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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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Wharton family. Wharton family papers, 1679-1891 (bulk 1730-1780).

Title: Wharton family papers, 1679-1891 (bulk 1730-1780).

The Wharton family papers contains correspondence, ledgers, account statements and indentures created and collected by members of the Wharton family over more than 200 years. Items in the collection primarily concern Thomas Wharton and his brothers Samuel, Joseph, William, Charles, and Isaac, as well as cousin Thomas Wharton Jr. This collection includes materials relating to their mercantile business dealings in Pennsylvania as well as with businesses and agents in London, Nantucket, Newfoundland, Halifax and Quebec. The collection largely concerns professional interests and contains little in the way of personal information. The Steel family of Pennsylvania is also represented in the collection with correspondence, land, and estate papers.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes, 37 vols., (10 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78242629 View

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794. Autograph letter signed : to William Shippen, 1781 04 20.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to William Shippen, 1781 04 20.

Concerning lottery tickets, a naval engagement and the pursuit of Cornwallis.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 3/4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270598106 View

American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIe. 1845-1865.

Title: Record Group IIe.

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the Collection Description.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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