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Box 01

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Contains 25 Results:

Williamina Smith Goldsborough, wife of Charles Goldsborough, biographies and print

 File — Box: 01, Folder: 11
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Willamina Smith Goldsborough (1762-1790) daughter of William Smith biography, newspaper clippings, and a print.

Dates: 1752-1997

"Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D.D." by Horace Wemyss Smith

 File — Box: 01, Folder: 12
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Photocopies from Life and correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D.D., first provost of the College and academy of Philadelphia. First president of Washington college, Maryland. With copious extracts from his writings. By his great grandson, Horace Wemyss Smith, Vol. 2.

Dates: 1752-1997

"An Oration in Memory of General Montgomery" by William Smith, 1776

 File — Box: 01, Folder: 13
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Delivered February 19th, 1776 at the desire of the Honorable Continental Congress.

Dates: 1776

Portraits of William Smith

 File — Box: 01, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents Note From the Record Group: This collection contains the papers of the early Presidents of Washington College. Beginning with Washington College’s first President William Smith through it’s fourteenth Dr. Charles W. Reid. Francis Waters served two times as President making him the fifth and nineth President. Due to the fires of 1827 and 1916 many of the early records were lost including the identity of the Presidents from 1805-1813. These papers consist of original materials, research from primary and secondary...
Dates: 1752-1997

Remarks given for George Washington’s honorary degree, 1789 June 24

 File — Box: 01, Folder: 17
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Typed copy, remarks published in J. Thomas Scharf's History of Maryland Vol. II.

Dates: 1789 June 24

St. John’s College histories

 File — Box: 01, Folder: 18
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Includes a typed copy of an article from the 1789 Maryland Gazette, Washington College Bulletin Vol. XIII Number 1-2 1935, and Maryland Historical Magazine Vol. XLIV No. 2 1949.

Dates: 1752-1997

Two Sermons on Overcoming the World by William Smith, 1787; 1789

 File — Box: 01, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents Note From the Record Group: This collection contains the papers of the early Presidents of Washington College. Beginning with Washington College’s first President William Smith through it’s fourteenth Dr. Charles W. Reid. Francis Waters served two times as President making him the fifth and nineth President. Due to the fires of 1827 and 1916 many of the early records were lost including the identity of the Presidents from 1805-1813. These papers consist of original materials, research from primary and secondary...
Dates: 1787; 1789