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BRINTON FAMILY PAPERS

1715 – 1930

Manuscript Collection Number 453

Accessioned: Gift of Anna D. Moyerman, 1972.

Extent: 7 linear ft. (ca. 4000 items) and oversize

Content: Mortgages, deeds, leases, manuscripts, diaries, account books, surveys, correspondence, legal documents, medical notes, medical illustrations, newspaper clippings, Civil War reports and orders, genealogical research, sermons, essays, and photographs; and receipts for bonds, rent, food, medical and dental services, clothing, house repair, labor, stocks, tax, transportation, and education.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processed: August 2002, Ryan K. Thompson; additions 2005, Emily Holloway

Biographical Note
Scope and Contents Note
Contents List

Biographical and Historical Note

The Brinton Family papers document several generations of the Brinton, Steinmetz, and Ward families, three important families who flourished between 1760-1930 in Pennsylvania and New York. Several members of the family played prominent roles in their communities and included landholders, real estate developers, merchants, Civil War surgeons, medical doctors and professors, missionaries, a minister, an art critic, an anthropologist, lawyers, a judge, an engineer, and several authors.

John Steinmetz (fl. 1760-1831) was a prosperous Philadelphia merchant and the father-in-law of John Hill Brinton. He participated in various commercial transactions and managed numerous land holdings in Maurice Rivers in Cumberland County, New Jersey; Manheim Township and Hallam Township in York and Lancaster counties, respectively, in Pennsylvania; and other areas.

John Hill Brinton (1772-1827) married Sarah (also called Sally) Steinmetz of Philadelphia. They had eight children: Catherine Ann, John L., Elizabeth, Ann, George, Reppele, Sarah, and Mary. John Hill Brinton was a lawyer who also speculated in tracts of land in the Maurice River Township in New Jersey and Manheim Township in York County, Pennsylvania.

George Brinton (1804-1858) was the son of John Hill and Sarah Steinmetz Brinton. George married Mary Margaret Smith of Philadelphia and they had five children: John Hill, Mary Yeates, Margaret Yeates, Sarah Frederica, and Margaret Yeates. He managed various farms and tracts of land in Geneseo, New York, and Maurice River Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey.

Dr. John Hill Brinton (1832-1907), the son of George and Mary Brinton, married Sarah Ward, daughter of the Reverend Ferdinand de Wilton Ward of Geneseo, New York. Dr. Brinton and his wife had four children: George, John Hill, Jr., Ferdinand Ward, and Jasper Yeates. John Hill Brinton was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1850 and M.A., 1853) and he received a medical degree from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1852; he spent the following year abroad, studying medicine in Vienna and Paris. Upon his return, he began a general practice, taught medical classes, and became the chair of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Brinton served as a brigade surgeon, a hospital administrator, and later helped establish the United States Army Medical Museum. His memoirs of the war included observations on his first cousin, General George Brinton McClellan. Following the war, he returned to Philadelphia and was chosen to be a surgeon at the Philadelphia Hospital, was invited to teach classes at the Jefferson Medical College, and was later appointed Professor of the Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery. In 1896, the Surgeon General of the United States asked him to give the valedictory address at the Army Medical School in Washington, D.C.

Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward (1812-1891), father of Sarah Ward Brinton, was a member of the Presbyterian clergy in both Geneseo and Rochester, New York. He graduated from the Theological Seminary at Princeton. He married Jane Shaw and in 1836 they arrived in India to spend the next two decades as Christian missionaries in Madura and Madras in service of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) society. While there, he learned Tamil, one of the Indian languages, and worked on several translations of religious works. Upon returning, he became a pastor in Geneseo and worked extensively with the local Bible Society.

Dr. Ward Brinton (b. 1873) was the son of Dr. John Hill and Sarah Ward Brinton. He received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1894 and specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis. He served as secretary of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and gave speeches on how to prevent its spread among the working classes.

Dr. Christian Brinton (1870-1942), the son of Joseph Hill and Mary Brinton, was an author, art critic, and lecturer. From Haverford College, he received his B.A. in 1892, his M.A. in 1906, and his Ph.D. in 1914. He also studied at the universities of Heidelberg, Paris, and École du Louvre. Christian Brinton wrote catalogs for a number of international art exhibitions and served as director of foreign art at the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926.

Joseph J. Steinmetz , the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Steinmetz of Germantown, near Philadelphia, was an engineer. In 1929-1930, he traveled around the world and attended a 1929 World Engineering Conference in Tokyo. Throughout his world tour, he maintained regular correspondence with his mother and sister Margaret, sending letters and postcards from Japan, China, the Philippines, Indo-China, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Athens.

Sources:

American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: documents administered by the Houghton Library of Harvard University. Woodbridge, Conn: Research Publications International, 1994. Microfilm. See reels 466-498.

