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Jane W. T. Brey Collection of Family Findings

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.018
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.21 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Jane W. T. Brey Collection of Family Findings, RG5/018, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1682-1894 (inclusive)
Creator:
Brey, Jane W. T. (Jane Watson Taylor), 1895-1982
Form:
genealogies (histories)
Abstract:
Jane W. T. Brey (Jane Watson Taylor Brey, 1895-1982) was a genealogist. This collection chiefly contains photoprints of deeds, wills, marriage certificates and genealogical charts and pictures, relating to the Taylor, Wildman, and Watson families, Quakers of Bucks County, Pa.

Jane W. T. Brey (Jane Watson Taylor Brey, 1895-1982) was a genealogist.

This collection chiefly contains photoprints of deeds, wills, marriage certificates and genealogical charts and pictures, relating to the Taylor, Wildman, and Watson families, Quakers of Bucks County, Pa.

The collection is divided into five series:

  1. Deeds, indentures, land surveys, and mortgages
  2. Maps
  3. Marriage certificates and licenses (Quaker)
  4. Miscellaneous
  5. Wills

Donor: Jane W. T. Brey, 1969; 1972; 1980

Sorted into categories and arranged chronologically, placed in separate oversize.

People
Subject
Place

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1969
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Arranged chronologically.

Indenture for land in Pennsylvania, William Penn to Thomas Croasdale, quit-rent of "one pepper-corn per year to the proprietor", April 21st, 1682.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Wm. Penn and Tm. Croasdale. "34th yr. of reign of Charles II."

Physical Description

vellum with red seal

Indenture for land in Middletown, Bucks, John Wildman of Bucks Co. and his wife, Mara, formerly wife of John Croasdale, to [Thomas Croasdale, son of John Croasdale], August 7, 1728.
Scope and Contents

Signed by John Wildman and Mara Wildman, Ruth Croasdale, Joseph and Agnes Warner. See Indenture between Christian Wirtz and Mary, his wife, and Joseph Taylor.

Physical Description

vellum with 3 red seals

Document dated "5th year of our reign" George II concerning debt of Thomas Croasdale to John Beakes estate administered by Thomas Howard and James Hamilton., [1732] March 17th.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed Jer. Langhorne. Witnessed by Is. Penington, Sheriff.

Physical Description

Paper with one red seal.

Inquisition: law suit before Isaac Penington against Thomas Croasdale, June 9, 1732.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Document signed by Joseph Wildman, Benjamin Field, Euclydus Longshore, Tho. Parker [and others. On back of document Howard & Hamilton vs. Thomas Croasdale

Physical Description

13 papers with red seals

Document dated "6th year of our reign George II" concerning debt of Thomas Croasdale to John Beakes [estate] administered by Thomas Howard and James Hamilton., [1732] Dec. 16.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed Jer. Langhorne. Witnessed by Is. Penington, Sheriff.

Physical Description

Paper with Bucks seal.

Document dated "7th year of our reign" George II concerning debt of Thomas Croasdale to John Beakes [estate], and sale of land to satisfy debt administered by Thomas Howard and James Hamilton., [1733], June 16.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Jer. Langhorne. Witnessed by Is. Penington Sheriff.

Physical Description

papers w/Bucks seal

Deed poll dated "7th year of the reign of our sovereign George II," concerning debt of Thomas Croasdale to John Beakes [estate]. Sale of 250 acres of land in Middletown, Bucks Co., to Thomas Watson., Sept. 20, 1733.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Is. Penington, Sher., Jer. Langhorne, witnessed by Thos. Watson, Joseph Pease, and Nathan Watson. Acknowledged March 14, 1733 [1734?]

Physical Description

Double folio vellum; vellum with seals

List of references for deeds, 1682-1733.
Box 1
Physical Description

4" x 8"

Note on release Wm. Croasdale to John Croasdale and on Sherif deed, 1697.
Box 1
Physical Description

2" x 8"

Note on release, Bucks Co., recorded in Deed Book No. 71, p. 580.
Box 1
Doylestown, signed re: Stonebacke, Nov. 15, 1844.
Box 1
Physical Description

3 1/2" x 8"

Deed poll concerning debt of Ursula Wood, Executrix, estate of Abraham Wood, dec'd., to William Biles, [sale of land 178 acres to Isaiah Vansandt to satisfy debt]., June 12, 1735.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Tim Smith, Sheriff, Jer. Langhorne, witnessed by Wm. Fry, Jn Ross, [and another] 1736/7. Acknowledged March 18, 1736.

Physical Description

vellum with seals

Small Survey of Joseph Richardsons land signed by Benjamin Field. (Beside Joseph Wildman's land... With figuring on the edge of the sheet and marked Plantation Survey, 1740.
Box 1
Physical Description

paper

Sheriff's deed concerning debt of John Cawley to Lawrence Growdon and Langhorne Biles. Sale of 27 acres of land in Middletown, Bucks Co. to John Watson., dated June 16, 1?57.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Benjamin Chapman, esq. Sheriff. Witnessed by Law. Growdon. Sealed and delivered by Benj. Price, Wm. Ashburn.

