Weather Observations, 1786, 1mo 8-8mo31

"Observations made by HM and MM at West Bradford. . . . " Weather and plant notes identified by the Tyler Library as belonging to early American botanist Humphry Marshall (1722-1801) of West Bradford. Humphry Marshall married Sarah Pennock in 1748. She died in July 1786, and two years later, he married Margaret Minshall (1741-1823), a sister of Jacob Minshall. Her first cousins, Jane Longstreth and Sarah Starr, lived in Bradford, as did members of the Painter family.