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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

Land indenture between Robert Ferguson, his wife Jane, and Joseph Kinkead, New-Ark, New Castle County, Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0170
Abstract

This land indenture between Robert Ferguson, his wife Jane, deeds a parcel of land located in New-Ark, White Clay Creek Hundred in New Castle County, Delaware, to Joseph Kinkead on July 24, 1781.

Dates: 1781 July 24

Land indenture between Hugh and Ann Glasford and Robert Ferguson for property in the White Clay Creek Hundred

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0173
Abstract

Eighteenth-century land indenture between Hugh and Ann Glasford and Robert Ferguson for 223 acres in the White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, dated February 21, 1780.

Dates: 1780 February 21

Land indenture between Ebenezer Howell and his wife Sarah, from Cumberland County, New Jersey, to William Armstrong of Newark, Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0172
Abstract

Land indenture from 1777 between Ebenezer Howell and his wife Sarah, from Cumberland County, New Jersey, to William Armstrong of Newark, Delaware.

Dates: 1777 October 10

Morris family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0196
Abstract

Hugh M. Morris (1878-1966) was a Delaware lawyer and served as a federal district judge from 1919-1930. The Morris family papers, spanning the dates 1740-1985 and including legal deeds, account books, personal and busienss correspondence, legal records and photographs, documents the lives and career of Judge Hugh Morris and members of his extended family and network.

Dates: 1740-1985; 1864-1925

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

Land indenture between John Walter of Christiana Hundred, Delaware, and Joel Swaine of East Marlborough, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0174
Abstract

A land indenture between John Walter of Christiana Hundred, Delaware, and Joel Swaine of East Marlborough, Pennsylvania, from 1831.

Dates: 1831 June 11

Land indenture between David Wilkin, his wife Ann, and Jonathan Germain, in White Clay Creek Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0171
Abstract

A 1763 deed of sale for a tract of 223 acres in the town of Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It includes a long history of the people who have owned the property back to 1702 and a detailed description of the boundaries of the property.

Dates: 1763 May 17

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Indentures 6
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Wills 2
Account books 1
African American authors 1
Albumen prints 1
Almanacs 1
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Auction catalogs 1
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Banks and banking--Delaware--History--19th century 1
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Black-and-white photographs 1
Brandywine Hundred (Del.)--History--19th century 1
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Businesspeople--Delaware--History--20th century 1
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Merchants--United States--History--18th century 1
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Names
Guest, John, -1707 3
Miles, Edward, active 1748-1759 3
Davis, David 2
Ferguson, Robert, active 1780-1781 2
Glasford, Hugh, 1750- 2
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Johnson, Napthtaly 2
Lowman, Samuel 2
Wallace, Robert 2
Anderson, James 1
Armstrong, George 1
Armstrong, William 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Bedford, Gunning, 1747-1812 1
Bedford, James 1
Bennett, Ezekiel 1
Booth, Robert 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
Broome, Jacob 1
Broome, James 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Christina River Improvement Company 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Delaplain, James 1
Delaware Construction Company 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Elliot family 1
Elliot, Benjamin 1
Elliot, Cloud 1
Elliot, Eliza 1
Elliot, Isaac C. 1
Elliot, Isaac S, Jr. 1
Elliot, John C. 1
Elliot, William 1
Evans, John 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferguson, Jane (Jean) 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Germain, Jonathan 1
Giles, Abigail 1
Glasford, Ann, active 1780 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Howell, Ebenezer 1
Howell, Sarah 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Johnson, Dan 1
Johnson, Samuel 1
Johnston, Dan 1
Johnston, Samuel 1
Jones Davis, Rachel 1
Jones, Rachel 1
Kinkead, Joseph, 1750- 1
MacGregor, Samuel 1
McCrea, William 1
McKee, Andrew 1
McKee, Francis 1
McKee, George 1
McKee, Hugh 1
McKee, James 1
McKee, Robert 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Hugh M. 1
Morris, William Wilkinson 1
Platt, Samuel 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Rowlands, Joseph G. 1
Saulsbury, Willard, 1861-1927 1
Scott, George 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Smith, James A. 1
Swayne, Joel, 1775-1850 1
Thomas, Richard 1
Twaddell, Charles, 1778-1827 1
Walter, John, -approximately 1846 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkin, Ann 1
Wilkin, David 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
William, R. W. 1
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