Form: Land Surveys - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 4 linear foot and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: Civil engineer, surveyor, and landlord Wilbur T. Wilson (1856-1942) maintained this collection of survey notebooks, files, plans, blueprints, and approximately 500 maps related to land and structures in his home of Newark, Delaware.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .6 linear foot (2 boxes)
Abstract:: The Waples Family Papers, spanning the dates 1753-1864, outline the family's role in the economic development of Milton in Broadkill Hundred, Delaware. But the bulk of the collection, 1851-1864, focuses on Gideon B. Waples, beginning with the pre-Civil War period when he was a student at Delaware College. After he voluntarily left his studies, he became a farmer and businessman in southern Delaware; he also served as a political aide to two governors of Delaware during the Civil War.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 7 linear foot (circa 4000 items) and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: The Brinton family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 60 linear foot and 1 oversize removal
Abstract:: Shipley, Bringhurst, and Hargraves are the family names associated with Rockwood, a Victorian Rural Gothic Revival mansion and estate that was built in north Wilmington, Delaware, between 1851 and 1854. The Hargraves were the last family to privately own Rockwood before its donation to New Castle County in the mid-1970s as a historic house museum and public park. The Shipley-Bringhurst-Hargraves family papers document the personal and professional lives, as well as the ancestry and legacy, of several generations of Delawareans associated with Rockwood.

Held at: University of Delaware Library Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1 item (2 pages)
Abstract:: A handwritten survey of a 769 acre tract of land in near White Clay Creek, Delaware, conducted by Thomas Pierson, surveyor of New Castle County, accompanied by a drawing of the land and its borders.

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Extent:: 1 item (1 page)
Abstract:: Land survey of Delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress William Williams's land, created by George Dakeyne, New Castle County, Delaware, surveyor, detailing the limitations of the property upon the branches of the Apoquinimink River in 1703.

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Extent:: 1 item (2 pages)
Abstract:: Land survey conducted by John McClughan, for land belonging to Delaware politician Thomas Duff in Newport, New Castle, Delaware, on February 2, 1750.

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Extent:: 1 item (2 pages)
Abstract:: A manuscript land survey of plots of land in Town of New Castle, in the name of New Castle merchant Samuel Vanleuvenigh but probably written by a clerk, dated May 28, 1752.

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