Identification: MSS 583
Creator: Boyce, Truxton W., 1919-2007.
Title: Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers
Inclusive Dates: 1792–1999
Bulk Dates: 1850s–1980s
Extent: 7.6 linear feet (10 boxes)
Abstract: The Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers contains twenty-six three-ring notebooks and nine folders of genealogical research notes, family photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century generations of Boyce's family lines from Delaware and Virginia. Boyce's research includes the Boyce, Justis, Morrow, Shreve, Wright, Brownley, Lawrence, Sebree, Adams, and Tuley families, as well as the family lines of his wife, Doris Jolls Boyce (including the Jolls, McColgan, Colge, Wise, Lutz, and Lorenz families). In addition to the genealogical focus of the collection, nine autobiographical scrapbooks document the family life of Truxton W. Boyce and his wife, Doris Jolls Boyce, who began their married life in 1942 in Newark, Delaware.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 0583, Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Boxes 1–7: Shelved in ANNEX MSS record center cartons
Boxes 8–10: Shelved in SPEC MSS manuscript boxes
Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library / Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 / Phone: 302-831-2229 / Fax: 302-831-6003 / URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
Gift of Mrs. Doris Jolls Boyce and Bunny Boyce Meyer, 2008.
Processed and encoded by Lora J. Davis with preservation assistance provided by Jillian Kuzma, May–December 2008.
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Truxton W. Boyce (1919–2007), native Delawarean and University of Delaware alumnus, was an avid family genealogist and avocational historian. Boyce was born on April 23, 1919, to Elizabeth ("Bess") Armstrong Morrow Boyce and William Truxton Boyce. At the time of his birth the Boyce family resided in Stanton, Delaware, in what is now known as the Hale-Byrnes House. The Boyces were the last owner-residents of the historic home where, in 1777, General George Washington held a war council following the Revolutionary War Battle of Cooch’s Bridge. The Hale-Byrnes house is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is open to visitors.
Following graduation from Alexis I. du Pont High School in 1937, Boyce enrolled at the University of Delaware. There, he met his future wife of sixty-four years, Doris Lee Jolls Boyce. While at Delaware, Boyce played on both the tennis and soccer teams and was president of his junior class. Boyce received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Delaware in 1941. Doris Jolls Boyce, who reigned as Delaware’s 1941 May Queen and was active with the student theater group the E-52 Players, graduated in 1942.
After completing his degree at the University of Delaware, Truxton Boyce entered the United States Army Air Force in 1941. Boyce rose through the ranks, finally obtaining the rank of Major in 1945 while stationed with the Fourth Air Force in San Francisco, California. During his five years of service Boyce was stationed in a variety of locales, including Fort Du Pont, Fort Miles, Camp Davis, and in the Pacific Theater abroad (most notably in occupied Japan). He left the service in 1946.
Following his military career, Boyce began employment with Sears Roebuck & Co. in Wilmington, Delaware. He became assistant manager of several additional Sears stores located in Dover, Delaware; Asbury Park, New Jersey; and Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. After moving to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1953, Boyce became involved with the Stewart In-fra-red Commissary Company, a budding food franchise that used pre-microwave technology to quickly cook sandwiches for customers. Boyce remained with Stewarts, first in Allentown, then in St. Louis (1965–1971) and Boston (1971–1982), until he and Doris ultimately retired home to Wilmington in 1982.
Truxton and Doris Boyce had two daughters. Barbara ("Bunny") Jolls Boyce (married name Meyer) was born on April 4, 1944 and Virginia ("Ginger") Truxton Boyce followed on May 15, 1947.
In 1961 Boyce began conducting research into the ancestral history of his mother, Elizabeth ("Bess") Armstrong Morrow, who descended from the Morrow family, which settled in Wilmington in the 1830s, and the Justis family, which first came to Delaware from Sweden in the 1630s. Following this initial research into his mother's family, Boyce maintained his interest in genealogy and remained an active family genealogist and record-keeper throughout his life. His efforts have produced a multi-volume family history that details several lines of both his and his wife’s ancestors. Along with his interest in genealogy, he also was interested in antiques, the history of America, Delaware, and Native American cultures.
Truxton Boyce passed away on April 25, 2007, two days after he celebrated his 88th birthday.
Sources:
"Truxton Wright Boyce." The News Journal. April 28, 2007. (Obituary) http://miva.delawareonline.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?obits.mv+68360 (accessed December 2008)
"Ancient tree once shaded Gen. Washington." The News Journal. February 20, 2007. http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070220/NEWS/702200362/1006 (accessed December 2008)
"Double Dels return." UD Messenger 14, no. 3 (2006). http://www.udel.edu/PR/Messenger/05/03/doubles.html (accessed December 2008)
Additional biographical information derived from the collection.
The following genealogical charts were compiled by Lora J. Davis during the processing of this collection. These charts correlate to those created by Truxton W. Boyce over the course of a half-century researching his family history and housed within the thirteen genealogical notebooks in this collection (Notebooks 1–13). These transcribed charts are provided to assist with navigation of the collection and do not represent authoritative information for genealogists.
A statement is included following the heading for every chart indicating the notebook(s) from which the chart was transcribed. Extensive family and historical notes are included in the Detailed Contents List of this finding aid.
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The Truxton W. Boyce genealogical research and family papers contains twenty-six three-ring notebooks and nine folders of genealogical research notes, family photographs, correspondence, and other ephemera related to nineteenth- and twentieth-century generations of Boyce's family lines primarily from Delaware and Virginia. In 1961 Truxton Boyce undertook the task of creating an ancestral study of his mother, Elizabeth ("Bess") Armstrong Morrow. She was the descendent of, among others, the Morrows, who emigrated from Ireland to Wilmington, Delaware, in 1835 and owned a confectioners shop in Wilmington in what came to be known as the Morrow building, and the Justis family, who first arrived in the Swedish settlement in Delaware from Sweden in the 1630s. Over the next half-century Boyce continued his research into his and his wife's ancestral past and developed a multi-volume collection of genealogical records. In addition to these genealogical notebooks, Boyce also compiled several additional contemporary scrapbooks documenting his own generation's family history.
