Skip to main content

Box 4

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Taylor Family

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Elizabeth Thomson (Mary Patterson's aunt) married Herbert K. Taylor in 1897. Includes poems that Mary Patterson wrote for their 55th anniversary and other family papers

Miscellaneous property papers, Edgewood Park, 1927-1943

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Given to Mary Patterson by Herbert K. Taylor, Jr.. He was Mary's cousin, the son of her mother's sister Elizabeth, who married Herbert K. Taylor.

Dates: 1927-1943

Thomson-Eyre family memorabilia, ca. 1856- 1905

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Given to Patterson by Herbert Taylor, Jr. Eyre family genealogy and memorabilia including Mary Eyre's school reports at Moorestown Boarding School and her genealogy.

Dates: ca. 1856- 1905

Thomson family, 1782-1959

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Research on the family, including wills

Dates: 1782-1959

Thomson family Bible

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Photocopies and original pages removed. Bible belonged to John Thompson and Abigail Roberts Thompson, married 1773. Notes by Patterson explaining context.

Thomson Family Reunion, 1959-1961

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Patterson researched Henry Thomson, an original settler of Abington. Highlight of the reunion was a visit to the ancestral home of William Thomson, owned in 1961 by Fitz Eugene Dixon.

Dates: 1959-1961

Sarah Thomson 1809 diary, 1939

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Typed copy by Eleanor B. Price of an 1809 journal found in Tuckerton, NJ. Not identified as relation to Mary Patterson's family

Dates: 1939

Alice Sullivan Perkins, 1918

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Alice Sullivan, Swarthmore College, Class of 1904. Married J. H. Dudley who died in the 1918 flu epidemic. After his death, she invited her sister Mabel and her husband, Francis D'Olier, to live with her at Evergreen Lawn, Moorestown. Alice wrote about her husband's death and then continued to write letters to him as she had done before his sudden death.

Dates: 1918

Mabel Sullivan D'Olier, 1908-1962

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents

Mabel Creth Sullivan D'Olier (1887-1966) was Mary Patterson's aunt. She and sister Alice were married in a double ceremony in 1909. Mabel was the wife of Francis W. D'Olier. She and her husband were both graduates of Swarthmore College, and members of Moorestown Monthly Meeting. File contains clippings, memorabilia, some correspondence from Mary Patterson - the two shared interests in travel and genealogy. Her applications for Colonial Dames are in Series 4.

Dates: 1908-1962