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Burd family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0379
Abstract

The Burd Family Papers concern the business, legal, and personal affairs of the Burd family, prominent lawyers and landowners from Philadelphia from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, as well as the legal and business affairs of other branches of the extended family, including the Shippens and Coxes.

Dates: 1703–1937; Majority of material found within 1800–1860

Rush family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0314
Abstract

The Rush family papers consist of materia spanning the late seventeenth to late nineteenth centuries relating to the prominent Rush family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1789-circa 1898; Majority of material found within 1820-1860

Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates: 1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975

Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0525s
Abstract Joseph Brevitt Townsend (1821-1896) was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who practiced estate law and acted as legal consultant to several commercial, insurance, and trust companies. The Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers supplement, spanning the dates 1800-1920, contains substantial additions to the original collection and documents the professional career of the Philadelphia lawyer. The supplement comprises 5.8 linear feet of legal and personal correspondence, wills and estate records, legal...
Dates: 1800-1920; Majority of material found within 1840-1920

Waples family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0402
Abstract

The Waples Family Papers, spanning the dates 1753-1864, outline the family’s role in the economic development of Milton in Broadkill Hundred, Delaware. But the bulk of the collection, 1851-1864, focuses on Gideon B. Waples, beginning with the pre-Civil War period when he was a student at Delaware College. After he voluntarily left his studies, he became a farmer and businessman in southern Delaware; he also served as a political aide to two governors of Delaware during the Civil War.

Dates: 1753-1864; Majority of material found within 1851-1864

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Bayley, Solomon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
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Bringhurst, Edward, 1835-1912 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1884-1939 1
Bringhurst, James, -1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph 1
Bringhurst, Mary Dickinson, 1806-1886 1
Bringhurst, Mary Thomas, 1865-1965 1
Bringhurst, Sarah Shipley, 1812-1896 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Burd family 1
Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 1
Carey family 1
Carey, Clara Waples, 1857-1894 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Darley, F. T. S. (Francis Thomas Sully), 1833-1914 1
Delaware College--Students 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, 1768-1844 1
Malin, W. G. (William Gunn) 1
McArthur, John, 1823-1890 1
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 1
Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Reynolds, Alexander Welch, 1817-1876 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Rush family 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, Horace Wells, 1857-1933 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Townsend, Elliot & Townsend 1
Townsend, J. Barton (John Barton), 1865- 1
Townsend, James Price, 1851-1900 1
Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, 1821-1896 1
Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, Jr., 1861- 1
Waples family 1
Waples, Gideon B., active 1832-1864 1
Waples, Gideon, 1800-1837 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Woodlands Cemetery (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
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