This collection of personal family histories is an important historical source for a wide variety of researchers. Genealogists as well as researchers interested in local history, photography, architecture and historic preservation, post-World War II family life, and other topics will find original documents in this extensive collection. As a repository for generations of original family documentation and ephemera, this collection includes, for example, images produced via many of the different photographic processes utilized over the span of more than one hundred years. The collection includes everything from mid-twentieth-century Polaroids and colorized portraits mounted on plywood to early nineteenth-century tintypes.
In addition to the significance of the material objects housed within this collection, the stories Boyce gathered and documented about the lives, marriages, relocations, and professions of generations of his ancestors provide interesting case studies for an investigation into the state of the nation as a whole at various periods in time. Each line of the Boyce and Jolls families arrived on the American continent during different eras and had variously rich experiences once here. The Brynberg, Stidham, and Justis families first arrived in New Castle and Wilmington, Delaware, from Sweden in the seventeenth-century, whereas the earliest Jolls arrived in eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island from England. Many of these early Jolls ancestors engaged in Atlantic whaling during the eighteenth-century. Boyce ancestor Uriel Wright was a prominent St. Louis lawyer during the antebellum period and returned to his home state of Virginia to become a Confederate staff officer during the Civil War. During the same period, Jolls ancestor Frederick Lorenz appealed for American citizenship on November 7, 1854.
The Morrow family owned a store at 211 Market Street in Wilmington, Delaware, during the last half of the nineteenth century, and Colonel Upton Lawrence Boyce lived on his wife's Virginia family estate, the Tuleyries, from 1866 until he moved his family to Stanton, Delaware, as a widower in 1902. In 1929 William Truxton Boyce was appointed Federal Prohibition Commissioner for the state of Delaware, and during the late 1960s his granddaughter, Barbara ("Bunny") Boyce served with the Peace Corps in Nigeria. These stories, as well as many others, illustrate the widely disparate lifestyles of generations of Boyce and Jolls ancestors. In addition, they demonstrate how truly wide-reaching a genealogy of one couple, in this case Truxton and Doris Jolls Boyce, can become.
While much of the focus of this collection is on Boyce's ancestral past, and thus of a historical nature, another wealth of information from this collection is of more contemporary interest. In addition to the genealogical content of the collection, Boyce also preserved his own immediate family's history via several personal scrapbooks. These scrapbooks (Notebooks 14–22) document over half a century of the lives of Truxton W. Boyce, his wife Doris Jolls Boyce, and their two daughters, Barbara ("Bunny") Boyce Meyer and Virginia ("Ginger") Boyce. The scrapbooks trace the Boyces' lives from Truxton and Doris's first meeting as students at the University of Delaware in the early 1940s, to their eventual retirement in Wilmington, Delaware, in the 1980s. The scrapbooks document Truxton's service in the Second World War, including the period when he was stationed in occupied Japan, and the young family's transition to civilian life with Truxton's initial sales jobs with Sears Roebuck and Company in Wilmington and Dover, Delaware; Asbury Park, New Jersey; and Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. The scrapbooks also document Truxton's rise through the ranks with the Stewart In-Fra-Red Sandwich Company from the mid-1950s until his retirement in the 1980s. This career moved the family several times, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to St. Louis, Missouri, and to Boston, Massachusetts. Photographs, newsclippings, and ephemera illustrate Boyce's career, residences, home life, family activities, holidays, and vacations. The Boyce family scrapbooks thus represent one family's post-war, suburban, upwardly-mobile, growing and thriving American experience.
Boyce's research notes and records also provide a glimpse into a unique time and place. Boyce conducted most of his research during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, and the research materials housed in this collection echo this time frame. In many instances Boyce utilized then-contemporary maps to illustrate the movement of his family members from place to place, gathered period tourist brochures and materials from his research destinations, and supplemented the genealogical charts he crafted with the then-current whereabouts of his relatives. All of this serves to add an additional dimension to the historical content of the collection.
The collection is divided into four series. The first two series, Series I. The genealogy of Truxton W. Boyce, and Series II. The genealogy of Doris Lee Jolls Boyce, solely contain notebooks tracing the family lines of Truxton Boyce and Doris Jolls Boyce respectively. The family lines traced in Series I. include the following: Boyce, Tuley, Adams, Sebree, Lawrence, Brownley, Wright, Shreve, Morrow, Justis, Eves, Armstrong, Cleland, Ferris, Brynberg, Mahaffy, Dushane, Sharpe, Hyland, Stidham, Springer, and Hall families.
Those families traced in Series II. include the following: Jolls, Lorenz, Lutz, Lepley (or Lepple), Herman, McColgan, Colge, and Wise families. Boyce did not trace every family line to the same degree of detail. Some lines, such as the Lutz and Lorenz families (Notebook 12), are only traced as far back as their mid-nineteenth century arrivals in America from Austria and Germany. Other lines, most notably the Stidham and Brynberg lines (Notebook 8), have been traced back into the seventeenth-century.
Series III. The life of Truxton W. Boyce is comprised of nine notebooks (Notebooks 14-22) and one scrapbook (Scrapbook 1) that document nine periods in the life of this collection's compiler, Truxton W. Boyce. Unlike the other notebooks in this collection, these nine notebooks more closely resemble personal scrapbooks with autobiographical content, rather than notebooks of genealogical research and collected family ephemera. The nine notebooks detail eight self-defined periods in Boyce's life. The periods are 1939–1942 Courtship and Marriage; 1941–1946 Military; 1946–1953 Sears Roebuck; 1953–1965 Allentown; 1965–1971 St. Louis; 1971–1982 Boston; 1982–1984 Wilmington; and 1985–1990s. In addition to these nine three-ring notebooks, Series III. also contains one bound scrapbook that was kept during Truxton Boyce's youth as a student at Henrik J. Krebs Grammar School (Newport, Delaware) and Alexis I. du Pont High School (Wilmington, Delaware).
