Manuscripts

General Account of the Durham Township Lands

Description: Also: copy.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [Approximately 1773]
Call number: HM 36889 (a & b)
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).
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's, Nov. 20, 1972.
Associated people: Abel, James, (-1790.); Collier, Ann, (active 1779-1782.)

De Normandie, John. Survey of Durham Township Land

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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 36887

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Chapman, Thomas and Chapman, Benjamin. A Valuation of the Durham Township Lands

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HM 36839

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De Normandie, John. Survey of Land in Hilltown Township. Also: draft of same

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HM 36841 (a & b)

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Survey of Land in Falls Township and of Goat Island adjoining the Delaware River. Also: second survey of same

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HM 36894 (a & b)

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Rowlandson, R-----. Answers to questions about the bequest of land from Lawrence Growden and Joseph Growden to Lawrence Growden

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Annotations in other hands. Also a second questionnaire regarding the same land.

HM 36879 (a & b)

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Survey of land in Bensalem Township

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HM 36893

General Account of the Durham Township Lands

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