%eadnotat; ]> 5081knfa An Inventory of the Knight Family Papers, 1737-1895 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1965 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG Knight Family Papers, 1737-1895 FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1965 Descriptive Summary Papers, 1737-1895 RG 5/081 Knight Family 2 boxes; 1 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. The Knight family was a Quaker family from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The collection contains chiefly legal and business papers of Jacob P. Tyson, his wife, Mary B. Michener Tyson, and others. Also contains family correspondence, wills, deeds, estate papers, biographical and genealogical materials, marriage certificates, memorabilia, printed material, and pictures. Includes material relating to the Michener and Warner families.

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 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL

The Knight family was a Quaker family from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

 SCOPE AND CONTENT

The collection contains chiefly legal and business papers of Jacob P. Tyson, his wife, Mary B. Michener Tyson, and others. Also contains family correspondence, wills, deeds, estate papers, biographical and genealogical materials, marriage certificates, memorabilia, printed material, and pictures. Includes material relating to the Michener and Warner families.

 Arrangement

The collection is divided into six series:

Biographical and genealogical Correspondence, 1829-1895 Business, financial, and legal papers Memorabilia Pictures Printed reference material. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Mr. and Mrs. P.E. Souder, 1965

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], Knight Family Papers, RG5/081, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

 SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings: Researchers are advised to search by subject and author, when applicable.

Deeds Genealogies Wills Quakers -- Pennsylvania Quakers -- Social life and customs Quakers -- Montgomery County (Pa.) Montgomery County (Pa.) -- Family and personal papers Montgomery County (Pa.) -- Genealogy Pennsylvania -- Family and personal papers -- 18th-19th centuries Pennsylvania -- Genealogy Michener family Tyson family Warner family Knight family Tyson, Jacob P., ca. 1809-1883 Tyson, Mary B. Michener, ca. 1814-1889 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Ser. 1. Biographical and genealogical material, 1862-1943, n.d. Notebook of biographical and genealogical data 1 Printed obituary of Isaac Warner, aged 3 years 1862 1 Clippings: re. marriage of Mary Knight, daughter of Mrs. P.E. Souder, to John Dale Schellenger 1943 1 Diary of a trip to Montreal1872 1

Author unknown. (Possibly Mary Knight Warner- traveling with cousins Alfred and Ellen Moore?)

 Ser. 2. Correspondence, 1829-1895, and n.d. Correspondence 1829-1895, n.d. 1

Among the authors are Joshua P. Kirk, Ellen Moore, John J. Moore, Jacob P. Tyson, Joshua Tyson, M. B. Tyson, Isaac Warner, Jr. Among the recipients are Mary T. Knight (later Warner), Mary Mitchner (Michener), Jacob P. Tyson, Watson Wood.

 Ser. 3. Business, financial, and legal papers, 1771-1895 Papers of Rebecca Kirk, 1883-1884 Funeral expenses 1883 1 Accounts of executors 1883 1 Inventory and appraisement of real and personal estate for Collateral Inheritance Tax 1884 1 Receipts for payments from the estate 1884 1 Papers of Sarah Michener, 1838-1857, n.d. Receipts for goods, services, taxes 1838-1857 (with gaps) 1 Tax notices 1850, 1854, 1855 1 Appraisement of goods n.d. 1 Papers of William Michener, 1765-1847 Approved as guardian of Mary Malone 1827 1 Bills and receipts for goods and services 1843, 1844, 1847 1 Inventory and appraisement 1847 2 copies 1 Certificate of marriage of William Michener to Juliana Taylor Aug. 6, 1765at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia County, Pa. 1 Certificate of marriage of William Michener to Mary Beans,Mar. 27, 1813 Philadelphia. 1 Notebook, record of public sale of land 1847 1 Settlement of estate 1834 1 copy Will6-19-1846 1 2 ms. copies Papers of James D. Ritter, Search for mortgages 1850 1 Papers of Jacob P. Tyson, 1840-1876 Certificate of marriage to Mary B. Michener 2-13-1840 at Horsham Meeting House 1

Removed to Marriages

 Bank book 1866-1874 1 Bank checks, cancelled 1867-1869, 1873 1 Indenture, Jacob P. Tyson and Bethlehem Iron Co. 1872 1 Accounts of ore mined on his property 1873, 1874 1

Includes letters from Bethlehem Iron Co. referring to checks in payment for ore; also, correspondence 1874 re: removal of pipe line laid by the Co.

