Deford papers, 1790-1872

Consisting mainly of receipts and bills for goods and services purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Deford, 1870-72, and deeds and other legal documents concerning farmland and other property in Pennsylvania and involving such persons as William McVitty, John Taylor, George Johnston, and others, 1790-1843. Also, receipts and bills of Benjamin Deford, 1841-1843, a few items of Thomas Deford correspondence, including an 1861 letter from the “Committee for the Ward” advising him to keep his “most violent ‘Union’ or ‘Administration’ sentiments” to himself, or reserve such pronouncements to where they will be more hospitably received, and many letters of sympathy for the family of Benjamin Deford upon his death in 1870.