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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