John Alston Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains his journals (1837 (?)-1847 and n.d.), account books and business papers (1821-1874), and essays by Nathan Lord on slavery and salvation (1797).
Dates
- Creation: 1797-1874
Creator
- Alston, John, 1794-1874 (Person)
- Lord, Nathan, 1792-1870 (Contributor, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
John Alston (1794-1874) was a Quaker farmer who lived in Middletown, Delaware.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
John Alston (1794-1874) was a Quaker farmer who lived in Middletown, Delaware. This collection contains his journals (1837 (?)-1847 and n.d.), account books and business papers (1821-1874), and essays by Nathan Lord on slavery and salvation (1797).
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series:
- Account books
- Journals
- Financial records
- Miscellaneous
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: John Cowgill Alston, Sr., 1948
- Title
- An Inventory of the John Alston Papers, 1797-1874
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1948
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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