Box 1

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Includes household and business receipts, accounts, and promissory notes involving JT and WT; a letter to JT and WT from James Brian; a letter to JT from John Lea; a summons to John Armstrong and other legal documents; and accounts and other papers related to the Brandywine Mill Seat Company.

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Includes household and business accounts and receipts involving JT; accounts and other papers related to the Brandywine Mill Seat Company; an account book with notes on the steam boat Superior; and a letter recording transactions between JT and WT.

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Includes household and business receipts, accounts, and promissory notes involving JT, WT, and the partnership Warner and Torbert; and business letters to JT from William Young of Philadelphia and others.

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Includes business letters to JT from William Young, William Warner, and others; a letter to William Young from James Oliver; receipts, accounts, judgments, and promissory notes involving JT, WT, and Joseph W. Torbert; a record of a lawsuit involving JT and the partnership William Almond & Co.; a receipt from WT regarding a transaction with JT and the Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine; and an invitation for JT to attend a meeting of the Masons.

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Includes mostly business letters to JT from William Young; a document outlining the rules and regulations of the Philadelphia & Wilmington Steam Boat Company, listing JT as a shareholder; and household and business receipts and accounts involving JT.

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Includes household and business receipts and accounts involving JT; a notebook containing a brief record of WT's accounts at the Farmers Bank at Wilmington, notes by a young woman, possibly Electa Maria W. Torbert, a recipe for paint, and a blank record of attendance for classes taught by E. T., possibly Elizabeth Torbert; and an account book listing household expenses for JT.

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Includes household and business receipts and accounts involving JT and WWT; invitations to the funerals of Ann C. Leonard and James Wilson; a letter to JT from William Young; and a book listing JT's accounts with J. Wright.

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Includes a document appointing WWT as the legal guardian of Jacob Hannah; a document outlining the partnership of a cotton mill in Brandywine, involving JT; and numerous business letters to WWT from James Goodluce regarding property and other business transactions.

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Includes business papers and accounts involving JT and the partnership W. Warner & Warner & Torbert; a document pertaining to the Rockford Mill property; a document regarding shares of the steamboat Superior and the Wilmington & Philadelphia Steamboat Company; and an invitation to the funeral of Mrs. Rachel Young.

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Includes an 1818 letter to JT from Nixon Wilson regarding the death of John's wife, Susan Warner Torbert; a letter to Mrs. Joseph Warner from her brother, Samuel Ewing; also includes letters written by JT, WT, and JT's children, James, Peter, Mary Jane, and Susan Torbert. Topics include family health and activities, and the death of WT's daughter, Frances Asbury Torbert.

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No letters for 1838-1840. Contains mostly incoming letters to WWT and other Torbert family correspondence. Topics include family health, news, and the death of WT in 1841. Authors include Peter, James, and Susan Torbert, their cousin Jonathan R. Torbert, and Jonathan's stepmother (and WWT's mother-in-law), Martha Rudulph Torbert.

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Includes letters to WWT from his wife, Elizabeth, his brothers, Peter, James, and Edward, his cousin, William E. Torbert, and his mother-in-law, Martha Rudulph Torbert. Topics include family news and activities, the care of Joseph Torbert's wife, Electa Maria, after his death, and the illness and death of Martha Rudulph Torbert.

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Includes letters to WWT from his brothers, Peter and James, his sister-in-law, Electa Maria Torbert, and his wife, Elizabeth Torbert.

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Contains a letter to JT from WT; two letters to WWT from Elizabeth Torbert; a letter from Susan Torbert to Mary Jane Torbert; and a letter to JT from Esther Torbert Naudain.

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Includes accounts and bills to Esther Yarnall from John Warner, Warner and Torbert, and others; an agreement between Esther Yarnall and her neighbor, Francis Daniel; and a note/receipt from Esther Yarnall to William George; and a document related to the estate of Esther Yarnall's parents, Phillip and Mary Yarnall.

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Includes early deeds involving the property of the Ellegood and Griffith families; the will of William Ellegood (1708-1790); and many accounts, receipts, promissory notes, and legal documents involving JAE and his brother, William A. Ellegood.

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Includes accounts, receipts, promissory notes, and legal documents involving JAE; a letter to JAE from Levin Fisher; an account from John Houston to Sarah Ellegood; a letter/deed to JAE from his brother, Thomas; and testimony of JAE in a legal dispute between Mary B. Ellegood and Thomas Ellegood.

Scope and Contents Includes accounts, receipts, promissory notes, and legal documents involving JAE; a letter appointing JAE administrator of Thomas Ellegood's estate and other papers related to this estate; commissions appointing JAE as a Justice of the Peace and as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Land Office for Sussex County, signed by Governors Paynter and Polk; a document dissolving John H. Ellegood's mercantile partnership with John Elliot; a conveyance bond from William A. Ellegood to JAE;...

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Includes accounts, receipts, promissory notes, articles of agreement, and other legal documents involving the Ellegood family or signed by JAE as Justice of the Peace; propositions by Caleb Ross concerning mill property; and an indenture agreement involving JAE and his brother-in-law, Robert H. Griffith.

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Includes accounts, receipts, promissory notes, articles of agreement, and other legal documents involving JAE and his family, or signed by JAE as Justice of the Peace; letters to JAE regarding Jonathan Dougherty; seven land grants to Robert H. Griffith for land in Palmyra, Missouri, signed by President Martin Van Buren in 1838; and an indenture agreement signed by JAE.