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Bache Papers-Castle Collection, 1766-1946.

Title: Bache Papers-Castle Collection, 1766-1946.

The collection contains personal papers, correspondence, notes, financial papers, genealogical research, and printed materials of the Bache family, desendants of Benjamin Franklin. The papers of Franklin's grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, are at the core of the collection, covering almost the entire span of his life. Personal papers include schoolboy essays and notes, and correspondence with his grandfather, father and mother, and with his future wife Margaret Hartman Markoe. The collection also includes a journal Bache kept while in Geneva and Paris (1 August 1782-14 September 1785), in which he described the people and events he saw, including Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and John Jay. There are also many papers in this collection relating to the estate of Francis Markoe in St. Croix (V.I.), to which Margaret and her children were heirs. Bache's professional papers include letters from Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Robert Morris and James Monroe. His son Franklin Bache is also well represented, and his personal papers and correspondence are joined with records of his professional accomplishments and honors. There are smaller amounts of material for succeeding generations, including Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867), Thomas Hewson Bache (1826-1890), Charles Meigs Bache (1829-1890), Albert Dabadie Bache (1832-1895), and Franklin Bache (1869-1946). The collection also includes approximately 70 imprints and bound volumes.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1100 items (7 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122364946 View

Shippen, Edward, 1703-1781. Letters and papers, 1727-1781.

Title: Letters and papers, 1727-1781.

These letters and papers include ten small volumes of letterbooks (1752-1781), and ca. 100 pieces of correspondence with Joseph Shippen (1750-1778). Topics discussed are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs.

ArchivalResource: ca. 190 items and 10 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122540100 View

Coleman, William, 1704-1769. Ledger, 1756-1768.

Title: Ledger, 1756-1768.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 47 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122489201 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122580098 View

Edward Shippen letters and papers, 1727-1781, 1727-1781

Title: Edward Shippen letters and papers, 1727-1781 1727-1781

These letters and papers include ten small volumes of letterbooks (1752-1781), and ca. 100 pieces of correspondence with Joseph Shippen (1750-1778). Topics discussed are business in Philadelphia and Lancaster, provincial politics, army supply in the French and Indian War, land purchases and speculation, housebuilding, and family affairs.

ArchivalResource: 10.0 Volume(s), Ca. 190 items; 10 volumes

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.Sh62-ead.xml View

Powel, Samuel, 1738-1793. Powel Family Papers, Samuel Powel (1738-1793) Series, 1729-1791.

Title: Powel Family Papers, Samuel Powel (1738-1793) Series, 1729-1791.

Like most other sections of the larger Powel Family Papers, this section of Samuel Powel (1738-1793) papers should be seen as one part of a much-connected whole collection. This small (one box) section illustrates only only portions of Samuel Powel's life, and should be consulted with the papers of his father and grandfather and those of his wife Elizabeth Willing Powel. This section in turn contains quite a lot of information about the finances and estate of Samuel Powel's mother, Mary Morris Powel. It best demonstrates Powel's involvement with real estate (especially his dealings with Philadelphia carpenter Thomas Proctor), and shows little about his life of public service. Besides his handling of his mother's estate (with his uncle, Samuel Morris), Samuel Powel's family life is illustrated by one document only: a touching letter from his niece Hester Griffitts Montgomery, who had married James Montgomery to the apparent displeasure of her uncle. Prominent Philadelphians with Powel family connections include Anthony Benezet, who taught Mary Griffits in 1760; George Clymer; William Coleman; physician Samuel Powel Griffits (Samuel Powel's nephew); James Pemberton; and Edmund Physick. Robert Rutherford's letters to Samuel Powel during the 1780's provide interesting commentary on Powel's political stature.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122625297 View