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McKesson, Irvin H., Mrs. Collection, 1750-1917 (inclusive), 1750, 1760-1870, 1917 (bulk).

Title: Collection, 1750-1917 (inclusive), 1750, 1760-1870, 1917 (bulk).

Papers of Samuel Jones and three generations of his decendents. Samuel Jones, a minister of Pennypack Baptist Church, Philadelphia, from 1763 to 1814, is represented by incoming correspondence, sermons, personal and church records, and some miscellaneous legal items. There are papers, 1748-1812, of Alexander Edwards, Philadelphia storekeeper and active member of Jones' church, including incoming family correspondence, financial records, and miscellaneous legal papers. Jones' daughter, Sarah, married Robert Henderson, and then Theophilus Harris. Harris was a minister and justice of the peace for Philadelphia County, and some personal incoming correspondence, 1810-1845, court dockets, 1819-1833, daybook, 1822-1841, and miscellaneous legal items are found here. There is family correspondence, 1815-1861, of Samuel Jones Henderson, son of Sarah and Robert Henderson. Of special interest are Civil War letters between Laura Henderson Dade and her husband Frank Dade while he was serving as a Union Army physician stationed at Beaufort, S.C.

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