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Series II: General Family Materials, 1803-1900, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents note

Series II contains voluminous genealogical material, much in the form of repetitious handwritten notations and handwritten family trees. There are also inventories of personal property, memorabilia, such as visiting cards, drawings, newspapers, clippings, and photographs. There are documents relating to Rufus King's notes on the following: an act to provide for certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army (1817), and the admission of Illinois and Missouri to the United States (1818). There are also biographical/obituary materials for John Alsop King (1817 - 1900) and James Cowles Fisher (1756 - 1840).

Rufus King: Financial and Legal Documents, 1803-1820, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rufus King: H.R. 8 "A Bill to Provide for Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army" (Draft), 1817, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rufus King: Notes on the Bills for the Admission of the States of Missouri and Illinois, 1818, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Memorial on Behalf of Archibald Gracie, 1817, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

James Cowles Fisher: "Memorandum of my Birth and Connections", 1832, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Charles Ray King: Passport, 1834, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

James Gore King: Daniel Webster Speech Notes, 1835, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Historical and Geneological Notes on the King Family and Descendents, 1755-1900, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Geneological Charts of King Descendents, 1891, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Papers Concerning the Death of John Alsop King, 1900, undated, inclusive

Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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