersey) 1784 May 3 

Benjamin Contee (Maryland) 1787 June 2 

Joseph P. Cooke (Connecticut) 1776 June 19 

John Cooper (New Jersey) 1782 June 

Ezekiel Cornell (Rhode Island) 1779 November 6 

Tench Coxe (Pennsylvania) 1791 April 21 

Stephen Crane (New Jersey) 1765 April 22 

William Cumming (North Carolina) undated 

Nathan Cushing (Massacheusetts) 1779 May 

Thomas Cushing (Massacheusetts) 1786 December 30 

Tristram Dalton (Massacheusetts) 1814 April 23 

Francis Dana (Massacheusetts) 1771 December 13 

Nathan Dane (Massacheusetts) 1787 August 17 

John Dawson (Virginia) 1793 January 30 

Elias Dayton (New Jersey) undated 

Jonathan Dayton (New Jersey) 1798 April 15 

Silas Deane (Connecticut) 1777 October 9 

John DeHart (New Jersey) 1783 March 31 

Charles DeWitt (New York) 1784 August 18 

Samuel Dick (New Jersey) 1797 November 15 

John Dickinson (Pennsylvania) 1787 July 25 

Philemon Dickinson (Delaware) 1792 July 15 

William Henry Drayton (South Carolina) 1777 July 10 

James Duane (New York) 1780 October 6 

Jacob Duché (Pennsylvania) [portrait] undated 

William Duer (New York) 1786 May 25 

Samuel Duffield (Pennsylvania) 1794 July 11 

Eliphalet Dyer (Connecticut) 1791 September 12 

Pierpont Edwards (Connecticut) 1803 October 29 

Samuel Elbert (Georgia) 1787 February 20 

William Ellery (Rhode Island) 1814 July 25 

Oliver Ellsworth (Connecticut) 1778 December 1 

Jonathan Elmer (New Jersey) 1787 December 8 

John Evans (Delaware) 1783 April 29 

Nicholas Eveleigh (South Carolina) 1790 June 9 

John Fell (New Jersey) 1780 September 18 

William Few (Georgia) 1801 January 27 

William Fitzhugh (Virginia) 1779 February 22 

Thomas Fitzsimmons (Pennsylvania) 1796 May 24 

William Fleming (Virginia) 1781 September 28 

William Floyd (New York) 1785 July 1 

Nathaniel Folsom (New Hamphsire) 1776 July 11 

Uriah Forrest (Maryland) 1800 April 6 

Abiel Foster (New Hampshire) 1795 January 26 

Theodore Frelinghuysen (New Jersey) 1787 April 20 

George Frost (New Hampshire) 1776 December 2 

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Authors G-Me 

Box
2

William Grayson (Virginia) 1776 October 11 

Cyrus Griffin (Virginia) 1810 November 15 

James Gunn (Georgia) 1799 October 23 

John Habersham (Georgia) 1782 September 10 

Joseph Habersham (Georgia) 1787 September 24 

John Hall (Maryland) 1762 October 14 

Lyman Hall (Georgia) 1769 August 11 

John Hancock (Massacheusetts) [facsimilies] undated 

Edward Hand (Pennsylvania) 1784 July 19 

Christopher Gadsden (South Carolina) 1774 April 10 

Joseph Gallowary (Pennsylvania) 1792 April 10 

Leonard Gansevoort (New York) 1784 October 7 

John Gardner (Rhode Island) 1757 June 2 

Joseph Gardner (Pennsylvania) 1778 September 12 

Silvester Gardner (Rhode Island) 1775 October  

David Gelston (New York) 1801 July 28 

John Lewis Gervais (South Carolina) 1784 May 5 

John Taylor Gilman (New Hampshire) 1787 March 1 

William Gibbons (Georgia) 1782 January 4 

Nicholas Gilman (New Hampshire) 1794 April 22 

Robert Goldsborough (Maryland) 1786 November 5 

Nathaniel Gorham (Massacheusetts) 1786 April 5 

John Hanson (Maryland) 1780 November 7 

Samuel Hardy (Virginia) 1783 January 24 

John Haring (New York) 1785 

Cornelius Harnett (North Carolina) 1778 January 31 

Benjamin Harrison (Virginia) 1782 August 8 

William Harrison (Maryland) 1806 January 25 

John Hart (New Jersey) 1776 March 25 

Thomas Hartley (Pennsylvania) 1787 August 27 

John Harvie (Virginia) 1791 May 9 

John Hathorn (New York) 1795 April 9 

Benjamin Hawkins (North Carolina) 1798 June 5 

Jonathan J. Hazard (Rhode Island) 1788 May 8 

William Hemsley (Maryland) 1786 March 24 

Thomas Henderson (New Jersey) 1816 September 6 

James Henry (Virginia) 1789 June 13 

John Henry (Maryland) 1798 June 11 