The final series, Series IV. Miscellaneous notebooks and foldered items, includes four notebooks and nine folders containing items that were either not originally housed in any of the notebooks or do not specifically pertain to any one family line. The notebooks in this series include the following: Notebook 23 General Data and Letters, Notebook 24 Addresses and Antique Articles, Notebook 25 Boyce and other notes, and Notebook 26 Letters and family ephemera. Boyce apparently used these notebooks to collect varied reference sources supporting his research. These notebooks include information such as addresses of research institutions and libraries, correspondence with distant relatives regarding shared ancestors, a listing of family antiques and heirlooms noting both the items's original owners and who currently possesses them, and articles on caring for and collecting antiques. A detailed description of the contents of these miscellaneous notebooks and folders can be found in the contents list below. Notable among the items in this series is the reunion notebook of Col. Ephraim Preston Jolls, Class of 1913, University of Delaware. Jolls, who retired to Newark, Delaware, after a career in the U.S. Army, received the booklet "Ye-Old-School-Tie" (no. 1 and 3, 1951 and 1953), which includes biographical profiles of his Delaware classmates, many of whom served in either one or both of the World Wars.
Boyce developed his understanding of the lives of his ancestors by talking to and corresponding with living relatives, consulting county probate records, wills, church records, cemetery records and tombstones, and other common sources of genealogical data, mining through family held records such as family Bibles, funeral announcements, marriage licenses, birth certificates, and so on, and, frequently, by visiting the former homesteads and places of residence of his ancestors. Boyce kept detailed records of his journeys and, over time, developed an extensive family tree. The materials housed within this collection reflect his hard work and preserve much of what he collected while investigating his family's past. Much more than just research notes and demographic data, the notebooks preserve a remarkable array of original family ephemera, such as hundreds of photographs (including two tintypes) of relatives, homes, tombstones, and antiques spanning well over a century; nineteenth-century letters, receipts, recipes, legal documents and newspaper clippings; an 1841 cookbook; a Nigerian coin from the 1960s; and First and Second World War-era military medals.
Though each of the twenty-six notebooks is unique, the overall style, content, and structure of the notebooks are similar. Typically, each notebook opens with research notes on the family and several pages of handwritten genealogical charts. (Many of these charts have been compiled and reproduced in this finding aid in order to provide a roadmap for the collection.) Following the notes, Boyce has preserved correspondence, brochures, and maps, and any additional period items such as photographs and other ephemera related to the family line. Boyce's notes often include family memories and anecdotes about individual ancestors and remarks about the current location ancestral antiques. Altogether, this collection provides rich documentation for several family lines through nearly four centuries of life in America.
The original notebooks and scrapbooks compiled by Truxton Boyce are preserved in this collection. Selected rehousing for fragile documents and photographs was provided in processing. A few oversize items were removed for protection. Though the notebooks and scrapbooks still present housing challenges, the format represents Boyce's research and original context for the collected information. Researchers are advised to handle the notebooks with care.
Tuley, Adams, Sebree, Lawrence, and Brownley families , 1860s–1960s [Box 1 Notebook 1]
This notebook covers the history of the Tuley, Adams, Sebree, Lawrence, and Brownley families. Much of the material housed in this notebook relates to either the Tuley family or the Tuley's Virginia homestead, the Tuleyries.
The Tuley family patriarch, Thomas Tuley, died on September 20, 1746, in Burlington County, New Jersey. His grandson, Joseph Tuley, moved from New Jersey to Millwood, Virginia. Joseph's son, Colonel Joseph Tuley Jr., built the family home, the Tuleyries, sometime between 1828 and 1833. The Tuleyries was purchased by Joseph Tuley's nephew-by-marriage, Colonel Upton Lawrence Boyce (see Notebook 4), in 1866. Boyce, in turn, sold the home to New York stock broker Graham Blandy in 1902 when he moved with his sons to Stanton, Delaware. Upon Blandy's death in 1926, 700 acres of this land were donated to the University of Virginia to become what is now the Blandy Experimental Farm. The Tuleyries itself, however, remains in Blandy family hands.
The Tuley section of the notebook includes photographs of the interior and exterior of the Tuleyries mansion and the surrounding land, portraits of Upton Lawrence Boyce and his wife Belinda Frances Wright Boyce, articles about the Tuleyries and the surrounding area, and the correspondence of Truxton W. Boyce regarding the property. Also in this section are clippings from the scrapbook of Mary T. Jackson kept during the Civil War.
Four additional sections detail the Adams and Brownley families of Virginia, the Sebree family of Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, and the Lawrence family of Maryland. These sections include the same types of material as are found in the Tuley section of the notebook, but are generally less detailed. On average, each section contains Truxton W. Boyce's research notes and correspondence, genealogical charts, and, in some cases, photographs, written biographies, or other items pertaining to the family line. Of particular note in these sections is a short biography of Kentucky legislator, religious missionary, and Fayette, Missouri, public servant, Uriel Sebree; an autobiography of Colonel Cave Johnson; photographs of the home of Colonel William Johnson; and a short biography of silversmith William Coleman.
Framed portrait of Mary Edelin Tuley [Box 8]
Wright and Shreve families , 1865–1960s [Box 1 Notebook 2]
This notebook covers the Wright and Shreve lines of Truxton W. Boyce's family tree.
