A collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century deeds and indentures regarding the Canby family’s acquisition of mills or mill seats and surrounding lands near the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware. Materials date from 1719 to 1863 and are presented on vellum or paper. Numerous deeds, leases, condemnations, mortgages, conveyances, and maps are contained within. Highlights include a large 1796 hand-colored map documenting a land dispute along the Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware. Local families involved in this dispute include Hollingsworth, Morton, Canby, and Shipley. Notations in iron gall and red ink, include illustrations notating buildings along the ‘Brandy Wine Creek’; a sketch of the Christiana Creek [River]; a drawing of the bridge crossing the Brandywine near Market and King Streets. The stream system of Rattle Snake run is also notated. A late eighteenth or early nineteenth century genealogical history of descendants of Dr. Timon Stidham (Timothy Steadman) of Wilmington, Delaware, records the shares of his estate given to his children and the subsequent descendants of those shares to Stidham’s heirs through the eighteenth century.