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Bye Family Papers

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Call Number:
RG5.022
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Bye Family Papers, RG5/022, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1685-1931 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bye family, Thomas, Phebe, 1770-1875, Bye, E. Mortimer (Enoch Mortimer), 1818-1894, Jenkinson, Thomas, 1794-1890, Speakman, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1820-1904, Smith, Nathaniel, b. 1755, and Bye, Pusey P. (Pusey Passmore), 1846-1931
Form:
genealogies (histories)
Abstract:
Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. The collection includes correspondence, business records, photographs, and memorabilia of E. Mortimer and Pusey Passmore Bye, Thomas Jenkinson, Thomas H. Speakman, and Nathaniel Smith. Also includes accounts of Phebe Thomas who died at the age of 104 in Chester County (Pa.) and had witnessed the Battle of Brandywine as a child.

Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. E. Mortimer Bye, son of Amos and Deborah Paxson Bye of East Nottingham, was born in 1818. He married Phebe Pusey, daughter of Andrew Moore and Judith Wilson Passmore in 1843. E. Mortimer was a schoolteacher and mineralogist who made money in quarrying and in mining chrome. His eldest son, Pusey Passmore Bye, was born in 1846, and married Caroline, daughter of Thomas Harlan and Anna Jenkinson Speakman of Philadelphia in 1872.

Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. The collection includes correspondence, business records, photographs, and memorabilia of E. Mortimer and Pusey Passmore Bye, Thomas Jenkinson, Thomas H. Speakman, and Nathaniel Smith. Also includes accounts of Phebe Thomas who died at the age of 104 in Chester County (Pa.) and had witnessed the Battle of Brandywine as a child.

The collection is divided into six series:

  1. Bye family
  2. Jenkinson family
  3. Speakman family
  4. Passmore family
  5. Smith family
  6. Miscellaneous papers

Donor: M. Harlan Bye, 1986

Materials were received already removed from albums and sorted by family names.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1986
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.

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Collection Inventory

Genealogical Chart, Bye and Related Families.
Box 1
Genealogy, Deborah Taylor Benjamin Paxson, 1763-1859.
Box 1
Physical Description

Ms.

Funeral invitation, Benjamin T. Bye, 10 mo 27th, 1893.
Box 1
Obituary, E. Mortimer Bye, 11/7/1894.
Box 1
Telegram, Rosalie to Pusey P. Bye, 11/7/1894.
Box 1
Funeral Notice, Theodore Woolens Bye, 1918 12mo 19.
Box 1
Will (annotated copy), Enoch Bye by Pusey P. Bye, 10/5/1922.
Box 1
Obituary, Mrs. Pusey Passmore Bye, 3/25/1931.
Box 1
Obituary, Esther Paxson, n.d.
Box 1
Family members to E. Mortimer Bye, 1839-1840.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Concerning news from home and EMB's visit to Philadelphia

Physical Description

6 ALsS

Jackson to Mortimer Bye, on temperance, November 11, 1841.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Benjamin Bye to parents, 7/15/1844.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Concerning politics and search for employment in West Chester

Physical Description

ALS

Rachel L. Kirk to Phoebe P. Bye, her cousin, with family news, 1849 4mo 19.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

A. M. Passmore to P. P. Bye, grandson, 1873 8mo 25.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Note is a thank you for gift.

Physical Description

ALS

Arthur E. Bye to Uncle Pusey, family genealogy, 4/6/03.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Helen ? to Mr. Mrs. Bye, 6/20/1911.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

re: funeral arrangements

Physical Description

ALS

Elias Hicks to ?, n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

"Reward of Merit" Cards, Wilmington Friends School to Pusey P. Bye, 1855-57.
Box 1
Physical Description

23 cards

"Home" announcement, E. Mortimer and Phoebe P. Bye, 1868 10mo 15.
Box 1
Invitation, 1872.
Box 1
Verse, to "Mother B." from M.A.S., '98.
Box 1
Physical Description

Ms.

"There is a place where you can buy dry goods," poem by Pussy Bye, n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

AMsS

Photographs of Bye family members, n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

8 photographs

Scope and Contents

Primarily the papers Thomas Jenkinson, 1794-1890.

Genealogical information, Jenkinson family, 1762-1822.
Box 1
Genealogical entries (family Bible), Eliza Jenkinson and Joseph K. Neall, 1795-1919.
Box 1
"Birthday Celebration," Newspaper article on m Thomas Jenkinson, August 12, 1880.
Box 1
Testimony Or Appreciation to Thomas Jenkinson, 1884 8mo 11.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Signed by relatives and friends

Physical Description

ADS

"Death of Thomas Jenkinson," West Chester Local, 12/1/1890.
Box 1
"Purchase Farm Near Hamorton", n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Newspaper article which mentions Thomas and Edith Jenkinson.

Edith Harlan to Joseph Harlan, 4th mo 2nd day 1812.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Relates her visit to Philadelphia for Yearly Meeting and family news

Physical Description

ALS

Jesse J. Marries to Thomas Jenkinson, 1831 4mo 29, 1831 5mo 6.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Defense Of Orthodox view in Separation.

