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Brinton family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0453
Abstract

The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

Dates: 1715-1930

Journal of Robert Capen

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0075
Abstract

This volume is a receipt book kept by the Boston, Massachusetts, shipping firm of Thompson and Gridley for the period 1758-1765 and is interspersed with the diary of Robert Capen. The diary was written in 1811 and 1812. The entries document the weather and wind direction as well as occurances in the town of Canton, Massachusetts. There is also a single account for Samuel Capen of Canton to Robert Capen, for the period 1810-1812.

Dates: 1758-1812

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

Selina C. Washburn travel diary

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Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0080
Abstract

American Selina C. Washburn kept this travel diary during her 1854 voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, to London, England, and Paris, France. Selina and her sister Sarah accompanied their father Cyrus Washburn on a business trip and her diary records her impressions of persons encountered, shops visited, and sightseeing excursions.

Dates: 1854 July 5-October 13

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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
Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
Brinton, George, 1804-1858 1
Brinton, John H. (John Hill), 1832-1907 1
Brinton, John Hill, 1772-1827 1
Brinton, Ward, 1873-1935 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Capen, Robert 1
Capen, Samuel 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Fatherland (Ship) 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
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson Medical College 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911 1
Rodney, Caesar, 1728-1784 1
Rowan, Archibald Hamilton, 1751-1834 1
Sellers, Alexander, 1875-1957 1
Sellers, William F., 1824-1905 1
Shipley, Joseph, 1795-1867 1
Steinmetz, Joseph J., active 1929-1930 1
Thompson and Gridley 1
Ward, F. De W. (Ferdinand De Wilton), 1812-1891 1
Washburn, Selina C. 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
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