Summary Information

Title: Burd-Shippen papers
Creator: Burd, James, 1726-1793 and Shippen, Edward, 1729-1806
Inclusive dates: 1738-1847
Extent: 0.5 linear feet
Abstract:

The Burd-Shippen papers contain personal and business documents concerning Edward Shippen, Edward Burd, and their families and Philadelphian colleagues. Many of Major Edward Burd's items concern the 1st Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment of Foot in the early years of the Revolutionary War.

Language: The material is in English
Repository: William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan

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