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Printed document signed by U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0132
Abstract

Official document sent to the Watchman in Wilmington, Delaware, signed by future U.S. President John Quincy Adams, selecting it as the offical printer, in the state of Delaware, for news on any acts approved and ratified by the second session of the eighteenth Congress.

Dates: 1824 November 13

Elizabeth Ashburnham receipt book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0003
Abstract

This receipt book was kept by Elizabeth Ashburnham of Wilmington, Delaware, between 1824 and 1866 to record her expenditures, primarily payments for boarding and taxes.

Dates: 1824 August 3-1866 May 26

Sarah R. Latimer account-keeping exercise book

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0096-Item 0150
Abstract

Sarah R. Latimer, a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, completed this account-keeping exercise circa 1808-1809. The exercise includes a sample daybook and ledgers.

Dates: approximately 1808-1809

Caleb S. Layton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0147
Abstract

Consists of ten letters, one receipt, and one account book belonging to nineteenth-century Delaware attorney, legislator, and judge Caleb S. Layton (1798-1882), reflecting his legal career and personal life and finances.

Dates: 1845-1881

Papers of Wilmington banks

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0594
Abstract

The Papers of Wilmington Banks, 1831-1895, consists of .1 linear feet of material pertaining to the chartering and dissolution of specific independent and national banks in Wilmington, Delaware, and the passing of the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864.

Dates: 1831-1895

Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0168
Abstract The Alfred I. Paxson family history, diary, and reflections consists of approximately 116 pages of handwritten commentary and reflection relating to the life of Delaware Quaker and farmer Alfred I. Paxson. The first eighty-seven pages of the volume consist of Paxson's autobiography and, later, diary entries. The final twenty-nine pages of the volume, spanning from pages 100 through 129 of the numbered journal, contain several of Paxson's "Reflections and Meditations" on topics such as death,...
Dates: 1888-1894

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

Reminiscences of Wilmington

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0097-Item 0086
Abstract

This manuscript consists of M.C.L. (Miriam C. Lamborn) Worrell’s reminiscences about Wilmington, Delaware, in the 1810s-1820s. The notes were recorded by Worrell in the 1880s-1890s.

Dates: 1880s-1890s

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African American authors 1
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Names
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Ashburnham, Elizabeth, approximately 1774-1868 1
Bayley, Solomon 1
Betts, Mahlon 1
Bringhurst, Anna James Webb, 1843-1923 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
Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810 1
Central National Bank of Philadelphia 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank in the City of Philadelphia 1
Farnum, Edith Claypoole Sellers, 1910-1998 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
First National Bank of Wilmington 1
First National Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine 1
Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815 1
Galt Smith, Elizabeth Shipley Bringhurst, 1863-1932 1
Galt Smith, John, 1843-1899 1
George W. Bush & Sons (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Hargraves, Gordon Sweat, 1898-1983 1
Hargraves, Nancy Sellers, 1898-1972 1
Jefferis, James, 1758-1822 1
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 1
Jones, Washington 1
Latimer, Sarah R. 1
Layton, C. S. (Caleb Sipple), 1798-1882 1
Manufacturers National Bank of Philadelphia 1
Mechanics' Bank (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Paxson, Alfred I. 1
Paxson, Alfred I.--Diaries 1
Paxson, Ann Eliza 1
Paxson, Joseph W. 1
Paxson, Mary P. Phipps 1
Paxson, Phebe Kirk 1
Paxson, Sarah W. 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Prettyman, A. W. 1
Prettyman, A. W.--Correspondence 1
Prettyman, Solomon 1
Prettyman, Solomon--Correspondence 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
State Bank at Camden, New Jersey 1
Union Bank of Delaware 1
Union National Bank (Wilmington, Del.) 1
Welsh, John, 1770-1854 1
Wilkins, Williams Woods, 1773-1795 1
Worrell, M.C.L., 1809-1905 1
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