Brinton, John H. Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton: Civil War Surgeon, 1861-1865. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.

Gould, George M., ed. The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Benefactors, Alumni, Hospital, etc., Its Founders, Officers, Instructors, 1826-1904: A History. Volume II. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904.

Gravell, Thomas, George Miller, and Elizabeth Walsh. American Watermarks, 1690-1835. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.

Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed. Who’s Who in Delaware: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the States of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and West Virginia. Volume I. Chicago: The A. N. Marquis Company, 1939.

Scope and Contents Note

The Brinton Family Papers relates to members of the prominent Philadelphia-area family and several of their related family lines over five generations from 1715-1930, with the bulk of the documents falling between 1840-1890. The collection consists of 6.3 linear feet of material and includes a wide variety of sources including mortgages, deeds, leases, account books, surveys, correspondence, land use agreements, legal documents, travel diaries, medical notes, newspaper clippings, Civil War reports and orders, genealogical research, sermons, essays, and photographs; and receipts for bonds, rent, food, transportation, medical and dental services, labor, stocks, tax, clothing, house repair, and education. These receipts are mundane, yet richly thorough, documentation of the domestic and business affairs of two early nineteenth-century Philadelphians, John Hill Brinton and his son George Brinton.

The collection further represents the varied careers of several interesting family members: the Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, a Christian missionary to India, 1836-1856, who studied and translated Tamil; Dr. John Hill Brinton, a distinguished Civil War surgeon; Dr. Chirstian Brinton, a scholar and critic who served as director of foreign art at the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial; and Joseph Steinmentz, an engineer whose 1929 world tour is documented in letters to his family. Other notable documents in the collection include early family deeds signed by Richard, John, and William Penn, descendents of William Penn; and three 1805 deeds executed by Katherine Inglis, a female attorney practicing in Philadelphia.

The collection contains nine separate series organized around different family members: I. John Steinmetz, 1760-1831; II. John H. Brinton, 1790-1837; III. George Brinton, 1827-1858; IV. Dr. John Hill Brinton, 1834-1908; V. Reverend Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890; VI. Dr. Ward Brinton, 1901-1928; VII. Dr. Christian Brinton, 1929; VIII. Joseph J. Steinmetz, 1929-1930; and Series IX. Other Family Members. The tenth series comprises 119 deeds, several of which cross generations of the Brinton family.

Series I. John Steinmetz, 1760-1831, includes documents such as land use agreements, bonds, rent receipts, court documents, surveys, and maps related to his real estate dealings in Maurice River in Cumberland County, New Jersey; Manheim Township in York County, Pennsylvania; and Hallam Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The correspondence includes both business and family interests in real estate and shipping goods. It also contains three very early land receipts, 1715-1733 (F1).

Series II. John H. Brinton, 1790-1837, includes rent and account receipts, legal documents, land use agreements, deeds, indentures, surveys, maps, and numerous mortgages related to his real estate affairs in Maurice River, New Jersey; Manheim Township in York County, Pennsylvania; and other areas of Pennsylvania. Among the real estate correspondence is an 1812 letter to John H. Brinton, written on paper bearing the watermark of Coulter, Bever, and Bowman, who established Ohio’s first paper mill in 1807 (see Gravell, American Watermarks). Regular correspondents include Andrews and Elliot, Isaac Bonsall, and John R. Coates. This series may be most useful for reconstructing the economic networks revealed by the numerous mortgages and receipts it contains. The mortgages often reveal the names of the people and the ways in which they used the land in several regions of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Additional deeds and indentures related to John H. Brinton are found in Series X. The extensive domestic receipts may be used to reconstruct the material world in which Brinton and his family lived in the early national period in Philadelphia. Receipts for building materials, clothing, coal, wood, education, food, furnishing and repairing the home, labor, medical and dental services, stocks, taxes, and transportation provide a variety of ways to examine their family life.

Series III. George Brinton, 1827-1858, includes accounts, receipts, land agreements, court documents, and correspondence related to business and real estate in Maurice River in Cumberland County, New Jersey, and Geneseo, New York. Important correspondents include Allan Ayrnault and William Spencer. As in the preceding series, George Brinton’s varied receipts for building materials, clothing, coal, wood, fuel, society memberships, education, food, furnishing and repairing the home, labor, medical and dental services, mortgages, stocks, taxes, and transportation provide extensive details to study the world in which his family lived.

