Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

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Jasper Yeates Brinton collection, 1696-1916, bulk 1765-1820.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62156241

The Jasper Yeates Brinton collection consists of personal and business correspondence, shipping invoices, receipts, account books, and land records pertaining to Brinton's forebears John Steinmetz, William Smith, and Charles Smith, as well as his father John Hill Brinton, his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and his older brother Ward Brinton. John Steinmetz's papers offer insight into general trade and shipping in Philadelphia immediately before and after the Revolutionary war, and also include a small amount of correspondence regarding the divorce of his son John Henry Steinmetz (b. 1766). The papers of William Smith address the management of land holdings in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, and Nova Scotia, and also include some records of the family's financial transactions. Charles Smith's papers consist of documentation on the settlement of William Smith's estate, and legal documents pertaining both to cases Charles Smith handled as an attorney and cases the family was involved in. Also included in the collection are land and legal papers of Jasper Yeates Brinton's father John Hill Brinton (1832-1907), correspondence between his mother Sarah Ward Brinton and her mother, and numerous letters sent by his brother Lt. Ward Brinton while he served with the Reserve Medical Corps in Texas in 1916.

39 boxes, 10 vols., (17 linear ft.)

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 7809606

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Steinmetz, Margaret, 1751-1811.

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Smith, Richard, 1769-1823.

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Keppele, Henry, 1745-1782

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Parish & Company.

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Steinmetz, John Henry, 1766-1811

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Brinton, Sarah Ward, b. 1836.

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Stewardson, Thomas, 1781-1859

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Smith, William, 1727-1803

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Clergyman, educator, playwright. From the description of Letter to Jasper Yeates, Lancaster [manuscript], 1773 July 15. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814474 Physician Joseph Carson taught medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The College of Philadelphia's Medical School, founded in 1765, became known as the University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine In 1779. From the guide to the Joseph Carson letters, 1789-1858, 1789-1858, (American P...

Philadelphia Rifle Company.

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United States. Army Reserve

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United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Smith, Charles, 1765-1836

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Eminent Pennsylvania jurist, admitted to the bar in Lancaster in 1787, and founder of the first law school in Pennsylvania. Charles Smith was the son of Reverend William Smith (1727-1803), first provost of the University of Pennsylvania. Charles Smith was also a state senator and judge. From the description of A digest of the laws of England; adopted and practiced in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : manuscript, 1787. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 2134966...

Brinton, Jasper Yeates, 1878-

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Jasper Yeates Brinton (1878-1973), a successful lawyer who worked for many years at the American Embassy in Egypt, traced his lineage back to the Smith and Steinmetz families of eighteenth-century Philadelphia. Brinton's paternal great-great grandfather, John Steinmetz (1740-1803), left Germany in 1751 and soon established a successful shipping business in Philadelphia. He became a fervent supporter of the colonial cause in the American Revolution. Steinmetz eventually owned a small fleet of shi...

Smith, William Moore, 1759-1821

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William Wallace & Co.

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Smith, Williamina Elizabeth, 1797-1848.

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Steinmetz, Daniel, 1705-1760

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Brinton, Ward, 1873-1935

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Parr Bulkeley & Co.

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Herman Heyman & Son.

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Smith, Rebecca Moore, 1733-1793.

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Yeates, Catherine, 1783-1866.

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Bank of Pennsylvania

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Smith, Thomas, 1760-1821.

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Yeates, Jasper, 1748-1817.

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Smith, Theodore, approximately 1740-approximately 1810

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Bell, William, 1739-1816.

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Steinmetz, John, 1740-1803.

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