Box 16

Wilmington Monthly Meetin. Certificate is damaged. Folded and stored with collection.

William Zane's parents approval of his marriage to Ann Bennett, addressed to Wilmington Monthly Meeting

Illustrated children's book (incomplete), "Edith Harlan 6 mo 10th, 1812" on title page. Also cover from a later addition and ms copy of missing first sections

Copy of 1737 marriage certificate made by Caleb Peirce in 1814 and confirmed by grandchildren Benjamin Ferris and Deborah Bringhurst

Anna Ferris (1811-1814) died suddenly of the croup before her third birthday, the third consecutive child that the Ferrises lost before the age of three. Includes a silhouette, memorial poem and drawings. A second Anna was born in 1815 and died in 1890.

Includes sketch of old meeting house, Wilmington, 1817

Family milestones (children's height, weight, walking, talking) written in loose pages of a published book, 1810; children and grandchildren

Miniature book of drawings and tales, incomplete. Presumably by B. Ferris for his daughter, Deborah, born 1813

Ferris's notation on the cover that was a gift from the author, William McIlvaine