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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

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

Townsend family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0445
Abstract

The Townsend family (of Delaware) papers consists of letters, accounts, and other business records, spanning the years 1809-1920, with the majority of the material falling between 1834 and 1894. The collection mainly consists of business letters sent to Samuel and John Townsend, political and personal letters sent to Samuel Townsend, and family correspondence, including twenty letters written by Edmund Townsend during the Civil War.

Dates: 1809-1920; Majority of material found within 1833-1894

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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1
Boyce, Doris Lee Jolls, 1920- 1
Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
Brinton, George, 1804-1858 1
Brinton, John H. (John Hill), 1832-1907 1