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Bye Family Papers
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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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:
- Bye family
- Jenkinson family
- Speakman family
- Passmore family
- Smith family
- Miscellaneous papers
Donor: M. Harlan Bye, 1986
Materials were received already removed from albums and sorted by family names.
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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- 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
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Collection Inventory
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Concerning news from home and EMB's visit to Philadelphia
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Concerning politics and search for employment in West Chester
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Note is a thank you for gift.
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re: funeral arrangements
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23 cards
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8 photographs
Primarily the papers Thomas Jenkinson, 1794-1890.
Signed by relatives and friends
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Newspaper article which mentions Thomas and Edith Jenkinson.
Relates her visit to Philadelphia for Yearly Meeting and family news
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Defense Of Orthodox view in Separation.
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Letter of Disownment
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Concerning potential newspaper article
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13 invitations
Primarily the papers of Thomas H. Speakman (1820- )
Published in The American, Media.
typescript copy
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typescript
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Regarding family matters.
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Concerning the death of his wife, Anna Jenkinson, and the subsequent care of his daughters.
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Concerning the birth of a daughter
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Letters of introduction to Thomas H. Speakman while visiting England
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19 invitations
Appointment as Agent for Restaurant Department, Great Central Fair, Sanitary Commission
The property belonged to the heirs of T. Speakman.
3 obituaries
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re: Passmore genealogy.
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3 photographs
Primarily the papers of Nathaniel Smith (1755- )
The Smith family's relationship to the Bye Family is undetermined.
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.
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re: visit to London.
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