Box 1

Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous business papers of John Townsend, possibly the son of Samuel Townsend. Also includes three unmatched envelopes to Townsend, one undated bill from John and Samuel Townsend to John Jester, one spring 1895 price list of the Camden and Wyoming Avenue Nurseries of Wyoming, Delaware, and an information sheet about the "Jackson apple."

Scope and Contents Includes two land leases, dated 1834 and 1835, allowing John and Samuel Townsend to mine iron ore and cut timber on the land of Auly Lore; a similar 1839 land lease with Isaac Walker; and an 1841 deed between John and Samuel Townsend and Samuel Williams signed by the mayor of New York City, Robert Morris (removed to SPEC MSS oversize boxes (24 inches)). Also includes a business agreement between John and Samuel Townsend and Martin W. Bates, several letters from Bates, and other documents,...

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Includes letters, mostly from associates Israel Townsend and Martin W. Bates, regarding hauling and selling timber. Israel also discusses other business ventures, such as coal and whiskey. (For other letters from Israel Townsend, see Series III.)

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Contains letters from Martin W. Bates and Israel Townsend. Also contains a letter from Thomas Janvier, President of the Farmers Bank in New Castle, Delaware, and a draft of Samuel Townsend’s reply, both of which illustrate his confrontational personality. The correspondence relates to a dispute over an unpaid debt.

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Includes letters from Martin W. Bates; accounts; orders for timber with sketches, including several from Vaughan & Lynn; a receipt for a subscription to the Blue Hen’s Chicken; letters from William B. Hazell regarding real estate; and other business letters.

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Includes a variety of letters and legal documents concerning unpaid accounts, taxes, timber purchases and orders, and other business matters.

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Includes letters regarding timber orders, taxes, the purchase of the sloop Hannah Barrat, and the purchase of a farm from T. H. Bedloe. Includes a contract for Samuel Townsend’s purchase of an indentured servant, “a certain coloured boy named Henry,” for eight years. Also contains a jury summons, a letter from Edmund Townsend regarding business, and many other contracts and business letters.

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Includes letters and receipts regarding taxes, banking, farming, railroads, unpaid accounts, the Convention of Peach Growers, and other matters related to peach farming. Also includes a letter to Samuel Townsend from a Mr. Smith regarding a dispute over an order of peaches and a draft of Samuel’s angry reply. Also three letters from Judge George Purnell Fisher regarding the purchase of some peach trees and the use of railroads in shipping peaches.

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Contains thirty letters from G. H. Dennis regarding the daily operations of Samuel Townsend’s fruit orchard in Kingston, Maryland. Also contains letters and receipts from New York Merchants Hilliard & McMulkin regarding peach sales, and a few other business letters.

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Includes receipts, accounts, and letters regarding furniture, railroads, banking, real estate, peach sales and farming, and other business matters. Also includes additional letters from G. H. Dennis regarding Samuel Townsend’s orchard and documents related to the estate of John Townsend, who died circa 1876-77.