Bye Family Papers
Scope and Contents
Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. The collection includes correspondence, business records, photographs, and memorabilia of E. Mortimer and Pusey Passmore Bye, Thomas Jenkinson, Thomas H. Speakman, and Nathaniel Smith. Also includes accounts of Phebe Thomas who died at the age of 104 in Chester County (Pa.) and had witnessed the Battle of Brandywine as a child.
Dates
- Creation: 1685-1931
Creator
- Bye family (Family)
- Thomas, Phebe, 1770-1875 (Contributor, Person)
- Bye, E. Mortimer (Enoch Mortimer), 1818-1894 (Contributor, Person)
- Jenkinson, Thomas, 1794-1890 (Contributor, Person)
- Speakman, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1820-1904 (Contributor, Person)
- Smith, Nathaniel, b. 1755 (Contributor, Person)
- Bye, Pusey P. (Pusey Passmore), 1846-1931 (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. E. Mortimer Bye, son of Amos and Deborah Paxson Bye of East Nottingham, was born in 1818. He married Phebe Pusey, daughter of Andrew Moore and Judith Wilson Passmore in 1843. E. Mortimer was a schoolteacher and mineralogist who made money in quarrying and in mining chrome. His eldest son, Pusey Passmore Bye, was born in 1846, and married Caroline, daughter of Thomas Harlan and Anna Jenkinson Speakman of Philadelphia in 1872.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. The collection includes correspondence, business records, photographs, and memorabilia of E. Mortimer and Pusey Passmore Bye, Thomas Jenkinson, Thomas H. Speakman, and Nathaniel Smith. Also includes accounts of Phebe Thomas who died at the age of 104 in Chester County (Pa.) and had witnessed the Battle of Brandywine as a child.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into six series:
- Bye family
- Jenkinson family
- Speakman family
- Passmore family
- Smith family
- Miscellaneous papers
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: M. Harlan Bye, 1986
Processing Information
Materials were received already removed from albums and sorted by family names.
Subject
- Passmore family (Family)
- Speakman family (Family)
- Jenkinson family (Family)
- Bye family (Family)
- Smith family (Family)
- Title
- An Inventory of the Bye Family Papers, 1685-1931
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1986
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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