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Odessa & Middletown Railway schedule of cars

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0019
Abstract

Printed card listing the arrival and departure schedule for the Odessa & Middletown Railway effective November 28, 1904.

Dates: 1904

Theophilus Parvin letter to Mary Rodney

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0152
Abstract

One autograph letter from Theophilus Parvin, a Presbyterian minister and missionary, to Delaware resident Mary Rodney, lamenting Parvin's inability to deliver a packet of letters to Rodney and her family personally. Also includes a short discussion of Parvin's upcoming meeting with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Dates: 1825 December 2

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

Henry Peterson court summons

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0004
Abstract

Official document detailing a suit against Henry Peterson for non-payment of one hundred and fifty-four pounds owed to John and James Bayard.

Dates: 1765 August

John Richardson receipt book and bankbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0023
Abstract

These two volumes are the receipt book and bankbook of John Richardson of New Castle County, Delaware, kept between 1788 and 1801.

Dates: 1788 May 30-1801 May 25

Nicholas Ridgely summons and arrest warrant for Abraham Rahow [Rayhow]

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0118
Abstract

A court summons dated March 9, 1819, and an arrest warrant for Abraham Rahow [Rayhow] dated August 10, 1819, as executor of the Levi Staats estate issued by Chancellor of Delaware Nicholas Ridgely, carried out by New Castle County Sheriff John Moody.

Dates: 1819 March 9-August 10

John Ross legal opinion

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0080
Abstract

Document giving the legal opinion of John Ross on how money should be distributed from fines levied against forgers in New Castle, Delaware.

Dates: 1739 October

Rules for the government of the public schools of Wilmington, Del.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0018
Abstract

Consists of a list of rules for parents with children attending public schools in Wilmington, Delaware, including rules on student absences, student behavior, and school holidays.

Dates: approximately 19th century

Alexander Rutherford receipt

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0022
Abstract

A handwritten receipt acknowledging delivery of seven regimental coats from Thomas Rodney, Clothier General for Delaware State, for seven soldiers of the Delaware regiment working in the Continental shoe factory in Newark, Delaware.

Dates: 1778 October 21

James C. Saltus letter and manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0102
Abstract

Confederate Lieutenant James C. Saltus's handwritten manuscript describing his Civil War experience from April-June 1864. The manuscript was written while Saltus was a prisoner of war at Division 22 Officers Barracks, Fort Delaware, on October 14, 1864. Also included is a letter from Saltus to his niece on her letter writing and family matters, sent while he was at Fort Delaware.

Dates: 1862-1864

Caroline Shaw album

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0066
Abstract

This album of poems belonged to Delaware resident Caroline Shaw and contains excerpts from the romantic poets and original poems by friends. Some poems are signed and dated at Newark, Delaware, New Castle, Delaware, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The volume also contains laid-in engravings and watercolor illustrations.

Dates: 1828-1829

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

Lester Snowdon Sinness manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0156
Abstract Three typescript (copied) manuscripts of a report and two addresses written by Lester Snowdon Sinness, a former executive of DuPont. The report is titled "The Rising Star in the East," which consists of a number of small travel stories in Japan, South Korea, China, and the United States, used to compare the societies of each nation. The first address, entitled "Accountability," was given at Carleton College and details Sinness's thoughts on the proper type of education needed to solve the...
Dates: 1981-1983

Summary and list of men inducted into national Army by local board division #4, Wilmington, Delaware

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0015
Abstract

Ledger showing date of induction and assignment for all men called by local board division #4, Wilmington, Delaware, into the national Army. Also includes a list of volunteer enlistments.

Dates: 1917-1918

The Hermitage plantation: A landscape of social distance in federalist New Castle

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0164
Abstract

Consists of a photocopy of an essay by University of Delaware graduate student Christopher Schroeder for Professor Bernard L. Herman's History 654 course.

Dates: 1991 December 13

Isaac Tine last will and testament

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0023
Abstract

One handwritten will and testament composed and signed by New Castle, Delaware, resident Isaac Tine.

Dates: 1692 October 20

United States Army 42nd infantry muster roll

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0016
Abstract

Descriptive list of a detachment of recruits assigned to the 42nd regiment, United States Infantry, forwarded to Camp McComb near New Castle, Delaware, by order of Major Thomas Stockton.

Dates: 1814

Lieutenant Sydney I. Wailes letters to unidentified recipient

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0096
Abstract

Two handwritten letters from Lieutenant Sydney I. Wailes, who served at Fort Delaware during the Civil War, to his friends, describing the day to day activities at the Fort. Typed transcripts of the letters are available in the collection file.

Dates: 1864 August 24-September 20

Christopher Ward letter to H. D. Trevillian

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0103
Abstract

Reply to H. D. Trevillian's letter requesting Delaware author Christopher Ward's autograph on his copy of The Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware.

Dates: 1932 March 22

James M. Watson docket book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0031
Abstract

This docket book is a register of debt litigation and collection kept by James M. Watson, a justice of the peace in New Castle County, Delaware, between 1875 and 1883.

Dates: 1875-1883

James H. Wilson letter to John C. Ropes

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0087
Abstract

Handwritten letter from Major General James H. Wilson to military historian and lawyer John C. Ropes, acknowledging the book Ropes sent him about Waterloo.

Dates: 1893 March 23

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Coleman, Leighton, 1837-1907 2
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Bayard, James A. (James Asheton), 1767-1815 1
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Bayley, Solomon 1
Bennett, Ezekiel 1
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Biddle, Pere 1
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Black, Robert M. (Robert Middleton), 1811-1878 1
Blunt Rochester, Lisa 1
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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
Broome, Jacob 1
Broome, James 1
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Carney, John C., 1956- 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Castle, Michael N., 1939- 1
Chance, Elbert, 1926- 1
Christina River Improvement Company 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Coalition for Natural Stream Valleys 1
Cox, Caleb 1
Creator unidentified 1
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Dakeyne, George 1
Delaware College 1
Delaware Construction Company 1
Delaware. Department of Transportation 1
Delaware. General Assembly 1
Delaware. New Castle County. Department of Parks and Recreation. 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Du Pont, Alice, 1863-1937 1
Du Pont, H. A. (Henry Algernon), 1838-1926 1
Du Pont, Pierre S. 1
Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865 1
Du Pont, Sophie 1
Duff, Thomas 1
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company 1
Elderhostel, Inc. 1
Elliot family 1
Elliot, Benjamin 1
Elliot, Cloud 1
Elliot, Eliza 1
Elliot, Isaac C. 1
Elliot, Isaac S, Jr. 1
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Elliot, William 1
Enoch, Benjamin 1
Episcopal Church. Diocese of Delaware 1
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Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware 1
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Friends' Social Lyceum (Wilmington, Del.) 1
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Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
Goldey-Beacom College 1
Gray, Elizabeth 1
Hall, Willard, 1780-1875 1
Hannum, Robert Marshall 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Harker, Patrick T., 1958- 1
Hart, Ann 1
Hastings, Daniel Oren, 1874-1966 1
Herdman, Mary 1
Herdman, William 1
Hilles, William S. 1
Holcomb, Chauncey P., 1803-1855 1
Hopkins, Charles B., Lt. -1817 1
Humphrys, Leonard 1
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