Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection includes the correspondence, certificates, photographs, accounts, and journals of Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell. Naval journals cover Bell's service in the Mediterranean Sea from 1855-1858. The photographs are a mix of personal and souvenirs, which largely depict men and women from Peru. There is also material related to his role as executor for the estate of Samuel Swartwout. The collection also includes papers related to the Smith family, particularly Bell's executor and...

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Record of births, marriages, and deaths of members of the Bell family, 1772-1852, on pages of the New Testament. Including AN, notes on birth dates of children, 1794-1810.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection includes the correspondence, certificates, photographs, accounts, and journals of Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell. Naval journals cover Bell's service in the Mediterranean Sea from 1855-1858. The photographs are a mix of personal and souvenirs, which largely depict men and women from Peru. There is also material related to his role as executor for the estate of Samuel Swartwout. The collection also includes papers related to the Smith family, particularly Bell's executor and...

Scope and Contents The folder's contents are the following items: 1852 March 20. Mortgage with "The Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company", Essex County, N.J. for $2,000 taken out by Charles H. Bell and Eliza S. Bell.1857. Tax statement for Orange N.J. for Charles H. Bell for 1856. 1862 July 17-1864 September 15. Account of Charles H. Bell with Robert C. Rogers, the balance being $5,497.00. 1862 December 19. Receipt for two cases of Sonoma champagne by "my friend...

Scope and Contents Folder contents are: 1797 June 11. Alexander Ewing, Charleston, S.C., to Andrew Bell, Merchant, Maiden Lane, New York. 1841 January 5. James Kirke Paulding, U.S. Navy Department, to Commander Charles H. Bell, Commanding U.S. Brig. Dolphin, Coast of Africa. 1852 March 23. James Wilson, Clerk, New Jersey Supreme Court, certifying that he has found no judgement in the court against Charles H. Bell. Includes deeds dated 1814 May 5 and 1851 March 24 pertaining...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection includes the correspondence, certificates, photographs, accounts, and journals of Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell. Naval journals cover Bell's service in the Mediterranean Sea from 1855-1858. The photographs are a mix of personal and souvenirs, which largely depict men and women from Peru. There is also material related to his role as executor for the estate of Samuel Swartwout. The collection also includes papers related to the Smith family, particularly Bell's executor and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection includes the correspondence, certificates, photographs, accounts, and journals of Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell. Naval journals cover Bell's service in the Mediterranean Sea from 1855-1858. The photographs are a mix of personal and souvenirs, which largely depict men and women from Peru. There is also material related to his role as executor for the estate of Samuel Swartwout. The collection also includes papers related to the Smith family, particularly Bell's executor and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection includes the correspondence, certificates, photographs, accounts, and journals of Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell. Naval journals cover Bell's service in the Mediterranean Sea from 1855-1858. The photographs are a mix of personal and souvenirs, which largely depict men and women from Peru. There is also material related to his role as executor for the estate of Samuel Swartwout. The collection also includes papers related to the Smith family, particularly Bell's executor and...

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Backing and several pages of a notebook belonging to Charles H. Bell, "presented by his young friend Augi van Amringer, N[ew] York, 25th April [18]20." 1p. MsV.

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Commonplace book of Margaret Smith, [Albany, N.Y.], containing poems and essays by her and her friends. 45pp. MsV.

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Gems of Sacred Poetry, published by Saxton and Kelt, N.Y., 1845, given to Henrietta Smith Bell [by] her affectionate sister Fannie. 128pp. PV.

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Memorandum book of Charles H. Bell, including notes on ships, officers and workmen, and articles left in store at the [illegible] Navy Yard, 14 June 1850. 33pp. MsV

Scope and Contents Private journal of Charles H. Bell, Captain of the U.S.S. Constellation, describing vessel and navigations conditions, sightseeing and conditions ashore, and desertions and court martial on his ship and others as the vessel sailed from Norfolk, Va. to and around the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas. Included on the itinerary were the Azores, Gibraltar, [La] Spezia, Messina, Mahon, Genoe, Marseilles, Cadiz, Malaga, Palma, Piraeus, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna, Alexandria, Cairo, and Geezah....