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Mary Sullivan Patterson Papers
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Mary Thomson Sullivan was born May 9, 1906, the daughter of Marshall Phillips Sullivan and Alice Thomson Sullivan, members of Abington Monthly Meeting and prominent residents of Elkins Park, Pa.. Her paternal grandparents were Joseph T. and Sarah Rogers Sullivan of Moorestown, NJ. Her maternal grandparents were Thomas and Mary Eyre Thomson. Both sides of the family came from a long line of Quakers.
Mary Sullivan attended Abington Friends School and graduated from the George School. She was a graduate of Swarthmore College, Class of 1928, and the first woman to edit the College newspaper. She was active in Quaker organizations and was a Young Friends delegate to the 1924 Friends Conference in London and attended the World Youth Peace Conference in 1928 in Holland.
In 1930, she married Henry Carter Patterson (1889-1972), and they had three children: Alice, Jane, and Robert. Henry had joined the Society of Friends in 1918. He was an insurance executive and active in race relations; in particular he was the Philadelphia director of the United Negro College Fund and aided the relocation of Japanese American to the Philadelphia area during WWII. The family settled in Swarthmore, Pa. Mary Sullivan Patterson served as president of the Board of Trustees of the Schofield Normal and Industrial School, 1936-1946. She was an avid genealogist and worked as a genealogist for Friends Historical Library 1952-1957. In 1957, she resigned from professional genealogy to concentrate on researching Quaker immigration from England, her own family research, and local historic preservation.
In 1957, she spent several months in England researching Quaker records. In her later years, she devoted much of her energy to historic preservation efforts in Delaware County, Pa. She was the driving force to save the Caleb Pusey House and served as chairman for fundraising for the restoration of the 1724 Chester County Courthouse and the Carter Cemetery in Chester Township. She served as a board member for the Delaware County Historical Society, was founder of Historic Delaware County Society which organized Open House Days in the 1960s, and she served on the Delaware County Heritage Committee.
She lived her final years in the Hickman, Friends Boarding Home, in West Chester, Pa., and died December 1987.
The collection contains correspondence, including that with Friends meetings in Great Britain (1957) concerning the location of their records, written in preparation for a trip to compile notes concerning Quaker immigrants to America. Also incuded is a diary (1924) kept during a visit to England with a young Friends group, articles on biographical and historical topics and Quaker affairs, genealogical notes on the Thomson, Sullivan, and other related families, reference materials on historic homes, particularly the homes of Caleb Pusey in Delaware County, Pa., and Benjamin West in Swarthmore, Pa., pictures, clippings, and memorabilia. Includes typewritten transcripts of diary (1809) of Sarah Thomson.
The collection is divided into five series:
- Mary Sullivan Patterson Family Papers
- Family Correspondence
- Writings and Talks
- Family History and Genealogical Research
- Activities and Projects
Donor: Mary Sullivan Patterson
Date: 1964-1985.
Donor: Robert Patterson, Alice Truitt and Jane Bradbeer,
Date: 1990.
Accession number: 90.1.14
The collection donated in parts by Mary S. Patterson between 1964 to 1979 was sorted into nine series, described and stored in five document boxes. Five family photo albums were given before 1971 and assigned PA 39. Eleven cartons of unsorted papers were received from the family of Mary Patterson in 1990. These were inventoried by Elizabeth L. Carson in 1996 but not arranged. Personal papers not relevant to the collection were returned to the family. In 2012, the collection was reprocessed. Pictures were removed to PA 158. Secondary reference material was transferred to FHL Reference by topic, and pertinent genealogical research from her professional career was added to PG 7, Biographical and Genealogical Files. The remaining papers were sorted into five series by topic.
The following materials, originally part of the collection, have been removed and recatalogued:
- PA 39 (5 albums of family pictures)
Among Mary Sullivan Patterson's papers were a number of printed items having to do with Quaker concerns, which are catalogued and stored in the appropriate Pamphlet Group or Serial Group of FHL in order to make them more readily available for use by researchers. Each item has been noted as the gift of Mary Patterson. These materials include:
- Friends' Meetings and Meeting Houses in the U.S. and England and Ireland
- Friends' organizations and committees, such as the Meeting House Fund; Friends' schools
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting activities
- Weighty individual Friends; Friends Historical Association, and Friends Historical Society (London)
- In addition maps and atlases (1939-1962) have been stored in the appropriate map folder.
