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Box 02

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Contains 128 Results:

Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates, 1878-1889

 File — Box: 02, Folder: 13-14
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains materials from the Smyth, Young, Willson, and Strong families that have resided at Trumpington Manor for over three centuries. Much of the collection is the correspondence of Anna Young of Washington D.C. who married into the Willson family at Trumpington. Much of the later material was compiled by Mildred Strong, including the research on the Smyth family.This collection contains four series: Young family papers; Willson family papers; Smyth family...
Dates: 1878-1889
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence

Envelope, 1858; 1961

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Envelope originally addressed to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Willson and postmarked 1961. Notes on the envelope notes other letters including one from Anna to Ben in 1858.

Dates: 1858; 1961
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Anna M. Willson letter to Benjamin Young, 1878 March 12

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Letter regarding news of friends and family.

Dates: 1878 March 12
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Anna M. Willson, at Rock Hall, MD, letter to Benjamin Young, at Washington D.C., 1878 July 8

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Letter mentions recent illnesses at Trumpington and building a brick church in Chestertown dedicated to the Sacred Heart, and news of other family and friends.

Dates: 1878 July 8
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Anna M. Willson letter to Benjamin Young, 1880 April 2

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Letter mentions illnesses, issues with their cook, James Wickes, waterman in the area, and news of other family and friends.

Dates: 1880 April 2
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Wilfred Young, at Georgetown, D.C., letter to Benjamin Young, 1883 July 29

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Letter regarding missing valise, the Notley Young estate, and news of family and friends.

Dates: 1883 July 29
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Anna M. Willson letter to Benjamin Young, 1889 February 8

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Letter regarding news of family and friends including the death of Mr. Baker.

Dates: 1889 February 8
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Mr. Washington A. Young, at Nonesuch, letter to Benjamin Young, 1883 October 23

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Letter regarding a future hunting trip to the Eastern Shore.

Dates: 1883 October 23
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Mr. Washington A. Young letter to Benjamin Young, 1883 October 31

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note

Letter regarding details of a hunting trip at the Willson’s on November 7, 1883, they will meet at Grey’s Inn landing with their dogs and guns. Also mentions that he has not had a drink in six weeks and Miss Bella has taken a job at the Treasury Department.

Dates: 1883 October 31
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

Mr. Washington A. Young letter to Benjamin Young, 1884 April 27

 Item — Box: 02, Folder: 13
Scope and content note Letter regarding concern on hearing of the Willson’s and other family member recent illnesses, his farm, death of Harry Naylon’s mother and wife in childbirth, A.’s sobriety, he mentions that Nonesuch will not regain its antebellum glory, when George Washington Young owned Nonesuch before the Civil War he was the largest slave holder in the District of Columbia. The letter also talks about “Old” Douglas, presumably an African American, marrying a white woman, A. Young’s opinion is he should...
Dates: 1884 April 27
Found in: Washington College Archives & Special Collections / Trumpington family papers / Young family papers / Anna Martha Young Willson correspondence / Benjamin Young correspondence and certificates

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