Series IV. Dr. John Hill Brinton, 1834-1908, includes rich materials on his medical career as a student, as a surgeon during the Civil War, and later as a practicing physician and professor at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. Official correspondence from the Civil War, including orders, replies, receipts, inventories, and reports helps provide a useful perspective of the Civil War. Dr. John H. Brinton served as brigade surgeon under generals Fremont and Grant, 1861-1863, and as supertindent of hospitals at Nashville, 1864-1865. His correspondence before and after the Civil War includes both personal and professional letters to him, as well as copies of outgoing correspondence. A final group of correspondence was addressed directly to Mrs. John H. Brinton (Sarah Ward Brinton), and includes letters from her husband, her family, and father, Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, whose papers are arranged in Series V. Several notebook and account books include lists of patients and notes on treatments and visits. He authored various medical articles and gave several public speeches. His papers also include notes, lectures, and journals from when he was a student and a professor of medicine. Of special interest in these medical notes are a case study of spinabifida and a notebook on “Eye Surgery and Operative Surgery” from an 1852 trip to Vienna. Dr. Brinton’s papers reflect the changing practice of medicine during the second half of the nineteenth century from a variety of perspectives.

Series V. Reverend Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890, includes a number of journals, account books, sermons, and study notes related to his religious work as a pastor and as a missionary for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in India. He translated some of his lectures and sermons into Tamil to aid in teaching the Gospel in India. His account books and membership lists also shed light on the structure and management of the church in Maduras, India; Geneseo, New York; and Rochester, New York. He compiled several notebooks on genealogy and corresponded with various members of his family concerning this topic. Ward’s extensive notes, sermons, and discussions of religious topics and experiences provides an extremely useful source for examining various religious, intellectual, and philosophical beliefs and attitudes from the 1850s through the 1890s. Additional correspondence and diary entries of the Wards may be found in a related microfilm collection, Papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which is owned by the University of Delaware Library.

The limited amount of correspondence in Series VI. Dr. Ward Brinton, 1901-1928, primarily concerns Dr. Brinton’s appointments in the Medical Out-Patient Department at Jefferson Hospital and his service in the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. The Society’s efforts to prevent tuberculosis in Philadelphia particularly targeted labor unions and members of the working class during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Series VII. Dr. Christian Brinton, 1929, contains a limited sample of his work as an art critic and lecturer. Included are five essays, one script for a presentation of lantern slides, and three drafts of a radio speech on Native American arts. Among his correspondence is a 1929 letter to Theodore Dreiser, which conveys his impressions of Russian Ballet.

Series VIII. Joseph J. Steinmetz, 1929-1930, contains letters, photographs, and postcards documenting a world tour through Japan, China, the Philippines, Indo-China, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Athens. Steinmetz addressed the correspondence to his mother and sister Margaret, who both lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania, but were also abroad, for a period in 1929, in Paris. He filled his letters with observations of the places he visited and the people he met, allowing the researcher to share Steinmetz’s view of the world in 1929-1930.

Series IX. Other Family Members encompasses miscellaneous documents and Series X. Deeds includes documents that span several generations of Steinmetz and Brinton family land holdings. A genealogical summary of the Brinton family is appended to this finding aid.

Series List

I. John Steinmetz, 1760-1831

II. John H. Brinton, 1790-1837

III. George Brinton, 1827-1858

IV. Dr. John Hill Brinton, 1834-1908

Civil War / Family / Meical Career / Financial Records

V. Reverend Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890

VI. Dr. Ward Brinton, 1901-1928

VII. Dr. Christian Brinton, 1929

VIII. Joseph J. Steinmetz , 1929-1930

IX. Other Family Members

X. Deeds

Appendix: Genealogical Summary of the Brinton Family

Contents List

Box -- Folder -- Contents

1 Series I. John Steinmetz, 1760-1831

Philadelphia merchant with land holdings in Maurice River, NJ; Manheim Township, Penn; and Hallam Township, Penn.

F1 Receipts, 1715-1719, 1723, 1733

Account Receipts

F2 1786-1817

F3 1809-1837

F4 Agreements, 1806-1811

F5 Bonds, 1776-1812

F6 Correspondence, 1786

F7 Court Documents, 1798-1829

F8 Deeds & Indentures, 1790-1811

F9 Real Estate Documents, 1808-1823

F10 Receipts, 1811-1831

F11 Surveys & Maps, 1760-1807

Series II. John H. Brinton, 1790-1837

Phildadelphia lawyer; married to Sarah (Sally) Steinmetz; land holdings in Maurice River Township, Cumberland, NJ, and Manheim Township, York County, Penn.

F12 Account Receipts, 1810-1825

F13 Correspondence, 1812-1830

Includes 1812 letter to JHB written paper with watermark of Coulter, Bever, and Bowman (first mill established in Ohio, 1807).

