Description: Ashhurst family papers

Ashhurst family papers

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ashhurst family (Creator)
Collection:	Ashhurst Family Papers
Collection Number:	1972A
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects:	Civil War Family life-Civil War Portrait photography.

Physical Description:	3.0 Linear feet 3 linear feet, 9 boxes, 8 volumes
Summary:	This collection contains random gatherings of the papers of the Ashhurst and related families of Philadelphia. The most complete series consists of John Ashhurst personal receipted bills, 1837-1883, and caretaker of Samuel H. Hibbard's accounts, 1863-1877, of the Grange, Ashhurst's summer estate in Havertown. Also John Ashhurst correspondence, 1834-1892, which includes some family letters, often referring to estate and financial matters, and some personal business letters and papers. Other family members represented are: [I.I.] Wheeler & [Richard] Ashhurst, merchants, petit cashbook, 1808-1811; Richard Ashhurst, dry goods merchant, letter book, 1822-1827; Richard Ashhurst & Son, dry goods merchants, receipt book, 1833-1839, and loose financial correspondence, 1821-1857, 1878; Richard L. Ashhurst letters (typescript), September, 1862 - June, 1863, as Adjutant of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; Manuel Eyre estate papers, and assorted Stokes family correspondence, most notably Caleb P. Wayne's off again, on again courtship of Mary Stokes, 1802-1803.

Physical Description:

3.0 Linear feet 3 linear feet, 9 boxes, 8 volumes

Summary:

This collection contains random gatherings of the papers of the Ashhurst and related families of Philadelphia. The most complete series consists of John Ashhurst personal receipted bills, 1837-1883, and caretaker of Samuel H. Hibbard's accounts, 1863-1877, of the Grange, Ashhurst's summer estate in Havertown. Also John Ashhurst correspondence, 1834-1892, which includes some family letters, often referring to estate and financial matters, and some personal business letters and papers. Other family members represented are: [I.I.] Wheeler & [Richard] Ashhurst, merchants, petit cashbook, 1808-1811; Richard Ashhurst, dry goods merchant, letter book, 1822-1827; Richard Ashhurst & Son, dry goods merchants, receipt book, 1833-1839, and loose financial correspondence, 1821-1857, 1878; Richard L. Ashhurst letters (typescript), September, 1862 - June, 1863, as Adjutant of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers; Manuel Eyre estate papers, and assorted Stokes family correspondence, most notably Caleb P. Wayne's off again, on again courtship of Mary Stokes, 1802-1803.

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