Description: Jasper Yeates Brinton collection

Jasper Yeates Brinton collection

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Main Author:	Brinton, Jasper Yeates 1878- (Creator)
Collection:	Jasper Yeates Brinton Collection
Collection Number:	1619
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
Subjects and Genres:	Land settlement and speculation > Northeastern states > 18th century. Marriage and Divorce > 18th century Shipbuilding > Philadelphia > 18th century Social Life and Customs > 18th century. Social life and customs > 19th century.
Online Access:	Link to finding aid
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Physical Description:	17.0 Linear feet 39 boxes, 10 volumes, 12 flat files
Summary:	The collection is arranged in following three series: Steinmetz, Smith, and Brinton sections. The John Steinmetz section, 1762-1792, concerns primarily the Philadelphia wholesale merchant and import business which Steinmetz operated with his brother-in-law Henry Keppele. Steinmetz was an active supporter of the Revolution, but the bulk of the correspondence is for the pre-Revolutionary period and some material for the 1790's, with little for the intervening period. Major correspondents are: James Arbuckel (Chester County), William Bell (Lancaster), Nathaniel Blencowe (Kingwood, W.Va.), Benjamin and John Bower (Manchester, England), Alexander McCauley (Chester County), and Parr, Bulkeley and Company (Lisbon, Portugal). Receipted bills, invoices, manifests, and other financial papers are more evenly distributed although there is still a dearth of material on the war years. There are also letters, 1790-1798, concerned with son [John] Henry Steinmetz's divorce. The rest of the collection deals mostly with real estate transactions of William Smith and his son Charles Smith, and other family landholdings, 1763-1835. Although William Smith was provost of the University of Pennsylvania, an organizer of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and an active Loyalist during the Revolution, there is little material for these activities. Correspondence, legal papers, surveys and field books pertain to lands in Pennsylvania, New York (among which appear some Tench Coxe letters on political questions), Maryland, Maine, and Nova Scotia, along with similar papers of Charles Smith as executor of his father's estate. Additional Charles Smith papers, 1791-1835, relate to his own interests in landholdings. Smith sat as president judge of the Pennsylvania District Court at Lancaster, 1820-1824, reflected by a few letters of Andrew Gregg and Smith's trial notes. There are also letters, 1836-1843, concerning a dispute over Charles Smith's estate revealing domestic difficulties between Smith's daughter and son-in-law Thomas B. McElwee. A small section of miscellaneous Brinton family papers includes Lt. Ward Brinton letters, July-October, 1916, to his mother while on duty in the Medical Reserves Corps during Mexican border actions.

Physical Description:

17.0 Linear feet 39 boxes, 10 volumes, 12 flat files

Summary:

The collection is arranged in following three series: Steinmetz, Smith, and Brinton sections. The John Steinmetz section, 1762-1792, concerns primarily the Philadelphia wholesale merchant and import business which Steinmetz operated with his brother-in-law Henry Keppele. Steinmetz was an active supporter of the Revolution, but the bulk of the correspondence is for the pre-Revolutionary period and some material for the 1790's, with little for the intervening period. Major correspondents are: James Arbuckel (Chester County), William Bell (Lancaster), Nathaniel Blencowe (Kingwood, W.Va.), Benjamin and John Bower (Manchester, England), Alexander McCauley (Chester County), and Parr, Bulkeley and Company (Lisbon, Portugal). Receipted bills, invoices, manifests, and other financial papers are more evenly distributed although there is still a dearth of material on the war years. There are also letters, 1790-1798, concerned with son [John] Henry Steinmetz's divorce. The rest of the collection deals mostly with real estate transactions of William Smith and his son Charles Smith, and other family landholdings, 1763-1835. Although William Smith was provost of the University of Pennsylvania, an organizer of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and an active Loyalist during the Revolution, there is little material for these activities. Correspondence, legal papers, surveys and field books pertain to lands in Pennsylvania, New York (among which appear some Tench Coxe letters on political questions), Maryland, Maine, and Nova Scotia, along with similar papers of Charles Smith as executor of his father's estate. Additional Charles Smith papers, 1791-1835, relate to his own interests in landholdings. Smith sat as president judge of the Pennsylvania District Court at Lancaster, 1820-1824, reflected by a few letters of Andrew Gregg and Smith's trial notes. There are also letters, 1836-1843, concerning a dispute over Charles Smith's estate revealing domestic difficulties between Smith's daughter and son-in-law Thomas B. McElwee. A small section of miscellaneous Brinton family papers includes Lt. Ward Brinton letters, July-October, 1916, to his mother while on duty in the Medical Reserves Corps during Mexican border actions.

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