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Taylor-Thomson 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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The Taylors and Thomsons who married into the Knight, Clothier, and Shoemaker families of Montgomery County, Pa., and its environs.

Herbert Knight Taylor (1879-1957) married Elizabeth E. Thomson (1875-1966) in 1897. Their youngest son, Herbert Knight Taylor (b. 1907) married Edith Clothier Maxwell who was the daughter of John Rogers Maxwell, Jr., and Lydia B. Clothier. Lydia was the daughter of Isaac H. and Mary Clapp Jackson Clothier; Isaac was a long supporter of Swarthmore College, including serving as Chairman of the Board of Managers and President of the Corporation.

This collection includes Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania correspondence, deeds, household account books, copybooks and commonplace books, and miscellaneous newspaper clippings. There is also a photograph of the Clothier family visiting Egypt.

Organization: Organized into five series. Series 1. Correspondence; Series 2. Journals, Albums, and Commonplace Books; Series 3. Other Writings; Series 4. Property and Financial Records; Series 5. Miscellaneous.

Deposit. The collection was given by Robert M. Taylor, a descendent of the Clothier and Taylor families, in 2001 and 2003.

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

John Thomson, 1830-1888.
Box 1
Letter from L. Thomas to her parents, Jonathan and ?, 1830.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Visit to Virginia

Other correspondence, 1863-1907.
Box 1
Isaac Eyre, 1877-1903.
Box 1
Isaac Eyre and Mary E. Thomson from William Rhodes, 1898-1901.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

William Rhodes was a Philadelphia financier who fled to New York ahead of a charge of larceny related to the sale of land from the Twaddell estate. William was the son of Charles and Mary Rhodes and also owed money to the Eyres.

Received by John Thomson, 1879-1882.
Box 1
J. Dawson Thomson, 1880-81.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

J. Dawson Thomson married Annie Knight and was the brother of Thomas Thomson. He moved to Kidder County, Dakota Terrtory, before 1880. He later moved to Pasadena, California.

Thomas and Mary E. Thomson, 1899-1909.
Box 1
Herbert K. and Elizabeth Taylor, 1911-38.
Box 1
William T.. Taylor to mother, 1926.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

While travelling in the South.

Elizabeth Taylor to family, 1938.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Travelling in England

Elizabeth Taylor from Billie B. [Mrs. Lillian I Bailey], 1952.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

A friend on vacation in Europe

Lesson book, n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Also includes Abington Friends School reunions

Sketch books (3), n.d.
Box 1
Mary Eyre's book, 1873-92 and n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes account, mottos, daily activities, etc.

Sarah Thomas' Penmanship book, 1823.
Box 1
Elizabeth Knight's sketch book, 1856.
Box 1
Copybook, Jennie Thomson, ca. 1860's.
Box 1
Herbert Taylor's sketch book, 1883.
Box 1
Sketch book, 1883 and n.d.
Box 1
Diary of a trip to the West, 1892.
Box 1
Diary of a Trip to Florida/Trip to Yellowstone and the West, 1903-1909.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Trip to Yellowstone, Colorado, etc.

Continued Diary, 1910.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Trip to Yellowstone, Colorado, etc.

Trip to the West, 1934.
Box 1
"Cyphering book", Mordecai Thomas, n.d.
Box 2
Album, [Hannah Gardener?], n.d.
Box 2
Jane Thomson's copy book [poetry], 1864-1870.
Box 2
Copybook, Elizabeth Thomas, 1817.
Box 2
Scrapbook, Lydia [Croasdale?] and Mary Eyre, 1861.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of clippings, glued into 1810-1831 account book.

Poem (loose), Anne Coppock, 1834.
Box 2
Miscellaneous Poetry, n.d.
Box 2
"Safeguarding Education", n.d.
Box 2
"Mothers' Work", n.d.
Box 2
Miscellaneous, 1815-1864 &n.d.
Box 2

