Showing Collections: 1 - 2 of 2
Lewis family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0130
Abstract
The Lewis family papers consist of three linear feet of material related to this Newark, Delaware, farming family, who also owned property in Little Creek Hundred in Kent County, Delaware. Material in the collection dates largely from the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Members of the family were farmers and large landholders who maintained business relations with many prominent citizens of early Newark, such as George Platt, Samuel Donnell, James T. Maxwell, and Eri Haines. The collection...
Dates:
1696-1915; Majority of material found within 1791-1874
John Shirley papers related to Thomas Harriot
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0343
Abstract
The John Shirley papers related to Thomas Harriot contains material related to British mathematician, astronomer, and scientist Thomas Harriot (1560–1621), all of which was collected by twentieth century American scholar and educator John Shirley.
Dates:
1590–1621, 1947–1988