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Land survey of William Williams's property upon the branches of Apoquinimink by George Dakeyne
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0039
Abstract
Land survey of Delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress William Williams's land, created by George Dakeyne, New Castle County, Delaware, surveyor, detailing the limitations of the property upon the branches of the Apoquinimink River in 1703.
Dates:
1703
Elliot-McKee family deeds
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0584
Abstract
This collection of eighteenth and nineteenth-century deeds, mortgages, and bonds relate to the McKee and Elliot families of New Castle County, Delaware.
Dates:
1753-1900; Majority of material found within 1816-1858
Richard Peters letter to George Stevenson
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0041
Abstract
Provincial Secretary of Pennsylvania, Richard Peters, wrote this one-page handwritten and signed letter to Dover surveyor, George Stevenson, requesting a survey of land in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, for Leonard Humphrys, on May 16, 1747. Includes watermark.
Dates:
1747 May 16
Shipley--Bringhurst--Hargraves family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0684
Abstract
Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in North Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives of several generations of Delawareans...
Dates:
1660-1987; Majority of material found within 1735 - 1975