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Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0525
Abstract

The Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers, spanning the dates 1810-1917 (bulk dates 1840-1896), document the professional career, and to a lesser extent the personal life, of the Philadelphia lawyer, Joseph Brevitt Townsend.

Dates: 1810-1917; 1840-1896

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

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Letters (correspondence) 14
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century 12
Philadelphia (Pa.) 11
Correspondence 9
Receipts (financial records) 7
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Deeds 6
Lawyers 5
Wills 5
Clippings (information artifacts) 4
Legal correspondence 4
Personal correspondence 4
Account books 3
Businesspeople 3
Checks (bank checks) 3
Estate inventories 3
Invoices 3
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--18th century 3
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--20th century 3
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--19th century 3
Accounts 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Daybooks 2
Decisions 2
Delaware--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 2
Diaries 2
Epidemics 2
Financial records 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Genealogy 2
Invitations 2
Judicial records 2
Ledgers (account books) 2
Magazines (periodicals) 2
Merchants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 2
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs--20th century 2
Photographs 2
Postcards 2
Printed ephemera 2
Promissory notes 2
Scrapbooks 2
Tintypes (prints) 2
Wilmington (Del.) 2
Advertisements 1
Affidavits 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Alexandria (Va.)--History--19th century 1
Almanacs 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Appraisals (financial records) 1
Architectural drawings (visual works) 1
Art patronage--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Auction catalogs 1
Bankers (people) 1
Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Banks and banking--History--18th century 1
Banks and banking--History--19th century 1
Bills of exchange 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Boston (Mass.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.) 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--20th century 1
Broadsides (notices) 1
Brochures 1
Business letters 1
Business records 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--19th century 1
Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
Cabinet photographs 1
Camden (Miss.)--History--19th century 1
Cartes-de-visite (card photographs) 1
Charleston (S.C.)--History--19th century 1
Charters 1
Chess players--United States--History--20th century 1
Chess--periodicals 1
Chester County (Pa.) 1
Choctaw Indians--Government relations 1
Chromolithographs 1
Circuit courts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century 1
Coal mines and mining--Pennsylvania--History--19th century 1
Collectors and collecting--History--20th century 1
Commercial correspondence 1
Commonplace books 1
Contracts 1
Copybooks (instructional materials) 1
Correspondence chess--United States--History--20th century 1
Courts--United States--History--18th century 1
Courts--United States--History--19th century 1
Customs records 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Dance cards 1
Delaware County (Pa.) 1
Delaware--History 1
Delaware--History--18th century 1
Delaware--History--19th century 1
Delaware--History--20th century 1
Devotional literature 1
Diarists 1
Dogs 1
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Language
Cherokee 1
Dutch; Flemish 1
French 1
German 1
Latin 1
 
Names
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 3
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court 3
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817 2
Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 2
Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia 2
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Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 2
Rush family 2
Townsend, Elliot & Townsend 2
Townsend, J. Barton (John Barton), 1865- 2
Townsend, James Price, 1851-1900 2
Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, 1821-1896 2
Townsend, Joseph Brevitt, Jr., 1861- 2
Allen, Mary--Correspondence 1
American Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Ashhurst family 1
Ashhurst, John, 1809-1892 1
Ashhurst, John, 1839-1900 1
Ashhurst, Richard Lewis, 1838-1911 1
Ashhurst, Richard, 1784-1861 1
Baker and Moss 1
Baker, Alfred Gustavus, 1831-1913 1
Baker, Michael V. 1
Bank of Philadelphia 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Blanding family 1
Blanding, Juliet M., 1818-1853 1
Blanding, Nancy A., 1816- 1
Blanding, Sarah M., 1827-1911 1
Blanding, William, 1773-1857 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Bringhurst, Edith Ferris, 1874-1947 1
Bringhurst, Edward, 1809-1884 1
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, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 1
Capablanca, José Raúl, 1888-1942 1
Carpenter, Lucy, 1783- 1
Chrisman, Brothers & Company 1
Chrisman, John B. 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Claghorn family 1
Claghorn, Eliza 1
Claghorn, John W., 1789-1869 1
Claghorn, William C. 1
Clinton, George, 1739-1812 1
Clinton, George, 1739-1812--Correspondence 1
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824 1
Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824--Correspondence 1
Cramond, William 1
Crumby, Elizabeth 1
Crumby, John 1
Darley, F. T. S. (Francis Thomas Sully), 1833-1914 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808--Correspondence 1
Eyre, Manuel 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Gilbert, E. W. (Eliphalet Wheeler), 1793-1853 1
Gould, Edward 1
Handy, George 1
Hare, George 1
Hare, William 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Hill, George--Correspondence 1
Hill, Mary 1
Hill, Mary--Correspondence 1
Hill, William (Will) 1
Hill, William (Will)--Correspondence 1
Howell, Arthur, -1816 1
Hoyt, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1830-1892 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Lenox, David, 1753-1828 1
Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Assassination 1
Malin, W. G. (William Gunn) 1
Marston, Henry Ward, 1859- 1
Martin, John Hill, 1823-1906 1
Massachusetts (Steamer) 1
Matlack family 1
Matlack, Clemmie, 1844- 1
Matlack, Lewis J., 1842-1909 1
Matlack, Mason, approximately 1824-1868 1
Matlack, Matilda E., approximately 1808-1894 1
Matlack, Samuel J., 1845-1898 1
McArthur, John, 1823-1890 1
McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817--Correspondence 1
Moss, John 1
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