Papers of Joseph Galloway, 1717-1874 (bulk 1770-1829).

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Papers of Joseph Galloway, 1717-1874 (bulk 1770-1829).

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The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, legal instruments, plans, surveys, appraisals, accounts and other documents related to the Growden legacy; including the shares in Durham Iron Works, the properties in Durham, Bensalem, and Richland Townships, an upper lot of the Delaware River, and houses in Philadelphia. The materials cover the the 1773 partition of the Growden's estates and their fate after Pennsylvania Act of Attainder (1778) and the death of Joseph Galloway. Correspondents include: Joseph Galloway, his brother-in-law Thomas Nickelson and their Philadelphia representatives Abel James and John Thompson; Nickelson's sons-in-law Ellis Button Medford and John Jeffery; Grace Galloway's granddauther Ann Grace Roberts Burton. John Thompson's grandson John James Thompson (1815-1875), and others. Personal correspondence of Grace Galloway and her family, including her daughter Elizabeth Galloway Roberts (d. 1815) and Ann Collier, an English cousin and a Quaker who lived in Topsham, Devon. In the letter of November 6, 1753 to her sister, Grace Galloway gives an account of her wedding and decries the "ceremonious farse" of society's demands on the new bride. The letter to her daughter and husband (1779, May 17 and 22) vividly describes the privations and distress of a British loyalist woman in the revolutionary Philadelphia. Ann Collier's correspondence contains local and family gossip, news from America, particularly from Philadelphia, and inquiries regarding American Quakers, including the descendants of William Penn. There is also the letter from Deborah Morris, a close friend of Grace Galloway's, to Joseph Galloway that recounts Grace's last days. Also included are contemporary copies of accounts of Napoleon's voyage to St. Helena onboard of the Northumberland (1815): "An extract of letter to a particular friend", by Charles Bayne Hodgson Ross (1776-1849), and an anonymous "Remarks of Buonaparte."

64 pieces.1 box.

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Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803

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Joseph Galloway (1731—August 10, 1803) was an American Founding Father and politician who signed the 1774 Continental Association. He became a Loyalist during the American Revolutionary War, after serving as delegate to the First Continental Congress from Pennsylvania. For much of his career in Pennsylvania politics, he was a close ally of Benjamin Franklin, and he became a leading figure in the colony. As a delegate to the Continental Congress, Galloway was a moderate and proposed a Plan of Uni...

Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821

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Napoleon Bonaparte was a general of the French Revolution (1789-1799); the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic from November 11, 1799, to May 18, 1804; Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I from May 18,1804, to April 6,1814; and briefly restored as Emperor from March 20 to June 22, 1815. He conquered much of Europe but lost two-thirds of his army in a disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812. After his final loss to Britain and Prussia at the Battle of...

Growden family.

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Ross, Charles Bayne Hodgson.

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Durham Iron Works

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Founded, Durham, Pa., 1727; included a blast furnace and three forges. From the description of Papers, 1744-1929. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70922581 Founded in 1727 in Bucks County, Pa.; during most of its existence it included a blast furnace and three forges; passed out of existence in 1789 but site was used for later furnaces. From the description of Records, 1780-1790. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 7095908...

Metford, Ellis Button

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Galloway family.

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Growden, Lawrence

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Galloway, Grace Growden, -1789

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Grace Growden Galloway was the daughter of Lawrence Growden, whose family controlled Durham iron furnaces; she married Joseph Galloway in 1753. Joseph Galloway, prominent in the social and political circles of Philadelphia sided with the British during the Revolution. Eventually, he was forced to flee with his daughter, Elizabeth, to England. Grace Galloway remained behind in America in an attempt to salvage the family's estate. From the description of Papers, 1778-1781. (Historical ...

Thompson, John James, 1815-1875.

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Thompson, John, 1744-1790.

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Nickleson, Thomas

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Roberts, Elizabeth Galloway

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Abel, James, -1790

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Collier, Ann, fl. 1779-1782.

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