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Brinton, Jasper Yeates, b. 1878. Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

Title: Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

The Jasper Yeates Brinton collection consists of personal and business correspondence, shipping invoices, receipts, account books, and land records pertaining to Brinton's forebears John Steinmetz, William Smith, and Charles Smith, as well as his father John Hill Brinton, his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and his older brother Ward Brinton. John Steinmetz's papers offer insight into general trade and shipping in Philadelphia immediately before and after the Revolutionary war, and also include a small amount of correspondence regarding the divorce of his son John Henry Steinmetz (b. 1766). The papers of William Smith address the management of land holdings in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Nova Scotia, and also include some records of the family's financial transactions. Charles Smith's papers consist of documentation on the settlement of William Smith's estate, and legal documents pertaining both to cases Charles Smith handled as an attorney and cases the family was involved in. Also included in the collection are land and legal papers of Jasper Yeates Brinton's father John Hill Brinton (1832-1907), correspondence between his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and her mother, and numerous letters sent by his brother Lt. Ward Brinton while he served with the Reserve Medical Corps in Texas in 1916.

ArchivalResource: 39 boxes, 10 vols., (17 linear ft.)

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