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subjects: Politics and government,  Land companies,  Practice of law,  Asylum Company,  United States,  United States. Continental Congress. Marine Committee,  History,  Correspondence,  Social life and customs,  United States. Continental Congress,  Legal instruments

People: Tench Tilghman (1744-1786),  Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885),  Simon Cameron (1799-1889),  Henry Hudson (d. 1611),  Philemon Dickinson (1739-1809),  John Witherspoon (1723-1794),  Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882),  John Bubenheim Bayard (1738-1807),  Joseph Galloway (1731-1803),  Gouverneur Kemble (1786-1875),  John G. Nicolay (1832-1901),  Samuel Meredith (1741-1817),  Reed family,  Samuel Wharton (1732-1800),  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865),  Caesar Rodney (1728-1784),  George Clymer (1739-1813),  Robert Morris (1734-1806),  Hudson family,  James Buchanan (1791-1868),  Thomas Cadwalader (1707 or 8-1779),  James Wilson (1742-1798),  John Dickinson (1732-1808)

Places: United States,  New Castle (Del.),  England,  Pennsylvania,  Delaware,  Philadelphia

Times: Revolution, 1775-1783