Physical Description

Vellum with seal of County of Bucks.

Indenture between Cornelius Vansant and Christian Wertz., April 14, 1794.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Cornelius Vansant and Anne Vansant. Witnessed by Is. Hicks and Wynkoop. See bond on Joseph John Watson.

Physical Description

vellum with seals

Indenture between John and Lydia Watson, and Joseph Richardson., 1812 6mo 1.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by John and Lydia Watson. Witnessed by Is. Hicks and Wm. Watson.

Physical Description

vellum with seals

Indenture between Thomas and Elizabeth Atherton, and John Watson., March 30, 1835.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Thomas Atherton, and Elizabeth B. Atherton. Witnessed by Henry Atherton and Hannah G. Burton.

Physical Description

Vellum with yellow Bucks Co. seal (clipped).

Indenture dated March 25, 1835, between Clayton N. Richardson and Susan, his wife, and John Watson.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Clayton N. Richardson and Susan B. Richardson. Witnessed by Mordecai Y. Bryant, Rebecca Richardson, and Preston C. Firth.

Physical Description

Vellum with yellow Bucks Co. seal.

Indenture between William B. Watson and Harriet, his wife, John Watson, Isaiah P. Watson and Rachel Watson, children of John Watson, dec'd. and Joseph Watson, another child of John Watson., dated Sept. 1, 1844.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Written in blue ink on folio size paper with signatures of the children and state seals.

Indenture between Thomas J. Megear and Oliver B. Moss. Signed by both., dated April 18, 1863.
Box 1
Physical Description

stamp and small green seal, vellum

Indenture between Thomas J. Megear and John Wildman. Bucks County, April 19, ?.
Box 1
Physical Description

typescript

Deed Poll for lands, buildings improvements 49 3/4 acres, value $1700. Alexander Harnahan to John Wildman., Dec. 12, 1876.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed Joshua D. K. Reinhart, Sheriff. Witnessed by W. E. Schoch and M. V. B. Vanartsdalen.

Physical Description

paper with orange seal

Architect's plan of Joseph Watson's property showing Wildman's Tract, etc., latest date 1894.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Identical blueprint copy of above.

Physical Description

6 docs in one folder

Satisfied mortgage paper for 151 60/160 acres of land in Middletown, between Moses Winder and Gove Mitchell, dated April 1, 1856.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Recorded Apr. 2, 1856. Turned over to Joseph John Watson April 1, 1887 by Pierson Mitchell.

Physical Description

paper

Mortgage between Joseph John Watson and John Wildman, 1873 9mo 17.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Sealed and delivered, witnessed by Wm. Martindell and George Warner, Jr. Paper recorded Sept. 19, 1873

Bond on Joseph John Watson, his promise to pay $6,300 to John Wildman by April 1, 1874, 1873 9mo 17.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Witnessed by Wm. Martindell and George Warner.

Physical Description

paper

Bond on Joseph John Watson, his promise to pay $4,880 to John Wildman by April 1, 1894, April 1, 1893.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Witnessed by Stephen B. Twining and George Warner.

Physical Description

paper

Indenture between Christian Wirtz and Mary, his wife, and Joseph Taylor., April 1, 1796.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by Christian Wirtz and Maria H. Wirtz. Witnessed by Jn.(?) Hicks and Peter Vangant.

Physical Description

vellum w/seals

Indenture dated "2nd year of the reign of George II" between John Cawley and Abraham Wood, April 10, 1729.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Sealed, witnessed by James C. Holmes and Jeremiah Langhorne.

Physical Description

vellum

Scope and Contents

Arranged chronologically.

Walthamstow map (photostat) and related information, 1699.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Attached are Hearth tax list, 3 sheets, Hatley letters of 1957 about the map, and 2 sheets of notes on the map.

Physical Description

positive photostat

Middletown Township, Resurvey by John Cutler (photostat), ca. 1700.
Box 1
Physical Description

negative photostat

Falls Township map by Thomas Hughes (photostat), 1858.
Box 1
Physical Description

positive photostat

Middletown Township by Michael Hughes (photostat), 1858.
Box 1
Physical Description

negative photostat

Pilgrimages to...shrines of Philadelphia, 1926.
Box 1

Timothy Taylor and Laetitia Kirkbridge at Falls Meeting, 12/27/1752.
Box 1
John Watson and Lydia Blakey at Middletown Meeting., 12/7/1799.
Box 1
Thomas Thomson and Jane Jarrett at Horsham Meeting, 5/17/1799.
Box 1
Physical Description

negative photostat

Joseph Taylor, Junr. and Anna Betts at Buckingham Meeting, 10/22/1823.
Box 1
Physical Description

