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Ashhurst family papers
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...
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| Collection: | Ashhurst Family Papers |
| Collection Number: | 1972A |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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| 100 | 3 | |a Ashhurst family |e creator | |
| 245 | 1 | |a Ashhurst family papers |f 1797-1907 | |
| 300 | |a 3.0 Linear feet |f 3 linear feet, 9 boxes, 8 volumes | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Civil War |2 Local sources | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Family life-Civil War |2 Local sources | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Portrait photography. |2 Local sources | |
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Ashhurst Family Papers |c 1972A | ||