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Title: Peters, S. to Sarah Franklin Bache, 1778 April 25
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:516
Description: Letter from S. Peters to Sally Bache discussing family matters.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Peters, S.
Source: Sarah Franklin Bache Papers (Mss.B.B1245); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B1245-ead.xml
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Children--America--History--18th century; Social networks--18th century; Female friendship; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; ; ;
Date: 1778-04-25; 2021

Title: Bache, Sarah Franklin to "My dear Brother and My dear Sister," 1782
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:524
Description: Letter from Sally Bache to unknown recipient, likely her brother-in-law, Theophylact Bache, and one of her sisters-in-law. Sally updates them on family matters, sharing aspects of her and Richard Bache's children's lives and emphasizes that Mr. Bache is offended that his sister does not write him.; Possibly a draft letter.; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808
Source: Sarah Franklin Bache Papers (Mss.B.B1245); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B1245-ead.xml
Subject: Lived Experience; War and families--United States--History--18th century; Women--History--18th century; Children--America--History--18th century; Bache, Richard, 1737-1811
Date: approximately 1782; 2021

Title: Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de (James Le Ray) to William Temple Franklin, 1779 May 02; Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de (James Le Ray), 1760-1841. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:25414
Description: Letter from Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont to William Temple Franklin. Gives an account of his journey and the vessels he saw in port. Was on board the "Bon Homme Richard." Saw Lady Gransby the renowned English beauty. Asks for news about Miss La Bahard and the Brillon family.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Social networks--18th century; United States--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Women--History--18th century; Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de (James Le Ray), 1760-1841; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1779-05-02; 2022

Title: Story, Mary to Sarah Franklin Bache, 1796 January 2
Identifier(s): text:320705
Description: Letter from Mary Story to Sally Bache.
Creator: Story, Maryet al
Subject: Women--History--18th century; Female friendship; Social networks--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808; Currie, Mary; Pole, A.; Vaughan, Sarah Hallowell
Date: 1796-01-02; 2021

Title: Potts, A. to Sarah Franklin Bache, 1783 March 3
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:512
Description: Letter from A. Potts to Sally Bache. Potts discusses family and political matters, mentioning her daughter's education and the news that Dr. Franklin [Benjamin Franklin] "arrived with the articles of peace."; American Philosophical Society
Creator: Potts, A.
Source: Sarah Franklin Bache Papers (Mss.B.B1245); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B1245-ead.xml
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Children--America--History--18th century; Social networks--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Education--America--History--18th century; ; ; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1783-03-03; 2021

Title: Coleman, William to Elizabeth Coleman Sellers, 1783 April 8; Coleman, William, 1735-. Letter to Mrs. Eliza[beth] Coleman [Sellers], Philadelphia
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8893
Description: Letter from William Coleman to his cousin Elizabeth Coleman Sellers. Coleman discusses the peace between the United States and Britain and his inability to write over the past five years. He then updates Coleman Sellers on the family, including his mother's health, his family, as well as his sister's daughters (Ann and Mary).; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Family life--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace; War and families; Women--History--18th century; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century
Date: 1783-04-08; 2022

Title: Wistar, Margaret to Catharine Haines, 1774 January 6 - 1789 July 04; From: Margaret Wistar Haines to David Rittenhouse
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7831
Description: Letters written by Margaret Wistar to her daughter Catherine Haines between 1774 and 1789. The topics of the letters are mainly on family life, including other family members' activities and health. There is also a letter addressed to a cousin, presumably Catherine Wistar.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Family life--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Hartshorne, Catherine Haines, 1761-1808; Wistar, Catherine
Date: 1774-1789; 2022

Title: Pole, A. to Sarah Franklin Bache, 1795 March 13
Identifier(s): text:320682
Description: Letter from A. Pole to Sally Bache concerning family and friends.
Creator: Pole, A.et al
Subject: Women--History--18th century; Female friendship; Social networks--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808; Hoppner, Phoebe, 1761-1827; Bache, William, 1773-1818
Date: 1795-03-13; 2021

Title: Account by Lowry Wister, [1781]; Account by Wister, Lowry
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7649
Description: Lowrey Wister's account of her son's life and death. She writes of William Wister's birth and her concern of having too much attachment to him as she had previously experienced the death of an infant son. She continues to describe him as clever and discusses her attachment to him. Lowrey describes his illness. Lowrey carefully details his illness and her administrations.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Family life--18th century; Households--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century; Motherhood; Women--History--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Child care--18th century; Child care--18th century; Wister, William, 1778-1781
Date: [1781]; 2022

Title: Hewson, Mary Stevenson to Sarah Franklin Bache, 1768 February 24
Identifier(s): text:320670
Description: Letter from Mary Stevenson to Sally Bache. Mary (Benjamin Franklin's confidante and landlady in London) mentions Sally's desire to marry Richard Bache against her father's wishes.
Creator: Hewson, M. S. (Mary Stevenson)et al
Subject: Marriage; Women--History--18th century; Female friendship; Social networks--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808; Bache, Richard, 1737-1811; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Date: 1768-02-24; 2021

