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Grange Papers

 Collection
Identifier: LAC-279-x

Scope and Contents

The Grange Papers collection includes deeds, indentures, and other legal documents primarily from New York, but including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, and England, from 1648-1867. Individuals include Francis Lovelace, second governor of New York Colony; Peter Stuyvesant, the last director-general of the colony of New Netherland; and Charles II, the King of England. The collection also includes several documents of the Cox family of Philadelphia.

Dates

  • Creation: 1663-1850

Extent

TBD Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Branch, February 1974.

Status
In Progress
Author
Lydia Hessel-Robinson
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Repository

Contact:
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