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Yost, Charles Woodruff
Charles W. Yost (1907-1981) led a varied career as a diplomat, United Nations representative, writer, and scholar. He was a member of the foreign service intermittently between 1930 and 1971, after which time he devoted himself full-time to writing and teaching. Yost's papers document his professional life in the Foreign Service, as well as his time in academia, and include his correspondence, writings, and photographs.
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Woodhull, William
This single notebook was for the most part written by William Woodhull (1741-1824), Class of 1764. The bulk of the book consists of recipes for medicinal prescriptions, catechisms, student orations and a poem. A good deal of the book appears to have been written during Woodhull's days at Princeton, but some of the recipes date to 1850, beyond Woodhull's death and so were entered by another unidentified individual.
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Box b-001872, Folder 4
Wills family
Consists of a bible given by John Paxton (1784-1868) and John Paton of the Norfolk Bible Society of Virginia to the Wills family in Amelia, Virginia, in the early 19th century. The Wills family were enslavers, and they used the beginning and end of the bible to extensively document the births of white family members as well as the Black people they enslaved. It is also possible that some of those described in the bible were the children of John Wills and women whom he enslaved.
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Box b-001675, Folder 5
Willis, Anthony, circa 1783-
Consists of a certificate of freedom for Anthony Willis, an African American man living in New York City in the early 19th century. The certificate describes Willis as "a black man… about the age of twenty eight years, and was born at Suffolk County in the State of New York… about five feet six inches, has dark eyes and black hair." In this document, Peter Connor testifies that he has known Willis for two years, and that during that time Willis "hath been reputed and considered to be free, and hath continually acted as a free man during the said time, and that the said Anthony was born free." This statement is certified by judge and alderman Charles Dickinson.