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Pleasants family. Collection, 1689-1843.

Title: Collection, 1689-1843.

This collection is comprised mainly of deeds and agreements to sell lands in western Pennsylvania to Samuel Pleasants, Charles Pleasants, and Charles E. Pleasants. Included are a few letters to Charles E. Pleasants concerning a law suit with a Colonel Love of Tennessee.

ArchivalResource: 100 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122633090 View

Account books and papers of the Atkinson family [manuscript], 1762-1789, 1769-1776, 1792-1803, 1870-1907.

Title: Account books and papers of the Atkinson family [manuscript], 1762-1789, 1769-1776, 1792-1803, 1870-1907.

Papers of Roger Atkinson include accounts, 1762-1789, for groceries, medicinal ingredients, and sundries, and a letterbook, 1769-1776. Papers of B.M. Atkinson include a prayer, n.d.; copies of letters of Roger Atkinson, 1775-1789, to Benson Fearon, Samuel Pleasants, John Ponsonby, and others, regarding shipping of tobacco and sundries, political turmoil between Great Britain and the colonies, the Revolutionary War, and financial matters; diary entries, January 1872, regarding house calls; and accounts, 1869-1907, for sundries, employee wages, and personal and household expenses. Also includes accounts, 1792-1803, of Thomas Atkinson, for household expenses, slave hiring, sundries, and personal loans. Also included in the collection is an untitled religious poem, n.d., signed by Augusta Russell Hall.

ArchivalResource: 3 + ca. 50 items.

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Parke, Thomas, Dr. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1750-1789.

Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1750-1789.

Consists of 32 invitations from various individuals, 3 receipts, 1 letter, 1 bill and 1 testimony.

ArchivalResource: 38 items (38 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155886316 View

Taylor, Mahlon. Mahlon Taylor and Samuel Pleasants indenture, 1777 June 6.

Title: Mahlon Taylor and Samuel Pleasants indenture, 1777 June 6.

Indenture between Taylor and Samuel Pleasants, Philadelphia, Pa., for sale of land in Loudon County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980573 View

Account book, 1762-1907.

Title: Account book, 1762-1907.

Papers of Roger Atkinson include accounts, 1762, for groceries, medicinal ingredients, and sundries. Papers of B.M. Atkinson include a prayer, n.d.; copies of letters, 1789, to Benson Fearon, Samuel Pleasants, John Ponsonby, and others, regarding shipping of tobacco and sundries, political turmoil between Great Britain and the colonies, the Revolutionary War, and financial matters; diary entries, January 1872, regarding house calls; and accounts, 1869-1907, for sundries, employee wages, and personal and household expenses. Also includes accounts, 1792-1803, of Thomas Atkinson, for household expenses, slave hiring, sundries, and personal loans. Also included in the collection is an untitled religious poem, n.d., signed by Augusta Russell Hall.

ArchivalResource: 1 item + 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32135488 View

William Temple Franklin-Charles Pemberton Fox Legal Records, 1692-1881

Title: William Temple Franklin-Charles Pemberton Fox Legal Records 1692-1881

Associates of Benjamin Franklin and his grandson William Temple Franklin, the Fox family of Philadelphia were holders of considerable property in Philadelphia during the eighteenth century and speculated extensively in lands in the northern and western parts of the state. The son of Dr. George Fox, Charles Pemberton Fox inherited the estate Champlost at which the papers of Benjamin Franklin were left in 1790. He donated the collection to the American Philosophical Society in 1840. The legal records that comprise the William Temple Frankln-Charles Pemberton Fox collection relate to real property held by members of the Fox family and to the land holdings and financial interests of George Fox's close friend, William Temple Franklin. The collection includes about 100 deeds for properties in or near Philadelphia and in Luzerne County, Pa., along with a small quantity (about 31 items) of miscellaneous correspondence addressed to George Fox by Gouverneur Morris, Robert Morris, N. Cantwell Jones, Thomas Eddy, and others; and from William Constable and Sir Robert Herries and Co. (17 pieces) relating to the investments of William Temple Franklin.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.F86L-ead.xml View

Pleasants, Samuel, 1737-1807. Letter to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1787.

Title: Letter to Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, 1787.

Concerning the importance of crop rotation, sowing wheat after clover.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155903900 View

Pennsylvania. Supreme Executive Council. The Supreme Executive Council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : know ye that in consideration of the monies paid ... there is granted ... unto the said Samuel Pleasants a certain tract of land called Walnut Grove, 1787 June 1.

Title: The Supreme Executive Council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : know ye that in consideration of the monies paid ... there is granted ... unto the said Samuel Pleasants a certain tract of land called Walnut Grove, 1787 June 1.

Land patent, June 1, 1787, of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council, granting a 415 acre tract, "Walnut Grove," in Bedford County to Samuel Pleasants.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf) ; 41 x 46 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39389649 View