F14 Deeds & Indentures, 1790-1825

F15 Land Use Agreements, 1800-1819

F16 Land Documents, 1808-1833

F17 Legal Documents, 1804-1837

1 Series II. John H. Brinton, 1790-1837 (cont’d)

F18 Notes

F19 Surveys & Maps, 1805-1820

F20 Mortgages (1)

F21 Mortgages (2)

F22 Mortgages (3)

F23 Mortgages (4)

F24 Mortgages (5)

F25 Mortgages (6)

2 F26 Receipts

F27 Building Material Receipts (1)

F28 Building Material Receipts (2)

Includes receipts for lime, posts, lumber, nails, brick, carpets, matts, white lead, turpentine, glass, and other materials.

F29 Church & Subscription Receipts

Includes receipts for pew rent at St. James Church; various subscriptions including The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor, United States Gazette, Philadelphia Gazette, and The Register; and donations to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

F30 Clothing Receipts (1)

F31 Clothing Receipts (2)

Includes receipts for the purchase, alteration, fabrication, and repair of various articles of clothing and shoes.

F32 Coal & Wood Receipts

Includes receipts for tons of coal and cords of wood.

F33 Education Receipts

Includes tuition receipts for sons’ and daughters’ education and receipts for school supplies and books.

F34 Food Receipts (1)

F35 Food Receipts (2)

Includes receipts for food, bread deliveries, milk and cream deliveries, ice, spices, alcoholic beverages, and special food orders.

2 Series II. John H. Brinton, 1790-1837 (cont’d)

F36 House Furnishing Receipts

Includes receipts for furniture, carpeting, blinds, paper, mats, pianos, bookcases, silverware, kitchenware, etc.

F37 House Repair Receipts (1)

F38 House Repair Receipts (2)

Includes receipts for boiler repair, curbing installation, the installation and repair of lead pipes, digging wells, painting, and various repairs on the house.

F39 Labor Receipts (1)

F40 Labor Receipts (2)

Includes receipts for washing, carpentry, digging and carting dirt and gravel, fencing, and other jobs not specifically mentioning a house.

F41 Land Receipts

F42 Land Rent Receipts

F43 Medical & Dental Receipts

Includes receipts for medical services, fillings and cleanings, and shaving.

F44 Stock Receipts

F45 Tax Receipts

F46 Transportation Receipts

Includes receipts from travel, carriage and harness repair, and the purchase and care of livestock—including shoeing.

Series III. George Brinton, 1827-1858

Phildadelphia resident; married to Mary Margaret Smith; managed land in Geneseo, NY, and Maurice River Township in Cumberland County, NJ.

3 F47 Accounts, 1828-1856

F48 Correspondence, 1827-1857

F49 Court Documents, 1837-1851

F50 Land Agreements, 1838-1843

F51 Surveys

3 Series III. George Brinton, 1827-1858 (cont’d)

F52 Receipts, 1829-1858

F53 Building Materials Receipts

Includes receipts for lime, bricks, trees, carpet, nails, boards, shingles, plaster, oil, white lead, and pipes.

F54 Clothing Receipts (1)

F55 Clothing Receipts (2)

Includes receipts for the purchase, alteration, fabrication, and repair of various articles of clothing and shoes.

F56 Coal, Wood, & Fuel Receipts

Includes receipts for tons of coal, cords of wood, and fuel.

F57 Education & Society Receipts

Includes receipts for pew rent; tuition receipts for his children from tutors, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Protestant Episcopal Female Institute; and subscriptions to Inquirer and Gazette, the Society of the Episcopal Church for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania, Saturday Evening Post, Protestant Episcopal Recorder, North American, New York Weekly Herald, Church Register, National Gazette, New-York Albion, Philadelphia Saturday News & Literary Gazette, Novelist’s Gazette, and the Library Company of Philadelphia.

F58 Food Receipts

Includes receipts for food, bread deliveries, milk and cream deliveries, ice, spices, alcoholic beverages, and special food orders.

F59 House Furnishings Receipts

Includes receipts for carpets, cabinets, blinds, furniture, matting, kitchen utensils, chests, shelving, bookcases, chandeliers, safe, and silverware.

F60 Home Repair Receipts

F61 Labor Receipts

Includes receipts for washing, laying carpet, waiters at wedding party, advertising, carpentry work, hauling dirt, field work, erecting a monument at Marseilles, hauling away ashes, printing cards, and banking.

F62 Land Receipts

F63 Land Rent Receipts

F64 Medical & Dental Receipts

3 Series III. George Brinton, 1827-1858 (cont’d)

F65 Mortgage Receipts

F66 Stock Receipts

F67 Tax Receipts

F68 Transportation Receipts

Includes receipts from travel, carriage and harness repair, and the care of livestock—including shoeing.

Series IV. Dr. John Hill Brinton, 1834-1908

Civil War Correspondence, 1861-1866, n.d.

Includes official orders, requests, and responses related to Dr. Brinton’s work as a surgeon and hospital superintendent during the Civil War.