Title: Haines, Hannah Marshall collected poetry, 1781; Hannah Marshall Haines: Notebook; poetry collected by HMH
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7781
Description: Hannah Marshall Haines' book of poetry, including "An Elegiac Poem on the Death of an only Daughter, who died aged 11 years", "On General Washington", "On reading Robert Barclay's Apology for the true Christian Divinity", "Elegy to the Memory of M Wakefield", "A Moral Reflection Written on the Last Day of the Year 1780", "On Benjamin Trotter", "By Elisabeth Carter, in her eighteenth year", "Beauty's a fair but fading flower, or, the Rose", "On the Death of Mary Mayberry" amongst others.; Blank pages were not scanned.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Family life--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Poetry; Poetry
Date: 1781; 2022

Title: Hutchinson, James to Katherine Rickey Hutchinson Milnor, 1775 December 20
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7331
Description: Letter from James Hutchinson to his mother updating her on his time in London and sending wishes to all back in Philadelphia.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Medical education--England; Education--America--History--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Women--History--18th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Pemberton, Israel, 1715-1779
Date: 1775-12-20; 2022

Title: Correspondence to Margaret Wistar Haines, 1756 August 25 - 1783 October 22; Morris Birkbeck To: Margaret Wistar Haines
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7902
Description: Letters written to Margaret Wistar in 1576 and 1783 from Samuel Fathergill and Morris Birkbeck.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Family life--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Fothergill, Samuel, 1715-1772; Birkbeck, Morris
Date: 1756-1783; 2022

Title: Wistar, Margaret to Yearly Meeting of Women Friends; From: Margaret Wistar Haines to Yearly Meeting of Women Friends
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7755
Description: Miscellaneous notes and letters written by Margaret Wistar Haines to various individuals, including her daughter Catherine Haines, the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, and her children.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Family life--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Hartshorne, Catherine Haines, 1761-1808; Haines, Caspar Wistar, 1762-1801
Date: undated; 2022

Title: "Lenox" to Sarah Franklin Bache, 1800 April 1
Identifier(s): text:320697
Description: Letter from Lenox (likely Rachel Lenox) to Sally Bache.
Creator: Lenox, Rachel Carmer, 1763-1843et al
Subject: Women--History--18th century; Female friendship; Social networks--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Marriage; Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808; Hewson, Thomas T.; Harwood, Elizabeth (Eliza) Franklin Bache, 1777-1820
Date: 1800-04-01; 2021

Title: Bache, Sarah Franklin to Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont, 1784 December 14
Identifier(s): text:320725
Description: Letter from Sally Bache to Mr. De Chaumont (Benjamin Franklin's landlord in France and supporter of the American Revolutionary cause) offering thanks for a gift of a painting of her father, "a gift from a person of whom I have heard my dear Father speak with so much Friendship, and so strong a likeness of him renders it very dear to me..."
Creator: Bache, Sarah Franklin, 1743-1808et al
Subject: Women--History--18th century; Social networks--18th century; Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Oster, Madame; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date: 1784-12-14; 2021

Title: Watson, Elkanah to William Temple Franklin, 1783 July 11; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:26057
Description: Letter from Elkana Watson to William Temple Franklin. Request to have a miniature of Dr. Franklin executed by a good artist, for a lady who wishes to wear it in a bracelet, and to send him a lady's watch.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Social networks--18th century; Upper class women; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Women--History--18th century; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1783-07-11; 2022

Title: Watson, Elkanah to William Temple Franklin, 1782 December 25; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842. to William Temple Franklin
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:26093
Description: Letter from Elkana Watson to William Temple Franklin. Soliciting aid for Captain Hardy. Request a suit of old clothes of Benjamin Franklin's with which to dress a wax figure of him made by Madame Patience Wright and to be set up in his study.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Social networks--18th century; Finance, Personal--United States; Upper class women; Women--History--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823
Date: 1782-12-25; 2022

Title: Haines, Catharine cypher book, 1776; Catharine Haines Hart shorne : "Cypher Book"
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:7937
Description: Catherine Haines' cypher book which shows her education in mathematics including various forms of addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication as well as mathematical tables, weights, measurements, etc. The book shows Catharine working through word problems such as calculating the number of quarts and pints in 17 gallons. Additionally, a number of mathematical rules are written out such as the golden rule and a description of Inverse Proportion. At the end of the volume isa day book, perhaps Reuben Haines', that includes purchases made as well as other transactions as well as a ledger all dated in 1775.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Women--History--18th century; Family life--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Mathematics; Women--Education--History; Education--18th century; Education--America--History--18th century; Haines, Reuben, 1727-1793
Date: 1776; 2022

Title: Sellers, Elizabeth Coleman and Nathan Sellers correspondence, [1776]; Sellers, Elizabeth Coleman, 1751-1832. Letter to Nathan Sellers
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:8628
Description: A series of letters written between Elizabeth Coleman Sellers and Nathan Sellers while they were courting. Letters were likely written between 1776 and 1779. Both letter writers cover a wide range of topics and sign their letters "Eugenius" and "Harriott" to disguise their identities. Nathan Sellers, who had joined the Pennsylvania Militia, was disowned by the Darby Society of Friends, which meant that their courting was done in secret. Included in the letters is poetry written by them as well as others, their mutual Quaker faith, their affection for each other, and their families.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Lived Experience; Courtship; Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Religious aspects--Society of Friends; War and families; Women--History--18th century; Women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions; Women--Social conditions--18th century; Women--Social life and customs--18th century; Family life--18th century
Date: [1776]; 2022