 As administrator, guardian or trustee, 1856-1876: 1 Trustee of Benjamin and Rachel S. Hallowell. Notebook of receipts 1860 Trustee of estate of Hannah Hamel. Notebook of accounts 1857-1876 1 Guardian of Jane Bradshaw's children. Notebook of receipts 1855-1858 1 Guardian of Jacob Kirk's estate. Notebook of accounts 1856-1858 4 receipts, 1856. 1 Guardian of William Henry Auble 1863 1 Guardian of Emma F. and Anna P. Kirk. Account 1860 1 Administrator of goods and chattel of Ann Stevens,1864 1 Administrator of estate of Jonathan Michener. Receipt 1870 1 Guardian of Jacob L. Tyson 1 Memoranda of Jacob P. Tyson's estate1865, 1866 1 Miscellaneous business papers of Jacob P. Tyson, 1838-1877, including: Jacob P. Tyson, treas., Willow-Grove and Germantown Plank Road Co. 1 Payments made by Co. 1870, 1871 1 Transfer of 34 shares of stock from Robert Picken and Co. to Harman Yukes 1857 1 License to build gate 1868 1 Receipt for payment of tuition for Joseph C. Tyson 1838 1 Tax assessment 1859 1 Receipt for payment of assessment for Independent Mutual Fire Insurance Co.1866 1 Receipt for safe for Jacob P. Tyson, shipped on North Pennsylvania Rail Road,1866 1 Promissory notes, Ezekiel Tyson to Jacob P. Tyson 1864, 1869 1 2 notes Order on National Bank of Germantown to pay to Hutchinson Smith $200. Signed by Jacob P. Tyson, 1873 1 Check on Jenkintown National Bank, to pay $8,846.28 to same 1 Signed Mary B. Tyson, executrix for estate of Jacob P. Tyson 1877 1 Tax notices 1853-1868 1 Tax receipts 1851-1869 1 Will7-31-1875 1 ms. copy Papers of Mary B. Tyson, 1885-1889 Articles of agreement between Mary B. Tyson and George Emerson 1885 1 Bill for carpentry1885 1 Papers re: estate1889 1 Papers of Sarah P. Tyson, 1836-1855 Lease to Kirkbride Rickey 1836 1 2 receipts 1836, 1837 for goods and services. 1 Inventory and appraisement1854 1 notebook and ms. copy Notebook containing record of payments of Jacob P. Tyson, executor of estate of Sarah P. Tyson1854, 1855 1 Records of public sale of goods and chattel1854 1 Settlement of estate 1855 1 copy Will 9-23-1854 1 ms. copy Articles of Agreement, 1840-1866 Sarah T. Michener and Henry Messer 1840 1 Sarah T. Michener and George W. Duffield 1858 1 David Lukens and John Shaffer 1866 1 Bonds and Warrants, 1737-1842 Abel Hinckstone to Andrew Hamilton, Jeremiah Langhorne, Richard Hayes, John Wright1737 1 John and Sarah Tolan to Benjamin Tyson 1826 1 Thomas Tyson to David Thomas, administrator of estate of Peter Tyson 1831 1 Garrett Wynkoop to William Michener 1842 1 Deeds, 1774-1843 Benjamin Gilbert and wife Elizabeth to John Gilbert, Byberry June 25, 1774 2 John Gilbert and wife Ann to John Hawkes and John McMullen, Byberry Mar. 25, 1796 2 Stevenson Croasdale and wife Martha to James Field, land partly in Bensalem, Bucks Co., and partly in Byberry, Phila. Co. Nov. 27, 1843 2 Drawings (plot plans), 1783, 1799 Josiah Hart's land 1783 2 John McMullin's land 1799 2 Indenture: Thomas Earp, Thomas Rogers, Edward Needles, William C. Hancock, William McGlenry, George L. Eyre, Benjamin Kline, managers of Almshouse, Philadelphia, put John Sheerer to work for Thomas Tyson 1826 (cancelled) 2 Inventories and appraisements 2 Leases, 1832-1875 Thomas Tyson to Sarah Hobensack 1832 2 Jacob Kirk to John S. Terry 1855 2 Emeline M. Tyson, Tacie T. Tyson, Anna M. Tyson, Lizzie H. Tyson, and Jacob P. Tyson, to John H. Tyson 1875 2 Marriage certificate: Isaac Beans to Christiana Johnston Dec. 19, 1771 2 Miscellaneous business papers, 1824-1895, n.d., including: Receipts for goods and services 1829-1895 and n.d. 2 Receipt for tuition for Elizabeth, Hannah and Ann Knight, paid to Mary W. Shourds 1829 2

