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Pile family papers

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Call Number:
1366
Repository:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent:
0.33 linear feet (; 1 box (129 items))
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Cite as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Pile family papers (Collection 1366), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Date:
1793-1836 (inclusive)
Creator:
Pile family
Abstract:

Captain Samuel Pile was a prominent Philadelphia merchant and trader, the grandson of Nicholas Pyle (b. 1666) who emigrated from England to Chester County, Pennsylvania. Captain Pile was born on April 26, 1771 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, to Samuel and Elizabeth Pile. He married Rebecca Morgan in 1795; and they had one child. Samuel Pile died on September 25, 1811, and is buried in Old Pine Street Presbyterian Church cemetery, Philadelphia. Pile was also a member of the Grand Lodge (Masons).

The Pile family papers contain correspondence related to shipping and commerce, as well as letters to other members of the Pile family. They include personal news and considerable information on Philadelphia, New York, and New Orleans. Some letters are in Portuguese.

Gift of Annie Pile, 1944.

At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

Annie Pile collection on Samuel Pile (Collection D0087)

Subject

Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by James R. DeWalt, Cary Hutto, and Kaitlyn Pettengill
Finding Aid Date
; 2016.
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Collection Inventory

Physical Description

10 letters

From New Orleans – to mother Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 10 June 1810.
Item 1
From New Orleans – to father Capt. Samuel Pile, Philadelphia, 11 August 1810.
Item 2
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, 164 Swanson St., Philadelphia, 30 Apr 1817.
Item 3
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, no address, 23 August 1817.
Item 4
From Madisonville, West Florida – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 8 October 1817.
Item 5
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, 164 Swanson St., Philadelphia, 13 December 1817.
Item 6
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 25 January 1818.
Item 7
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 5 February 1818.
Item 8
From Philadelphia – to brother Joseph M. Pile, New Orleans, 15 March 1821.
Item 9
To Rebecca Pile, no address, Undated.
Item 10

Physical Description

1 letter

From Philadelphia – to Capt. Samuel Pile, New York, 6 September 1805.
Item 1

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1 document

Port of Philadelphia document, 10 July 1820.
Item 1

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1 letter

From Philadelphia – to Capt. Samuel Pile, the Perseverance, with postscript from “Emma” to “Morgan”, 1 Nov 1810.
Item 1

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1 letter

From Lisbon – to Capt. Samuel Pile, the Perseverance, 5 March 1811.
Item 1

Physical Description

24 letters

From Philadelphia – to future wife Rebecca Morgan, New York, 6 May 1794.
Item 1
From Philadelphia – to Rebecca Morgan, 6 Dover St., New York, 10 May 1794.
Item 2
No address – to Rebecca Morgan, 6 Dover St., New York, Undated.
Item 3
From Hamburg – to wife Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 30 December 1794.
Item 4
From Isle of Wight – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 3 March 1795.
Item 5
From Hamburg – to Rebecca Pile, no address, 7 March 1795.
Item 6
From Altenno (?) – to Rebecca Pile, no address, 23 April 1795.
Item 7
From Hamburg – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 20 June 1795.
Item 8
From Hamburg – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 21 July 1795.
Item 9
From Hamburg – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 29 June 1796.
Item 10
From Lamlash, Scotland – to Rebecca Pile, S. Water St., Philadelphia, 19 July 1797.
Item 11
From Liverpool – to Rebecca Pile, S. Water St., Philadelphia, 18 Aug ust1797.
Item 12
From New York – to Rebecca Pile, S. Water St., Philadelphia, 27 December 1797.
Item 13
From Saint-Domingue, Isle of Hispaniola – to Rebecca Pile, S. Water St., Philadelphia, 12 April 1798.
Item 14
From Saint-Domingue – to Rebecca Pile, S. Water St., Philadelphia, 14 May 1798.
Item 15
From Cape Français – to Rebecca Pile, S. Water St., Philadelphia, 10 July 1798.
Item 16
From Saint-Domingue – to Rebecca Pile, S. Water St., Philadelphia, 15 September 1798.
Item 17
From Hamburg – to Rebecca Pile, 162 Swanson St., Philadelphia, 25 October 1799.
Item 18
From Hamburg – to Rebecca Pile, c/o John Claypoole, Philadelphia, 15 November 1799.
Item 19
From Sandy Hook, NJ – to Rebecca Pile, 162 Swanson St., Philadelphia, 5 January 1801.
Item 20
From Havana – to Rebecca Pile, 162 Swanson St., Philadelphia, 31 May 1801.
Item 21
From Havana – to son Joseph M. Pile, Philadelphia, 6 February 1804.
Item 22
From Dunyston (?) – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 26 April 1805.
Item 23
From Liverpool – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 24 October 1807.
Item 24

