Receipted bills, 1857-1861.

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Receipted bills, 1857-1861.

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A group of receipted bills, dated 1857-1861, a third of which relate to bank orders, drafts, and payments for interest, mortgages, and such. The remaining receipted bills cover personal and professional expenses. Those relating to his homes and office include charges for painting, patching a roof, digging a privy and a well, taking down furnaces, hardware, and lumber. A small group of bills covers charges for food and liquor. A rather larger group covers charges for gas, water, coal, wood, and taxes. As well, there are bills for moving a piano, law books, pew rents at Episcopal churches in Philadelphia and Bristol, farrier work, upholstery charges, a tuition bill for a Miss Bowers, and bills from Dr. Caspar Morris. Two bills dated 1860 pertain to the funeral of Anthony Morris, although one charge is listed as being for P. P. Morris' funeral. Also included are receipts for payments for membership in the Law Association of Philadelphia and in the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. A number of the bills are on printed forms.

ca. 175 items.

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Morris, Phineas Pemberton

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Phineas Pemberton Morris, an attorney, son of James Pemberton and Rosa Gardiner Morris, descended from old Philadelphia families. He was named for one of his ancestors, Phineas Pemberton, who came to Pennsylvania in the 1680s, and settled near Bristol, Bucks County, naming his property Bolton Farm. Pemberton's great-granddaughter Mary Pemberton married Anthony Morris (1766-1860), a Philadelphia lawyer, merchant, and member of a distinguished family, in 1790. Their son James Pemberton Morris inhe...

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture

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On 11 February 1785 John Beale Bordley and twenty-two other Philadelphians formed the Society for "promoting a greater increase of the products of land within the United States," confining their attention to agriculture and rural affairs. From the description of Circular letter to establish experimental farm, 1818 November 28. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 32829655 Established in 1785 to encourage new developments on agricultural practice and...

Law Association of Philadelphia

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...