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Mifflin-Rasin-Jenkins 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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Call Number:
SC.080
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (2 folders.))
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Mifflin-Rasin-Jenkins Family Papers, 1740-1899.
Date:
1740-1899 (inclusive)
Creator:
Mifflin, Warner, 1745-1798, Rasin, Abraham, 1799-1826, and Jenkins, Ezekiel, 1802-1873
Abstract:
This collection includes legal documents and genealogical information on the Mifflin, Rasin and Jenkins families. Included are marriage records of Warner Mifflin and a will of Abraham Rasin and deeds of Elizabeth Jenkins. Also included is an account of a conversation between Warner Mifflin, an abolitionist, and an enslaved person he was about to emancipate.

Warner Rasin, son of Abraham and Rosamond Rasin of Kent Co., Delaware, married Ann Mifflin, the daughter of Warner and Elizabeth Mifflin. Their son, Abraham, was born in 1799 and married Patience M. Howell in 1822. Abraham and Patience Rasin had one son, Warner M. Rasin, born in 1823. After the death of Abraham, Patience married Ezekiel Jenkins.

Source of acquisition--Mrs. Arthur Rotman. Method of acquisition--Gift of.

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