Guide to the James Agnew Papers
Open for research.
James Agnew was born in 1769 in Adams County, PA, of parents from Northern Ireland who were Covenanters (Reformed Presbyterian Church). Agnew served as an officer in the American Revolution and is referred to as Col. Agnew in his incoming correspondence. After the Revolution, Agnew lived the remainder of his life as a merchant at McConnellsburg in western Pennsylvania. He was the father of Samuel Agnew, a founder of the Presbyterian Historical Society and its first librarian.
Record Group 315 consists of business correspondence largely with merchants in Baltimore and Philadelphia, bills, receipts, a bill of lading, and an inventory of stock. Also included are weather logs from 1820 to 1853 and shares of stock and proxies of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike (1815). Three letters and a tract concern religious matters. Correspondents include John Fletcher, George Junkin and William A. McDowell, Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Missions.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: September 1992
Glenn Colliver, Assistant Archivist
| Box | Folder | Description | |
| 1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 315 | |
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence, 1803-1812 | |
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence, 1813-1820, 1843 | |
| 1 | 4 | Letters, Bills, and Receipts, 1796-1812; Bill of Lading, 1843 | |
| 1 | 5 | Shares of Stock and Proxies of the Chambersburg and Bedford Turnpike, 1815 | |
| 1 | 6 | Inventory of Goods; List of Court Judgments, 1823-1836 | |
| 1 | 7 | Daybook and Weather Log, 1820-1835 | |
| 1 | 8 | Weather Log, 1836-1851 | |
| 1 | 9 | Weather Log, 1851-1853 | |
| 1 | 10 | Religious Correspondence and a Tract, 1835, n.d. |