Patrick Henry (Virginia) 1795 March 1 

William Henry (Pennsylvania) 1777 November 22 

Thomas Heyward, Jr. (South Carolina) 1787 November 28 

Stephen Higginson (Massacheusetts) 1791April 27 

Whitmill Hill (North Carolina) 1786 April 11 

James Hillhouse (Connecticut) 1794 March 5 

William Hillhouse (Connecticut) 1772 May 18 

William Hindman (Maryland) 1775 May 16 

Thomas Holden (Rhode Island) 1777 December 12 

Samuel Holton (Massacheusetts) 1813 January 15 

Stephen Hopkins (Rhode Island) 1756 June 12 

Francis Hopkinson (New Jersey) 1769 April 6 

William Hooper (North Carolina) 1789 June 27 

Josiah Hornblower (New Jersey) 1782 August 1 

Titus Hosmer (Connecticut) 1776 September 20 

John Houstoun (Georgia) 1784 October 19 

William Houstoun (Georgia) 1788 February 8 

William Churchill Houston (New Jersey) 1782 May  

John Eager Howard (Maryland) 1818 March 20 

David Howell (Rhode Island) 1782 October 9 

Richard Howley (Georgia) 1782 August 28 

Daniel Huger (South Carolina) 1804 May 5 

Charles Humphreys (Pennsylvania) 1772 April 3 

Benjamin Huntington (Connecticut) 1791 April 3 

Samuel Huntington (Connecticut) 1773 December 15 

Richard Hutson (South Carolina) 1785 May 13 

Jared Ingersoll (Pennsylvania) 1794 June 7 

William Irvine (Pennsylvania) 1780 June 15 

Ralph Izard (South Carolina) 1797 January 25 

David Jackson (Pennsylvania) 1798 May 31 

Jonathan Jackson (Massacheusetts) 1791 March 4 

John Jay (New York) 1810 November 21 

Thomas Jefferson (Virginia) 1778 October 19 

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (Maryland) 1770 October 22 

Samuel Johnston (North Carolina) 1786 July 18 

Thomas Johnson (Maryland) 1817 

William Samuel Johnson 1802 April 3 

Allen Jones (North Carolina) 1790 June 10 

Gabriel Jones (Virginia) 1762 March 

Joseph Jones (Virginia) 1799 February 18 

Noble W. Jones (Georgia) 1762 March 30 

Samuel Jones (New York) 1792 June 30 

Willie Jones (North Carolina) 1776 October 25 

John Kean (South Carolina) 1787 May 17 

Dyre Kearney (Delaware) 

Rufus King (Massacheusetts) 1785 December 7 

Francis Kinloch (South Carolina) 1787 March 12 

James Kinsey (New Jersey) 1784 

John Langdon (New Hampshire) 1795 June 10 

Woodbury Langdon (New Hampshire) 1784 August 

Edward Langworthy (Georgia) 1798 May 8 

John Lansing, Jr. (New York) 1807 February 3 

Henry Latimer (Delaware) 1784 November 

John Laurance (New York) 1808 November 16 

Henry Laurens (South Carolina) 1768 September 28 

Richard Law (Connecticut) 1801 October 1 

Arthur Lee (Virginia) 1787 July 17 

Richard Bland Lee (Virginia) 1824 June 4 

Henry Lee (Virginia) 1802 April 3 

Richard Henry Lee (Virginia) 1791 February 24 

Thomas Sim Lee (Maryland) 1781 June 12 

Francis Lewis (New York) 1761 August 19 

Ezra L'Hommedier (New York) 1783 August 

Levi Lincoln (Massacheusetts) 1805 September 21 

Samuel Livermore (New Hampshire) undated 

Philip Livingston (New York) 1765 

Robert R. Livingston (New York) 1806 January 13 

Walter Livingston (New York) 1789 August 13 

William Livingston (New Jersey) 1781 August 27 

Edward Lloyd (Maryland) 1795 September 20 

James Lloyd (Maryland) 1803 January 9 

Pierse Long (New Hampshire) 1785 June 5 

James Lovell (Massacheusetts) 1781 September 5 

Isaac Low (New York) 1772 August 29 

John Lowell (Massacheusetts) 1786 June 5 

Rawlins Lowndes (South Carolina) 1788 October 2 

Thomas Lynch, Sr. (South Carolina) 1769 June 5 

Thomas Lynch, Jr. (South Carolina) [portrait] undated 

Alexander McDougall (New York) 1773 November 8 

Eleazer McComb (Delaware) 1784 May 10 

James McHenry (Maryland) 1797 December 15 

John McKinly (Delaware) 1775 May 15 

James McLene (Pennsylvania) 1788 September 22 

Lachlan McIntosh (Georgia) 1783 October 15 

Nathaniel Macon (1817 January 29) 