Physical Description

2 ALsS

Thomas Savery, Clerk, Kennett, to Mary Jenkinson, 1957 12mo 8.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Letter of Disownment

Physical Description

ALS

James Dixon to Thomas Jenkinson, 1879 11mo 22.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

G. E. Headway to Thomas Jenkinson, 3/7/1890.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Concerning potential newspaper article

Physical Description

ALS

Appointment for Thomas Jenkinson a Administrator of Sarah Harlan, 8/13/1835.
Box 1
Clerk's Certification, Account of Thomas Jenkinson adm. c. of Sarah Harlan, June 28, 1836.
Box 1
Receipt, James Walker, Register, to Thomas Jenkinson, adm. to the estate of Sarah Harlan, for inheritance tax, 28th June 1836.
Box 1
Acknowledgement of Receipt of Inheritance, Joseph Harlan et. al., 1850 7mo 21.
Box 1
Invitations, 1811-53.
Box 1
Physical Description

13 invitations

Endorsed Map of Hamorton, Pa., n.d.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

Primarily the papers of Thomas H. Speakman (1820- )

Typescript statement of Phebe Thomas, 9/25/1864.
Box 1
Newspaper article, Phebe Thomas, 7/13/1870.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Published in The American, Media.

Letter, Cyrus Mendenhall to EDS. AMERICAN, re: Phebe Thomas, 1874 1mo 15.
Box 1
Physical Description

typescript copy

Obituary, Hannah E. Speakman, 5/31/1884.
Box 1
Date of Birth of Children, 1820-1930.
Box 1
Memoir of Phebe Thomas, by her granddaughter, Abigail Speakman, n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

typescript

Biography of Thomas Speakman, annotated, n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

typescript

Biography of Thomas Speakman, n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

typescript

Newspaper article, Thomas H. Speakman, n.d.
Box 1
Thomas H. Speakman to Mary M. Jenkinson, sister (in-law), 1846-50.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Regarding family matters.

Physical Description

5 ALsS

Thomas H. Speakman to Edith Jenkinson, mother-in-law, 1847-50.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Concerning the death of his wife, Anna Jenkinson, and the subsequent care of his daughters.

Physical Description

10 ALsS

Anna J. Speakman and Thomas H. Speakman to Edith Jenkinson, 8/25-26/1847.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Concerning the birth of a daughter

Physical Description

ALS

Thomas H. Speakman to Thomas Jenkinson, father-in-law, 1848 1mo 17.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Thomas H. Jenkinson to Carrie Speakman, his granddaughter, 1870 3mo 15.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Joseph B. Fuston to Sir Thomas Bahley Bail M.P. and John Bright, 7/19/1875.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Letters of introduction to Thomas H. Speakman while visiting England

Physical Description

2 ALsS

W. N. Ashman to Thomas H. Speakman Esq., 5/2/1902.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Invitations and Cards, 1844-85.
Box 1
Physical Description

19 invitations

Military Pass, Thomas H. Speakman to visit brother, 1862.
Box 1
Appointment, Mrs. Thomas Speakman, 3/1864.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Appointment as Agent for Restaurant Department, Great Central Fair, Sanitary Commission

Stock Certificate, Swarthmore College to Caroline Speakman, 3rd mo 1st 1867.
Box 1
Map, showing proposed location for John M. George School, Birmingham Township, n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

The property belonged to the heirs of T. Speakman.

Funeral Invitation, Benjamin J. Passmore, 1875 3mo 4.
Box 1
Funeral Invitation, Judith Passmore, 1885 2mo 17.
Box 1
Funeral Invitation, Hanna P. Broomell, 1880 7mo 2.
Box 1
Obituaries, George B. Passmore, 1890 9mo 7.
Box 1
Physical Description

3 obituaries

Obituary, Deborah Brown Passmore, 6/5/95.
Box 1
Obituary, Samuel Brown Passmore, 1895 12mo 28.
Box 1
Funeral Invitation, Samuel W. Passmore, 189? 5mo 1.
Box 1
Obituary, Ellis P. Passmore, 6th mo 6th 1904.
Box 1
Obituary, Ruth M. Passmore, 2nd mo 25 (1911).
Box 1
"Passmore Family Holds a Reunion", n.d.
Box 1
Ns. list, Passmore Family Reunion, Lenape, n.d.
Box 1
Obituary, Pusey Passmore, n.d.
Box 1
E.P. Passmore to Benjamin J. Passmore, May 4th 1834.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Dora ? to Cousin [Passmore?], 1911 5mo 21.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

re: Passmore genealogy.

Physical Description

ALS

"Lines Written on the death of Ellis P. Passmore Jr. by his absent father," poem by E. P. Passmore, 1833.
Box 1
Physical Description

Ms.

Photographs, Andrew M. Passmore' house in Chester Co., n.d.
Box 1
Physical Description

3 photographs

Scope and Contents

Primarily the papers of Nathaniel Smith (1755- )

Genealogical Chart of the Smith Family.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

The Smith family's relationship to the Bye Family is undetermined.

Will, inventories, legal judgments, land surveys, accounts, receipts, and miscellaneous business and legal papers.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Papers belonged to William Smith (-1716), Edward Smith (1699-1731), William Smith (1720-1785) and Nathaniel Smith (1755-), all of Darby Township Pennsylvania. Arranged and received, on loose album pages.

M. survey for Michael Russel, Daniel Quare, and Henry Goldney c., Newcastle County (Delaware), 17th o ye 6th 1699.
Box 1
Physical Description

copy

Lease Indenture, John Frederick to William Painter, Chester, 1789.
Box 1
S.? Lall to Hannah?, 6/24/1875.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

re: visit to London.

Physical Description

ALS

Ticket and Stub, Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, June 19th 1900.
Box 1
D. Newlin Fell to ?, Philadelphia, May 8, 1902.
Box 1
Physical Description

ALS

Print, Suggest