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Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0583
Abstract The Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers contains twenty-six three-ring notebooks and nine folders of genealogical research notes, family photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century generations of Boyce's family lines from Delaware and Virginia. Boyce's research includes the Boyce, Justis, Morrow, Shreve, Wright, Brownley, Lawrence, Sebree, Adams, and Tuley families, as well as the family lines of his wife, Doris Jolls...
Dates: 1792-1999; Majority of material found within 1850s-1980s
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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

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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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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

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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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0130
Abstract The Lewis family papers consist of three linear feet of material related to this Newark, Delaware, farming family, who also owned property in Little Creek Hundred in Kent County, Delaware. Material in the collection dates largely from the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Members of the family were farmers and large landholders who maintained business relations with many prominent citizens of early Newark, such as George Platt, Samuel Donnell, James T. Maxwell, and Eri Haines. The collection...
Dates: 1696-1915; Majority of material found within 1791-1874
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Wilson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0303
Abstract

The papers of the Wilson family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Newark, Delaware, consist of 1.35 linear feet of material relating to four generations of direct descendents of Edward Wilson, Esq., of Elm’s Farm, near Liverpool, England.

Dates: 1684-1954; Majority of material found within 1830-1897
Found in: University of Delaware Library Special Collections

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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, William 1
Bedford, Gunning, 1747-1812 1
Bedford, James 1
Booth, Robert 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Delaplain, James 1
Evans, John 1
Ferguson, Jane (Jean) 1
Germain, Jonathan 1
Giles, Abigail 1
Glasford, Ann, active 1780 1
Howell, Ebenezer 1
Howell, Sarah 1
Johnson, Dan 1
Johnson, Samuel 1
Johnston, Dan 1
Johnston, Samuel 1
Jones Davis, Rachel 1
Jones, Rachel 1
Kinkead, Joseph, 1750- 1
Lewis family 1
MacGregor, Samuel 1
McCrea, William 1
Platt, Samuel 1
Rowlands, Joseph G. 1
Swayne, Joel, 1775-1850 1
Thomas, Richard 1
Twaddell, Charles, 1778-1827 1
University of Delaware 1
Walter, John, -approximately 1846 1
Wilkin, Ann 1
Wilkin, David 1
William, R. W. 1
Wilson family 1
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