- Reference material removed to FHL reference files.
- PA 158 (photographs)
People
Subject
- Genealogists -- Pennsylvania
- Historians -- Pennsylvania
- Women genealogists -- Pennsylvania
- Women historians -- Pennsylvania
- Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Genealogy
- Quakers -- Great Britain
- Quakers -- History
- Quakers -- United States
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Youth -- United States -- Travel -- Great Britain
- Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County
- Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Swarthmore
- Historic sites -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain
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
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Collection Inventory
Lovingly recorded by her mother, Alice Thomson Sullivan; birth certificate certified 1957
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Mary T. Sullivan's journal of a trip with her great aunt Jane Thomson to the Exposition in San Francisco. See also letters
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Delegation of American Young Friends to England and Germany
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Loose papers reunited with collection include partial journal (typescript) of the voyage, minutes of the Young Friends Committee (July 26-27 1924), itineraries, and other related papers. Also included is a booklet on the Maison Maternelle de la Marne (Chalons-sur-Mer) which was founded by Quakers in 1914. Photographs stored with scrapbook
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Scrapbook of travels in England and Germany, attending George Fox tercentenary and Young Friends
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Clippings about her activities and friends in Swarthmore, Society of Friends, topics of interest including Japanese-Americans in NJ during WWII Relocation, small house design. Mounted in large scrapbook.
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"Henry Ford says: The only real luxury is a retired business man." Signed LR: "For Mary Sullivan from her friend and well-wisher/Herbert Johnson, June 10, 1930." Herbert Johnson (1867-1946), American cartoonist for Saturday Evening Post.
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Letters of appreciation for her involvement
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Letter of appreciation for her involvement
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Mary Patterson attended Abington Friends School, Class of 1918. Includes an article and essay with her reminiscences and letter sent to alumni to reconstruct early records of the school
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Mary Patterson was in the class of 1924 and served as class correspondent for the Georgian, the alumni bulletin. To schoolmates, she was "Sully."
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Class of 1928
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Patterson's parent bought a property on Long Beach Island in 1937. "Club" dues and an account of the shore house.
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The Pattersons decided in 1948 to sell their large home on Chester Road, Swarthmore and build a cost-efficient home at 320 Maple Avenue. Trouble with the builder dragged on for years.
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Journal of her trip to England, written as letters to her family
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Started as a record of stocks, etc, but later entries include random notes and comments
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With Henry and son Rob
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Featuring her home at 320 Maple with photographs, Daily Times Magazine
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Mary S. Patterson moved to the Hickman in 1977
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Historic Delaware County, Delaware County Bar Association, Delaware Board of Realtors. Includes a letter she sent to Daily Times concerning William Pastuszek's involvement in saving the Leiper property
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Perhaps wedding presents
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Perhaps wedding presents
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Written when she was living at the Hickman
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Estate planning and will
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Including housing options
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School essay and TLS, letter of recommendation, from principal of Friends Central School to Robert S. Brookings, Washington University, small number of person correspondence received especially from his mother; miscellaneous papers including explanation of his name change from Henry Clay to Henry Carter.
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Birth, marriage certificate, obituary, biography, etc.. Includes acknowledgement from Balch Institute for donation of his papers, his mother's will.
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Will and inventories
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Eldest child of Henry and Mary Patterson. Marriage announcements, clippings, etc.
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Marriage announcements, some correspondence, Christmas letter
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Memorabilia and letters from son Rob and his wife, mostly from Oklahoma
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Marshall Phillips Sullivan (1878-1952) , the father of Mary Sullivan Patterson, was born in Moorestown, NJ, graduated from Swarthmore College in 1897. He worked as an executive in the insurance company founded by his father. File includes obituary, estate papers, memorials and a biography. Lived in Elkins Park. Includes estate information, testimonials, and memorabilia
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Alice Penrose Thomson (1880-1947) was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Eyre Thomson. A birthright member of Abington Monthly Meeting, she married Marshall Phillips Sullivan in 1904. Includes estate papers and will of Benjamin Penrose
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Family home from 1916 to about 1950. 2 copies of a family photograph in front of house, not identified or dated
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Firm founded by Joseph T. Sullivan and John T. Creth. Memorial window for John T. Creth in Christ Church, Philadelphia
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Biography written by Mary Sullivan Patterson about her grandparents and a reminiscence by Florence Sullivan Wetherald
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Two small notebooks with entries, Benjamin and Alice Penrose, Mary Walton, Alice P. Thomson, Jane Thomson, and Edith Mitchell in party. One is travel journal of Alice P. Thomson, the second has entries from members of the group and fellow travelers. Postcards and small notebook may be part of this trip as well.
