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Biddle family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0327
Abstract

The Biddle family papers preserve over one-hundred-and-fifty years of material related to this prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania family and detail extensively their professional lineage as attorneys, notary publics, and bankers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1766-1943; Majority of material found within 1870-1923

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

Elliot-McKee family deeds

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0584
Abstract

This collection of eighteenth and nineteenth-century deeds, mortgages, and bonds relate to the McKee and Elliot families of New Castle County, Delaware.

Dates: 1753-1900; Majority of material found within 1816-1858

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

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

 Collection
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

Land indenture between John Hall and Alexander [Porver] in Mifflin Township

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0042
Abstract

Land indenture signed by John Hall of Wilmington, Delaware, attributed as being the first bookbinder in Delaware, to Alexander [Porver], dated December 26, 1772. This is possibly the only example of Hall's autograph.

Dates: 1772 December 26

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

 Collection
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

David Watts Hulings papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0575
Abstract

The business records of nineteenth-century lawyer, land investor, and businessman David Watts Hulings of Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. In addition to legal documents - case judgments and settlements, depositions, power of attorneys, and summonses - the collection also includes deeds, leases, letters, and bank checks.

Dates: 1796-1850

Everett C. and Louise Staton Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0361
Abstract

The Everett C. & Louise Stanton Johnson papers concern the personal affairs of prominent Delaware publisher and politician Everett C. Johnson (1877-1926) and his wife Louise Staton Johnson (1882-1977). In addition, the collection contains material from their Newark publishing house, the Press of Kells, which brought the Arts and Crafts Movement to the community from 1916 to 1918.

Dates: 1835-1988; Majority of material found within 1916-1958

Land patent for William and Elizabeth Annand signed by James Logan, Issac Norris, and Richard Hill

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0107
Abstract

One patent for a tract of land in Kent County, Delaware, for William and Elizabeth Annand signed by Colonial Secretary James Logan and politicians Isaac Norris and Richard Hill on June 6, 1716.

Dates: 1716 June 6

Samuel Kasley apprenticeship indenture

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0739
Abstract

One-page legal indenture of Samuel Kasley of Harford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, to Frederick Marker as an apprentice tailor on January 21, 1793, for a term of four years.

Dates: 1793 January 21

Land patent for Daniel Jones on St. Jones Creek, Delaware, signed by William Markham and John Goodson

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0106
Abstract

One document for a tract of land called "Denbe" on St. Jones Creek for Daniel Jones, signed by the first Governor of colonial Pennsylvania William Markham and Deputy Governor John Goodson in 1689.

Dates: 1689

Margaret Murphy indenture

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0079
Abstract

One document of indenture, binding Margaret Murphy to Henry Fulton as a housemaid for a period of three years.

Dates: 1784 March 30

Thomas Pole papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0828
Abstract

The Thomas Pole papers consist of three bound manuscripts, a letter case with silhouettes, an annotated map, and a collection of papers related to American-born Quaker physician, Thomas Pole (1753-1829).

Dates: 1709-1964; Majority of material found within 1770s-1870s

Land indenture between Joseph and Sarah Snow and Silas Snow in Duck Creek Hundred

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0146
Abstract

One land indenture between Joseph and Sarah Snow and Silas Snow for property located in Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, dated June 18, 1822.

Dates: 1822 June 18

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

Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0525s
Abstract Joseph Brevitt Townsend (1821-1896) was a prominent Philadelphia lawyer who practiced estate law and acted as legal consultant to several commercial, insurance, and trust companies. The Joseph Brevitt Townsend papers supplement, spanning the dates 1800-1920, contains substantial additions to the original collection and documents the professional career of the Philadelphia lawyer. The supplement comprises 5.8 linear feet of legal and personal correspondence, wills and estate records, legal...
Dates: 1800-1920; Majority of material found within 1840-1920

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

Land indenture between Christian Redebauch and Captain William Trent signed by Samuel Wharton

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0098-F0038
Abstract

Land indenture created in Albany, New York, between Christian Redebauch and Captain William Trent, signed by Samuel Wharton, a member of the U.S. Continental Congress from Delaware, on June 6, 1768.

Dates: 1768 June 6

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

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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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Lowman, Samuel 2
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 1
Anderson, James 1
Annand, Elizabeth 1
Annand, William 1
Armstrong, George 1
Armstrong, William 1
Bedford, Gunning, 1747-1812 1
Bedford, James 1
Bennett, Ezekiel 1
Biddle family 1
Booth, Robert 1
Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
Brinton, Christian, 1870-1942 1
Brinton, George, 1804-1858 1
Brinton, John H. (John Hill), 1832-1907 1
Brinton, John Hill, 1772-1827 1
Brinton, Ward, 1873-1935 1
Broome, Jacob 1
Broome, James 1
Burd, Edward Shippen, 1779-1848 1
Christina River Improvement Company 1
Darley, F. T. S. (Francis Thomas Sully), 1833-1914 1
Delaplain, James 1
Delaware Construction Company 1
Elliot family 1
Elliot, Benjamin 1
Elliot, Cloud 1
Elliot, Eliza 1
Elliot, Isaac C. 1
Elliot, Isaac S, Jr. 1
Elliot, John C. 1
Elliot, William 1
Evans, John 1
Ferguson, Jane (Jean) 1
Fulton, Henry 1
Germain, Jonathan 1
Giles, Abigail 1
Glasford, Ann, active 1780 1
Goodson, John, 1650-1727 1
Hall, John, active 1772-1774 1
Hill, Richard, 1673-1729 1
Hope Furnace (Granville, Pa.) 1
Howell, Ebenezer 1
Howell, Sarah 1
Hulings, David Watts, 1793-1858 1
Jefferson Medical College 1
Johnson, Dan 1
Johnson, Everett C., 1877-1926 1
Johnson, Louise S., 1882-1977 1
Johnson, Samuel 1
Johnston, Dan 1
Johnston, Samuel 1
Jones Davis, Rachel 1
Jones, Daniel 1
Jones, Rachel 1
Kasley, Samuel 1
Kinkead, Joseph, 1750- 1
Logan, James, 1674-1751 1
MacGregor, Samuel 1
Malin, W. G. (William Gunn) 1
Marker, Frederick 1
Markham, William, 1635-1704 1
McArthur, John, 1823-1890 1
McCrea, William 1
McKee, Andrew 1
McKee, Francis 1
McKee, George 1
McKee, Hugh 1
McKee, James 1
McKee, Robert 1
Murphy, Margaret 1
Norris, Isaac, 1671-1735 1
Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis 1
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court 1
Platt, Samuel 1
Pole, Thomas, 1753-1829 1
Press of Kells 1
Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 1
Provident Life & Trust Company of Philadelphia 1
Reynolds, Alexander Welch, 1817-1876 1
Rowlands, Joseph G. 1
Roycroft Shop 1
Scott, George 1
Sellers, Horace Wells, 1857-1933 1
Snow, Joseph 1
Snow, Sarah 1
Snow, Silas 1
Steinmetz, Joseph J., active 1929-1930 1
Swayne, Joel, 1775-1850 1
Thomas, Richard 1
Townsend, Elliot & Townsend 1
Townsend, J. Barton (John Barton), 1865- 1
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