Box 4

Scope and Contents Most letters are from his father and also siblings. Nathaniel was farming at Joseph Smedley's property, Willistown, Chester County. Joseph Richardson purchased the Lukens farm about a mile from the Horsham meeting house and gave Nathaniel advice about setting up a household and farm. He was impressed with reports about the Asylum in York, England, and wrote that a property has been purchased near Frankford to establish a similar institution - the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived...

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Most are from his father and one from his mother expressing approval for his marriage. Nathaniel and Hannah Yarnall were married 10 month 16, 1816, and settled in Horsham. A letter sent to Charles Farmer, Horsham, asked him to notify Nathaniel of funeral of a close relation Martha Thomas.

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Sister Mary Elliott offered sympathy for the loss of his animals, his mother supplied a treatment for boils. Joseph Richardson in letter 7 mo, 21, 1818, noted that [?] Griscom was in London to attend yearly meeting and the Emlens were returning to the U.S. Letter from Jane Johnson, Philadelphia, requested that Nathaniel and Hannah find a position for Hannah Walter in their household or vicinity.

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The family moved to the Hannah Thornton Yarnall's farm in 1819. An undated letter from Joseph Richardson presented the arguments for and against moving from the improved farm at Horsham to the farm that had been rented in Byberry and wss to be bequeathed to Nathaniel by Hannah T. Yarnall, his mother-in-law, in her Will. Another letter mentioned William and Debby Wright who were visiting together with sister Rebecca Yarnall.

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Includes a tender letter of sympathy from Ruth Richardson to Hannah on sudden death of her infant son. A letter from Elizabeth Richardson dated 1820, 3 month 21, mentions that Quaker minister Charles Osborne attended the previous First Day afternoon meeting to which "gay members" were invited, but he did not speak nor did other ministers.

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Letter of 3 month 19 in response to his father's apparent involvement in his business affairs, offering more advice. Joseph mentioned Lucretia Mott and that Benjamin Kite has opened employment office for unemployed men and women, old and young, domestic and immigrant. Ruth wrote family and Quaker meeting updates.

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From his father and sister (Mary Elliott?). M[ary Elliott] to sister, 1825, with advice on child raising.

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Mostly to mother and brother