Box 1

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Includes bonds, land sale document, promissory notes, receipts, and articles of agreement.

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Includes receipts; a dissolution of partnership with his son, Josiah; an inventory of goods and chattels; a tax notice; an invitation; and the settlement of Susan Albertson's estate.

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Autograph letters from family, friends, and business acquaintances. Includes letters from Hannah Albertson, Mary Albertson, Jacob Albertson, Thaddeus Marg, Francis Dauglor, Phillip Markley, and William Proctor.

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Consists of autograph financial documents which include receipts, militia fines, a list of accounts, and statements of sales.

Scope and Contents Includes poems and writings copied by Josiah Albertson at Plymouth boarding school between 1801-1802. Topics include the death of Joseph Waln (1784), a comparison between a winter orchard and the church, "Hymns to the evening," "On the suffering of Christ" by Deborah Barkrose, "The Converted Thief," "On the Certainty of There Being a God" by Ann Rees, "Luke Cock's Sermon," "Words by John Hunt at Hopewell monthly meeting in Virginia," "On the Death of Charles Williams" by Lydia Williams his...

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Autograph letters from family, friends, and business acquaintances. Includes letters from Benjamin Albertson, John Clarke, H. Williams, Nathan Hunt, Jonathan Maulsby, Peter Breinig, Martha Shoemaker, Hugh Foulke, Jr., and David Mapps.

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Autograph financial and business documents which include bills of sale, accounts of debts, subpoena, promissory notes, bonds, militia fines, a list of subscribers for repairing the Plymouth Meeting school house, receipts, articles of agreement, plot plan for Albertson land, and other documents.

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Includes checks written from an account with the Bank of Montgomery County and receipts.

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Includes letters from family, friends, and business acquaintances, letters from Benjamin Albertson.

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Includes letters from his brother Benjamin and letters concerning business arrangements or financial debts.

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Includes letters from Benjamin Albertson and business associates and concerning the railroad and canal.

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Includes numerous letters from Benjamin Albertson concerning business matters.

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Includes letters from Benjamin Albertson concerning business transactions, a letter from Josiah to a business associate, and letters to Josiah from other persons concerning the lime or boat business.

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Includes letters from Benjamin Albertson concerning the lime business, a letter from Josiah to Wells and Coffin concerning bills due for the Plymouth Railroad, and letters concerning the finances of the railroad and lime business.

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Includes letters from Benjamin Albertson concerning lime business, letters concerning the imprisonment of Robert Miller, a funeral notice, and letters from customers.

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Includes Plymouth Railroad accounts, cost estimates for railroad expenses, proposals for excavations and walling for the railroad, a lumber contract, a bond made by Josiah Albertson, one note of payment.

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Includes summons and court document concerning a suit by William Moore vs. Josiah Albertson and associates, estimates for work on the Plymouth Railroad, bills related to the railroad, lime and lime boat contracts, certificates of delivery for railroad building materials, receipts, articles of agreement between Josiah Albertson and individuals for various services.

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Includes promissory notes made by Josiah Albertson to the Bank of Montgomery, to Benjamin Albertson, and to other individuals.

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Includes notes made by Josiah Albertson to the Bank of Montgomery and to others.

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Includes notes made by Josiah Albertson to the Bank of Montgomery and to others.

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Receipts bear lists of supplies or details of services rendered to Josiah Albertson.

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Receipts detail goods and services received from Josiah Albertson from a number of individuals.

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Details of finances and daily routines. See Box 2.

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Includes accounts and receipts for the lime business and the Plymouth Railroad. Most were originally individual items which have been pasted into this book.

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Consists of autograph receipts made by Josiah Albertson for materials and services related to the construction of the Plymouth Railroad and the canal. Also contains several receipts laid in the front of the book.