This collection focuses on materials about William Henry I (1729-1786), a successful gunsmith, merchant, and important patriot during the Revolutionary War of Lancaster, PA.
A one-page letter to William Henry from Richard Peters, concerning the order from Commanding Office at Lancaster to collect weapons from soldiers returning from duty, dated November 7, 1777.
A handwritten copy of a one-page letter from Tim Pickering to William Henry I about the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, including a note from Granville Henry.
A one-page, typed copy of an invoice for a payment to William Henry of Lancaster County on December 5, 1756, signed by Ben Franklin, William Masters, Joseph Fox, and Jon Hughes.
A newspaper clipping of an article titled "A Heroine of the Revolution," which mentions Moses Henry of the Henry family of Lancaster, published on June 12, 1886. A handwritten note reads that Moses Henry was a son of John Henry of Detroit, a brother of William Henry of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
