Description: Margaret Clark Greene correspondence to Christine Williams Biddle, 1844 [January-April]

Margaret Clark Greene correspondence to Christine Williams Biddle, 1844 [January-April]

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Collection:	Biddle family papers, 1683-1954 (#1792)
Date:	1844-02-28
Box Number:	Box 7
Folder Number:	Folder 8
Format:	Electronic
Subjects and Genres:	Quaker women Nineteenth century Biddle, Thomas, 1776-1857 Correspondence
Copyright:	Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org)
Online Access:	https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/13327
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Summary:	This digital record contains two images that depict one letter written by Margaret Clark Greene to Christine Williams Biddle. Christine Williams Biddle (1780–1861) was the wife of Thomas Alexander Biddle (1776–1857), the son of American Revolutionary war soldier Clement Biddle (1740–1814). Margaret Clark Greene (1798-1861) was from a prominent Highland Scots family. Her father was Captain Alexander Clark, Royal Marines. Her mother was Margaret Shaw. In 1843 her sister, Isabella, married John A. Macdonald (later Sir), who became the first Prime Minister of Canada. Margaret had no settled home, living at one time or other in the Highlands, the Isle of Man, Liverpool, Philadelphia, New York City, New Haven, East Greenwich, RI; Burlington, NJ; Savannah, Cumberland Is., and elsewhere in GA. In 1822 she married John Ward Greene, a nephew of General Nathanael Greene. Less than three months later he died of illness. Never remarrying, Margaret became the close companion of Louisa Greene Shaw, a daughter of Nathanael Greene. This letter is held, along with others, in folder 8 (box 7) titled "Christine Williams Biddle Correspondence, 1844 (January-April)," of the Biddle family collection.

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This digital record contains two images that depict one letter written by Margaret Clark Greene to Christine Williams Biddle. Christine Williams Biddle (1780–1861) was the wife of Thomas Alexander Biddle (1776–1857), the son of American Revolutionary war soldier Clement Biddle (1740–1814). Margaret Clark Greene (1798-1861) was from a prominent Highland Scots family. Her father was Captain Alexander Clark, Royal Marines. Her mother was Margaret Shaw. In 1843 her sister, Isabella, married John A. Macdonald (later Sir), who became the first Prime Minister of Canada. Margaret had no settled home, living at one time or other in the Highlands, the Isle of Man, Liverpool, Philadelphia, New York City, New Haven, East Greenwich, RI; Burlington, NJ; Savannah, Cumberland Is., and elsewhere in GA. In 1822 she married John Ward Greene, a nephew of General Nathanael Greene. Less than three months later he died of illness. Never remarrying, Margaret became the close companion of Louisa Greene Shaw, a daughter of Nathanael Greene.

This letter is held, along with others, in folder 8 (box 7) titled "Christine Williams Biddle Correspondence, 1844 (January-April)," of the Biddle family collection.

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