John Wright and Elizabeth Sebree were married in 1797 and had seven children. Their third son, Uriel S. Wright, was born in Madison County, Virginia, on November 1, 1804. Uriel Wright was a prominent lawyer in St. Louis prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. When the War began he returned home to Virginia and, despite being a supporter of the Union, served as a Confederate staff officer. After the War he moved to Clarke County, in northern Virginia. Uriel Wright married Sarah Goen Tuley, whose brother, Joseph Tuley Jr., built the Tuleyries (see Notebook 1). Uriel and Sarah Wright's daughter, Belinda Frances Wright, married Upton Lawrence Boyce (see Notebook 4) in 1858. Uriel Wright died in Clarke County, Virginia, on February 18, 1869.
The Shreve family became connected to the Boyce family through marriage in 1815. William Shreve III was born on August 26, 1761. He was a judge in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and had served in the Revolutionary War. He died in Jessamine County on January 26, 1837. His daughter, Catherine Lawrence Shreve married William Boyce II in 1815 (see Notebook 4).
Each of the two sections of this notebook contains family trees, notes, correspondence, and other items collected during Truxton W. Boyce's genealogical research. The Wright section includes, among other items, a copy of John Wright and Elizabeth Sebree's 1797 marriage bond, a copy of Uriel Wright's 1819 acceptance letter into the Military Academy at West Point, several reproductions of articles from the Liberty Tribune of Liberty, Missouri, noting Uriel Wright's legal accomplishments and service with the Confederate Army, copies of several biographies of Uriel Wright, a copy of Sarah Goen Tuley Wright's death certificate, photographs of a portrait of Uriel Wright, newspaper articles about the Tuleyries, a copy of Uriel Wright's obituary from The Clarke Courier, and information related to the history of St. Louis and Jefferson Barracks.
The Shreve section includes copies of Revolutionary War documents about William Shreve, a copy of a marriage permission signed by William Shreve allowing his daughter Catherine Lawrence Shreve to wed William Boyce II, and photographs taken from an album belonging to Mrs. U. L. (Belinda Frances Wright) Boyce.
Removals from Notebook 2 [Box 7 F1]
William Boyce I , 1960s–1980s [Box 1 Notebook 3]
This notebook preserves Truxton W. Boyce's research on his great-great-grandfather William Boyce, who was born July 29, 1749 in Surry County, Virginia. William Boyce was a major in the Revolutionary War and later filled many public positions in Surry County, including those of sheriff, justice of the peace, judge of county court, surveyor of county records, and overseer of the poor. Additionally, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from October 21, 1793 to January 24, 1798. In 1808 Boyce purchased land in Fayette County, Kentucky, where he died on January 5, 1812.
The notebook contains three sections, one of which is dedicated to William Boyce. The remaining two sections include general material on the Boyce family and specific material on William Boyce's brother, Daniel Boyce, who was born in 1752.
In addition to Truxton W. Boyce's genealogical research notes and correspondence, the notebook contains the Boyce family crest, research notes on French Huguenots, Jamestown, North Carolina, and the Protestant Reformation, cartoons and advertisements related to genealogy and family trees, an article about Bacon's Castle in Virginia, and an advertisement for the Hale-Byrnes house (Delaware). Additionally, the notebook houses information about William Boyce's service during the Revolutionary War, a short biography of Hector Boece (1465?–1536), a clipping from The Farmington News (Farmington, Missouri) titled "Truxton Boyce is Seeking Family's Old Time Bible," a hand-drawn map of Virginia in 1796, information on the American Revolution, and pamphlets from historic houses in Virginia.
Removals from Notebook 3 [Box 7 F2]
William Boyce, II and Upton Lawrence Boyce , 1872–1971 [Box 1 Notebook 4]
This notebook details the lives of Truxton W. Boyce's great-grandfather, William Boyce II, and grandfather, Upton Lawrence Boyce. William Boyce II was born May 5, 1795 in Surry County, Virginia. In the 1840s he moved to Missouri, where he was involved with state politics. He married Catherine Lawrence Shreve on October 19, 1815 in Jessamine County, Kentucky (see Notebook 2). He died May 24, 1872 in Howard County, Maryland.
William's son, Upton Lawrence Boyce, was born in Greenup, Kentucky, on October 30, 1830. He married Belinda Frances Wright in 1858 and in 1866 they moved to the Tuleyries, her family's Virginia estate (see Notebook 1). The town surrounding the property was later named for Boyce. He owned a law office in Berryville, Virginia, and was very involved in the construction and management of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, where he served as the company's vice president for many years. The Boyce town railroad station still stands, reflecting Boyce's importance in not only bringing the railroad through the area, but also, with this move, making the town of Boyce a reality. In 1902, following the death of his wife, Upton Lawrence Boyce sold the Tuleyries and moved with his sons to Stanton, Delaware, where they purchased a diary farm. He died in Stanton on December 24, 1907.
In addition to general notes, correspondence, and clippings, the William Boyce II section includes an 1872 letter from William Boyce II to his daughter, copies, photographs, and a photographic negative of a daguerreotype of William Boyce II taken about 1840 (though the original daguerreotype is not part of the collection), copies of newspaper articles that mention Boyce's involvement in politics, photographs (with negatives) of the Boyce house, photographs of Boyce's grave in Glasgow, Missouri, maps of Kentucky and Missouri, and information on historic sites in Missouri.
Of particular note in the Upton Lawrence Boyce section are photographs (originals and copies) of Lawrence, his wife Belinda, their family, and The Tuleyries, wedding announcements, invitations, and obituaries for Boyce family members, and many letters related to the Shenandoah Railroad Company.
Removals from Notebook 4 (I) [Box 7 F3]
Removals from Notebook 4 (II) [Box 7 F4]
William Truxton Boyce , 1909–1982 [Box 2 Notebook 5]
This notebook contains information about Truxton W. Boyce's father, William ("Trux") Truxton Boyce. He was born on October 25, 1876 in Clarke County, Virginia, and moved to Delaware with his father in 1904. On April 28, 1909 William Truxton Boyce married Elizabeth Armstrong Morrow. They lived in Stanton, Delaware, in what is now known as the Hale-Byrnes House, a historic site where General George Washington held a war council in 1777. Boyce, known as "an ardent dry man," was appointed Federal Prohibition Commissioner for the State of Delaware in 1929. He also served as a state representative from the seventh district, the prohibition director for Wilmington, and deputy collector of internal revenue. He died on July 29, 1955 and is buried in Old St. James Cemetery, Stanton, Delaware.
