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Primary Sources

3 women visit a boy in a jail cell — Illustration for The Old Curiosity Shop, Charles Dickens’ 1841 book that realistically exposed social injustices.

Benezet, Anthony and Zane, Isaac, “Some Observations relating to the Establishment of Schools …” September 29, 1778. Haverford. Pa: Haverford College Quaker Collection, 1778. (Broadside).

Green Tree Insurance Policy Number 3590, Survey Number 2191. “Survey for Algenon Roberts, Henry Bowman and David Roberts, as Trustees …” “The above is a correct Survey of the premises as now insured, Philadelphia, October 13, 1814.” Philadelphia; Mutual Assurance Company, 1814.

“Hoopes”, “Downingtown Boarding School”, “West Chester Private Schools”, and “West Chester Boarding Schools for Boys”. West Chester, Pa: Chester County Historical Society Library, no date, unpaged. Newspaper clipping files under the above headings.

Jones, Jacob, Will. Norristown, Pa.: Archives of Montgomery County, 1803. Register of Wills #RW 3195, codicil and inventory are located with the will.

Jones, Jacob, and Lawrence, Mary, Certificate of Marriage [June 10, 1752]. Radnor Indexes. Swarthmore, Pa.: Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library, no date. Film MR-Ph. (microfilm) Vol. II, pp. 118-119.

Jones, Mary Lawrence, “Inventory”. Norristown, Pa.: Archives of Montgomery County, 1811. #RW 12443.

Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, From October 14, 1770-1812. Philadelphia: John Bioren, 1812. Vo1.5, pp. 73-74; pp. 378-379.

Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1835-1836. Harrisburg, Pa.: Theo. Fenn, 1836. p. 532.

Minute Book of the Lower Merion Academy. Rosemont, Pa.: Lower Merion Historical Society, no date, unpaged. Memorandum of Joseph Price and Nathan Lewis with the Trustees is located in the Minute Book of the Lower Merion Academy.

Pennsylvania, Commonwealth of, Acts of Assembly, March 16, 1819. Harrisburg, Pa.: C. Gleim, 1819. P.L. 1818-1819, p. 128.

Price, Joseph H., Papers, 1783-1828. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Archives, 1783. unpaged. Diary transcribed by Mary Keim of the Lower Merion Historical Society, 1996.

Quakertown and Radnor Monthly Minutes, Births and Deaths, 1682-1806. “Birth of Jacob Jones”. Swarthmore, Pa.: Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library, no date. Film MR-Ph (microfilm).

Radnor Monthly Minutes 1733-1782, 1782-1803, Abstracts. Swarthmore, Pa.: Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library, 1733-1803. Film MR-Ph (microfilm). Transcribed by Gilbert Cope, this closely follows the original.

Roberts, Algernon, “Letter of Algernon Roberts to Henry Bowman regarding Bowman removing his sons from school, August 24, 1814.” Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania Archives, 1814. Soc. Misc. ColI. Draft.

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handwritten table of subjects and number grades, all in the 80s and 90s, one row for each month; also lists absences and latenesses — 1907-08 third-grade Academy report card of Florence Irwin, granddaughter of Israel Irwin, sister of Evelyn.

Tax Records of 1786, 1788, 1789, 1791, 1793, 1794, 1795. Norristown, Pa.: Archives of Montgomery County, (microfilm).

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Carlson, R. E., ed. Index of Chester County (Pa.) Biography. West Chester, Pa.: West Chester University, 1983.

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