Knight Family Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains chiefly legal and business papers of Jacob P. Tyson, his wife, Mary B. Michener Tyson, and others. Also contains family correspondence, wills, deeds, estate papers, biographical and genealogical materials, marriage certificates, memorabilia, printed material, and pictures. Includes material relating to the Michener and Warner families.
Dates
- Creation: 1737-1895
Creator
- Knight family (Family)
- Tyson, Jacob P., ca. 1809-1883 (Contributor, Person)
- Tyson, Mary B. Michener, ca. 1814-1889 (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
The Knight family was a Quaker family from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Extent
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Knight family was a Quaker family from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly legal and business papers of Jacob P. Tyson, his wife, Mary B. Michener Tyson, and others. Also contains family correspondence, wills, deeds, estate papers, biographical and genealogical materials, marriage certificates, memorabilia, printed material, and pictures. Includes material relating to the Michener and Warner families.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into six series:
- Biographical and genealogical
- Correspondence, 1829-1895
- Business, financial, and legal papers
- Memorabilia
- Pictures
- Printed reference material.
Physical Location
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Souder, 1965
Processing Information
A gift from Dorothy Cloud Reed, FHL 2012.038, of Gilbert, Knight, James family deeds and marriage certificates were added to FHL Deeds, Marriages to replace photocopies of same donated in 1993. Gift included an 1834 plot plan of lots of Joshua Gilbert, added to RG 5/081.
Subject
- Michener family (Family)
- Tyson family (Family)
- Warner family (Family)
- Knight family (Family)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Montgomery County (Pa.) -- Genealogy
- Montgomery County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources
- Pennsylvania -- Genealogy
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources
Topical
- Title
- An Inventory of the Knight Family Papers, 1737-1895
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1965
- 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
Revision Statements
- 2024: This finding aid was reviewed in order to change or contextualize any outdated, harmful terminology related to Indigenous Peoples, except where it appears in a title, quotation, or subject heading.
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