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Lamb-Booth-Miller 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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William Booth married Elizabeth M. Broomall in 1841. Their son, George M. Booth, was born in 1851 and married Ellen Miller, daughter of Lewis and Ann McIlvaine Miller in 1876. Their daughter, Elizabeth Martin Booth, married Robert Emerson Lamb of Baltimore in 1908 at Chester, Pennsylvania.
This large family had many close ties to Swarthmore College. At least seven members of the families served on the Board of Managers of the College, from three generations, starting in the 1860's. At least 24 members of these families were attenders or graduates of the College, starting with the first graduating class. They have been educators, bankers, lawyers, businessmen, farmers, and members of many civic and reform organizations. They were descendants of many of the earliest settlers of Delaware and Chester Counties, and of New Castle Co., Delaware, as well as the early Roberts family of Evasham and Moorestown, New Jersey, and the Lamb family who settled in Kent Co., Maryland, in the middle 1600's.
The collection contains correspondence (1821-1963), diaries and journals (1833-1905), albums, legal and financial papers, photographs, genealogical and biographical materials, and miscellaneous memorabilia of the Lamb, Booth, Miller, and related families primarily of Delaware County, Pa. Includes correspondence of Sarah B. Miller while she was travelling in Europe in 1846, William and Elizabeth M. Booth, 1833-1882, Sarah B. Flitcraft, 1856-1917, Isaac L. and Clara B. Miller, 1862-1916, George M. and Ellen M. Booth, 1864-1914, Robert E. and Elizabeth B. Lamb, James G. Lamb, 1917 - 1963, and others. Also of interest are the European travel journals of Sarah L. Miller (1846) and Isaac L. and Clara B. Miller (1901,1904,1905), and the diaries of William Booth (1833-39, 1843-44), Sarah B. Flitcraft (1863, 1864, 1866, 1868), and George M. and Ellen M. Booth (1869, 1873, 1876). There is also a good deal of genealogical and biographical material on the Lamb, Booth, and Miller families, including marriage and death certificates, as well as legal documents, photographs, clippings, and miscellaneous materials.
The collection is divided into eight series:
- Biographical and genealogical (arranged alphabetically by family name)
- Correspondence (arranged by the correspondent)
- Diaries (arranged chronologically
- Writings
- Albums
- Legal and financial papers
- Pictures
- Clippings, including our obituaries
- Miscellaneous
Donor: Walter Lamb, Ellen Lamb Snodgrass, and Anna
Lamb Felton, children of Elizabeth Booth Lamb, 1983.
Collection probably assembled by Clare B. Miller and her niece, Elizabeth B. Lamb. The genealogical papers in Series 1 on the Lamb Family material removed from a former Small Collection on the Lamb family, collected by James G. Lamb in preparation for a book on the family called What is Known about the Direct Line of the Lamb Family from Pearce Lamb to John Emerson Lamb, and His Descendants to the Present Year..., 1962.
Received unsorted. Processed by FHL staff, 1983. Oversized items and cased pictures removed from collection and stored separately.
The following material, originally part of the collection, has been removed and recatalogued:
Marriage certificates of John Broomall and his four wives (removed to chart case):
- Married 1st at Concord MM, 4 Jan. 1798, Susanna Wilson, daughter of Thomas and Ruth Wilson
- Married 2nd at Middletown Meeting House, under the care of Chester MM, 7 Jun. 1804, Sarah Sharpless, daughter of Joseph and Mary Sharpless
- Married 3rd at Concord MM, 14 Mar. 1811, Sarah Martin, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Martin
- Married 4th at Concord MM, 4 Jul. 1822, Ann Townsend, widow, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Webster of Gloucester Co., NJ
Other items:
- Marriage certificate of Jeremiah McIlvain and Elizabeth Spencer, Horsham MM, 1 Nov. 1792 - Removed to oversize chart case
- Land survey done for Joseph Talbot, 1763. Filed in oversize chart case
- Family coats-of-arms РBooth
- Filed in oversize chart case
Box of cased photos, stored with FHL Cased Pictures, including:
- Booth, Ellen (Miller) (1853-1929)
- Booth, George M. (1851-1918)
- Booth, William Bartram (-), son of William Booth by his first wife
- Hawley, Joseph Williamson (-), son of Joel and Catherine Hawley, husband of Anna Miller (1841-), President of First National Bank of Media
- Levis, Ann (1787-), unmarried daughter of Isaac and Phebe (Pancoast) Levis, and sister of Mary Levis married George Miller Jr.
