1855-1888

Includes a lengthy legal complaint against several Philadelphia merchants filed in the Sussex County Court of Chancery; political leaflets and party tickets for Delaware elections, 1858-1870; a Civil War era announcement of a public meeting in support of the Union; a letter addressed to "Brother" from Jinnie Hazzard; an affadavit of Joanna Porter testifying that her husband attempted to kill her; a report card of Sallie Underwood from Taylor & Jackson's Academy; a letter by James Smith regarding false reports on his involvement in a ension claim; broadside announcements for a sheriff's sale and for a celebration of the passage of the fifteenth amendment; published election returns for 1874 and 1884; and John Gallagher's Peninsula Agricultural and Pomological Association stock certificate.