Dickinson College
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush papers
Collection
Identifier: SSC.MS.00565
Abstract
The Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush papers include letters, writings, financial records, a few legal documents and one educational record. Benjamin Rush's personal and professional outgoing letters, with some incoming letters, cover a wide variety of topics, but focus primarily on medical concerns, particularly the 1793 and other yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia, as well as mental illness and its treatment, and the medical department of the Continental Army. There are a few letters...
Dates:
1766-1845 and undated
Found in:
CEPT Archives
Benjamin Rush travel diary, 178[4] April 2-7
Item — Box 3: Series 1; Series 4; Series 2; Series 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
The diary records Rush's travel, accompanied by a servant and via horses, between the outskirts of Philadelphia and Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for an initial meeting with the trustees of Dickinson College. During the meeting the Trustees selected Dr. Charles Nisbet to serve as the College's first president. Rush described the taverns and other travel lodges at which he stopped, along with Tavern staff and other patrons, the quality of the food and drink, along with conversations he witnessed or...
Dates:
178[4] April 2-7
Rush, Benjamin (n.p.) letter to [John Bubenheim Bayard], 1784 June 25
Item — Box 1: Series 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
A copy, in an unknown hand, of a letter from Rush to Bayard regarding sentiments expressed in an earlier letter to General John Armstrong. The letter reflects post-revolutionary state politics in Pennsylvania. In the letter, Rush censures his fellow Presbyterians, who refuse to revoke the test laws and to admit amendments to the state constitution. He also condemns the taking over by the Presbyterian dominated state government of the charter of the College of Philadelphia, now the University...
Dates:
1784 June 25
Sworn statement, 1786 April 14
Item — Box 3: Series 1; Series 4; Series 2; Series 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
Sworn statement that the certificate dated 1 July 1784, payable to Thomas Gilby and signed by John Pierce, is really the property of Dickinson College. signed by Benjamin Rush.
Dates:
1786 April 14
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- Archival Object 3
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Diaries 2
- Financial records 1
- Letters 1
- Medicine -- Study and teaching -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Pennsylvania -- Description and travel -- 18th century 1
- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century 1
- Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs. 1
- Physicians 1
- Physicians -- Records and correspondence. 1
- Susquehanna River 1
- Taverns (Inns) -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century. 1
- Travel writing -- History -- 18th century 1
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Medical care 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 1
- Yellow Fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1 + ∧ less
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