Box 5

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Includes a letter dated 6 month, 18,1826,from Nathaniel to his father concerning Joseph Richardson's planned retirement from the Mint. Nathaniel offered his services to keep the position in the family unless his brother John was a better choice. Typed transcript of letter from Joseph to son dated 11month 2, 1826, no original. [Joseph Richardson died in 1831, and son John Richardson was appointed Assayer of the Mint in 1831 to succeed.]

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In his letter of 7 month 11 to John Comly, Nathaniel Richardson strongly supported Comly's views. A letter of 11 month from his brother John expressed dismay on Nathaniel's position, appealed to him to think of his mother.

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Primarily family concerns and advice from Joseph Richardson to his son concerning finances. He also disagreed with the position that Nathaniel had taken in the theological debate in the Society of Friends. Byberry Monthly Meeting affiliated with the Hicksites. His parents sided with the Orthodoz.

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Nathaniel and his father reflects the tension when Hannah Y. Richardson intended to attend the yearly meeting at Cherry Street and not to stay at the Richardson home in Philadelphia. A letter from Rebecca Yarnall, Columbia, to Hannah remarks that the Byberry family seems to be getting quite "gay," per description of a wedding, and she wonders what Grandfather Thornton would think of his descendants. Nathaniel described his visit to Mauch Chunk in a letter to his...

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Includes reference to the final illness of Joseph Richardson

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References to the cholera epidemic in Philadelphia

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Includes letters from their daughter Rebecca who is in school in Philadelphia

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Letters between Nathanial and Hannah Richardson as well as from their children

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Family news from daughters Rebecca and Mary (married Thomas Husband in 1836). Letter from Josiah Roberts concerning a tract of pine swamp which had been in the Will of Hannah Haines Thornton Yarnall and her father.

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Letter from Nathaniel to William Wright and copy of letter to William Wright concerning a tract of land for sale; acceptance for daughter Hannah to attend Kimberton School written on School announcement; Thomas Husband's letter comments on Jesse Kersey's sermon to a large meeting.