Dunn-Osborn-Battey family papers, 1744-1927.

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Dunn-Osborn-Battey family papers, 1744-1927.

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Correspondence, account books, receipts, bills and other financial papers, notebook and other miscellaneous papers of the Quaker Dunn, Osborn and Battey families. Other families include Barns, Birdsall, Brownell, Coffin, Coutant, Heaton, Lamb, Pancoast, Steere. Letters of Nathan Dunn discuss trade with China, his Chinese Collection, forgery court case, also printed will, legal and land papers; household and farming bills and receipts of Restore S. Lamb, Rhoda O. Lamb and Phebe Osborn; letters, 1833-1856, of David Battey discuss farm life in Indiana; letters of Nancy S. Battey, 1864-1865, while teaching free black children in Yorktown; Ruth M. Battey letters and estate papers, 1858-1887; Smith Battey letters, 1840-1857, discuss travel and family. Letters, 1830-1882, of brothers Elijah and Sands Brownell discuss family business difficulties in Michigan; letters of George W. Taylor, 1856-1858, discuss his free produce business; other topics in correspondence are Society of Friends (Separation of 1827), health concerns, slavery and education; also letters and other papers of Thomas J. Battey, Phebe (Battey) Barns, Hannah M. Boadle, Samuel Heaton, Amos Hoag and others.

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Steere family.

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Brownell, Elijah, 1806?-1869.

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Brownell, Sands.

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Heaton, Samuel, 1801?-1869.

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Battey family.

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Coffin family.

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Boadle, Hannah M.

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Barns, Phebe.

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Coutant family.

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Dunn family.

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Lamb, Rhoda O. (Rhoda Osborn), 1794?-1881.

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Battey, David.

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Barns family.

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Osborn family.

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Birdsall family.

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Lamb, Restore S.

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Lamb family.

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Battey, Ruth M., 1801?-1884.

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Brownell family.

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Dunn, Nathan, 1782-1844

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Battey, Thomas J. (Thomas Jesse), 1842-1931.

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Heaton family.

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Battey, Nancy S., 1837-1865.

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Hoag, Amos.

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Pancoast family.

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Taylor, George W., 1803-1891

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G.W. Taylor was the son of Jacob Taylor and Elizabeth Richards Taylor. A convinced Friend, Taylor was early a member of New Garden, (Pa.) Monthly Meeting. He was a pupil of the Quaker educator Enoch Lewis. Taylor m. (1) Elizabeth Sykes in 1831; m. (2) Ruth Leeds in 1864; m. (3) Elizabeth Burton in 1885. Active in the Free Produce Movement, particularly between 1847 and 1867, Taylor was responsible for finding supplies of free labor products, for running a free produce store in Phila. (1847-67), ...