Stout-Alston Family Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection of paper contains the personal and business correspondence, business and legal papers of Quaker merchants and civil servants in Delaware, Philadelphia, and Maryland. The papers are chiefly of Jacob Stout (1774-1855), of Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware, who served as Governor of Delaware and Judge of Court of Appeals, and Jonathan Alston of Leipsic, Delaware.
Dates
- Creation: 1750-1905 (bulk, 1750-1830)
Creator
- Stout, Jacob, 1774-1855 (Contributor, Person)
- Alston, Jonathan (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
The Stout and Alston families were Quaker merchants and civil servants, primarily of Delaware.
Extent
4.5 linear ft. (9 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Stout and Alston families were Quaker merchant families of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and Maryland. This collection of paper contains the personal and business correspondence, business and legal papers of Quaker merchants in Delaware, Philadelphia, and Maryland. The papers are chiefly of Jacob Stout (1774-1855), of Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware, who served as Governor of Delaware and Judge of Court of Appeals, and Jonathan Alston of Leipsic, Delaware.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into six series:
- Biographical material
- Correspondence
- Miscellaneous manuscripts
- Business papers
- Legal papers
- Political correspondence
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Purchase, 1927
The collection was purchased in 1927 from NYC collector/dealer Walter Benjamin, who had purchased ca. 1927 “a trunkful of Delaware and Phila. Quaker correspondence.”
- Title
- An Inventory of the Stout-Alston Family Papers, ca. 1750-1905 (bulk, 1750-1830)
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- Before 1967
- 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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