Thomas M'Kean (Pennsylvania) 1777 June 2 

James Madison, Jr. (Virginia) 1827 October 25 

Henry Marchant (Rhode Island) 1787 August 7 

James Manning (Rhode Island) 1788 September 10 

Alexander Martin (North Carolina) 1792 October 6 

Luther Martin (Maryland) 1811 March 20 

Timothy Matlack (Pennsylvania) 1781 February 1 

James Mercer (Virginia) 1789 November 19 

John F. Mercer (Virginia) 1785 May 12 

Samuel Meredith (Pennsylvania) 1787 September 

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Authors Mi-Walker, J. 

Box
3

Nathaniel Mitchell (Delaware) 1799 December 30 

Stephen Mix Mitchell (Connecticut) 1786 March 7 

James Monroe (Virginia) 1824 December 25 

John Montgomery (Pennsylvania) 1784 July 26 

Joseph Montgomery (Pennsylvania) 1787 May 24 

William Montgomery (Pennsylvania) 1785 February 7 

William Moore (Pennsylvania) 1780 September 2 

Cadwalader Morris (Pennsylvania) 1784 April 8 

Gouverneur Morris (New York) 1801 October 23 

John Morton (Pennsylvania) 1750 March 6 

Isaac Motte (South Carolina) 1791 March 4 

Daniel Mowry, Jr. (Rhode Island) 1781 May 25 

Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg (Pennsylvania) 1795 March 30 

Paul Mumford (Rhode Island) 1783 March 18 

Abner Nash (North Carolina) 1781 February 23 

John Neilson (New Jersey) 1805 April 6 

Samuel Osgood (Massacheusetts) 