Deeds, 1768-1924 &n.d.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Deeds and indentures: Yerkes and Paul to Devisee, Sellers to Reed; Rush to Shoemaker, 1768; Lewis to Thomson, 1802; Peter Rush to Charles Shoemaker, 1805, Cheltenham; Ambler to Shoemaker, 1820; Taylor to Lollas (?), 1836; Buckman to Croasdale, 1839, Northampton; Taylor to Taylor, 1840, Lower Dublin; Wright to Taylor, 1840; Taylor and Vaughl (?) to Wright, 1840; Isaac and Charles Shoemaker to John W. Shoemaker, 1840, Cheltenham; Isaac and Charles Shoemaker to John W. Shoemaker, 1847, Cheltenham; Spencer Shoemaker to Jacob Myers, 1847, Cheltenham; John W. Shoemaker to Spencer Shoemaker, 1847; Fisher to Griffith, 1848; Fisher to Ryan, 1849; Taylor to Ronaldson, 1849; Fisher to Roberts, 1849; Paul to Mitchell, 1853; Kirk to Bradshaw, 1853; Moore to Stemple, 1853; Fisher to Thomson, 1853; Carver to Corson, 1854, Northampton; Jacob Myers to John A. Ervien, 1855, Cheltenham; Bradshaw to Penrose, 1860; Thomson to Morrison, 1860, Cheltenham; Exparte to Williams, 1863; Exparte to Williams, 1863; Williams to Shimson (?), 1863; Roberts to Morrison, 1864, Cheltenham; Stempel to Stempel, 1864; Reed to Morrison, 1864; Reed to Morrison, 1864; Dill to Cornell (?), 1864, Northampton; Morrison to Reed, 1864, Cheltenham; Cornell to Shaffer, 1867, Northampton; Cavender to Thomson, 1868; Reed to Sellers, 1870, Cheltenham; Croasdale to Scheifer, 1871, Northampton; Sellers to Barber, 1871, Cheltenham; Barber to Thomson, 1871, Cheltenham; Hagerman to Scheifer, 1873, Northampton; Finleg (?) to Holloway, 1874; Holloway to Roberts, 1875; Mudic to Scott, 1875, Gloucester; Franklin to Thomson, 1876; Lukens to Thomson, 1877; Carver to Carver, 1881, Northampton ; Corson to Schiefer, 1884; Corson to Schiefer, 1886; Wilson to Levis, 1887; Eastern to Schiefer, 1887, Northampton; Leech to Thomson, 1887; Rhodes to Eyre, 1888; Rhodes to Eyre, 1892, Newtown; Wight to Gilbert, 1896; Pindell to Scheifer, 1900 (?), Northampton (?); Myers and Ervien Company to American Fork and Hoe Company, 1902, Cheltenham; American Fork and Hoe Company to Landis, 1905, Cheltenham; Pindell to Goash (?), 1910; Pindell to Pindell, 1910; Hendrickson to Taylor, 1915; Thomson to Hendrickson, 1915, Cheltenham; Thomson to Wilson, 1916, Cheltenham; Thomson to Taylor, 1917, Mority(?); Landis to Taylor, 1919, Cheltenham; Taylor to Thomson, 1919, Cheltenham; Taylor to Thomson, 1924, Cheltenham, Certificate for lot at Fair Hill, 1868

Plot Plans, 1839-40, 1854.
Box 3
Agreements of Sale, 1915-1936.
Box 3
Account book, 1912-1919.
Box 3
List of mortgages on Cheltenham property (photocopy), 1855.
Box 3
Miscellaneous financial, Ca.1815-1918.
Box 4
Estate records, 1789-1908.
Box 4
Scope and Contents

Thomas and John Thomson and others acted as Executors for a number of local estates

Business and Financial Correspondence, 1798-1907.
Box 4
Account books (2), 1854-57/1823-1864.
Box 4
Property Searches, 1865-1868.
Box 4
Jane Thomson Farm Book, 1903-06.
Box 5
Ann Sutch estate transactions, 1827-1845.
Box 5
Ann Sutch household account book, 1849-1851.
Box 5

Quaker history notes, n.d.
Box 5
Miscellaneous, 1836-1955, n.d.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Includes issues of the Friends Journal, Friends Intelligencer, and the Public Ledger. Also beginning of term notice from Chesterfield School and newspaper clippings.

Clippings, 1892-1921 and n.d.
Box 5
Printed Quaker tracts, 1882-1903.
Box 5
Other printed material, 1894-1922 7 n.d.
Box 5
Article on L. Dawson Thomson, 1881.
Box 5
Genealogical papers, 1897 and n.d.
Box 5
Clothier Family photograph, ca. 1900.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

Copy photo. Family standing in front of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx.

Other Photos, 1923 and n.d.
Box 5
Scope and Contents

William Thomson Jr., Thomas Thomson, and photo of peony beds (1923)

Print, Suggest