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Drawer MD-5

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Brandywine Manufacturers' Sunday School, subscription list containing 142 signatures, with amounts subscribed and places of residence indicated, 1816 November 2

 File — drawer: MD-5
Accession: LMSS-IXIdentifier: LMSS-IX-I.
Scope and Contents:

For the establishment of a non-sectarian school for children and adults in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. The subscribers include E.I. du Pont, Victor du Pont, Charles I. du Pont, James Brindley, J. D. Carter & Co., Charles Dalmas, Du Planty, McCall & Co., Peter Hendrickson, John Hirons, George Hodgson, William Larkin, John Siddall, James Siddall, and a great many factory workers.

Dates: 1816 November 2

Plats of land, 1790-1823

 File — drawer: MD-5
Accession: LMSS-IXIdentifier: LMSS-IX-III.
Scope and Contents:

Includes: land of Samuel Gregg, 239 acres on the Brandywine, New Castle County, Delaware, by Stuart Richey; Peter Hendrickson and John Simmons attestation concerning John Gregg's land boundries in New Castle County, Delaware; land purchased from Jacob Broom by E.I. du Pont in New Castle County, Delaware, showing the original plan for the powder mill; land included in an area between the Brandywine and the Wilmington & Kennett Turnpike, Delaware, showing the mills, with names, along the Brandywine; land and premises of the Brandywine Mill Seat Co. by Fairlamb & Read; land of E.I. du Pont in Christiana Hundred, Delaware, by Jonas P. Fairlamb; lands of the Du Pont family in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna River area, and at Angelica, New York; the fruit orchard of E.I. du Pont at Eleutherian Mills, in his own hand, with plantings of various trees indicated; and several unidentified plats.

Dates: 1790-1823

Deed of James Odier (by his attorneys) to Peter Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, of the Republic of France, then of Philadelphia, 1800 April 2

 File — drawer: MD-5
Accession: LMSS-IXIdentifier: LMSS-IX-III.
Scope and Contents:

Odier's attorneys were John Toussaint Bousquet and Augustine Bousquet, of Philadelphia. For 56,000 acres of land (for $22,400) in Fayette County, Virginia, originally granted to John Young and John Phillips in 1786. This land was actually in Kentucky. Odier was the brother-in-law of Jacques Antoine Bidermann (1751-1817), one of the Paris shareholders in the firm of Du Pont de Nemours, Père et Fils & Cie.

Dates: 1800 April 2