F69 1861

F70 1862

F71 1863

F72 1864 (I)

F73 1864 (II)

F74 1865

F75 1866

F76 n.d.

Civil War Invoices & Receipts

Included are invoices for hospital supplies, medicines, etc., and receipts for new supplies that arrived.

F77 Invoices and Receipts, n.d.

F78 1861

F79 1862

F80 1863

F81 1864

4 F82 1865

F83 Civil War Reports, 1864-1865

Includes reports indicating number of wounded and number of available beds.

F84 Civil War Congressional Bill

Includes the text of a bill to increase the number of surgeons in the Medical Corps of the Regular Army.

4 Series IV. Dr. John Hill Brinton, 1834-1908 (cont’d)

F85 Civil War Floorplan Drawings

Includes three sketches of floorplans for a hospital.

F86 Personal Correspondence, 1864-1893

F87 Professional Correspondence, 1862-1908

F88 Family Correspondence, 1861-1891

F89 Family Correspondence, n.d.

F90 Sarah Ward Brinton Correspondence. 1852-1891

Addressed directly to Sarah Brinton, JHB’s wife, with much from her mother and father, brother Will Ward, and sister-in-law Kate Ward

F91 Brinton Pedigree

Traces seven generations of Brintons, from William Brinton to Dr. John Hill Brinton, and includes marriages and children.

F92 The Death of John H. Brinton, Jr.

The Ledger, Nov (?) 17, 1898 [newspaper clipping]

F93 Journal, 1852 (1)

F94 Journal, 1852 (2)

Also contains several fragile, loose pages of journal entries.

F95 Journal, 1853

F96 Case Study of Spinabifida by Henry Bond (?)

AM with 3 color medical illustrations by J. Drayton.

F97 Medical Notes

F98 “Eye Surgery and Operative Surgery,” Vienna, 1852

Autograph notebook of medical notes

F99 Surgery Lectures, 1856

F100 “Notes on Practice of Surgery taken from the Lectures of Professor John H. Brinton, M. D., Professor of Practice of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Session of 1890-1891.” Autograph note taken by S. P. Kerns.

4 Series IV. Dr. John Hill Brinton, 1834-1908 (cont’d)

F101 Brinton, John H.

“On the Choice of Operation for Stone.” Therapeutic Gazette, Nov. 15, 1899.

F102 Catalogue of the members of the Philomathean Society instituted at the University of Pennsylvania, 1813. Phil: L.R. Bailey, 1845.

F103 List of operative surgery class members, 1853-1858

F104 Proceedings at the Inauguration of the building for the departments of arts and sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1872

F105 Receipts, 1838-1864, with two indentures

F106 Tax Receipts, 1834-1853

F107 Personal Account Book, 1861-1863

F108 Visiting List and record of accounts, 1871

F109 Cash Book for personal expenses, 1871-1875

F110 Physician’s Visiting List for 1876

F111 Medical Account Book, 1898-1902

Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890

F112 Family Correspondence, 1793, 1822-1890

5 F113 Newspaper Clippings 1879, 1886

Includes 1879 FdWW letter to World, in defense of his son, Ferdinand Ward, imprisoned for financial misdeeds; and 1886 article regarding preservation of P.T. Barnum’s elephant, Jumbo, at Henry A. Ward’s museum

F114 “Biographical Narrative of F.D.W. Ward,” n.d.

Prepared by Col. John Rosbach of Geneseo, NY, 17 pp., incomplete.

F115 Genealogy

Includes a photograph of Ward, correspondence with family regarding genealogical questions, notes, several family trees, and two notebooks.

5 Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890 (cont’d)

F116 Personal Account Book, 1841-1858

F117 Account Book, 1850-1851

Geneseo Academy accounts.

F118 Account Book, 1851-1857

Record of teacher’s wages at Geneseo Academy.

F119 Account Book, 1861-1865

Dr. L.A. Ward in account with FdWW

F120 Account Book, 1866-1869

F121 Receipts, 1875-1890

F122 Bank Account Book, 1890-1891

Genesee Valley National Bank in acct with FdWW

F123 Diary, 1840-1841

With “Public Letter to ABCFM on the mode of journeying to Madura and outfit required.”

F124 Diary, 1841-1843

Record of daily events while in India.

F125 Diary, 1845

Record of daily events while in India.

F126 Diaries, 1847-1849 (2 items)

Pocket diary includes a record of daily events, and hand-drawn map of hemispheres with a key indicating Christian missions, what denomination, and year established, 1847.

Diary of daily events in India, 1848-1849.

F127 Diary, 1848-1850

“Skeleton of Pursuits After Arrival at Geneseo.”

F128 Diaries, 1853-1857 (2 items)

Daily diary, 1853-1854

Pocket diary, 1857

(Rochester: E. Darrow & Brother.)

