Description: Mrs. Irvin H. McKesson collection on Samuel Jones family

Mrs. Irvin H. McKesson collection on Samuel Jones family

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McKesson, Irvin H., Mrs. (Creator)
Collection:	Mrs. Irvin H. McKesson Collection On Samuel Jones Family
Collection Number:	1542
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects and Genres:	Bustleton Baptist Church > 19th century Family life > Personal correspondence > 19th century. Genealogy. Pennepack Baptist Church > 18th century Pennepack Baptist Church > 19th century United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal Correspondence.
Tags:	Add Tag controversy whether laying on of hands was an ordinance like bap 1 david jones (1736-1820) 1 jones 1 laying on of hands 1 philadelphia baptist association 1 samuel 1 samuel jones (1735-1814) 1

Physical Description:	10.0 Linear feet 10 linear feet, 13 boxes, 58 volumes
Summary:	Papers of Samuel Jones and three generations of his descendants. Samuel Jones, a minister of Pennypack Baptist Church, Philadelphia, 1763-1814, is represented by incoming correspondence, sermons, personal and church records, and some miscellaneous legal items. There are papers, 1748-1812, of Alexander Edwards, Philadelphia storekeeper and active member of Jones' church, including incoming family correspondence, financial records, and miscellaneous legal papers. Jones's daughter, Sarah, married Robert Henderson, and then Theophilus Harris. Harris was a minister and justice of the peace for Philadelphia County, and some personal incoming correspondence, 1810-1845, court dockets, 1819-1833, daybook, 1822-1841, and miscellaneous legal items are found here. There is family correspondence, 1815-1861, of Samuel Jones Henderson, son of Sarah and Robert Henderson. Of special interest are Civil War letters between Laura Henderson Dade and her husband Frank Dade while he was serving as a Union Army physician stationed at Beaufort, S.C.

Physical Description:

10.0 Linear feet 10 linear feet, 13 boxes, 58 volumes

Summary:

Papers of Samuel Jones and three generations of his descendants. Samuel Jones, a minister of Pennypack Baptist Church, Philadelphia, 1763-1814, is represented by incoming correspondence, sermons, personal and church records, and some miscellaneous legal items. There are papers, 1748-1812, of Alexander Edwards, Philadelphia storekeeper and active member of Jones' church, including incoming family correspondence, financial records, and miscellaneous legal papers. Jones's daughter, Sarah, married Robert Henderson, and then Theophilus Harris. Harris was a minister and justice of the peace for Philadelphia County, and some personal incoming correspondence, 1810-1845, court dockets, 1819-1833, daybook, 1822-1841, and miscellaneous legal items are found here. There is family correspondence, 1815-1861, of Samuel Jones Henderson, son of Sarah and Robert Henderson. Of special interest are Civil War letters between Laura Henderson Dade and her husband Frank Dade while he was serving as a Union Army physician stationed at Beaufort, S.C.

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