Of particular note in this notebook is information on the Hale-Byrnes house in Stanton, Delaware (also referred to as the Boyce house), photographs of William Truxton Boyce and his family, newspaper clippings about Boyce's political involvement and his marriage to Elizabeth Morrow, copies of a deed for cemetery plots, letters, hand-written recipes, postcards from Truxton W. Boyce to his mother Elizabeth Morrow Boyce from Rodney Scout Camps near North East, Maryland, Truxton W. Boyce's 1927 diphtheria inoculation certificate, and information on St. James Church in Stanton, Delaware.
Removals from Notebook 5 [Box 7 F5]
Morrow and Justis families, part 1 , 1853–1982 [Box 2 Notebook 6]
The Morrow and Justis families are Delaware lines connected to Truxton W. Boyce through his mother, Elizabeth ("Bess") Armstrong Morrow Boyce. The Morrow family line as traced by Boyce begins with William Morrow who moved, with his family, from Northern Ireland to the United States in 1835. Upon arriving in America the Morrows settled in Wilmington, Delaware. William Morrow's son, James Morrow, owned a store at 211 Market St. in Wilmington; the building was later called the Morrow Building. In 2004 a plaque was affixed to the front of the building commemorating its role as an early meeting place for Wilmington's Jewish community, many of which used the third floor rooms of the building as a venue for religious services in the 1870s. James Morrow's daughter, Elizabeth Armstrong Morrow, married William Truxton Boyce on April 28, 1909 (see Notebook 5). Elizabeth and William Boyce were the parents of this collection's compiler, Truxton W. Boyce.
As explained by a note in the beginning of the volume, this notebook contains an ancestral study of Elizabeth ("Bess") Morrow. This notebook is the first of two dedicated to the Morrow and Justis families. Items housed in the notebook include information on the history of Wilmington, Delaware; Elizabeth Morrow's graduation program from Ursuline Academy in 1900; photographs of the family, their home in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Morrow store at 211 Market Street; and newspaper clippings that belonged to Elizabeth Morrow. More information about the Morrow family is located in the second of the Morrow and Justis family notebooks.
Folder removed from front pocket of Notebook 6 [Box 7 F6]
Morrow and Justis families, part 2 , 1853–1960s [Box 2 Notebook 7]
This second of the Morrow and Justis family notebooks contains, among other items, photographs, legal documents, newspaper clippings, research notes, and correspondence. Of particular interest are several late-nineteenth century deeds, letters of testamentary, and newspaper obituaries for various Morrow family members. In addition, the notebook includes several letters, articles about the founding of New London Academy, a photocopy of an 1893 map of Newark, Delaware, highlighting the land of Jason Morrow, genealogical charts, the hand-written recipes of Elizabeth A. J. Morrow, and a letter from the consulate general of Switzerland in Philadelphia sent in reply to Truxton Boyce's own letter about the Rigi-Railway, the first mountain railway in Europe, which was built to climb Switzerland's Rigi mountain in 1871.
The Justis section of this notebook contains information about the Justis family, which was one of the first families to emigrate from Sweden to Delaware in the seventeenth century. The section includes newspaper clippings about the ship the Kalmar Nyckel, family charts, research notes, the Temperance Cookbook (1841), photographs (including one nineteenth-century tintype) of Justis family members, newspaper obituaries, mid-nineteenth century funeral announcements, and a 1959 maintenance map of New Castle County. Additionally, the notebook contains several postcards, brochures, magazine articles, and other items relating to Old Swedes Church in Wilmington, Delaware, where there is a Justis family plot.
Removals from Notebook 7 [Box 7 F7]
Eves, Armstrong, Cleland, Ferris, Brynberg, Mahaffy, Dushane, Sharpe, Hyland, Stidham, Springer, and Hall families , 1830s–1960s [Box 2 Notebook 8]
This book has twelve sections, one for each family, mostly consisting of photographs, obituaries, and burial information. Of the twelve sections, the Eves and Armstrong sections are the most developed, with the remaining ten sections containing mostly research notes, Truxton W. Boyce's correspondence, and family charts.
The Eves section contains a letter from the Reverend Robert Patterson DuBois of New London Presbyterian Church who, in 1847, officiated at the marriage of James Morrow and Bertha Ferris Eves, an 1876 report signed by William D. Eves, information on Immanuel Episcopal Church On-the-Green in New Castle, Delaware, where the early Eves worshiped, and photographs of the William Dushane Eves home on New London Road about six miles from Oxford, Pennsylvania.
Housed in the Armstrong section are photocopies of the records of Robert Armstrong's Revolutionary War service and Robert L. Armstrong's Civil War service, a certificate of merit for good behavior awarded to Lavinia Armstrong (circa 1830), newspaper clippings related to Rachel Armstrong Springer, invitations to the funeral of Bessie A. Springer and Elizabeth Armstrong, information about and photographs of Old St. James Episcopal Church in Stanton, Delaware, where the Armstrong family had burial plots, and photographs of the Armstrong family. Many of these family photographs date to the mid-nineteenth century, including one tintype of Amanda Eleanor Armstrong.
Of note in the remaining family sections are invitations to the funerals of Hannah Robinson (circa 1849) and Eleanor Brynberg (circa 1858), a 1922 membership application for the Daughters of the American Revolution, notes written by Elizabeth Morrow, a drawing by Robert Shaw of a house built by Dr. Tymen Stidham that was published in H.C. Conrad's History of the State of Delaware (vol. III), information on Dr. Stidham's herbal remedies, and several additional nineteenth-century photographs.
