Box 1
Container
Contains 25 Results:
Benjamin Lay (1677-1759); A Philadelphia Inquirer article discussing Lay, a Quaker abolitionist, 4/1/1901
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
The article discussed a map, drawn by Catharine Morris Wright (1899-1988), that showed where on the old Wharton estate, Lay's cave was thought to have been located. Also included is a News Bulletin of The Germantown Historical Society about Lay, 1945. Part of a spoon, labelled "Spoon found at the cave formerly inhabited by Benjamin Lay, near Branchtown, Philada" has been removed to Relics Collection, FHL, # 948.
Dates:
4/1/1901
(formerly enslaved person) James Freeman, Lewes, to Mr. Joshua Fisher, Philadelphia, thanking Fisher for purchasing his freedom., 29 August 1776
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Dates:
29 August 1776
Charles Wharton (1743-1838), 1767-1794
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Samuel Rowland Fisher (1745-1834), 1764-1844
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Jabez Maud Fisher (1750-1779), 1773
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Thomas Gilpin (1776-1853), Bound MS draft, in Gilpin's hand, of his Exiles in Virginia
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
With MS letters between him and Deborah Fisher Wharton, 1847, explaining how the manuscript was compiled. There are various original MS letters inserted in the text (now detached), including those of Thomas Gilpin Sr., Miers Fisher, Samuel R. Fisher, other members of the Exile group, and Patrick Henry.
Thomas Fisher (1801-1856), 1830-1851
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Rodman Wharton (1820-1854), 1848, n.d.
Sub-Series — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Receipt for contribution to the Poor of Philadelphia MS signature of Henry Drinker., 5 October 1767.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Dates:
5 October 1767.