Physical Description

13 documents

Manifest of cargo on board the Brig Hunter / Clearance at Martinique, undated.
Item 1
Freight list of the Perseverance, New Orleans to Liverpool,, 20 May 1807.
Item 2
Account of port charges of the Perseverance, Madeira, undated.
Item 3
Charter between Edward Barry and Capt. Samuel Pile of the Perseverance, undated.
Item 4
Estate of Samuel Pile, executrix Rebecca Pile, undated.
Item 5
Account of port charges of the Perseverance, Madeira, 24 December 1810.
Item 6
Clearance papers of the Cato, Jamaica, 1804-1806.
Item 7
Invitation to meeting of the “Society for the Relief of poor and distressed Masters of Ships, their Widows and Children," signed Captain Samuel Pile, 1 July 1811.
Item 8
Account of expenditures for the Perseverance, 1807.
Item 9
Receipt for duties on the cargo, Isle de la Martinique, undated.
Item 10
Ship manifest for the Diana, bound for Hamburg and then Philadelphia, July 1799.
Item 11
Account of disbursements for the Diana, 1796.
Item 12
Various customs and port documents for the Cato, Cuba, 1805.
Item 13

Physical Description

1 letter

No address – to Capt. Samuel Pile, New Orleans, 23 Oct (1803?).
Item 1

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1 document

Receipt for tuition payment for daughter Elizabeth Pile, 29 April 1817.
Item 1

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1 document

Receipt for Gray Reserves annual contribution, 12 September 1861.
Item 1

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2 letters

Philadelphia – to brother Samuel F. Pile, no address, 8 July 1811.
Item 1
From Calcutta – to mother Rebecca Pile, 162 Swanson St., Philadelphia, 29 September 1818.
Item 2

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1 document

Document in French, 3 March 1807.

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1 document

Document in Portuguese, 22 December 1810.
Item 1
Physical Description

18 letters

From New Orleans – to “Sister” (Rebecca Pile?), no address, 17 August 1799.
Item 1
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, 162 S. Water St., Philadelphia, 18 April 1800.
Item 2
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 28 June 1800.
Item 3
From New Orleans – to Capt. Samuel Pile, Philadelphia, 19 June 1802.
Item 4
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 5 August 1803.
Item 5
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Southwark, Philadelphia, 17 February 1804.
Item 6
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 15 August 1804.
Item 7
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Southwark, Philadelphia, 26 August 1805.
Item 8
No address – to Captain Samuel Pile, Ship Perseverance, “in the Mississippi, 8 leagues below Orleans”, 29 January 1807.
Item 9
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 29 January 1807.
Item 10
From New Orleans – to “Brother”, 1 May 1809.
Item 11
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 15 February 1812.
Item 12
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 8 November 1813.
Item 13
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 1 June 1816.
Item 14
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Southwark, Philadelphia, 12 July 1823.
Item 15
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 19 May 1825.
Item 16
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, 119 Pine St., Philadelphia, 7 November 1829.
Item 17
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 8 August 1836.
Item 18

Physical Description

1 letter

No address – to sister Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 6 June 1818.
Item 1

