Robinson family. Papers, ca. 1741-1970.
Title:
Papers, ca. 1741-1970.
Correspondence, account books, autographs, diaries, wills, indentures (apprenticeships), pamphlets, legal documents, estate papers, insurance policies, shipping papers, genealogical materials, poems, and other papers, reflecting business and personal interests of the Robinsons and the related families of Fisher, Morton, Rodman, Rotch, Smith, Wharton, and Wood. Subjects include the Society of Friends, slavery, Haverford College, properties owned, ships and shipping, Wharton family shipbuilding in Scituate, Mass., Joshua Fisher & Sons (Philadelphia shipping merchants), the Vicomte de Noailles and the French in Newport and elsewhere during the American Revolution, N.A.A.C.P., Indians in Pennsylvania, and the family residence in Newport. Persons represented include Amy (Robinson) Bowne, Hannah Rodman Fisher, Esther Fisher, Joshua Fisher, Samuel Rowland Fisher, John Morton, Mary Robinson Morton, Robert Morton, Thomas Robinson, Abigail Robinson, Rowland Robinson, Sarah R. Robinson, William T. Robinson, Sarah Rodman, Lydia Rotch, William Rotch, Jr., Benjamin Raper Smith, Daniel B. Smith, Esther Morton Smith, Deborah Fisher Wharton, William Wharton, Anna Wharton Smith Wood, and Henry Austin Wood, Jr.
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