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Includes handwritten list of specific requests to Abington Monthly Meeting and family
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Jane Thomson (1845-1937) was Mary Patterson's great-aunt. Mary spend a great deal of time with her, including travel. Includes Mary's reminiscences of her great-aunt, for whom her daughter Jane was named. Also a short journal by Jane Thompson of her trip with Mary Patterson to California in 1915, estate papers.
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Trip to Florida, unknown author, with Jane Thomson
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Jane Thomson? Travel with B. F. and Alice Penrose and others
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John Thomson's children included Thomas (Mary's grandfather), Alice Penrose, and Jane Thomson. He died 1890.
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Thomas Thomson (1842-1908) inherited the family homestead in Cheltenham Township. He was a banker and married Mary Eyre 2/24/1874. Includes invitation list, etc. She was daughter of Isaac Eyre, he was the son of John and Caroline Thomson, members Abington Monthly Meeting who lived in Cheltenham
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Includes agreement for the subdivision of the property by Elizabeth Thomson Taylor and Alice Thomson Sullivan.
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Elizabeth Thomson (Mary Patterson's aunt) married Herbert K. Taylor in 1897. Includes poems that Mary Patterson wrote for their 55th anniversary and other family papers
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Given to Mary Patterson by Herbert K. Taylor, Jr.. He was Mary's cousin, the son of her mother's sister Elizabeth, who married Herbert K. Taylor.
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Given to Patterson by Herbert Taylor, Jr. Eyre family genealogy and memorabilia including Mary Eyre's school reports at Moorestown Boarding School and her genealogy.
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Research on the family, including wills
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Photocopies and original pages removed. Bible belonged to John Thompson and Abigail Roberts Thompson, married 1773. Notes by Patterson explaining context.
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Patterson researched Henry Thomson, an original settler of Abington. Highlight of the reunion was a visit to the ancestral home of William Thomson, owned in 1961 by Fitz Eugene Dixon.
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Typed copy by Eleanor B. Price of an 1809 journal found in Tuckerton, NJ. Not identified as relation to Mary Patterson's family
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Alice Sullivan, Swarthmore College, Class of 1904. Married J. H. Dudley who died in the 1918 flu epidemic. After his death, she invited her sister Mabel and her husband, Francis D'Olier, to live with her at Evergreen Lawn, Moorestown. Alice wrote about her husband's death and then continued to write letters to him as she had done before his sudden death.
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Clippings, articles
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Mabel Creth Sullivan D'Olier (1887-1966) was Mary Patterson's aunt. She and sister Alice were married in a double ceremony in 1909. Mabel was the wife of Francis W. D'Olier. She and her husband were both graduates of Swarthmore College, and members of Moorestown Monthly Meeting. File contains clippings, memorabilia, some correspondence from Mary Patterson - the two shared interests in travel and genealogy. Her applications for Colonial Dames are in Series 4.
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Copies of letters regarding College's D'Olier Quaker Education Account and other donation from the D'Oliers to the College and other charities.
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Obituaries, memorial service, and estate papers. After bequests to nieces and nephews, Moorestown Monthly Meeting, and Friends Boarding Home, her property "Evergreen Lawn" was given to Moorestown and the D'Olier Foundation
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Perkins home built in 1910 given to Moorestown after the death of Mabel Sullivan D'Olier. Includes typed carbon of letter that Mary Patterson wrote to Moorestown Council in support of Evergreen becoming an arts center
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Obituaries, clippings, memorial booklet on T. Clarkson Taylor who was headmaster of Friends School in Wilmington where Mary Sullivan's grandparents met. Obituary of Isaac Eyre, great-grandfather
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ALsS
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ALS from Jane's sister
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ALS expressing dismay about the surprise party at the Thomson home, with refreshments and music
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ALsS from Wilmington cousin, Phillips, Marshall and Mary to Sullivan, Joseph
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Condolences on death of his father
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ALsS and postcards received from friends and his mother
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ALsS. 1928 is to Mary from her grandfather Sullivan
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Robert Brookings was a cousin and helped with Henry's education. Mary and Henry's son, Robert Brookings Patterson, was named in his honor.
