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Richard Wood diaries [Box 1: Folder 1815]
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Richard Wood, a Quaker merchant and farmer of Greenwich, Cumberland County, N.J., owned and successfully farmed large tracts of land in the Stow Creek/Greenwich area. He also successfully operated a large general store, known after 1785 as Wood and…
Smith family papers [Volume 4, p. 230 [Catherine Payton to John Smith, 6 mo 17, 1755)]
The Smith family papers contain materials compiled and authored by John Jay Smith as well as several of his descendants. John Jay Smith (1798-1881) was librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia from 1829 to 1851 and founder of Laurel Hill…
Hannah Griffitts papers [Box One, "Nature of Reason, 1775" Yi 2 7422 F42]
Collection of verses, primarily religious and reflective in nature, by Hannah Griffitts of Philadelphia, often signed "Fidelia." Many of the poems were written on the anniversary of her parents' deaths. There are also miscellaneous letters and some…