Removals from front pocket of Notebook 8 [Box 7 F8]
Thomas, Robert, Thomas, John Sr., John Jr., Joseph Haile, John Wheaton, and Joseph Childs Jolls , 1840s–1980s [Box 3 Notebook 9]
This notebook is the first of a series that details the family history of Doris Lee Jolls Boyce - wife of Truxton W. Boyce. The notebook has eight sections that correspond to eight generations of men from the Jolls family. These Jolls men are: Thomas (1652?–1687), Robert (1677–1739), Thomas (1703–1760), John Sr. (1743–1796), John Jr. (1774–1849), Joseph Haile (1814–1887), John Wheaton (1842–1905), and Joseph Childs (1865–1934).
The earliest generations of Jolls resided in eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The first of the Jolls family to come to Delaware was Captain Joseph Haile Jolls, who moved to Middletown, Delaware, in the mid-1800s after retiring from life as a sea captain in Rhode Island. His son, John Wheaton Jolls, was born in Warren, Rhode Island, on October 24, 1842. After serving in the Civil War he, like his father, moved to Middletown, Delaware. John Wheaton Jolls died on November 24, 1905. John's son, Joseph Child Jolls, was born on November 27, 1865. Joseph Child Jolls's son, Ephraim Preston (see Notebooks 10 and 11), attended Delaware College, where he played on the Varsity baseball team. Ephraim Preston Jolls was the father of Doris Lee Jolls Boyce; Notebooks 10 and 11 go into greater detail about Ephraim Preston.
The eight sections of the notebook contain family trees, clippings, correspondence, and research notes collected by Truxton W. Boyce. The first three sections, corresponding to the lives of Thomas Jolls (1652?–1687), Robert Jolls (1677–1739), and Thomas Jolls (1703–1760), contain little more than vital statistics (such as birth and death dates) about these men and some general clippings and notes about life in eastern Massachusetts in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Some items of particular note in this notebook are research into the Revolutionary War service of John Jolls Sr., a family record torn from a Jolls family Bible kept during the lifespan of John Jolls Jr., and a petition from Joseph Haile Jolls to serve as the administrator of his father's (John Jolls Jr.'s) estate, dated September 1, 1849. In addition to these items, the notebook also includes: pictures of ships and a house on Cape Cod, the article "The Art of Ancestor Hunting" by Oscar Frank Stetson, an article about gravestones in New England, photographs of Jolls family burial sites, pamphlets about Warren, Rhode Island, postcards with drawings of whaling boats, a copy of a newspaper article about Captain Joseph Haile Jolls's ship log, tourism brochures from Elkton, Maryland, and photographs of Ephraim P. Jolls while he was enrolled at Delaware.
Ephraim Preston Jolls, part 1 , 1910s–1980s [Box 3 Notebook 10]
Ephraim Preston Jolls was born on November 8, 1890 in Middletown, Delaware. In 1913 he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from Delaware College, where he was a pitcher on the varsity baseball team. On June 15, 1918 he married Ruth Emily Lorenz (see Notebook 12). He joined the Army in 1917 and served in the Panama Canal Zone, Hawaii, and several additional Army posts throughout the United States. He taught military science at the University of Delaware, where he coached baseball and served as the president of the Athletic Association. After he retired in 1946, he and his wife moved back to Newark, Delaware. He died on December 17, 1962.
This notebook, the first of two about Ephraim Preston Jolls, contains, among other items, a family tree; photographs taken on and around military bases in Panama, Hawaii and across the United States; Doris Lee Jolls' birth announcement; photographs of the birthing house at Walter Reed General Hospital where Doris Lee Jolls was born; photographs of the 1932 competitive drill team at the University of Delaware; the article "Memories of Newark, Delaware 60 Years of Age" by Anna Hayes Owens; and photographs of University of Delaware President Walter Hullihen with 1942 May Queen Doris Lee Jolls.
Ephraim Preston Jolls military medals [Box 9]
Removals from Notebook 10 (I) [Box 7 F9]
Removals from Notebook 10 (II) [Box 7 F10]
Removals from Notebook 10 (III) [Box 7 F11]
Ephraim Preston Jolls, part 2 , 1913–1980s [Box 3 Notebook 11]
This notebook is the second of two about Ephraim Preston Jolls. Items of note in this notebook include the following: photographs of various hunting and fishing trips taken by Ephraim Preston Jolls, greeting cards, two miniature photo albums documenting a family trip to Florida, correspondence between Jolls and a distant cousin (Dr. W. B. Jolls of Orchard Park, New York) discussing their shared family history, newspaper clippings and other materials pertaining to Jolls's adoption into the Seneca Wolf Clan, a program from the 1913 Delaware College commencement ceremony listing Jolls as a graduate, Jolls's obituary and photographs of his headstone, and a certificate of membership from the Wyoming state section of the Sons of the American Revolution that he obtained while stationed at Ft. Warren near Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1943.
Lorenz, Lutz, Lepley, and Herman families , 1820s–1990 [Box 3 Notebook 12]
This notebook contains information about several generations of the Lorenz and Lutz families; the sections for the Lepley and Herman family lines are empty. A note in the beginning of the notebook indicates that the notebook traces "The Heritage of Ruth Emily Lorenz Jolls," who was the mother-in-law of the compiler of this genealogical collection, Truxton W. Boyce.
The Lorenz and Lutz families were of German and Austrian heritage and thus much of the correspondence included in this notebook is with bodies such as the German Society of Pennsylvania, several Lutheran churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Lutheran Synod of New Jersey, and the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia. Additionally, some materials, most notably a photocopy of an 1852 marriage certificate and a photocopy of an 1880 birth and confirmation certificate, are in German. The notebook also includes a photocopy of Frederick Lorenz's November 7, 1854 appeal for American citizenship.