5 Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890 (cont’d)

F129 Diaries, 1865-1866 (2 items)

Pocket diary including daily events, recipe for “Farmers Fruit Cake,” and list of ministers in Livingston County, New York, 1865.

Pocket diary “Published annually for the trade,” with “Memorable Events in the Secession Rebellion, together with fluctuation in Gold.” 1866.

F130 Diaries, 1869-1870 (2 items)

Pocket diary with list of families belonging to Central Presbyterian Parish in Geneseo, 1869.

Pocket diary with daily notes and church attendance.

F131 Diaries, 1871-1873 (2 items)

Pocket diary with list of families in the Central Presbyterian Parish in Geneseo, 1871.

Pocket diary with sporadic entries, list of church families; receipt, newspaper clipping and Sermon excerpt enclosed, 1873.

F132 Diaries, 1878-1882 (2 items)

Pocket diary of daily events, 1878.

Pocket diary of daily events, including photograph of Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1882.

F133 Diary, 1887

Pocket diary of daily events.

F134 Notebook, 1833-1887

“Pastoral events during 10 years” noting marriages, deaths, admissions, etc.

F135 Notebook, 1858-1868

Record of Rev. Ward’s duties as Pastor of Central Presbyterian Church in Geneseo, New York. Also includes a photograph of “The Spanish Peaks.”

F136 Church Membership List, 1873

List of families and number of parishioners in Central Presbyterian Church, Geneseo, New York

F137 Letter to Members of the Central Presbyterian Church Society, 1873

Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890 (cont’d)

5 F138 “Historical Narrative of First Presbyterian Church of Groveland –

Livingston County,” author unknown, 1876.

F139 “The dignity of the missionary enterprise”

AMs [essay], 7 pp., June 28, 1836

F140 “Reasons in favor of coming to Rochester”

AMs [essay], 3 pp., n.d., with undated fragments

F141 Personal Narrative, 1837.

Description of personal spiritual development from birth to present written in Madras, India, June 18, 1837.

F142 Sermon and Lecture Notes, 1877 and undated (16 items)

Untitled notes on various bible passages (9 items)

“Noah’s Obedience” Genesis 6:22 includes handwritten notes, pages from

books, and newspaper clipping.

“Men and Brethren” Acts 2:37 includes handwritten notes.

“The Revelation of God” Heb. 1:1-2 includes handwritten notes.

“The Comfort of the Truth” John 14:16-17 includes handwritten notes.

“Sabbath Observance” Isaiah 58:13-14 includes handwritten notes and newspaper clippings from Evangelical Messenger.

“The House of God” Psalms 26:8 includes handwritten notes and undated newspaper clippings.

“The Parable of the Talents” Matthew 25:24-25 includes newspaper clipping from the Evangelical Messenger, 1889.

6 F143 Sermons, 1834-1852 (13 items)

Psalms 17:18 “I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.” Preached from 1834-1884.

Luke 23:42-43 “And he said unto Jesus Lord remember me when thou cometh into thy kingdom.”

Hebrews 6:18

6 Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890 (cont’d)

F143 Sermons (cont’d)

John 1:19 “Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.” Written 1837, preached 1837, 1856, 1859, and 1878.

John 1:45 “Philip foundeth Nathaniel and saith unto him …”

John 20:31 “But these are written that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ…”

Matthew 6:10 “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven.”

Matthew 6:12 “And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”

Matthew 6:16-8 includes four discourses labeled numbers 2 - 5.

Luke 9:30-31 “And behold there talked with him two men…”

“Appeal to the thirsty” written in 1852, revised 1885.

F144 Sermons, 1841-1845 (3 items)

“Profit of Godliness” Tamil discourse from 1 Timothy 4:8 with English translation, 1841-1842.

“Two Parables: The Talents, Matthew 25:14, Pounds given for trading, Luke 12: (no verse given)” Written in English and Tamil, 1842.

Notebook with four sermons preached in India, 1845.

F145 Sermons, 1856-1871 (12 items)

Acts 10:5.6 preached 1858.

“Statement for reasons for resigning my pastorate of the Presbyterian Church Geneseo,” 1858 Sep 12.

Luke 1:68-70 “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people…” preached Christmas eve, 1858.

Acts 8:23 preached 1861 Feb.

Acts 10:43 preached 1861 Apr.

Luke 9:26 “For whoever shall be ashamed of me and my words…” preached 1861 Apr.

6 Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890 (cont’d)

F145 Sermons (cont’d)

John 8:12 “Then spoke Jesus unto them, saying I am the light of the world…” preached 1861 Apr.

John 13:8 “Peter said unto him thou shall never wash my feet…” preached 1861 Aug.

Acts 20:21 preached 1866 May..

