Manuscripts

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson

Description: Annotations in another hand.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1784, Apr. 2
Call number: HM 36851
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.

Morris, Deborah. 1 letter to Joseph Galloway, 1731-1803

Manuscripts

Annotations in the hand of William S. Metford.

HM 36871

Image not available

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson

Manuscripts

Enclosure: Suppositious estimate (1770, June 7, HM 36854).

HM 36849

Image not available

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson. Annotations in another hand

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 36850

Image not available

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. Accounts of transactions between Thomas Nickelson and Joseph Gallowayâ€¦

Manuscripts

HM 36853

Image not available

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson. Annotations in the hand of William S. Metford

Manuscripts

HM 36848

Image not available

Metford, William S. Note regarding the Thomas Nickelson and Joseph Galloway, 1731-1803 properties in Pennsylvania

Manuscripts

Also: two related pieces.

HM 36870

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Morris, Deborah. 1 letter to Joseph Galloway, 1731-1803

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson. Annotations in another hand

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. Accounts of transactions between Thomas Nickelson and Joseph Gallowayâ€¦

Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803. 1 letter to Thomas Nickelson. Annotations in the hand of William S. Metford

Metford, William S. Note regarding the Thomas Nickelson and Joseph Galloway, 1731-1803 properties in Pennsylvania