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Includes TLS from secretary of Mrs. Hoover for poem she sent and ALsS from Mary Patterson and others
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On a trip to California with her aunt Jane .
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1924 letters written from Swarthmore College
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Mary traveled to England in July 1924 to attend and then did some visiting to other parts of Europe
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Henry began to court Mary while she was still a student. She discouraged him because of their age difference.
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Mary attended the World Youth Peace Conference in 1928 in Holland. She toured Europe that same summer
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Mary attended the World Youth Peace Conference in 1928 in Holland. She toured Europe that same summer
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ALsS to Edith Sullivan
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On her honeymoon in New England
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ALsS Mary and Aunt Jane Thomson
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2 ALsS.
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Most concern her interest in family genealogy
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ALsS from a niece in California
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Affectionate note
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Mary Patterson and others. Includes a 1952 letter from Patterson to Swarthmore College asking why Mabel and Francis D'Olier, both Class of 1907, were not invited to serve on Alumni Council or Board of Managers, take a more active role in the College.
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TL to her children, with family history and information about the family home of Joseph T. and Sarah Rogers Sullivan in Moorestown, NJ.
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Carbon of a letter and response from Eleanor Roosevelt regarding their common ancestors
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Greta was an English Friend and the Brauns were German refugees, became prominent English Friends
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Mother's Day note in the form of a poem
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Letters to parents, grandparents from Alice, Jane, and Robbie
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"Round Robin" letters, with updates, Class of 1924
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ALsS to Henry from Brant Beach
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ALsS from her mother, from Brant Beach, Long Beach Island, NJ
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Reflect her interest in genealogy and historic structures
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Welcoming the transfer to membership from Providence Monthly Meeting for Henry, Mary, and family
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Correspondence, including 1963 ALS to wife Mary when she toured Hawaii with her aunt Meemie and a note from son Robert Brookings Patterson on his 82nd birthday; Henry was 58 when Robert was born.
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Note from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mary referencing letter Henry wrote, Notes from John F. Kennedy, Courtney Smith
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Henry Patterson was active in the Republican party in Philadelphia
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Jane to Henry and Mary Patterson during her travels to Europe, Mexico
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ALsS
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Includes ALsS to her cousin during her trip to England
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From her children and nieces and nephews
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Reflect her interest in genealogy and historic structures
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Typed carbon of letter, disapproving of the confrontational tactics of Cecil Moore in Philadelphia
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Mostly about genealogy
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TLS, note of appreciation
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TLs about genealogy, local history in England
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Useful updates of family activities; card from 1938 with her two daughters. Duplicate copies in Mary S. Patterson, PG 7
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Talk given on Philadelphia radio station, Spring 1931.(typewritten copy)
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"We Like to be Quarantined," "We Travel - without the Car, " "Swarthmore's Mr. McMinn
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Mary Patterson wrote verses for special occasions
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Research compiled for proposed article on Dick
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Reprinted from Friends Journal of Nov. 5, 1955. (2 copies)
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Talk given to the Institute of Genealogical Research, at Strath Haven Inn, Swarthmore
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Printed in the Germantowne Crier, Sept. 1962, Vol. 14, No. 3, p.75 (2 copies)
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Reprint from March issue of the DAR Magazine
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Friends' Intelligencer, Oct. 25, 1904, p. 707.
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Friends Journal, July 14, 1956
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Bound and loose pages
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Published article on genealogy of Theodore Friend for the College bulletin, together with correspondence from Dorie Friend and additional Friend genealogy and correspondence from Marian Johnson
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Typed article on the restoration of the Pusey house
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TD, Mary S. Patterson and Marion Rubicam Balderston. Undated. Also related correspondence, research letters
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Handwritten introduction, intending to compile a book for her family
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Various topics, local history
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Including Benjamin West House, Kendall at Longwood
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Mary Sullivan Patterson did extensive research on her and her husband's families and documented at least 200 Quaker ancestors. She intended to write a history for the family, but her papers as deposited contained rough research and memorabilia sorted by individual and/or family. She particularly researched the Thomson family, her mother's line, which connected to Hallowell, Eyre, Taylor, Lippincott, Roberts, Jarrett, and other Montgomery County families.
