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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Object ID: MG0846

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Box 1 Folder 1 Letter from James Gibbons in Chester, Chester County to Abraham Gibbons in Mill Creek, Lancaster County regarding his plan to sell the mill and tavern in Lancaster County with woodland and cleared

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Description: This collection contains letters, family papers, deeds, diaries, and mill records from three generations of the Gibbons family. The collection starts with documents focused on James Gibbons, then contains papers central to Daniel Gibbons, and finally end with the third generation papers surrounding Joseph Gibbons. The letters in this collection span from 1783 until 1865. The contents within the letters describe the daily happenings within the family and on their property which was located in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The family deeds in the collection detail the exchanging of property to and from the Gibbons family mostly within Lampeter Township and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County. The deeds span from 1727 to 1879. Also included are some miscellaneous family papers that span from 1799 to 1871. The content of these family papers ranges from anonymous stories about the Gibbons family, an independent order of Good Templars of Joseph Gibbons, to a land draft of James Gibbons' Land. This collection also contains diaries from various members of the Gibbons family, spanning the three generations. These diaries detail the day to day lives of the Gibbons family and also include historical anniversaries of important events or detail the passing of members within the Gibbons family and the surrounding community. The Mill Records in the collection contain information about [ ]. Overall, the Gibbons Family collection includes the regular happenings over the family's three generations in both business and secular life.

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

Creator: Gibbons family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Bonsall, Daniel; Bonsall, Edward Horne; Bonsall, Rachel; Brinton, William; Brown, Ellen; Brubaker, Marianna Gibbons; Conrad, Abraham; Dunbar, Andrew; Dunbar, Mary; Eaby, Christian; Eaby, Samuel; Earle, Mary Hussey; Evans, Thomas; Evans, Rebecca; Evans, William; Gibbons, Abraham; Gibbons, Caroline; Gibbons, Daniel; Gibbons, Deborah; Gibbons, Joseph; Gibbons, Phebe Hussey Earle; Gibbons, Rachel; Gibbons, Samuel; Gibbons, William; Grigs, Joseph; Hamilton, James; Hertzkey, John; Kendall, John; Kirk, Jeremiah; Lightfoot, Jepthat; Miller, Eliza; Miller, John; Reynolds, Margaret; Stauffer, Christian; Steer, Joseph; Stevens, Thaddeus; Thomas, William B.; Wartnaby, Elizabeth

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Letters; Mills and mill-work; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Diaries; Finding aids; Lampeter Twp.; Leacock Twp.; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mill Creek; Mills; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0846

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.008

Other Numbers: MG-846

Other Number: MG-846

Classification: MG0846

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Folders 1-30 processed and finding aid prepared from the donor's notes by MB, 8 July 2021. Added to database 12 July 2021.

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The Brandywine

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Author: Canby, Henry Seidel,

Date of Publication: 1941

Call Number: 974.813 C214

Responsibility: by Henry Seidel Canby, illustrated by Andrew Wyeth.

Author: Canby, Henry Seidel,

Place of Publication: New York, Toronto

Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated

Date of Publication: 1941

Physical Description: xi p., 2 Ã¸., 3-285 p. illus. 21 cm.

Series: Rivers of America

Notes: Illustrated t.-p. and lining-papers.; "A selected bibliography": p. 269-271.

Summary: "Mr. Canby has made this book strictly the history of the river, the story of what the Brandywine has meant to him and to others. It is not state or military or city history, but river history in its relations to American life....Henry Seidel Canby, the author, known for many years as a critic and authority on American literature, was born on the Brandywine and his family has lived on its banks for generations. He writes of the river from a great warmth of personal affection. The Brandywine is a little river of big events. New Sweden was founded at its mouth in the seventeenth century; William Penn's Quakers settled on its banks; and the greatest chemical company in the world, the Dupont Corporation, began in its narrow gorges. At the mouth of the Brandywine the first log cabins were built and the first prairie schooner was devised to haul grain to its flour mills. During the Revolution Washington fought across the fords of the Brandywine and, defeated because of his ignorance of geography, still conducted a masterful retreat. In The Brandywine are pictures of the brilliant refugee society of Wilmington at the time of the last great cycle of European wars, of the plantation life of the iron masters in the hills from which the river flows, and of the unusual Quaker society which made a culture of its own in the river valley. " [from the dust jacket]