Manuscripts

Genealogical data re: Claypool, Griscom, Ross, and Wilson families

Description: Included are William Canby's first pencilled notes to his mother and aunts, and notes of his interview with Margaret Boggs, and his mother Jane. The rest is typescript fragments and newspaper clippings.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1758-1975.
Call number: mssHM 41760 (1-39)
Creator: Canby, William J(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: There is also correspondence relating to George Canby and his research, and genealogical data on Canby, Ross, and Claypoole families.
Provenance: Gift of Marion Balderston, 1974-1975.

Miscellaneous copies of letters and documents re: Betsy Ross

Manuscripts

Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents relating to William J. Canby's speech in the Pennsylvania Historical Society, including a copy of the presentation and sworn affidavits from Margaret Boggs, Rachel Fletcher, Sophia B. Hildebrandt, Susan Satterthwaite Newport, Susanna McCord Turner and Margared McCord Smith; William J. Canby's "My own recollections of Grandmother Elizabeth Claypoole," and the pencil notes to his mother and aunts.

mssHM 41760 (1-39)

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