Papers, 1787-1964.

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Papers, 1787-1964.

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Correspondence, journal, essays, deeds, genealogical materials and clippings. Numerous letters from George and Richard to friend and associate, Robert Barnard, in Washington, D.C. Letters to Morris Birkbeck. Topics include life at Albion, the Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad Company land values, agricultural methods and markets, and activities at New Harmony, Indiana. Charter for the Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad signed by Asbury Dickins, Sec. of the U.S. Senate. Diary of Deborah Finch Prichard, 1787. Family tree, 1901, by Alfred and B.O. Flower and genealogies on the Flower, Fordham, Hall, Bunting and Pritchard families done by Janet Flower. Many newsclippings re: the Flower family and Albion. Publications regarding New Harmony, Albion and the Edwards County Centennial(1918)and Sesquicentennial(1968).

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Hall family.

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Flower, George, 1780-1862.

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Founder of Albion, Ill., an English settlement, came from England in 1816, landed in New York and traveled through that state to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. A trip to choose a suitable place for settling his friends and family. Traveled to the major cities in those states learning as much as he could through observation and talking to many people, some of whom he had known in England. In Virginia he met Thomas Jefferson and his family and stayed at Monticello. He met br...

Bunting family.

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Barnard, Robert, 1786-1852

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Fordham family.

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Birkbeck, Morris, 1764-1825

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Pioneer, farmer, author, and state official of Illinois. From the description of Morris Birkbeck treatise and scrapbook, 1619-1817. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 123913404 Epithet: of Add MS 33112 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x0002af Founder of English settlement of Wanborough, Illinois, 1818; Illinois secretary of state, 1824. From the description of Letter : Englis...

Flower Family.

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Richard Flower, an English brewer, and his son, George, came to Illinois and in 1818 founded the town of Albion, to typify the best of England but with the political freedoms of America. George had studied agricultural practices in France with Morris Birkbeck, who was also involved with Albion. The Flowers were a liberal, philanthropic family, who opposed slavery. Edwards County, largely due to the Flowers, was a non-slave county. Richard Flower brokered the land sale of the Rappite community at...

Flower, Janette Cahill

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Pritchard family.

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Flower, Richard, 1761?-1829

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New Albany and Mount Carmel Rail Road

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