Filed alphabetically by family name. Some files include photocopies of early wills and correspondence to family members.
Carbon of a letter listing Welsh ancestors, with corrections in pencil
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Applications made by Mabel D'Olier. See Collins for Patterson application
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Mary S. Patterson's compilation, includes some additional information about family members
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Research on Quaker Adams family, begun by her aunt Mabel and continued by Mary Patterson
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TLS from Louise E. Lewis, a Swarthmore College graduate, who had corresponded concerning genealogy with Mabel D'Olier. Austin and Burton descendants
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Bewley and Watson roots in England, with correspondence with cousin Jane Brey.
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Mostly correspondence with Betty Mann regarding publication of 300 Years of Bortons in North America
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Robert Somers Brookings, a cousin of Henry C. Patterson and "gave him his education." Clippings, secondary material
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Research to find out information about Thomas Budd (d. 1670)
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Henry C. Patterson's family. Includes photographs of Walnut Hill, the Carter home in Maryland, inventory of estate of Richard Carter, 1852, etc.
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Concerning furniture made by John Clayton, an ancestor
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Francis Collins (1635-1720), early settler, with supporting material for Patterson's application to Pa. Society of the Colonial Dames
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Ancestry of Herb and Pete Conrad
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Cooper family research, relation to James Fennimore Cooper, estate of James Cooper
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Ezra Croasdale (1655-1740). Colonial Dames application, with supporting materials and draft essay
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Mary Davis married William Eyre
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Irish ancestors
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Alice Sullivan's copy of 1921 Eyre Genealogy, photocopies of will and inventories, Isaac (1740-1825) m. Ann Preston and family.
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Married Eleanor Cooper, owned property in Chester, PA. Moved to Kensington, hence connection with Penn Treaty Park. Includes correspondence with various Eyre descendants, material on Fishtown and Palmer Cemetery. Also information concerning bust made from Treaty Elm for Isaac Eyre circa 1820
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Including transcription of some of the letters she and her aunt Elizabeth Thomson Taylor gave to Friends Historical Library and correspondence with Eyre descendants, etc. Isaac Eyre on committee to select property for George School.
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William was the older brother of Patterson's direct ancestor, Isaac Eyre. Affiliated with Hicksites in the Separation. Correspondence concerning the journals, copy of annotated 1921 Eyre Genealogy given to her by William B. Eyre, George School
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Correspondence with Margaret Gayner, England, and photocopies
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Gideon Gilpin owned house used by General Lafayette during Battle of Brandywine. Patterson was descended from his son, Joseph, who married Sarah Peirce in 1802. Genealogical correspondence with Mabel Creth Sullivan D'Olier and Mary Patterson. Mary Patterson's notes on Matilda Gilpin diary that she gave to Friends Historical Library.
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Gordon who married a Patterson
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Mabel D'Olier correspondence concerning Gregg family
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Carbon TL to Meemie (Mabel D'Olier) and Mary Light explaining Irish ancestry through Robert Zane
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Jesse James of Bensalem family
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Jane Jarrett married Thomas Thomson, owned the house in Graeme Park
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Extensive research in England on family of Giles Knight who arrived in PA in 1682
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Lukens, Kunder/Conrad, Op de Graeff
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Henry Patterson's ancestor through his mother. Jane Levis Carter research and writings
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Henry Patterson's relations. Includes some correspondence. Copy of will of (aunt) Mary Lippincott Morrison
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Patterson was descended from Thomas Livezey of Upper Dublin. Includes a detailed genealogy of her family
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Visited Mosedale, England. Letter to cousin Jane Brey
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Abraham Marshall. Son John (1707-1750) was Patterson ancestor; his brother was the botanist Humphrey Marshall. Photocopies of estates, 1751 and 1760
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Correspondence with J. Reany Kelly who wrote Old Quaker Burying Ground
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Patterson descended from Sarah Owen
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Descended from Thomas Paschall of Goshen
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Mabel D'Olier correspondence trying to establish John Patrick as Revolutinary ancestor. He ws the father of Martha Patick who married Thomas of Sandy Spring
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George Pearse married Ann Gaynor, 1679 in England, copied into records of Concord Monthly Meeting, Pa. Patterson was a descendant. Includes copies of will and estates of George, Rachel and Joshua Pierce.