Luke 16:5 “How much owest thou unto my Lord.” preached 1869.

“A Stand for Christ” with discussion of Matthew 12:30, preached 1871-1886.

“Account to God” with discussion of Romans 14:12, preached 1871, 1879, and 1882.

F146 Sermons, 1873-1881 (11 items)

Luke 12:35-37 preached 1873.

Matthew 6:13 “For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory forever and ever, Amen.” preached 1873.

John 1:14 “And the word was made flesh…”preached Christmas eve, 1859 and 1874.

Luke 15:18-19 “I will arise and go to my Father, and will say unto him: Father I have sinned against heaven…” preached 1875.

Acts 9:6 “And he trembling and astonished said…” preached 1877.

John 13:17 “If ye know these things…” preached 1878.

Mark 8:36 “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul.” preached 1879.

Luke 22:19 “And he took bread, and gave thanks…” preached 1879.

John 3:2 “We know that thou art a teacher come from God…” preached 1879.

Acts 11:26 “The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch.” preached 1879.

6 Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890 (cont’d)

F146 Sermons (cont’d)

John 19:12 “If thou let this man go thou art not Caesar’s friend…” preached 1881.

F147 Notebook (1)

Contains ten Christian lectures.

F148 Notebook (2)

Contains commentary on Biblical verses.

F149 Notebook (3)

Contains a glossary of English words and translations into Tamil.

F150 Notebook (4)

Contains notes on various Christian topics.

F151 Notebook (5)

Contains notes and reflections on Proverbs.

F152 Notebook (6)

Contains a collection of poetry, quotes, and comments on Christianity.

F153 Notebook (7)

Contains a collection of Christian parables with pictures and some translations into Tamil.

F154 Notebook (8)

Contains an essay on the Church.

F155 Notebook (9)

Contains notes on Proverbs and a church record from 1869-1873.

F156 Notebook (10)

Contains a notebook titled, “2000 clerical acts, anecdotes, and apothegms: A Book for the Theological Student, the Preacher, and the Pastor’s Study being extracts from 300 ancient and modern authors.”

F157 Notebook (11)

Contains notes on various religious topics.

F158 Notebook (12)

Contains notes on various Christian topics.

6 Series V. Rev. Ferdinand de Wilton Ward, 1793-1890 (cont’d)

F159 Notebook (13)

Contains notes on preaching sermons.

F160 Notebook (14)

Contains Christian lectures in English partially translated into Tamil.

F161 Notebook (15)

Though the inside covered is inscribed with the name Nancy Forman, the notebook contains notes on various religious topics and Biblical verses. It also has an essay titled, “The Believer’s Challenge: A Sermon by Fred William Krumacher.”

F162 Notebook (16)

Collection of poems, prayers, and songs concerning various aspects of Christian faith.

F163 Notebook (17)

Thoughts and discussions of various Christian topics, including the nature of God, God’s moral law, and the diversity of the human race.

F164 Notebooks (18,19)

Includes two chapters, 13 and 14, each with subject headings “sentiment” and “reflections” dealing with various religious topics.

Includes notes on religious topics, many portions illegible.

F165 Notebook (20)

“The honor-labor-responsibility and joys of the Gospel Ministry” includes quotes about the ministry, and index of the quotes.

F166 Notebook (21)

Essay “An Actual occurrence told in Plain Blank Verse”, 1885.

7 F167 Notebook (22)

Biblical texts and discussion of them translated in to Tamil.

Series VI. Dr. Ward Brinton, 1901-1928

F168 Receipts

7 Series VI. Dr. Ward Brinton, 1901-1928 (cont’d)

F169 Certificates

Includes certificates as an election watcher, 1906; appointment as a Medical Major in the US Army, 1925; and a certificate for the Brintons Bridge Flour Mills in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania from the United States Food Administration, 1917

F170 Tuberculosis Work

Includes program and presentation on the prevention of tuberculosis.

F171 Personal & Professional Correspondence, 1901-1928

Series VII. Dr. Christian Brinton (DR CB), 1929

F172 Essays

“Brazilian Art Comes to America”

“The Plight of the Painting: apropos the place of Art in the Decorative Scheme of the Home”

“Bernard Boutet de Monvel”

“The Supreme Moment: Pastel in Prose, Dedicated to Ivan Turgenev”

“Russia Through the Artist’s Eye”

“The Ikon: Its Pre-Christian Origins in the Valley of the Nile” (talk for lantern slides presentation

“American Art in Its native Aspect” (three drafts of a radio speech)

F173 Correspondence, 1929

Series VIII. Joseph J. Steinmetz, 1929-1930

F174 Correspondence, May 1922

Mrs. Miles A. Hoffman, Surrey, England, to Mrs. Joseph A. Steinmetz, Philadelphia

Correspondence

Includes letters and postcards to his mother and sister Margaret while traveling through Japan, China, the Philippines, Indo-China, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Athens. Most of the air mail stationery from China is color-illustrated and includes maps showing Steinmetz’s travel progress.