vellum

John Wildman, Jr. and Abigail Thomson at Abington Meeting, 4/15/1841.
Box 1
Physical Description

vellum

Franklin Taylor and Elizabeth C. Swartzlander at home of Swartzlanders at Attleborough, 1/3/1868.
Box 1
Physical Description

vellum

Joseph F. Watson and Jane T. Wildman at home of John Wildman at Middletown, 6/10/1868.
Box 1
Physical Description

vellum

Joseph T. Taylor and Abigail T. Watson at home of Joseph John Watson at Middletown, 10/10/1894.
Box 1
Charles W. Hancock and Susan G. Watson at residence of Susan Watson, Langhorne, 10/18/1906.
Box 1
Physical Description

vellum

Joseph T. Taylor and Bertha S. Kline at home of Daniel Beans Newtown, 6/16/1915.
Box 1
Physical Description

vellum

R. Newton Brey and Jane Watson Taylor at home of Joseph T. Taylor, Langhorne, 4/27/1918.
Box 1
Physical Description

paper

Certificate of marriage (blank). London.
Box 1
Physical Description

paper

Joseph Taylor and Mercy Knowles at Upper Makefield Meeting, 12/11/1777.
Box 1
Physical Description

vellum

Joseph Watson, Jr. and Elizabeth Gillam, 1834.
Box 1
Abraham Swartzlander and Rebecca Rankin, 1835.
Box 1
Joseph T. Taylor and Abigail T. Watson, 1894.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

With original certificate of marriage

Physical Description

2 items

Joseph T. Taylor and Bertha S. Kline, 1915.
Box 1
R. Newton Brey and Jane Watson Taylor, 1918.
Box 1

A book of old Quaker wills, W.G. Collingwood, 1929.
Box 1
Common-place book, Susanna Woolston, 1806.
Box 1
Physical Description

ms.

"Signatures of Ancestors" traced from original documents in "Family Findings".
Box 1
Genealogical Charts Biographical Information.
Box 1
Gillam: ancestors of Simon Gillam by Jeremiah Bunting, 1847.
Box 1
Physical Description

ms.

Synge family: The family of Synge; Synge records.
Box 1
Physical Description

2 items

Taylor: ancestors of Joseph Taylor by Jeremiah Bunting, 1847.
Box 1
Physical Description

pos. photostats

Taylor: tree of the Taylor family by Yardley Taylor, 1851.
Box 1
Physical Description

negative photostat

Biographical information on Bewley, Slee and Watson families.
Box 1
Wildman: ancestors of Rachel Wildman, n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Bewley family Hallfield branch. Ms. chart, photocopy.

Physical Description

ms.

Bernard Taylor to Joseph Taylor, 1817.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Clover Plain, Bernard Taylor addressed to "dear Brother.", 12/3/1817.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes family information and report of Quarterly Meeting at Hopewell and other details.

Physical Description

ALS

Clover Plain, reports of friends and family life, 8/15/1819, 1928.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes Stephen Parrish addressed to Jane Brey. Windsor, Vermont, 6/5/1928, (concerns the painting of Old Second Street Market in Philadelphia - the "Head House")

Physical Description

ALS

Alfred G. Scattergood to R. Newton Brey, 1929 3mo 20.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

re: gift of deed donated to William Penn Charter School. Printed articles regarding the same are attached.

Physical Description

ALS

Abington Friends School students, n.d.
Box 1
Abington Friends School students, 1890.
Box 1
Langhorne Friends School, Middletown M M., ca. 1880.
Box 1
Philadelphia: Cherry St. Mtg. House.
Box 1
Wedding Invitations, 1823-1956.
Box 1
Physical Description

14, mostly printed

Scope and Contents

Chronologically arranged.

John Watson, Will, 1799.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Ms. signed by John Watson. Witnessed by Wm. Blakey, Jr., Samuel Blakey and John Blakey.

John Watson, Will, 1837.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Ms. signed by John Watson. Witnessed by Lydia Watson, Rachel Watson [and others]. Ccontains codicil dated 8/31/1837.

William Gillam, Will, 1843.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Ms. signed by William Gillam. Witnessed by Susanna [and others].

Joshua K. Wildman, Will, 1866.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Ms. signed by Joshua K. Wildilan. Witnessed by Israel l. Johnson [and others].

John Wildman, Will, 1902.
Box 1
Bewley family of Cumberland County, England, Wills, 1566-1691.
Box 1
Physical Description

ms. copies

Watson family of Cumberland County, England, Wills, 1569-1686.
Box 1
Physical Description

ms. copies, photocpies

Feddell (Fodle) family of Cumberland County, England, Wills, 1586-1663.
Box 1
Physical Description

ms. copies

Slee family of Cumberland County, England, Wills, 1617-1633.
Box 1
Physical Description

ms. copies

Thomas Mark, Elder, of Cumberland County, England, Will, 1681.
Box 1
Physical Description

ms. extracts of photocopy

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