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Moore-Tyson 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 Moores and Tysons were Maryland Quaker families. Robert Rowland Moore (1863-1934) was married in 1886 to Margaret Gittings Tyson (1859-1937). She was descended from Elisha Tyson, prominent Quaker abolitionist, and George Ellicott of Ellicott City, Maryland. Robert Rowland Moore was descended from William Wilson Moore (1786-1855) who married Tabitha Brook Rowland (1790-1817) in 1808 at Motherkill Monthly Meeting, Md., and also from Joseph Townsend (1756-1841), who wrote an account of the Battle of Brandywine and subsequently moved to Baltimore.
The collection contains secondary and genealogical information, photographs, diaries, and some miscellaneous papers descending in the Moore, Townsend, Ellicott, and Tyson families of Maryland. It includes writings about Elisha Tyson and the Tyson family, a copybook and other material concerning Joseph Townsend, Mary Ellicotts diary of a journey to State of Ohio (1819) with secondary material on Ellicott City and the Ellicott family, and Tabitha B. Rowland Moore's diary and copybook (1805-1815).
Organization: Organized in four series: 1. Moore family; 2. Townsend family; 3. Ellicott family; 4. Tyson family.
Deposit, Esther Leeds Cooperman (a descendant of the families), 1998, 2007.
Received divided into envelopes according to family: Moore, Townsend, Ellicott, Tyson. The photographs were labeled by Hadassah Moore Leeds and her daughter, Esther Cooperman. Photographs removed to FHL Picture Collection, PA 118. Copy of Life of Elisha Tyson (1825) removed to duplicates.
Moore-Tyson Picture Collection (PA 118):
Tyson Family: Tyson, Nathan (1787-1867), carte de visite; Tyson, Nathan, 8 x 10 oval ; Tyson, Martha Ellicott (1795-1873), carte de visite; Tyson, Henry, (1821-1897) 9x11 ; Tyson, Henry, oval 3-1/2 x 5; Tyson, Mary Gillingham (1825-1892), oval 3-1/2 x 5; Tyson, Martha Ellicott (married Robert Marshall), cabinet card; Tyson, Robert (husband of Martha Ellicott Tyson) ; Group picture, Eliz. Canby Rumford, Eliz. Tatnal, Alice Tyson, Hannah Tyson Simmonds; Home of Henry and Mary Tyson, Baltimore, MD.
Moore Family: Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Thomas), 1838-1906), 3 photographs, cabinet sized; Moore, William Wilson, (1837-1914), 3 photographs.
Townsend-Moore Family: Townsend, Richard, carte de visite; Hadassah Joanna (Townsend) Moore with her great-grandchildren. Digital scan, Hadassah Joanna Moore with great-granddaughter, Hadassah Joanna Moore (2 copy photos); Robert R. and Hadassah J. Moore, ca. 1895, cabinet card; Robert Rowland Moore, 2 cabinet sized; Hadassah Joanna Moore, 2 copies cabinet sized, 1 carte de visite; Robert Rowland Moore with his three sons, 6 x 9; Esther Moore (married Appleton), cabinet sized; Joseph Townsend Moore.
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Collection Inventory
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Includes: biography of R. Rowland Moore by Beatrix Moore, 1934; biography of Margaret G.T. Moore and Estella Tyson Moore by M.E.L and [Hadassah Moore Leeds], 1937; short biographical note and newspaper obituary of Elizabeth Moore Mitchell; Notes on Farmers Club Meetings at Plainfield from 1844-1956.
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Letter from Aunt Nannie Simmonds to her sister, Margaret G.T. Moore, February 1917, while both are in England, discusses war and a wounded [relative?]
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Marriage certificate, William Wilson Moore (1786-1855) and Tabitha Brock Rowland at Motherkill
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Tabitha B. Rowland (1790-1817) diary (1812-1815) and copybook (drafts of letters while at Pleasant Hill Boarding School, 1805)
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William W. Moore (1837-1914), silver anniversary invitation, will, and obituary.
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Memorabilia, primarily from the anniversary of R. R. and Hadassah in 1894 and Hadassah's 80th birthday in 1896.
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Baltimore Sun about Thomas Moore, ice-box inventor, 4 mo 20 1952; newspaper clippings about 1936 wedding of Elizabeth Moore and Joseph Mitchell.
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Includes: two silhouette cards; empty stamp book with name, Miss Moore; war rationing materials of Elizabeth Moore Mitchell; Strawbridges and Clothier receipt; Distribution of possessions of Margaret G.T. Moore, 1937
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Handwritten copy
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Autograph letter signed, concerning his father's death.
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Published by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Typescript, dated 1911. The Rise and Progress of the Town of Ellicott's Mills, by John J. Tyson, 1810, with cover letter and note by Lucy Fitzhugh.
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Booklet by Martha E. Tyson
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Booklet by C. Ellis Ellicott, Jr.
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Photocopy
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Typed
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Compiled by Rose Clymer Rumford. Photocopy.
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Frank Willing Leach, CXX Tyson. MS.
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1975 thesis by Leroy Graham, Morgan State College. Photocopy.
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The Henry Tyson Line: Addendum III by J. Rush Marshall, 2005; The Elisha Tyson Family of Jericho Mills and Baltimore Town compiled by Hunter C. Sutherland, n.d.
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