Box 01

Contains accounts for various Pearce family members and others including the estate of James Pearce, an account for Gideon Pearce. There is also a hollow cut silhouette of a women with the initials R. L. this could be Ruth Lusby.

Includes an 1846 letter regarding the Mexican American war; an 1859 letter from George E. Badger, former Whig Senator from North Carolina, referencing the Dreed Scott case; and a letter from Senator Robert M. T. Hunter regarding the 1860 Presidential Election.

Topic include appointments, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Pearce’s reelection and railroads in Maryland, the issue of slavery, the 1860 Presidential election, loyalty to the Union, secession and the rising tension of armed conflict, the eventual beginning of the Civil War, and the emancipation of slave. There is also a letter to James A. Pearce, Jr. on the passing of his father. Some letters have transcripts.

Lecture notes taken while James A. Pearce, Jr. was at Princeton University.

Lecture notes taken while James A. Pearce, Jr. was at Princeton University in Professor Alexander's course.

Includes a letter from a friend on the death of James A. Pearce, Sr., a 1913 letter from Pearce to a former student, Henry P. Ford, with updates of others, mostly from the class of 1876, an undated letter from J. M. Root.

This collection contains an account book kept by the Pearce family. James A. Pearce, Sr.'s correspondence with other politicians regarding slavery in Maryland and the lead up to the Civil War. James A. Pearce, Jr.’s lecture notebooks while at Princeton University, correspondence, and a scrapbook he kept of the 1896 presidential election.

Contains newspaper clipping on Hynson Ringgold House, pictures of 102 Maple St and Locust Grove homes.