Box 8

Manuscript. Removed from frame.

Eleven week tour which sailed from Philadelphia on the steamship Merion. The album contains clipped commercial photo with some annotation. Sharpless was President of the Chester County Trust Company.

Commercial album with handwritten poems about death and grieving

Essays on various topics. Williamsport Academy (1812-1848) was founded in 1848 and became the Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (1848-1928), and later Williamsport Dickinson Seminary and Junior College (1928-1947). Later essays written at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. A Dickinson College program dated 1865 is inserted loose in volume.

Author left from West Chester, Pennsylvania. Camping and visiting sites. Author unknown

Bound manuscript volume of genealogy compiled by John Pearson, born 1740, son of Thomas Pearson and Hannah Blunston Pearson. He was a cousin of Ann P. Jackson's father.

Bill of sale, Betty to Thomas Paschall, Jr. Thomas Paschall, son of Thomas Paschall the Penn Purchaser and Joanna Sloper. Born circa 1668, he married Margaret Jenkins in 1692 and died in 1743. He was a farmer, member of Darby Monthly Meeting. The manuscript was found loose in a 19th century account book.

Signed autograph letter from Stephen Paschall to "Dear Sister," Fanny Fisher, notifying her of death of Lydia Hollingsworth in sleigh accident on Darby Creek, Pennsylvania.

Document, Hannah Fox assigning William Sharples as power of attorney