Collection, 1760-1900.

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Collection, 1760-1900.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122579467

A miscellaneous section contains single items and small groups of papers of approximately 700 individuals. There are large groups of papers of Philadelphia merchants including: Richard Ashhurst and Sons, particularly in regard to its business in Tennessee; and Dutilh and Wachsmuth. Additional groups of papers are: Manuel Eyre, also an early 19th century Philadelphia shipping merchant, correspondence and accounts relating property development of Delaware City and other Delaware land interests, farming, and several voyages of the "Charleston Packet" to France and the West Indies; George Louis de Stockar, merchant of Nates, France, incoming letters, 1760-1796; Philadelphia surveyors papers used to make assesments for paving streets and for the Watering Department in the 1830's and 1840's, giving block by block measurements of street frontage in the Northern Liberties; and miscellaneous legal papers including some Berks County court records and John M. Read legal notes.

ca. 4500 items.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6774217

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Charleston Packet (ship).

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Read, John M. (John Meredith), 1797-1874

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American lawyer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to The Marshal of the S. District of New York, 1839 Jan. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616393 The Read family consistently played an important role in American government and politics from the time that George Read, a Delaware resident, signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Throughout the 17th to 19th centuries, the Reads served as lawyers, judges, poli...

Clow, Andrew and Company.

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Unger, Claude,

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Ashhurst, Richard and Sons.

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Eyre, Manuel, d.1845.

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Manuel Eyre, Jr., was a shipping merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His birth date was 1774 or 1777. Around 1819, he established the Blockley Cotton Factory outside Philadelphia. At least one item, and possibly others, relates to his father Manuel Eyre, a shipwright who lived in the Northern Liberties. It is a little unclear if Emanuel Eyre is the same person as Manuel. The surname is sometimes recorded as Eyres. From the description of Bills, 1794-1842, 1800-1805 (bulk dates). ...

Dutilh and Wachsmuth.

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De Stockar, George Louis, -1793

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