Collection, 1709-1956 (inclusive), 1783-1956 (bulk).

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Collection, 1709-1956 (inclusive), 1783-1956 (bulk).

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These papers consist of correspondence, accounts, and indentures which relate to the personal and business activities of the Paul family of Philadelphia and Belvidere, N.J. The Thomas Paul papers, 1783-1798, consist of miscellaneous correspondence and records relating to his mercantile business, Belvidere, personal affairs, and his estate. Comegys Paul's papers, 1810-1851, contain business correspondence and miscellaneous accounts to 1828. They also include his private correspondence from brothers and brothers-in-law relating largely to the management of the Belvidere property and other family affairs. There are also some Comegys Paul private accounts. Among the letters of the John Rodman Paul branch of the family are: J. Rodman Paul's letters, 1823-1824, describing social life and touring activities while studying medicine in Paris; John Rodman Paul, Jr., letters, 1872, while touring Europe; and additional family correspondence, 1823-1902, which also includes letters from Elizabeth Duffield Paul, Margaret Neill Paul, and others. Henry Neill Paul letterpress books, 1858-1886, 1890-1899, contain letters relating to property in St. Paul, Minn., his other real estate holdings, Paul family estate business, letters written as officer of Manufacturers Land and Improvement Company, Gloucester Land Company, and Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities; personal ledger, 1858-1859; and journal, 1879-1888. Memorial Missionary Society of Calvary Presbyterian Church minutes, 1870-1883, Mrs. Elizabeth Stadleman Paul, Secretary. Henry Neill Paul, Jr., lawyer, personal business, as well as bibliophilic and genealogical interests. Another line of the Paul family is represented by Mary Pope Paul personal and family correspondence, 1868-1920, together with some correspondence of her son Augustus Russell Paul, 1900-1937, mainly on agricultural subjects.

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Paul, Comegys, 1785-1851

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Manufacturers Land and Improvement Company.

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Watson, John T. (John Thomas), 1904-

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Memorial Missionary Society of Calvary Presyterian Church.

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Paul, Elizabeth Duffield, 1809-1866.

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Paul, John Rodman, 1802-1877

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Paul, Henry Neill, 1835-1899.

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Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities.

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Paul, Henry Neill, 1863-1954

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H.N. Paul of Philadelphia. From the description of The players' quartos and the players' duodecimos of Hamlet [manuscript], ca. 1933. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 281643471 Henry Neill Paul was a partner in the Philadelphia law firm Fraley & Paul. From the description of Letters to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1930. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884580 ...

Gloucester Land Company.

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Paul, Augustus Russell, 1880-

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Paul, John Rodman, 1852-1941

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Comegys, Cornelius, -1845

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Paul, Elizabeth Stadleman, 1833-1918

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Paul, Margaret Neill, 1830-1897

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Ranten, James, -1814

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Paul, Thomas, 1760-1802

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Watson, William C.

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Music teacher in Portsmouth, Va. From the description of Letter to E.B. Dearborn, 1840. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 52779266 William Watson was sheriff of Livingston Parish, La. From the description of William Watson papers, 1846-1870 (bulk 1866-1870). (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 182624518 ...

Canonge, Benjamin.

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Paul family.

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The Paul family was a merchant family of both Philadelphia and Belvidere, N.J. Thomas Paul, the first generation to be represented here, was a merchant trading under the firm of [Cornelius] Comegys and Paul and successor names. In 1790 he purchased the Belvidere property where he established his residence and where he and following generations carried on the sale of town lots. His son, Comegys Paul, returned to Philadelphia where he carried on a dry-goods tra...

Paul, Mary Pope

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