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Includes talk about Peirce family at Friends Historical Association
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Sold by unmarried daughters, 1817
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Moorestown, NJ. Francis W. and Mabel D'Olier lived in "Evergreen Lawns," built on the John Perkins farm. Mabel was the sister of Alice and Marshall Sullivan. Mary Sullivan Patterson was their niece. Mabel and Alice were married in a double ceremony in the house. Alice married Thomas Haines Dudley Perkins, Swarthmore College Class of 1906. He died in 1918 and Francis and Mabel moved into the home with his widow. After the death of her sister and husband, Mabel purchased the home from the estate. She bequeathed the property to Moorestown, and it now serves as Perkins Center for the Arts. See also Series 1.
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Robert Sullivan died 1891. Parents of Joseph T. Sullivan
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Mabel D'Olier's application for Colonial Dames through Snowden line
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Tiltons married into Patterson family. ALsS from cousin Josie Tilton
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Most complete version in ++Genealogical Charts
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Proposal to MacMillan Company for a baby book
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Reports, etc. A number of the board members were residents of Delaware County, and Mary S. Patterson was president of the Board in 1936-1946 and wrote a biography of Martha Schofield published by the School in 1944.
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In 1950 the Schofield School was transferred to the Aiken City Board of Education. The Scholarship Fund was started in 1952.
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Draft of a letter to her grandson, Rich, in which Mary Sullivan Patterson describes how her mother and two aunts, Mabel and ? encouraged her interest in genealogy. When her husband suffered a heart attack in 1952, Mary took a course in genealogy and worked as a genealogist at Friends Historical Library until 1956 when she decided to focus on her research on 17th century Quakers. Subsequently to her research trip in England in 1957, she became involved with historic preservation and only sporadically did genealogical searches outside her own family's history.
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Genealogical correspondence includes in Family Correspondence
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Patterson reported to PYM Representative Committee that the City of Philadelphia hoped that Philadelphia Yearly Meeting would develop a William Penn garden adjacent to the meeting house. Patterson proposed that this would tie in with George Fox's desire to have a botanical garden in Pennsylvania.
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Caleb Pusey House, Inc., was incorporated in 1965. Folder includes preliminary and annual reports, correspondence
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Research notes and notebook with drafts of reports, Christmas letter, etc.
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Mary S. Patterson's involvement in preserving Delaware County history included serving on the County Historical Society Board and as president of Caleb Pusey House, Inc.. She also was involved with Delaware County historic house tours, Chester courthouse restoration, Leiper House, and was a founder of Historic Delaware County Society among other interests.
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Rough notes
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Patterson served on the Committee for Eligibility
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Patterson became in the debate about the birthplace of Benjamin West. She supported the tradition that he was born in the Maddock farmhouse now on the Swarthmore College campus
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Since early American Quaker records are scanty, Patterson proposed to examine English records to find certificates of removal. Letter of introduction from FGC.
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With annotations by Patterson
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Planning her trip and follow up letters
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In England for two months in the spring of 1957, Patterson found that there were few mentions of certificates of transfer, and she instead took notes on early Quakers with a focus on her own family.
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In 1957, Patterson found the Marsden Monthly Meeting records most helpful and 20 years later she began to follow up with the meeting
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Typed
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Subtitled handwritten ms "Friends Family Arriving in America 1656 thru 1699." Progress report with an Introduction and layout for possible book that traced Quaker migration.
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Typed manuscripts (2 copies) made from notes taken by Mary Sullivan Patterson in 1957. In the introduction, Patterson writes that she typed her rough notes and added additional information from other sources. The final typed manuscript was done by Margery Paxson Jones
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Done as a Boy Scouts Eagle project by John Ivie of Provo, Utah, suggested by Utah Valley Genealogical Society
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Index made in 1996 by Elizabeth L. Carson who also compiled an inventory of the unprocessed Patterson papers
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