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Box 16

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

George, John M. (1802-1887) Exercise books, 1814-1816

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: 225
Scope and Contents

3 books, used at Burlington School. Penmanship, surveying, geometry.

Dates: 1814-1816

George, Sophia M. (1813-1881) Album, 1832-1845.

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_f8899653e44ba1e37935bf18e6a5afa9
Scope and Contents

Autograph book with verse, signers' names annotated. Note enclosed signed A. D. Sharples, 1907, provides information about Sophia, youngest sister of John M. George, and Price's Boarding School in West Chester, Pa.

Dates: 1832-1845.

George family, Mems George family, c. 1

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_9e559a6420f3d7064e0bfbac78522e7c
Scope and Contents

2 ms copies in bound volumes, genealogical information on the George, Malin, and related families. Copies in two different handwritings.

George family. A. D. [Alfred D.] Sharpless, "Our Ancestors and their Descendants.", 1901

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_d1382cd7fe20b968bebc444d30ad04f5
Scope and Contents Ms copy by Katherine B. Harris. Also two typed copies (carbons) made for William P. Bancroft, 1902, from manuscript book loaned to him by Sharples. Includes brief history of the family and related lines, copy of the Will of John M. George, inventory of the estate, and early history of the establishment of the George School. Also, a letter to A.D. Sharples, 1907, concerning a peg listed in the George estate which tradition said was the same on which William Penn hung his hat when he visited...
Dates: 1901

George family. A. D. [Alfred D.] Sharpless, "George School", 1901

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_a1d38cbc9cc7e7e1ec57afb44ece4dc3
Scope and Contents

History of how the School came to be established with a compilation of family histories

Dates: 1901

George family. A. D. [Alfred D.] Sharpless correspondence, 1901-1907

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_cbdcdbeecf233d2c1fadec22cacd3f15
Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning remaining items from estate, genealogical work by Joseph George. Alfred D. Sharples was an early member of the George School Committee.

Dates: 1901-1907

George family. Notes and related genealogical work by Alfred D. Sharples, 1901-1907

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_4734c50035cacd3c2ea5b01627e9e90a
Scope and Contents

Family trees for Malin and George descendants living at time of John M. George's death. Sharples notes that John M. George was the last survivor of his grandparents John Malin and Sophia Dilworth and had no first cousins on his Malin side at the time of his death.

Dates: 1901-1907

George family and the Homestead Farm at Overbrook., n.d.

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_7135a77839af2dca1de262c92b6b3d4e
Scope and Contents

TD by Katherine B. Harris, based on information provided by Miss Weakley who lived in the house 1888 to 1893.

Dates: n.d.

George family and the Homestead Farm at Overbrook., 1936

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_1ec02ec2d7b3e506b4be52d5d12b613c
Scope and Contents

As told by a man, Mr. Cretty (?), who lived at the farm in 1868-1869. Also brief biography of John M. George, photostat of his Will, plan of John M. George birthplace.

Dates: 1936

George family homestead, 1958-1959

 Sub-Series — Box: 16, Folder: data_value_missing_0a9a08166ff5ff32a0458672ef6c65e1
Scope and Contents

Notes, correspondence, and research on the homestead by George M. Hart. Short article published in Friends Journal, Jan. 17, 1959. Also photographs of the house (2) taken 1932 by Robert Brown and a negative of the house taken 1951 by Tyler Fogg at the rquest of Mary Patterson.

Dates: 1958-1959