Holme family account book 1684-1762 Holme family

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Holme family account book 1684-1762 Holme family

Irish Quakers and compatriots of William Penn, the family of John Holme prospered in the new colony of Pennsylvania. The Holme family account book includes accounts of goods sold and services rendered to Philadelphia families in the 1680s and 1690s. Interspersed throughout are medicinal and food preparation receipts, mostly recorded in the 1740s, as well as copies of the laws of Pennsylvania, ca. 1685, the wills of Capt. Thomas Holme, 1695, and John Holme, Jr., and a poem and two religious songs.

102 pages

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391182

William L. Clements Library

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Holme, Thomas, -1695

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Holme, John, Sr.

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Holme family

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Irish Quakers and compatriots of William Penn, the family of John Holme emigrated to Pennsylvania very early in the history of that province. Prior to 1685, John Holme, Sr., had established himself as a mill wright in Lower Dublin Twp., near Philadelphia. Holme prospered in the new colony and came to own numerous tracts of land in and near the city, quarries, and mills, and he apparently owned at least some slaves. He was selected as one of the magistrates of the city of Philadelphi...

Holme, John, Jr.

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