Buffington-Marshall papers, 1707-1876.

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Buffington-Marshall papers, 1707-1876.

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The manuscripts in the collection cover the years 1707 to 1876. The bulk of the collection is connected to the Buffington and Marshall families. Buffington papers concern primarily the line of descent from Richard Buffington the emigrant, through his son Richard Buffington, Jr., who married Phebe Grubb. Marshall family papers are primarily those of emigrant Abraham Marshall and his family, including his sons James and Humphry Marshall, and James's son Dr. Moses Marshall. The collection includes letters, deeds, accounts, receipts and other business papers, diary pages, summons, warrants and other legal papers, poetry, zodiac chart, advertisement of a murder, maps and land drafts, genealogy, apprenticeship agreements, tax records, etc. Topics include farming, botany, legal system, politics and elections, the poor, education, medicine, crime (includes murder, fornication and bastardy cases, etc.), slavery, etc.

2,339 items (8 boxes)

Chester County Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7938775

Chester County Historical Society

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Marshall, Moses, 1758-1813

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Humphry Marshall Humphry Marshall was born in West Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1722, the eighth child of Abraham and Mary Hunt Marshall. His parents, Quaker immigrants from Derbyshire, England, provided him with only a rudimentary English education, which ceased altogether at age 12, when he was apprenticed to a stonemason. However, from very early in life, Marshall was drawn to the study of natural history and continued his education on his own, reading widely. With the ...

Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801

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Humphry Marshall was a self-educated Quaker botanist, born and raised in Chester County, Pa. With the encouragement and assistance of his cousin, John Bartram, and other scientific mentors in the U.S. and Britain, Marshall became an accomplished "practical botanist" and by the mid-1760's had established a profitable business collecting and identifying plants and selling them to plant collectors throughout the U.S. and Europe. The botanical garden he established in Chester County was...

Buffington family

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Marshall family

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