Samuel Preston diaries
Preston was a Buckingham Township conveyancer and surveyor. He records trips to Delaware, Maryland, and through Pennsylvania as a business agent for Philadelphia merchants John Field, John Thompson, Henry Drinker, Mordecai Lewis, and others; also as a land agent for Drinker. The diaries record bus...
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Collection: | Samuel Preston Diaries |
Collection Number: | Am.1274 |
Format: | Manuscript |
Language: | English |
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Preston was a Buckingham Township conveyancer and surveyor. He records trips to Delaware, Maryland, and through Pennsylvania as a business agent for Philadelphia merchants John Field, John Thompson, Henry Drinker, Mordecai Lewis, and others; also as a land agent for Drinker. The diaries record business activity, much of it consisting of debt collection, and observations on people and places. |