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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm73021840
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of the Joseph Galloway family were purchased by the Library of Congress, 1968-1983.
The collection was arranged and described by Paul Sifton in 1972 and expanded by David Matheson in 1985. The finding aid was revised in 2009. The finding aid was updated in 2023 by Maria Farmer as part of a division-wide remediation project by the Inclusive Description Working Group.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of the Joseph Galloway family is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of the Galloway family are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Joseph Galloway Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of the Joseph Galloway family span the years 1743-1823 and consist chiefly of the family correspondence of Galloway, his wife, Grace Growden Galloway, their daughter, Elizabeth, and Grace Galloway's brother, Thomas Nickelson, of Dorset, England. Included are a travel notebook of William Roberts and letters of Galloway to his wife, verses written and collected by Grace Galloway, together with letters describing her trials as a Loyalist wife during the American Revolution, and correspondence of Elizabeth with English friends.
This collection is organized by name of person or type of material.