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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
Transcripts of early Newark, Delaware, church records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0347
Abstract
This single volume, created through a 1936-1937 National Youth Administration project, supervised by Henry Clay Reed, the noted Delaware historian and University of Delaware professor, contains transcriptions from the record books of five Newark churches: the Village Presbyterian Church; the First Presbyterian Church; the Welsh Tract Baptist Church; the White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church; and the Head of Christiana Church. The records inlcude detailed accounts of minutes from meetings;...
Dates:
1739-1906