Box 2

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Contents include: Letter from Jonathan Evenson regarding lands in "Pensilvania" granted by William Penn to Sweetapple and by Sweetapple to Shardlow. 1739 [copy of 1699 document, probably made in early 18th century, possibly included in the letter from Jonathan Evenson listed above]

Grant by Joseph Wood to William Shardlow of 100 acres of land by the Schuylkill. 1699 8/13

Transcription of Richard Harrison lease to John Daugharty, mentioning Shardlow heirs. 1741 11/13

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Letter to Aunt Norris. 1769 1/30

Letter to Aunt Molly Norris. n.d. [before 1774 9]

Letter to Mary (Polly) Parker. 1759 6/5 [asks if she "wou'd chuse thy Hood cut in the neck, it is the Genteelist way of making them..."]

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Letter to the governor of Georgia. 1785

Letter to Jonathan Jones. 1819 [Charles Thomson refers to Naomi McClenachan as his "adopted daughter"] Letter was found in Levi Morris' correspondence of the 1830s.

Letter to William Thomas.

Scope and Contents Contents include: Deborah Morris notebook containing Joseph Clark's testimony of his wife Elizabeth Clark. n.d.Certificate from the Women's Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia for Letitia Penn. 1701 4/27 [probably a nineteenth-century copy]French Document. 1716Letter from Sam Hopwood to Shroshine to Sarah Morris of Philadelphia. 1748 9/?Top part of an indenture between John Jones and his wife, Jacob Wynkoop, Rees Thomas and Pri[s]cilla Thomas,...

Scope and Contents Contents include: Journal of William Thomas. 1805 [includes account of a journey from Pennsylvania to Ohio, a poem about marriage, and an anti-slavery poem with two transcriptions]Cover page of the Last Will and Testament of Richard Harrison. 1746 [with photocopy]Last Will and Testament of Rees Thomas. 1754 [with photocopy]Marriage certificate for Mary Thomas and Charles McClenachan. 1821 10/15 [granted eleven years after the wedding; with...

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Documents include:

List of interments on Friends' Burial Ground. 1833, 1837-1838 [including cause of death for 1837-1838]

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Document "Granting use of Room in 12th Street Meetinghouse to F[irst] D[ay] School." 1832

Memory of First Day School taught by C. Yarnall. 1879