Fisher family. Papers, 1761-1868.
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Papers, 1761-1868.
The Fisher family papers center on Miers Fisher, with smaller sections of Jabez Maude Fisher, a brother, and other branches. The Miers Fisher section of the papers consists largely of incoming and outgoing correspondence and documents following Fisher's retirement from his law practice in 1793. It concerns family affairs and Miers' activities as agent for foreigners with business in Pennsylvania, but touches on other aspects of his life. Major family correspondents are: son Miers Fisher, Jr., 1797-1813, many of which are Miers, Sr. letters while Miers, Jr. was running a mercantile business in St. Petersburg, Russia; son Redwood Fisher, 1797-1825, 1848-1850, which includes letters from his father exhorting the boy to improve himself; brother Samuel Rowland Fisher, 1792-1817, with letters to Miers concerning family and some business; wife Sarah Redwood Fisher, 1777-1819, mostly letters from Miers reporting on trips away from home; brother Thomas Fisher, 1774-1806, on family affairs and a lot of sickness; son Thomas Fisher, Jr., 1791-1896, primarily letters from his father and other relatives while the younger Fisher was apprenticed to a Baltimore merchant; nephew Joshua Gilpin, 1792-1796, with personal notes and reports on English manufacturing, technology, public affairs. There are additional letters from miscellaneous Fishers, Gilpins and Redwoods. Other correspondents of Miers Fisher, writing from England, are: Maria Ann Dupont Aublay, 1792-1818, concerning the estate of herbrother Francis LeClerc Dupont and including personal news; Robert Barclay, 1775-1817, on trade, public events, and personal matters; James Delancey, 1784-1794, concerning the estate of William Allen; Jacob Duche, 1786-1793, on his American lands, with some mention of spiritual concerns; William Fisher, 1798-1819, about Tobyhanna, Pa. and other real estate in Northhampton and Wayne Counties; Elizabeth Galloway Roberts, 1804-1812, relating to her estate. There is also general correspondence, miscellaneous land and legal papers, and a draft of a portion of the "Journal of the Transactions of the Exiles." Miers' brother Jabez Maude Fisher went to England in 1775 where he died in 1779. Letters, 1774-1779, are primarily from his friends and acquaintances in England, with some letters from home. The correspondence is personal with frequent mention of the state of affairs between Great Britain and the colonies, with later letters being more concerned with commerce. Among the correspondents are Joseph Guerney and Robert Ormston. There are some very general letters, 1820-1865, to Jabez Maude Fisher [II], Miers Fisher's son. Miers Fisher's daughter Lydia married Benjamin Warner, a Philadelphia bookseller. Warner family papers include: Benjamin Warner incoming leters, 1810-1817, and Benjamin's letters, 1815-1821, to Lydia while on business trips through Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Lexington (Ky.), Richmond, etc. Benjamin died in 1821, and apparently his brother Joseph assumed paternal responsibilities for the children. There are several letters to Joseph from the nieces and nephews, particularly from John Warner, 1849-1851, while trying to establish himself in Pottsville, Pa. Joseph Warner's receipt book, 1830-1859, is largely for rent and taxes. There is Redwood Fisher Warner correspondence, 1830-1868, primarily school age letters from siblings and 1867 family news from sister Sarah Warner Lewis while "Red" and his wife are in Europe. Other Redwood Fisher related items are sister-in-law Jane Johnson receipt book, 1840-1884, for general expenses, and Ella I. Yardley estate accounts, 1870-1889, Joseph W. Johnson, Jr., and Redwood F. Warner, trustees of Mary S. Yardley. Finally, there is general correspondence, 1801-1829, of William Redwood and William Redwood, Jr., merchants.
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