- George Miller 3rd (1797-1869), son of George and Mary (Levis) Miller
- Miller, Levis (1806-1891), son of George and Mary (Levis) Miller
- Miller, Mary Lavinia (1837-1860, daughter of Levis and Ann (Mc Ilvain) Miller
- Miller, Samuel (1845-1908), son of Levis and Ann Miller
- Walker, Sarah M. (1799-1874), daughter of Enoch and Phebe (Miller) Walker, and niece of George and Mary Miller
People
Subject
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Quakers -- Diaries
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- Social life and customs
Place
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 1983
- 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
manuscript
bound typescript
Removed to oversize.
Physical Descriptionlarge, fan-type
Concerning Deacon family of NJ, and Pancoast family.
Joseph Hawley married Anna Miller, daughter of Levis and Ann (Mc Ilvain) Miller, in 1864.
Removed to oversize chart case.
typed
Includes one account written by Frances M. Smith
Physical Descriptiontyped
Includes his 35 years as a member of the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College, and designer of the Lamb-Miller Field House built in 1935.
See also Series 2, Correspondence of James G. Lamb, 1917-1963.
reproduction
Lydia, who died in 1901, was the daughter of Caleb and Alice (Jarrett) Lippincott.
facsimile
facsimile
facsimile
Removed to oversize chart case.
typescript
John Trainer married Hannah Bartram Booth in 1870
Arranged under the name of the family member whose correspondence it was, with folders filed according to the year of birth of the correspondent. Filed chronologically within each folder.
2 letters
Sarah Miller was taughter of George and Mary (Levis) Miller. The letters written while she was traveling in Europe in 1846.
Physical Descriptioncopies
Susan removed to Philadelphia from Moorestown, NJ, in 1868.
2 letters
Letters in connection with his book about the Lamb family, published in 1962.
Arranged chronologically.
Diaries about travel to Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium, and England. These diaries were marked for FHL by Mary M.(Hawley) Thompson, Class of 1889 at the College, who died 11 Sept. 1940, in Media.
Physical Descriptionsmall leather notebooks, later ms. transcriptions
Concerning aspects of her daily life, and mentioning the assassination of Lincoln in 1864
Journal of trip to Ireland, Scotland, England, Holland, Belgium, and Germany, accompanied by their daughter, Elizabeth B. Miller and her friend, Caroline F. Comly, both graduates of Swarthmore College, who planned to continue their studies at the University in Berlin.
Journal of trip to Italy, Switzerland, France, and England, accompanied by Clara's newly widowed sister, Sarah B. Flitcraft.
Jouranl of trip spent visiting the areas of England and Wales where their ancestors had lived
Sarah Miller Walker was the unmarried daughter of Enoch and Phebe (Miller) Walker, and niece of George and Mary (Levis) Miller. She lived at Woodburne, near Montrose, in Susquehanna Co., with her unmarried brother, George Walker, and belonged to Stroudsburg MM.
Of newspaper clippings pasted over the account book of the sloop Jonas Preston, which had been owned and operated by her husband, William Booth, in partnership with John Larkin in a coal, lumber, and packet business carrying goods between Chester and Philadelphia, 1847-1850.
With clippings saved by her and pasted in after her death in 1917 by her sister, Clara B. Miller.
Sarah was the daughter of Levis and Ann Miller. The scrapbook is filed in oversize chart case.
certified copy
certified copy
copy
William Booth died Nov 1st, 1877
Physical Descriptioncopy
As told to her children before her death on 14 Jan. 1882.
ms. copy
negative photostats
Land to be conveyed to John Talbot, son of Joseph Talbot
Ffor two tracts of land along Naaman's Creek. Filed in oversize chart case.
For a grist mill and saw mill belonging to Talbot in Chichester Township. Also receipt bearing date of 22 Mar. 1798, from John Talbot to George Pearson.
One by Thomas Dick of Chichester, 13 Mar, 1787, and the other by Ralph Robinson on behalf of his mother-in- law, Mary Cannon, of Northwest Fork Hundred, Sussex Co., Delaware, 2 Aug. 1798. John Talbot appears to have been involved in these transactions, perhaps on behalf of Chichester Meeting.
The Institute was founded and built by George Miller (1797-1869), who died unmarried in Trenton, Henry Co. He was a son of George and Mary (Levis) Miller, and brother of John and Levis Miller. After his death his relatives in Delaware Co., PA, deeded over the building and land to the Iowa managers of the Institute for use as a library. Later, in 1956, the Delaware Co. heirs sold the building to an American Legion post. Includes accounts and receipts, 1812, 1816, and 1849.
Includes a small New Testament he carried during the Civil War.
Levis Miller, Jr., was captured and died in a Confederate prison camp during the Civil War, 1864.
ms. copy
With photocopies of all title pages. Books mostly belonged to George and Phebe (Massey) Miller.
Filed in oversize chart case.
typed copy