Papers, 1787-1908.

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Papers, 1787-1908.

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Business papers include captains' letters, cargo books, bills of lading, disbursement vouchers, passenger lists and tickets, bills for ship maintenance, seamen's articles of agreement, orders for wages, and various other papers. Additional series in this section consist of "domestic letters," 1844-1884, requesting steerage tickets, together with some instructions for shipping materials. "Foreign letters," 1854-1863, are mostly from Tapscott, Smith & Co., Cope's passenger agents in Liverpool. Brown, Shipley & Co. acted as assignee and agent in Liverpool, and there is a group of Brown, Shipley & Co. letters, 1829, 1836-1874, reporting on unloading, sales, and loading of goods, and market conditions. There are further miscellaneous financial papers, cancelled checks, passenger certificates and lists. The Cope family section contains random correspondence and other papers of several members: Thomas P. Cope correspondence concerning the charter and location of Haverford School, 1831, the commission to enquire into the best means of conveying merchandise from the wharves to the Broad Street rail road, 1835, and the Irish Relief Committee, 1847; Thomas P. Cope receipt books, 1789-1792, 1806-1810; Francis Reeve Cope incoming letters from James S. Cox concerning the state of Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company affairs, 1867, and from others concerning later personal and philanthropic business, 1902-1903; Francis R. Cope personal receipt book, 1847-1892, Penn Normal and Agricultural School, S.C., contribution records, 1901-1908, and receipted bills, 1906; sundry family estate papers with letters and documents concerning property in Dauphin, Centre, and Susquehanna Counties; Pleasant family estate account books, 1838-1862; letters from Rebecca Drinker, Samuel Reeves and his heirs regarding payments from estate monies. The Reeves letters have further interest because of the story they tell of Samuel C. Reeves, from the witnessing of his father's death, through a troubled adolescence, to his adult struggles with drinking and finding occupation. The bulk of the section of papers from related families appears as a result of Francis R. Cope's marriage to Anna S. Brown, daughter of Jeremiah. Jeremiah and Moses Brown were commission merchants in textiles and other "domestic goods" coming to them primarily from Boston, Providence and New England mills, but also from Wilmington and Baltimore. The incoming correspondence, 1814-1819, and invoices, receipted bills, and accounts, 1815-1819, are from manufacturers among whom are: Almy, Brown & Slater, Providence; Lyman, Tiffany & Co., Boston; David Our & Co., Wilmington; and Sterling Manufacturing Co., Providence. Occasional letters from purchasers and a small group of letters from Moses to Jeremiah concern the sale of merchandise to western Pa., Ohio, Kentucky and other markets of the interior. Later Brown family papers consist of Susan S. Brown diary, 1893-1909, recording her medicinal treatments, and cancelled checks, 1885-1896. Henry Sandwith Drinker correspondence, 1787-1810, with his father Henry Drinker and his father-in-law James Smith reveals continuing disputes between the families, seemingly inspired by young Drinker's financial incompetence.

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Brown, Jeremiah, 1791-1880

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Jeremiah Brown. From the description of Tune book, 18th century. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191276857 ...

Tapscott, Smith & Co.

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Cope, Francis Reeve, 1821-

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Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School (S.C.)

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Drinker, Henry, 1734-1805.

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Cope family.

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Thomas Pym Cope was already an established Philadelphia merchant in 1821 when he began the first regular packet line between Philadelphia and Liverpool. The business continued throughout most of the nineteenth century, with the company name changing as successive generations assumed responsibility. The shipping company section here is primarily a record of the business conducted out of Liverpool where the packets unloaded cotton, flour, wheat, turpentine, resin, and bark, and took on salt, pig i...

Our, David & Co.

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Pleasant family

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Haverford School (1833-1856)

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Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854

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Founder of packet ship line in 1821 that sailed from Philadelphia to Liverpool; Cope travelled from Philadelphia to Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Quebec with his son Alfred on July 12, 1820, visiting Nantucket from Sept. 9-15, 1820. From the description of Thomas Pym Cope diary/J. Morris Evans collection, 1820 Sept. 9-15. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 70953345 William Carvill was Haverford College's first landscape architect. Jonathan Richards was principa...

Brown, Susan Sansom, 1826-1909

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Almy, Brown & Slater

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Slater, Samuel, 1768-1835

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Cox, James S.

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Irish Relief Committee.

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Lyman, Tiffany & Co.

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Brown, Moses, 1793-1879

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Moses Brown (1793-1879) m. Mary Wistar (1807-1842). Mary was the sister of Dr. Caspar Wistar (1801-1867) and the daughter of Thomas Wistar (1764-1851) and Mary Waln Wistar (1765-1844). Moses and Mary's children were Thomas Wistar Brown (1826-1916), Moses Brown (1829-1883) and Mary W. Brown (1831-1839). Moses Brown (1829-1883) m. Mary Waln Wistar (b. 1829), the daughter of Dr. Caspar Wistar. From the description of Papers, 1815-1911. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 28...

Drinker, Henry Sandwith, 1770-1824

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Brown, J. & M.

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Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company

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The surge of investment that filled the Anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania in the mid-1700s did not reach the Lehigh Valley until 1791 when coal was found near Summit Hill, west of Mauch Chunk, leading to the formation of the Lehigh Coal Mines Company. Coal was floated downriver on wooden rafts known as arks, which were dismantled and sold as lumber upon arrival. Flooding, shallow water and swift currents created financial problems for the company until Josiah White, familiar with ca...

Reeves, Samuel, -1864

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Smith, James, 1750-

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Drinker, Rebecca Waln, 1792-1878

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Brown, Shipley & Co.

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Sterling Manufacturing Co. (Providence, R.I.)

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Reeves, Samuel C.

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Cope, Anna Stewardson, 1822-1916

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