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Baylies, Edmund. Meade family papers [manuscript], 1770-1872.

Title: Meade family papers [manuscript], 1770-1872.

The collection contains correspondence and legal documents of the Everard Meade family. Chief subjects are family news and the continuing friendship of the family with the family of Hodijah Baylies of Dighton, Mass., a Revolutionary War comrade of Everard Meade. Topics include visits between the Meade and Baylies families; an exchange of portraits; the capture of a British ship by militia off the New Jersey coast in 1777; anti-abolitionist sentiment in New England in 1835; the panic of 1837; a poisoning attempt by a slave; Confederate troop movements in February 1863; hard times during Reconstruction, particularly financial aid from the Baylieses to the Meades; and the grandfatherly advice of Thomas Rutherfoord, Sr., father-in-law of Hodijah Meade. The collection also contains an 1802 arithmetic book, an 1841 blacksmith's account, an 1854 almanac, wills, deeds, indentures, accounts, a land survey, and a bounty claim for War of 1812 service.

ArchivalResource: 100 (ca.) items.

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