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Palmer Genealogical Manuscript and Deeds

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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:
RG5.111
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], Palmer Family Papers, RG 5/111, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1722-1966 [bulk 1898} (inclusive)
Creator:
Fell, Sarah M.
Form:
Deeds and genealogies (histories)
Abstract:
The Palmer family was a Quaker family descended from John and Christian Palmer, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania., in 1683. Sarah M. Fell (1824-1911), who compiled the genealogy, was a Hicksite Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware, and a Palmer descendent. The collection contains a family genealogy compiled by Sarah Moore Fell (1822-1911) in 1898, pictures, and an accompanying index compiled in 1966. The collection also contains some Bucks County property records including deeds and legal papers

The Palmer family was a Quaker family from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The collection contains a Palmer family genealogy written by Sarah Moore Fell (1822-1911) and an accompanying index compiled in 1966. The collection also contains deeds and legal papers concerning the Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pa., property purchased by the donor (a Palmer descendant).

Sarah M. Fell, the author, gave the original manuscript genealogy to her cousin, Amos Satterthwaite. After his death, his widow, Elizabeth Simpson Satterthwaite, gave the manuscript to her niece, Anna S. Palmer, who was a descendent of John and Christian Palmer. Anna S. Palmer gave the manuscript to FHL in 1968.

Jane Brey was a genealogist, and the records related to the property which Anna S. Palmer purchased in 1873 were added to the collection in 1969.

Donor: Anna S. Palmer, 1968 Donor: Property records, gift of Jane. W. T. Brey, 1969

Processed by FHL staff. Property records related to the property which Anna S. Palmer purchased in 1873 were added to the collection in 1969. Previously known as Palmer Family Papers.

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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

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Collection Inventory

Physical Description

37 pp. unbound manuscript

Accompanying index.
Box 1
Physical Description

bound, typewritten, photocopied

Photographs of Sarah M. Fell, Joseph Rich, and his wife Mary Palmer Rich.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

Chronologically arranged.

Lease: Jonathan Woolston Sarah his wife, to Joseph Walker. Middletown, Bucks Co., Pa., Aug. 20, 1722.
Box 1 Folder 1
Physical Description

Parchment, ADS

Birth certificate: Elizabeth Dixon, dau. of John Mary,, b. Nov. 6, 1729.
Box 1 Folder 2
Scope and Contents

Elizabeth was born at Bishop Auckland, Parish of St. Andrew Auckland, County of Durham.

Lease: Wm. Shreve Freelove his wife, to Jos. Richardson. Northampton, Bucks Co., Pa., May 2, 1743.
Box 1 Folder 3
Physical Description

Parchment, ADS

Release: Wm. Shreve Freelove his wife, to Jos. Richardson. Northampton, Bucks Co., May 3, 1743.
Box 1 Folder 4
Physical Description

Parchment, ADS

Deed: Geo. Walker et al, to Jos. Richardson. Middletown Twp., Bucks Co., Pa., Feb. 26, 1760.
Box 1 Folder 5
Physical Description

Parchment, ADS

Deed: Henry Atherton Elizabeth his wife, to Phineas Paxson. Attleboro, Bucks Co., Pa., 1810 6mo. 1.
Box 1 Folder 6
Physical Description

Parchment, ADS

Deed: John Simpson John Price, assignees of Jonathan Beans, Jr., to John Jones. Buckingham Twp., Bucks Co., Pa., 1819.
Box 1 Folder 7
Physical Description

Parchment, AD

Deed: John Paxson John McNair, to Daniel Starkey. Attleboro, Bucks Co., Pa., April 17, 1824.
Box 1 Folder 8
Physical Description

Parchment, ADS

Insurance policy, with Mutual Beneficial Insurance Assoc. of Bucks Co., for Isaac Eyre, on house in Attleboro, Bucks Co., Pa., 1864 3mo. 18.
Box 1 Folder 9
Physical Description

ADS

Letters of administration: granted to John Paxson, W. Rodman Paxson, Isaac Eyre, for estate of Samuel Paxson, Bucks Co., Pa., 1868 12mo. 28.
Box 1 Folder 10
Deed: Isaac Eyre Elizabeth his wife, to Anna R. Palmer. Attleboro, Middletown Twp., Bucks Co., Pa., 187? 4mo. 4.
Box 1 Folder 11
Physical Description

ADS

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