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1 letter

To Captain Thomas Morgan, “on board the Brig”, 17 February 1796.
Item 1

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9 letters

On the Mississippi River – to father Thomas Morgan, McCoulloughs Court, Philadelphia, 3 May 1793.
Item 1
From New York – to sister Rebecca Morgan, care of John Claypoole, 72 S. Front St., Philadelphia, June 1794.
Item 2
From New Orleans – to sister Rebecca Pile, c/o John Claypoole, Philadelphia, 14 March 1795.
Item 3
From Belize – to brother George Morgan, New Orleans, 11 April 1795.
Item 4
On th ship Asia, Calcutta – to George Morgan, New Orleans, 9 January 1797.
Item 5
From Nassau, New Providence – to George Morgan, New Orleans, 13 August 1797.
Item 6
From Nassau, New Providence – to Rebecca Pile, “Water Street near the Swedes Church”, Philadelphia, 14 September 1797.
Item 7
From Nassau, New Providence – to George Morgan, New Orleans, 15 September 1797.
Item 8
From Philadelphia – to Captain Samuel Pile, “of the Ship Diana”, 5 February 1798.
Item 9

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1 letter

From Philadelphia – to son George Morgan, New Orleans, 9 December 1795.
Item 1

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1 letter

From Towamencin – to “Brother”, 5 June 1795.
Item 1

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12 letters

From New Orleans – to sister Rebecca Morgan, Philadelphia, 4 March 1794.
Item 1
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Morgan, Philadelphia, March 1794.
Item 2
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Morgan, Philadelphia, 29 September 1794.
Item 3
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Morgan, no address, 20 October 1794.
Item 4
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Morgan, 72 S. Front St., Philadelphia, 25 November 1794.
Item 5
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 31 March 1795.
Item 6
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, care of John Claypoole, 72 S. Front St., Philadelphia, 17 May 1795,.
Item 7
From New Orleans – to brother Captain Thomas Morgan, Philadelphia, 18 May 1795.
Item 8
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile, no address, 20 May 1796.
Item 9
From New Orleans – to Thomas Morgan, Jr., 23 May 1796.
Item 10
From New Orleans – to Thomas Morgan, Jr., care of Rebecca Pile “near Swedes Church”, Philadelphia, 25 May 1796.
Item 11
From New Orleans – to Rebecca Pile “near the Swedes Church”, Philadelphia, 14 January 1798.
Item 12
Miscellaneous. 4 items.
Box 1 Folder 20
Physical Description

4 items

Physical Description

1 item

Invitation to funeral, 27 December 1824.
Item 1

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1 letter

From Halifax, Nova Scotia – to Captain Samuel Pile, no address, 14 February 1807.
Item 1

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1 letter

From Liverpool – to Captain Samuel Pile, Philadelphia, 21 September 1811.
Item 1

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3 letters

From Charleston – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 29 March 1805.
Item 1
From New York – to “Cousin”, Swanson Street, Philadelphia, 14 October 1807.
Item 2
From River Mississippi – to Captain Samuel Pile, Swanson Street, Philadelphia, 24 Decemeber 1808.
Item 3

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5 letters

From Frankford – to Captain Samuel Pile, New Orleans, 30 March 1807.
Item 1
From Frankford – to Captain Samuel Pile, Ship Perseverance, New Orleans, 25 February 1808.
Item 2
From Philadelphia – to Captain Samuel Pile, Ship Perseverance, Havana, 31 March 1811.
Item 3
From Philadelphia – to Capt. Samuel Pile, New Orleans, 8 October 1811.
Item 4
From Cape Henlopen – to Rebecca Pile, Swanson below Queen St., Philadelphia, 28 July 1817.
Item 5

Physical Description

2 items

Receipt from Samuel Pile, 6 January 1801.
Item 1
Letter to Samuel Pile, Havana, undated.
Item 2

Physical Description

2 letters

From Philadelphia – to Captain Samuel Pile, Ship Perseverance, Havana, 3 March 1811.
Item 1
From Philadelphia – to Dr. Samuel F. Earl, 21 October 1815.
Item 2

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4 letters

From New York – to Rebecca Morgan, care of John Claypoole, Philadelphia, 19 August 1794.
Item 1
From New York – to Rebecca Morgan, no address, 7 September 1794.
Item 2
To Rebecca Morgan, Philadelphia, undated.
Item 3
From New York – to Rebecca Pile, Philadelphia, 31 March 1796.
Item 4

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1 letter

From Philadelphia – to George Morgan, New Orleans, 20 June 1795.
Item 1

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1 letter

From Philadelphia – to George Morgan, New Orleans, 27 April 1797.
Item 1

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1 item

Ship orders, 29 June 1799.
Item 1

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