Both sections of this notebook contain family photographs (originals and photocopies) ranging from throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth century. During this time the families lived in Newark, New Jersey; Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania; and New Castle, Delaware. A genealogical chart tracing the family lines is included and reproduced in several places throughout the notebook to illustrate the connections between the Lorenz, Lutz, Lepley (or Lepple), and Hermann families. Housed within the Lorenz section are copies of church records; photographs of gravestones in the Presbyterian Cemetery in New Castle, Delaware, where there are two stones for Frederick R. Lorenz; and a letter to Doris Jolls from her grandfather, Albert Lorenz, about a hurricane that occurred on September 21, 1938 in the northeastern United States and left approximately seven hundred dead, including over four hundred from the area surrounding Ft. Adams near Newport, Rhode Island where Albert Lorenz was staying. The Lutz section contains a family tree and notes; photographs; and information from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Genealogical Society of Delaware. Some of the later items found in this notebook are photographs of Ruth Lorenz Jolls and her granddaughter, Barbara Jolls Boyce, taken in 1970 following Barbara's return from serving in the Peace Corps in Nigeria (see Notebook 19).
Removals from front pocket of Notebook 12 [Box 7 F12]
Removals from Notebook 12 [Box 7 F13]
McColgan, Cogle, and Wise families; Correspondence and whaling , 1910–1980s [Box 4 Notebook 13]
In addition to sections on the McColgan, Colge, and Wise families, this notebook contains a section entitled "More Whaling" that includes much of the research and information on whaling collected by Truxton W. Boyce. A fifth section, Correspondence, forms the bulk of this notebook.
The family sections contain family trees, research notes, and Truxton W. Boyce's correspondence. All three sections are fairly brief with the McColgan and Cogle sections containing little outside of Boyce's research materials. The Wise section includes some additional material, namely, copies of nineteenth-century pension records concerning Civil War veteran John W. Jolls and a 1931 photo of the four Wise sisters: Mary, Jennie, Louisa, and Annie Wise.
The "More Whaling" section includes postcards with whaling images, magazine and newspaper clippings about whaling, a map of Mystic Seaport, Connecticut, and information from whaling and maritime museums. The largest section in this notebook is the Correspondence section which contains about twenty letters (many with envelopes) that were sent between Jolls family members. The letters and postmarks are dated anywhere from 1910 to 1976, with the bulk of the letters being sent to either Doris Jolls or, earlier, her father Ephraim Preston Jolls. Many to Doris are from "Alice" while most of the letters sent to Ephraim Preston are from his Aunt Annie E. (Adams) Jolls.
Removals from front pocket of Notebook 13 [Box 7 F14]
This series contains nine notebooks about Truxton Boyce, the compiler of this genealogical collection. Unlike the other notebooks in this collection, these notebooks do not contain genealogical data or research, but are more properly viewed as personal scrapbooks with autobiographical content.
Memories of Krebs Grammar School , 1927–1937 [Box 10 Scrapbook 1]
This scrapbook contains awards, certificates, school work, report cards, drawings, photographs, membership cards, programs, play scripts, and other ephemera from Truxton W. Boyce's childhood as a student at the Henrik J. Krebs Grammar School (Newport, Delaware) and Alexis I. du Pont High School. In addition, the scrapbook preserves an A. I. du Pont varsity letter as well as Boyce's 1937 high school diploma.
Courtship and Marriage , 1939–1942 [Box 4 Notebook 14]
This is the first of two notebooks documenting events from the life of Truxton W. Boyce between 1939 and 1946. The notebook, with a single section labeled "'39/ '42 Courtship and Marriage," includes photographs of Truxton Boyce and Doris Jolls; newspaper articles related to the University of Delaware and the Delaware Women's College, ca. 1939–42; certificates given to Truxton Boyce by the Civil Aeronautics Authority; programs from the University of Delaware's 1941 R.O.T.C Dinner Dance, 1942 Junior Prom, 1941 Junior Prom, and the E52 Players' presentation of Flight to the West; photographs of and newspaper articles about the 1942 May Day festival at the Women's College; engagement announcements for Truxton Boyce and Doris Jolls; Class of 1941 graduation program from the University of Delaware; and Truxton Boyce's driver's license, vehicle registration card, Sigma Nu membership card, and United States Coast Artillery Association card.
Removals from Notebook 14 [Box 7 F15]
Military , 1941–1946 [Box 4 Notebook 15]
This notebook is the second of two dealing with the period between 1939 and 1946. This notebook contains a single section "'41– '46 Military" that details Boyce's time in the service. Of note are photographs from Truxton Boyce's military service, including some taken at Fort Miles in Delaware and in the Pacific Theater; family photographs; and newspaper articles related to the military service of Truxton W. Boyce and his two brothers, William ("Bill") and Robert ("Bob") Boyce.
Removals from Notebook 15 [Box 7 F16]
Sears Roebuck , 1946–1953 [Box 4 Notebook 16]
This book contains one section, "'46–'53 Sears Roebuck," following Boyce's first few career positions after leaving the military. The notebook contains family photographs (particularly of Truxton's wife, Doris, and daughters, Barbara ("Bunny") and Virginia ("Ginger")), newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Of note in the notebook are Virginia Truxton Boyce's baptism certificate and programs from the Lions Club presentations of "Going Places" and "Dance Frolics of 1952" in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania.
Removals from Notebook 16 [Box 7 F17]
Allentown , 1953–1965 [Box 5 Notebook 17]
This is the second notebook of two detailing Boyce's life from 1947–1958. The notebook contains one section, "'53– '65 Allentown," that includes family photographs, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. Of particular note in this notebook is a newspaper advertisement for Hess Brothers department store, with Truxton Boyce as a clothing model, Barbara and Virginia Boyce's artwork and schoolwork, newspaper clippings about Barbara and Virginia Boyce, and photographs and information about Stewart In-Fra-Red Commissaries.