Samuel Alleyne Otis (Massacheusetts) 1811 February 16 

Mann Page (Virginia) 1776 October 4 

Robert Treat Paine (Massacheusetts) 1774 June 

John Parker (South Carolina) 1781 October 17 

George Partridge (Massacheusetts) 1780 March 

John Patten (Delaware) 1778 April 7 

Nathaniel Peabody (New Hampshire) 1805 July 7 

William Peery (Delaware) 1787 October 20 

Thomas Miffilin (Pennsylvania) 1791 March 3 

Philip Pell (New York) 1781 July 31 

Edmund Pendleton (Virginia) 1774 February 12 

Richard Peters, Jr. (Pennsylvania) 1787 June 24 

Charles Pettit (Pennsylvania) 1780 July 25 

Peter Phillips (Rhode Island) circa 1784 

John Pickering (New Hampshire) undated 

William Pierce (Georgia) 1781 June 26 

Charles Pinckney (South Carolina) undated 

Thomas Pinckney (South Carolina) 1815 March 30 

William Pitkin (Connecticut) 1788 May 19 

Zephaniah Platt (New York) 1804 February 24 

Nathan Miller (Rhode Island) 1784 March 1 

George Plater (Maryland) 1780 May 9 

Thomas Polk (North Carolina) 1781 March 13 

Richard Potts (Maryland) 1791 June 5 

David Ramsay (South Carolina) 1807 March 17 

Nathaniel Ramsey (Maryland) 1806 June 17 

Edmund Randolph (Virginia) 1791 June 11 

Payton Randolph (Virginia) 1773 January 13 

Jacob Read (South Carolina) 1791 August 24 

Joseph Reed (Pennsylvania) 1780 July 28 

James R. Reid (Pennsylvania) 1786 April 20 

Samuel Rhoads (Pennsylvania) 1774 November 2 

Richard Ridgely (Maryland) 1786 July 20 

Daniel Roberdeau (Pennylvania) 1778 June 6 

Ceasar Rodney (Delaware) 1781 March 22 

Thomas Rodney (Delaware) 1797 April 

John Rogers (Maryland) 1785 June 4 

Jesse Root (Connecticut) 1807 August 8 

David Ross (Maryland) 1781 August 4 

George Ross (Pennsylvania) 1789 April 28 

Benjamin Rumsey (Maryland) 1776 March 7 

Benjamin Rush (Pennsylvania) 1785 January 16 

Edward Rutledge (South Carolina) 1799 January 11 

John Rutledge (South Carolina) undated 

Arthur St. Clair (Pennsylvania) 1781 December 24 

James Schureman (New Jersey) 1813 December 23 

Philip Schuyler (New York) 1783 August 14 

Gustavus Scott (Maryland) 1797 May 10 

John Morin Scott (New York) 1763 March 17 

Nathaniel Scudder (New Jersey) 1779 November 22 

James Searle (Pennsylvania) 1787 February 21 

Theodore Sedgwick (Masacheusetts) 1792 January 26 

Joshua Senzy (Maryland) 1793 August 30 

William Sharpe (North Carolina) 1787 September 4 

Jonathan D. Sergeant (New Jersey) 1779 October 28 

William Shippen (Pennsylvania) 1768 February 6 

John Sitgreaves (North Carolina) 1786 July 2 

James Smith (Pennsylvania) 1776 February 

Jonathan Bayard Smith (Pennsylvania) 1794 April 21 

Melancton Smith (New York) 1786 September 5 

Meriwether Smith (Virginia) 1788 December 21 

Richard Smith (New Jersey) 1764 November 7 

Thomas Smith (Pennsylvania) 1795 June 11 

William Smith (Maryland) 1779 November 23 

Richard Dobbs Spaight 1795 January 31 

John Sparkawk (New Hampshire) 1772 

Joseph Spencer (Connecticut) 1777 December 31 

John Stevens, Sr. (New Jersey) 1777 September 9 

Charles Stewart (New Jersey) 1780 April 30 

Samuel Stirk (Georgia) 1777 July 12 

Thomas Stone (Maryland) undated 

Caleb Strong (Massacheusetts) 1805 February 15 

Jedediah Strong (Connecticut) 1807 November 26 

Jonathan Sturges (Connecticut) 1786 January 5 

James Sullivan (Massacheusetts) 1791 April 14 

John Sullivan (New Hampshire) 1779 May 22 

Increase Sumner (Massacheusetts) 1789 October 29 

Thomas Sumter (South Carolina) 1781 June 8 

John Swan (North Carolina) 1803 January 22 

James Sykes (Delaware) 1773 August 5 

John Cleves Symmes (New Jersey) 1786 October 3 

George Taylor (Pennsylvania) 1778 

Edward Telfair (Georgia) 1792 July 30 

George Thatcher (Massacheusetts) 1805 October 5 

Ebenezer Thompson (New Hampshire) 1796 March 31 

Matthew Thornton (New Hampshire) 1762 June 25 

Matthew Tilghman (Maryland) 1789 October 1789 

James Tilton (Delaware) 1792 June 4 

Paul Trapier (South Carolina) 1779 October 7 

John Treadwell (Connecticut) 1810 January 26 

Jonathan Trumbull (Connecticut) 1801 May 16 

Joseph Trumbull (Connecticut) 1776 October 7 

Thomas Tudor Tucker (South Carolina) 1801 December 10 

Nicholas Van Dyke (Delaware) 1781 July 23 

James M. Varnum (Rhode Island) 1772 June 17 

John Vining (Delaware) 1794 January 11 

James Wadsworth (Connecticut) 1780 June 5 

Jeremiah Wadsworth (Connecticut) 1778 October 23 

Peleg Wadsworth (Massacheusetts) 1797 May 24 

John Walker (Virginia) 1792 July 31 

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Authors Walker, T.-Z 

Box
4

Timothy Walker (New Hampshire) 1790 August 7 

George Walton (Georgia) undated 

John Walton (Georgia) 1768 October 5 

George Washington (Virginia) 1772 August 27 

Artemas Ward (Massacheusetts) 1773 June 14 

James Warren (Massacheusetts) 1782 May 5 

John Wentworth, Jr. (New Hampshire) 1769 November 30 

Joshua Wentworth (New Hampshire) 1770, 1784 

Benjamin West (New Hampshire) 1803 March 17 

Samuel Wharton (Delaware) 1784 November 25 

Alexander White (Virginia) 1791 February 27 

James White (North Carolina) 1792 October 31 

Phillips White (New Hampshire) 1782 November 6 

John Williams (North Carolina) 1778 July 10 

Hugh Williamson (North Carolina) undated 

Thomas Willing (Pennsylvania) 1788 August 7 

James Wilson (Pennsylvania) 1794 September 19 

Paine Wingate (New Hampshire) 1792 January 14 

Henry Wisner (New York) 1781 July 2 

Erastus Wolcott (Connecticut) 1771 

Oliver Wolcott (Connecticut) 1777 November 11 

Roger Wolcott, Jr. (Connecticut) 1755 March 20 

Joseph Wood (Georgia) 1785 May 2 

Turbett Wright (Maryland) 1778 October 19 

Henry Wynkoop (Pennsylvania) 1808 September 11 

Abraham Yates, Jr. (New York) 1787 June 5 

Peter W. Yates (New York) 1783 April 16 

John Joachim Zubley (Georgia) 1769, 1775 

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