Includes tuition for Clayton Tyson, paid to William Johnson, 1835.

 Funeral expenses for Hannah and Mary Knight 1832 2 Payments on share of stock in Farmer's Hay and Straw Market Association 1834 2 Subscription to Norristown Herald, by Thomas Tyson1834 2 Subscription to Germantown Telegraph, by Sarah T. Michener1850 2 Notices to relinquish possession of property 1832, 1835, 1843, 1852, 1855 2 Tax notices 1850, 1856 2 Public sale, land of Jacob Kirk 1855 2 notebook Public sale, land of Benjamin Tyson 1857 2 Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co., policy of John K. Tyson 1876 2 Receipts for payments of road, county, and dog taxes1824-1835 2

Includes record of sale of cows, 1833, 1834, 1854.

 Thomas Tyson 2 notebook “Survey, Fire Co., and Memorandum.” Notebook, so labeled, containing descriptions of houses and amounts of insurance. n.d. 2 Mortgage: John Tolan and wife Sarah to Benjamin Tyson 1827 2 Memorandum of title 1850 2 Order to Sell: Land of Rynear Tyson 1857 2 Release: Alfred Tyson to John Shaw and Jacob P. Tyson 1869 2 Settlements of estates, 1824-1878, n.d.: 2 Charles Lukens 1824 2 Thomas Tyson 1837 2 Mary Dull, 1837 settlement from estate of Thomas Tyson. 2 Jacob Kirk 1855-1858 2 Samuel Johnson Pickering1878 2 Isaac Mitchnor n.d. 2 Mary Beans Michenern.d. 2 Wills, 1814-1879, in chronological order: ms. copies Isaac Beans 9-7-1814 2 Thomas Tyson 3-17-1815 2 Joseph Lukens 3-26-1838 2

Includes extract relating to Abington M.M.

 Anna P. Cooper 3-16-1854 2 Sarah T. Michener 1-21-1860 2 Isaac Beans4-13-1860 2 Jane E. McDowell7-12-1872 2 Rebecca Kirk 10-16-1879 2 Ser. 4. Memorabilia, 1795-1895, n.d. Jacob Tyson's Friendship Book 1831 2 Verses by Grace Lloyd, in memory of Hannah Yarnall, wife of Dr. Peter Yarnall 1795 2 Verses for silver wedding anniversary of Jonathan and Mary Ann Thomas n.d. 2 Invitations 1812-1875 and n.d. 2 Ser. 5. Pictures Jacob P. Tyson 2 2 pictures Charles Kirk 2 Ser. 6. Reference material, ca. 1800-1870, n.d. printed The Indian Helper, Aug. 1800? 2 Epistle, Phila. YM to all members 1812 2 Extracts, Phila. YM 4mo 15-19, 1822 2 Extracts, Phila. YM 4mo 21-25, 1823 2 Epistle, London YM, to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings, in Great Britain, Ireland, and Elsewhere 1824 5mo 19-27. 2 Epistle, Phila. YM, to Friends on the Continent of America 1833 2 Extracts, Phila. YM 1841 2 Charter and By-Laws of the Independent Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 1853 2 Friends Social Lyceum, announcement of reunion 1865 2 Train schedule, Phila., Germantown, and Norristown RR. 1870 2 Advertising card, C. Tolan, photographer n.d. 2 A History of the Townships of Byberry and Moreland, in Philadelphia, Pa., by Joseph C. Martindale. Pub. Phila., T. Ellwook Zell 1867 2