Papers, 1773-1862.

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Papers, 1773-1862.

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The letters and miscellaneous papers of Alexander, Biddle, Rush, and Williams families in this section relate mostly to family and personal affairs with some business papers included. Of particular significance are the letters from the Scottish branch of the Alexanders reporting from Scotland, England, and France on politics, society, and family affairs. The Jonathan Williams, Jr., correspondence, 1773-1815 includes family letters. Mariamne Alexander Williams' correspondence, 1778-1816, includes letters from her sisters Bethia, Christine, and Jane Alexander and Isabelle Alexander Hankey, as well as from Henry Jonathan Williams, Margaret M. Craig, and Jonathan Williams, Jr. The Thomas Biddle papers, 1800-1846, consist primarily of business letters and related documents involving his brokerage firm. There are also some family letters from various Alexanders abroad and in Kentucky, his son Henry Jonathan Biddle, his brother John G. Biddle, and his wife Christine Williams Biddle. Christine Biddle's correspondence, 1794-1856 includes letters from the four Alexander aunts, Margaret Green, her "daughter," Apolline Agatha Alexander Hankey, and her "grandaughter," Apolline Alexander Blair of the Kentucky branch of the Alexanders, her five sons, particularly Henry Jonathan Biddle, as well as Thomas Biddle and Thomas Hankey, Jr. The Henry Jonathan Williams corrspondence, 1812-1862, includes letters from his four Alexander aunts, Thomas Hankey, Jr., concerning remittances, his parents, and from various others on legal, personal, and military matters. The Julia Rush Williams correspondence, 1823-1866, includes letters to her mother, Julia Stockton Rush, and letters from various relatives. Other family members are represented by small groups of miscellaneous papers: Clement Biddle, 1776, 1813, mostly as Deputy Quarter Master for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey militias; Benjamin Rush, 1768-1810, with letters from Alexander Leslie (Lord Balgonie) and others; and Julia Stockton Rush, 1813-1840, on social and family matters.

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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a profess...

Craig, Margaret Murphy, 1761-1814

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Williams, Mariamne, d. 1816,

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Alexander, Bethia.

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Williams, Julia Rush, 1792-1860

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Biddle, Henry Jonathan, 1817-1862

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Biddle, Thomas, 1776-1857

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Thomas Biddle married Christine Williams, the daughter of Jonathan and Marianne Alexander Williams. Christine Williams Biddle's brother, Henry Jonathan Williams married Julia Rush, the daughter of Benjamin and Julia Stockton Rush. From the description of Family papers, 1769-1954. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 78972526 ...

Biddle, Clement, 1740-1814

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Revolutionary patriot. From the description of Document signed : [n.p.], 1792 July 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874585 Army officer and merchant. From the description of Clement Biddle correspondence, 1786. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450649 Biddle informs Wharm that he is going to advertise in Washington and Philadelphia newspapers for a missing letter he sent to Wharm containing two certificates of transfer to General Pinckney. ...

Hankey, Apolline Agatha Alexander

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Alexander, Jane, 1950-

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Rush, Julia Stockton

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Daughter of Continental Congressman Richard Stockton; married Philadelphia physician and Continental Congressman Benjamin Rush. Among their thirteen children was Julia, who married Henry Jonathan Williams. From the description of ALS : Princeton, to Julia Rush Williams, 1835 May 12. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122633682 ...

Biddle, Christine Williams, -1861

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Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815

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Army officer and engineer. From the description of ALS : New York, to Jonathan Dayton, 1811 June 6. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122316941 From the description of ALS : New York, to W. C. Leffingwell, 1810 Mar. 25. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525040 Nephew of Benjamin Franklin, served as agent of Continental Congress at Nantes. From the description of ALS, 1780 September 12 : Nantes, to James Searle, ...

Hankey, Isabelle Alexander

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Green, Margaret W.

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Biddle-Williams family.

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Blair, Apolline Alexander, 1828-1908

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Williams, Henry Jonathan, 1791-1879

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Alexander, Christine (Christine Anne)

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Biddle, John Gideon, 1793-1826

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