Box 4

Genealogical material on the Allinson, Chattin, Cooper, Hughes, Matlack, Scattergood, and Tatum families. 67 items

Poems. 55 items, 1702-1836

Legal documents. 17 items, 1732-1855: Miscellaneous bonds, wills, copies of marriage certificates, indentures, power of attorney to Wm. Allison, and 2 papers concerning Burlington Monthly Meeting. Memorials, miscellaneous, of Friends in Wales and in Pennsylvania. 14 items, 1743-1794. [Include remarks of John Griffith about Susanna Morriss, with his account of her journeys to Great Britain.]

2 items: Letters to Margaret (Allinson) Parker, Shrewsbury. Burlington, 3mo. 28 - 5mo. 6, 1831.

Letters to Samuel Allinson, Burlington. Philadelphia, 2mo. 25, 1767 - 10mo. 23, 1774. 11 items. [Include, "An Argument in defence of those persons who think it their duty to protect Slaves that have escaped from their Masters."] Also here: Clipping from The Pennsylvania Evening Post and Public Advertiser, Mon., June 17, 1782, containing letter from A[nthony] B[enezet] to Abbot Raynal, Brussels, and the Abbot's answer

Letter to Rebecca Jones, Philadelphia. London, 8mo. 14, 1795

Indenture (deed to land in New Jersey) from Wm. Biddle to his son John Biddle. Aug. 5, 1724

Photograph (autographed), 1897

Letter to Robert Smith, Jr. Trenton, N.J., Sept. 4, 1802. [Concerns work of Abolition Society of New Jersey] Transcription of deed book from Abolition Society of New Jersey, signed 1806, "Respecting the manumission of certain Slaves"

Letter to Samuel Allinson, Bordentown, N.J. Bordentown, Jan. 16, 1836