Box 1

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Account of his travel from Philadelphia to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.

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The Jackson Glass Works, Camden County, were established by Thomas Richards (d. 1860) in 1827. Instructions for cow and an expression of sympathy for her endurance with mosquitoes. Manuscript letter is separated on fold lines

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Wife of Walter Newbold who resigned from the Society of Friends at the time of their marriage in 1860. She was the daughter Thomas and Anna Bartram Richards; her mother was a descendent of John Bartram of Darby, Pennsylvania.

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Carte de visite of Sarah Ann Lippincott who married Benjamin W. Richards in 1821. Deed for a tomb in Laurel Hill Cemetery dated 1865 for Thomas Richards

Scope and Contents Letters concerning the estate of her husband, Samuel Mickle Fox, most addressed to her brother-in-law Joseph P. Norris, who was an executor for the estate. She expressed need and thanks for financial aid. Sarah M. Pleasants (1767-1825), daughter of Samuel and Mary (Pemberton) Pleasants married Samuel Fox in 1788. At his death in 1808, he left his widow with 11 minor children, the eldest Joseph was born 1789 and the youngest a year old. Also sorrowful letters concerning death of her...

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Letters between the children of Samuel Mickle and Sarah Pleasants Fox: Sarah (Salley), Caroline, and Eliza to Emmeline (Emmy), Louisa, and brother. Sent from Philadelphia to siblings at Forburgh with family news. Letter from Eliza (Elizabeth)to brother mentions death of their sister, Caroline, who died in 1859. The letters mention members of the Pleasants, Drinker, Tunis, Norris, and other family and friends.

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From nephew Samuel M. Fox and others to George Fox, M.D.

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nquiries concerning Mickle family history. Also family photographs, not labeled except family group of Elizabeth Richards Fox with young children Samuel, Jr., and Elizabeth Fox, later Forbes.

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A childhood letter

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Travel letters from Sarah Fox Norris (1863-1952, daughter of George Fox and Sarah Valentine Fox and wife of George W. Norris, from Gypsy Hill, Pennsylvania, and travel in Egypt, Rome, and France