F175 1929

Includes Seoul Press, Nov. 22, 1929, with reference to the World Engineering conference held in Tokyo (removed to oversize).

7 Series VIII. Joseph J. Steinmetz, 1929-1930 (cont’d)

F176 1930

F177 n.d.

F178 Photographs, 1930

Six snapshopts taken in Shanghai, Honolulu, near Manila, the Phillipine Islands, aboard ship, and Tokyo

Series IX. Other Family Members

F179 Examiner’s Report, 1859

Underwood v. Warner court transcript, John F. Brinton, examiner.

F180 Jos. H. Brinton, 1866-1884

“This pyramid of white granite is thrust up through the Serpentine Quarry of Jos. H. Brinton, Chester County, Pennsylvania, presented by Prof. Rothrock and Eli K. Price, 1884” (mounted photograph)

Legal document, 1866

F181 Daniel Garrison Brinton Autobiography, 1877

Autobiographical sketch of Daniel Garrison Brinton, who received a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, studied abroad in France and Germany, served during the Civil War as a surgeon, and published various articles on Native Americans as an anthropologist.

F182 Biographical Sketch of Dr. J.B. Brinton [with portrait], 1895

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, Mar 1895, 22:3.

He received a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, gave medical lectures in Philadelphia, served as a surgeon during the Civil War, continued to practice medicine after the war, and founded the Philadelphia Botanical Club.

F183 Jasper Yeates Brinton Receipt

Biographical response signed by Jasper Yeates, one of George Brinton’s sons. Jasper was a Philadelphia lawyer, judge, and author.

F184 Edward Ingersoll Obituary, 1841

Husband of Catherine Ann Brinton, daughter of John Hill Brinton. Edward Ingersoll was a Philadelphia lawyer, author of verse

F185 Elizabeth Truman Insurance Policy, 1837-1887

7 Series IX. Other Family Members

F186 Christopher L. Ward, Mexican Visa, 1853

Document signed by Ignacio Prospero Oroposa, vice consul of the Republic of Mexico, New Orleans. (Ward is described as “lawyer, age 45; he was probably the son of Ferdinand de Wilton Ward).

F187 Thomas Ward Medical Certificate, 1832

Granted by the Medical Society of the City and County of New York. Probably the son of Ferdinand de Wilton Ward (removed to oversize).

F188 Medical school class notes, undated

Belonged to an F.D.W. Ward living in Philadelphia, possibly the son of Reverend Ferdinand de Wilton Ward.

Series X. Deeds

John Hill Brinton (principal signer)

F189 1802-1804

F190 1804-1811

F191 1814-1820

F192 1823-1827

John Hill Brinton & Others (signed with group)

F193 1800-1811

F194 1811-1814

John Hill Brinton & Sarah Steinmetz Brinton (his wife)

F195 1811-1827

One item removed to oversize.

Sarah & Mary Brinton (principal signers)

F196 1828-1845

Items removed to oversize.

John Hill Brinton & Women (signed by single women, or married women with their husbands)

F197 1803-1842

Some items removed to oversize.

John, William, & Richard Penn (descendants of the original proprietor, William Penn)

F198 1806-1813

Removed to oversize.

7 Series X. Deeds

Katherine Inglis

F199 1805

Three deeds drawn and signed by a female attorney, daughter of John Inglis, a Philadelphia merchant.

Removed to oversize.

Appendix

Genealogical Summary (Chart 1)

1. John Hill Brinton (1772-1827) m. Sarah Steinmetz (daughter of John Steinmetz)

1. Catherine Ann m. Edward Ingersoll (1790-1841)

2. John L.

3. Elizabeth

4. Ann

5. George Brinton (1804-1858) m. Mary Margaret Smith (d. 1870)

1. John Hill Brinton (Dr., 1832-1907) m. Sarah Ward (see Chart 2)

1. George

2. John Hill (d. 1898)

3. Ferdinand Ward (Dr., b. 1873)

4. Jasper Yeates

2. Mary Yeates

3. Margaret Yeates

4. Sarah Frederica

5. Margaret Yeates

6. Reppele

7. Sarah

8. Mary

Other relatives included Jasper Yeates Brinton, Dr. Christian Brinton, Joseph J. Steinmetz, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Dr. J. B. Brinton, and Jos. H. Brinton.

Genealogical Summary (Chart 2)

Ferdinand de Wilton Ward (1812-1891) m. Jane Shaw

1. Sarah m. John Hill Brinton (Dr., 1832-1907)