Box 7
Container
Contains 18 Results:
Papers for Owen Jones from Mary Jones' estate
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
Contents include: Testimony and poems on the death of Jonathan Jones' first wife, Mary Powell Potts Jones (1769-1787). 1787 [died in childbirth]Letter from Rebecca Thomas to her mother, Tacy Thomas. 1833Testimony about Grandfather Owen Jones by Sarah Wistar. n.d.Lists of exchanged documents. 1811-1818Letter from Jonathan Roberts to Isaac Roberts. 1825Indenture for the heirs of William Thomas. 1780Correspondence about, and...
Letters to, A-M, 1828 - 1860
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Letter writers include: Mary A. Buckman, E.H. Curwen, Edward & Lucy Foulke, P. Gaskell, Mary Hoskins, Owen Jones, Thomas Kittera, M.D. Logan, Mary McClenachan, Catharine W. Morris, Israel W. Morris, Martha Murray, Sarah Moore Grimké.Some highlights include:Mary A. Buckman. Burlington, 1860 2/17 [re death of sister, Naomi Anderson]E.H. Curwen. Walnut Hill, n.d. [re paper promised to Mary Jones]Mary Hoskins. Wilmington, 1823, 4...
Dates:
1828 - 1860
Letters to, N-Z and miscellaneous
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Letter writers include: I.W. Roberts, Mary Roberts & Owen Jones, Thomas W. Smith, H. Thomas, Joseph W. Thomas, Sarah “Sallie” M. Vaux, L.M. Walker, Phebe Walker, Joseph Warner, Harriet S. Watson, Isaac Wayne, E. Wister, H.H. Wistar.Some highlights include:I.W. Roberts. 1825 1/21 [re discussion with Thomas Kittera and Naomi’s Estate business]Thomas W. Smith. Philadelphia, 1821 10/13 [to Owen Jones, mentions that the clergyman who married...
Letters from
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Letter recipients include: Thomas Kittera, James M. Logan, Agnes and Sarah McClenachan, Naomi Morris, Martha Murray, William Thomas, Harriet Watson, Isaac & Elizabeth Wayne.Some highlights include:Thomas Kittera. Wynne Wood, 1828 1/19 [expressing thanks for the court victory: “We view thee our much respected friend as Chief in thy profession among the very Respectable Gentlemen who undertook our cause...”]James M. Logan. Wynne Wood,...
Schoolwork, 1801
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 9
Poetry, sermons and testimony, 1831 - 1870
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Highlights include: Poem by L.H. Sigourney copied for Mary Jones [re Charles Thomson]Note about Joseph John Gurney’s visit to the families of the Friends of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.“Extracted from a private letter from Hamburg,” 1842 7/15 [testimony of a fire in Hamburg, where the Lord stopped the burning of a schoolroom for the poor following a little girl’s prayer]“Sketches of a sermon preached by Benjamin Seebohm at Orchard Street...
Dates:
1831 - 1870
Personal statements, 1846 - 1858
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Highlights include: Statement on Joseph Hoag. 1846 6/10Statement on Jonathan Jones’ life and estate after his death. [“To myself his chosen friend and wife, he confided I do believe every plan of life or business, from the time of our happy marriage until his lamented death, within a little more than two years, left me a widow with my dearly beloved and affectionate little son Owen, a sweet lively interesting child about fourteen months old, both of us deprived by the...
Dates:
1846 - 1858
Last Will and Testament, n.d.
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 12
Abstract
This will divides up furniture and assets amongst Naomi Morris and Owen Jones and their families and children. The lands and tenements are divided between Owen and Naomi and much money is directed to be put in trusts for the grandchildren.“Homeworth” Will, n.d. [This will divides up furniture and assets amongst Naomi Morris and Owen Jones and their families and children. The lands and tenements are divided between Owen and Naomi and much money is directed to be put in trusts for...
Dates:
n.d.
