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Burd family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0379
Abstract
The Burd Family Papers concern the business, legal, and personal affairs of the Burd family, prominent lawyers and landowners from Philadelphia from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, as well as the legal and business affairs of other branches of the extended family, including the Shippens and Coxes.
Dates:
1703–1937; Majority of material found within 1800–1860
Torbert-Ellegood collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0461
Abstract
The Torbert-Ellegood Collection, spanning 1759-1889, with the bulk of the papers dating 1820-1840, consists of 1.3 linear feet of legal papers, land records, accounts, receipts, correspondence, and other documents, many of which relate to the Torbert and Ellegood families of Delaware.
Dates:
1759-1889