Manuscripts

Thompson, John, 1744-1819, and Shoemaker, Edward. 1 letter to John Jeffery

Description: Following the above: letter from Thompson and Shoemaker to Ellis Button Metford.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1794, Nov. 29
Call number: HM 36882
Creator: Galloway, Joseph (1731-1803)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Also included are copies of newspaper publications regarding the trial of Abraham Carlisle and John Roberts convicted of treason in 1779, a note about "a party of Rebel Troops" raiding Joseph Galloway's house in 1779, and a newspaper clipping related to Sir William Howe's attack on Joseph Galloway (1780, Nov. 11).

Metford, Ellis Button. 1 letter to John Thompson, 1744-1819

Manuscripts

Following the above: draft of letter from Metford to Thompson, 1819, Mar. 30.

HM 36862

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James, Able, -1790, and Thompson, John, 1744-1819. 1 letter to John Jeffery and Ellis Button Metford

Manuscripts

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, legal instruments, plans, surveys, appraisals, accounts and other documents related to the Growden legacy; including the shares in Durham Iron Works, the properties in Durham, Bensalem, and Richland Townships, an upper lot of the Delaware River, and houses in Philadelphia. The materials cover the 1773 partition of the Growden's estates and their fate after Pennsylvania Act of Attainder (1778) and the death of Joseph Galloway. Correspondents include: Joseph Galloway, his brother-in-law Thomas Nickelson and their Philadelphia representatives Abel James and John Thompson; Nickelson's sons-in-law Ellis Button Metford and John Jeffery; Grace Galloway's granddaughter Ann Grace Roberts Burton. John Thompson's grandson John James Thompson (1815-1875), and others.

HM 36859

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Thompson, John, 1744-1819. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson

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HM 36880

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Thompson, John, 1744-1819. Record of the sale and rental of lands owned by Thomas Nickelson and his wife

Manuscripts

HM 36881

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Metford, Ellis Button. 1 letter to ----

Manuscripts

Following the above: draft of letter from Metford to John Thompson, 1744-1819.

HM 36861

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James, Abel, -1790. General Account of Lands sold for account of Thomas Nickelson by Abel James, -1790 and John Thompson, 1744-1819

Manuscripts

HM 36858

Thompson, John, 1744-1819, and Shoemaker, Edward. 1 letter to John Jeffery

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