Box 6

Copies of letters, memoirs, family notes, collected by Eli or William Price? Includes a copy of the memoir of Philip Price (1730), great grandfather of authors? Final entries concern illness and death of Rachel K. Price written by sons Elihu and William. Fading ink.

Philip (1810-1902) was the son of Nathan and Martha Price Sharples. Drafts of letters cover many topics including controversy about a school for black children in West Chester, West Chester Rail Company, admission of [brother-in-law} E. B. Darlington to Pennsylvania Hospital, school funding.

Townsend was related to the Price family. Inside cover signed by A. S. Sharples [Alfred S. Sharple], grandson of Ann P. Jackson. Nicholas Townsend (1790-1818) was birthright in Gunpowder Monthly Meeting, transferred to Birmingham Monthly Meeting in 1816. Daily entries, farm, visits, meetings. Attended Quaker and Methodist meetings, attended singing school

Journal 1798-1803, the reverse contains recipes and cures. Nathan H. Sharples (1779-1838) was the father-in-law of Mary Ann Paschall Sharples. He was a West Chester, Pennsylvania, builder and brickmaker and built Price's Boarding School in West Chester. Nathan married Martha Price in 1804. Their son Philip Price Sharples married Mary Ann Paschal in 1839.

Martha Price Sharples (1785-1852) wife of Nathan Sharples. Copied in 1863 by Ann Sharples Paschall (wife of Stephen Paschall). "Copied for Philip P. and Mary A Sharples By their sister ASP" With family notes following, [Note that sister Hannah had sold West Chester boarding school]

Hannah Sharples (1805-1882) daughter of Nathan and Martha (Price) Sharples, married Edward B. Darlington in 1831. Clippings glued over bound mathematic workbook.

Son-in-law of Ann P. Jackson prior to his marriage to Mary Paschall. Lectures were presented at Old Cabinet.