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Powel, Samuel, 1673-1756. Papers, 1681-1749.

Title: Papers, 1681-1749.

This series of the Powel family papers documents the import and export business of the two Samuel Powels, and includes financial records of the ship "Tryall", marine insurance policies, shipping receipts, commercial correspondence, and a small amount of family and legal papers.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes, 5 vols.

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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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Powel family. Business papers, 1730-1778.

Title: Business papers, 1730-1778.

Includes bills, receipts, accounts, and shipping orders that relate to the ship Tryall (owned by Samuel Powel, Jr. and Clement Plumsted), many of which were addressed to Samuel Bicknell, the ship's captain; letters that pertain to business matters; an invoice book kept by Samuel Powel documenting goods bought in London in 1724 and 1725, including fabrics, needles, thread, shoes, knives, pistols, and a seal for William Plumsted; a daybook kept by Samuel Powel, Jr. from 1735 to 1739 listing a range of products and activities, including lamps, bushels of wheat, paper, gloves, tea, thimbles, spices, knives, supplies for the ship Tryall, painting and glazing a house, surveying land, and monies paid on accounts; a receipt book kept by Samuel Powel, III from 1775 to 1777 that primarily documents amounts paid for such types of labor as days of work "over Schuylkill," mowing, putting up a fence, plastering, and work in the garden; and a few legal documents that record exchanges of property, etc.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84665932 View