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Powel family. Powel family papers, 1681-1938.

Title: Powel family papers, 1681-1938.

This collection is broad in scope, containing materials that relate to members of the Powel, Hare, and Johnston families, as well as their more distant relatives and associates. Most of the series, including those devoted to Samuel Powel (b. 1673), Samuel Powel (1738-1793), Elizabeth Powel, Samuel Powel (1818-1885), John Hare Powel, Mary Johnston Powel, Catherine Cole Taylor Johnston, and John Taylor, are comprised of correspondence, legal documents, and financial records. The collection as a whole is notable, however, for its rich documentation of both male and female family members and the variety of trades and business ventures (civic positions, shipping, medicine, plantation ownership) and locales (Philadelphia, London, Newport, and Jamaica, to name a few) represented. Robert Johnston's series contains journals as well as fascinating plantation records and drawings documenting his travels and his life in Jamaica during the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. The materials relating to Mary Edith Powel include garden books, photographs, printed materials, diaries, and genealogical records. Her interest in family history resulted in the compilation of much of the documentation and information making up this collection.

ArchivalResource: 70 boxes, 385 v. (50 linear ft.)

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Marston, Emily. Album, 1822-1830.

Title: Album, 1822-1830.

Memory book of this young woman contains chiefly holograph signed entries, expressing good wishes toward her, or giving advice, sometimes in a poetic or allegorical form, about conduct of life. Contains entries by members of her family, and friends, including William Staughton, Thomas B. Adams, and John Adams (signed by him only), and others. Representative names are below. Laid in are a signed photograph of John Quincy Adams (11 x 7 cm.) and a signature frank of his from a letter to John Marston.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (50 p.) ; 17 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12277997 View