Call Number:

SC.075

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (13 folders.))

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Collection of Logan Family Papers, SC/075.

Date:

1711-1821 (inclusive)

Creator:

Logan, James, 1674-1751, Logan, William, 1718-1776, and Logan, George, 1753-1821

Abstract:

This collection includes the letters of three generations of the Logan family. Among these are business letters of James Logan, in his function as executor of the Dickinson family will, and in reference to Pennsylvania business written to Hannah Penn and his primary business manager. Also included is a letter written to James Logan in Latin on a botanical subject. A business letter from William Logan to Dr. John Fothergill is also included. Of particular interest are letters from George Logan to his family, and one expressing his views on diplomatic relations with France. Also included are the will of George Logan and surveys of the Logan properties in 1717 and 1777.

James Logan was the secretary of William Penn. Born in Ireland in 1674, he travelled to Philadelphia with Penn in 1699. There he married Sarah Read in 1714, and began the erection of Stenton, the family mansion in Germantown, Pa. His eldest son, William, born in 1718, inherited Stenton in 1751 at James' death. William married Hannah Emlen, and died in 1776. His eldest son, George, born in 1753, married Deborah Norris in 1781. He died in 1821.