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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
Wilson family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0303
Abstract
The papers of the Wilson family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Newark, Delaware, consist of 1.35 linear feet of material relating to four generations of direct descendents of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Elm’s Farm, near Liverpool, England.
Dates:
1684-1954; Majority of material found within 1830-1897