Removals from Notebook 17 [Box 7 F18]
Allentown, continued , 1953–1965 [Box 5 Notebook 18]
This notebook contains one section detailing Truxton Boyce's personal and business life. The section, "'53– '65 Allentown (con't)," is a continuation from the prior notebook in this series. Within this section Boyce has preserved family photographs and correspondence; newspaper clippings related to the family; Barbara and Virginia Boyce's artwork and schoolwork; newspaper articles about the crash of Pan Am flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland on December 8, 1963; and postcards from Puerto Rico mailed to Truxton and Doris Boyce from Allentown friends and neighbors who were passengers on the flight that crashed as a result of a lightening strike.
Removals from Notebook 18 (I) [Box 7 F19]
Removals from Notebook 18 (II) [Box 7 F20]
St. Louis , 1965–1971 [Box 5 Notebook 19]
This is the second of two notebooks covering the period of 1959 to 1971. The lone section in this notebook, "'65–'71 St. Louis," documents the Boyce's lives after they moved from Allentown, Pennsylvania, to St. Louis, Missouri. This section contains family photographs, correspondence, and newspaper articles about Boyce's daughters Barbara Boyce, who was a Peace Corps volunteer, and Virginia Boyce, who worked for the Barnes Medical Center in St. Louis.
Removals from Notebook 19 [Box 7 F21]
Boston , 1971–1979 [Box 5 Notebook 20]
This notebook contains a single section "'71–'79 Boston." The section contains the usual photographs and correspondence found in other notebooks, as well as a nametag and a newspaper article about Truxton Boyce's position at Stewart Sandwiches, Inc.
Wilmington , 1982–1984 [Box 6 Notebook 21]
This is the second of two notebooks concerning the period 1971 to 1984. The notebook includes one section, entitled "'82– '84 Wilmington," that preserves items from the Boyce's life in Wilmington, Delaware following Truxton Boyce's retirement in 1982. Of note in this section is a newspaper clipping announcing Truxton Boyce's return to Delaware after forty years; various family photographs and correspondence; a typed article on the women of the Boyce and Jolls families, titled "Grandmothers of the Scarf;" Truxton Boyce's "Diary of a Heart Attack & Hospital Stay" and "Second Visit to Hospital," both written during Boyce's hospitalization and recuperation from two heart attacks; and items related to Doris Boyce's hospital volunteer service.
1985–1990s [Box 6 Notebook 22]
This notebook is the final notebook of Truxton Boyce's personal scrapbooks. It is very much a continuation of the previous notebook which documented the Boyce's retirement in Wilmington, Delaware. The notebook includes various family photographs, newspaper clippings, several identification and membership cards, and a review of Doris Jolls Boyce's volunteer work at the Medical Center of Delaware.
Removals from Notebook 22 [Box 7 F22]
General Data and Letters , circa 1960s–1980s [Box 6 Notebook 23]
This notebook is divided into two sections. The first section, "General Data," contains Truxton Boyce's inventories of historic books, daguerreotypes, magazines, funeral announcements, antiques, and other items in the possession of members of the Boyce and Jolls families. The section also includes many pages of miscellaneous notes on various topics such as the care and cleaning of pewter. The "Letters" section of the notebook contains many letters written to Truxton Boyce regarding his genealogical research. Many of these letters appear to have been written in response to Boyce's own letters soliciting help from his extended family in continuing his research.
Addresses and Antique Articles , circa 1960s–1980s [Box 6 Notebook 24]
This notebook is divided into two sections. The first section, "Addresses," includes the addresses of research institutions, libraries, antiques and document dealers, and independent researchers that Truxton Boyce communicated with during his research. Also included in this section are brochures and catalogs from various institutions. The "Antique Articles" section contains clippings from various magazines and newspapers about antiques. In addition to his work on researching his family lineage, Truxton Boyce also cared about the antiques that were passed down to he and other members of his family from their ancestors.
Boyce and other notes , circa 1960s–1980s [Box 6 Notebook 25]
This notebook contains various notes, maps, and brochures that were originally housed in an untitled notebook. The vast majority of these notes appear to deal with the Boyce family line specifically.
Removals from Notebook 25 [Box 7 F23]
Letters and family ephemera , 1792–1962 [Box 6 Notebook 26]
This notebook, the final notebook of the collection, contains a variety of letters and other family ephemera from several different family lines in the Boyce and Jolls genealogy. This notebook is unique from the others in that it is almost entirely comprised of primary, period materials gathered by Truxton W. Boyce during the course of his research. The earliest item in the notebook is a partially printed 1792 summons for William Wright from Orange County, Virginia. The notebook also contains nine letters written between the years 1858 and 1890 and one postcard written in 1874. Other items of interest include an 1879 advertisement for the sale of the plots of land (including the mansion) at the Tuleyries (spelled, in this instance, Tuileries), a promissory note from Uriel Wright to Mary Tuley, administrator of the estate of Joseph Tuley, for $204.06 dated October 30, 1860, an 1890 indenture apprenticing James Morrow to a cabinet maker, and the 1909 marriage certificate of William Truxton Boyce and Elizabeth Armstrong Morrow. The notebook contains three photographs, including two of the Armstrong family homestead, Hedgeland Farm. Finally, the notebook preserves several handwritten pages of information copied out of the family Bibles of James and William E. Morrow and James Morrow's original 1841 appeal for American citizenship.
"The Jolls Family in America" , 1931–1995 [Box 7 F24]
"The Jolls Family in America" was written by W.B. Jolls around 1931. The report traces the history of several generations of the family. Also included in this folder are items that were originally laid into the report. These items include: a program for a 1958 ceremony recognizing W.B. Jolls sixty-three years of service as a doctor in Orchard Park, New York and four copies of the Orchard Park Press with a front page article about this ceremony.
"The Jolls Family in America" 7th edition , 1941–1953 [Box 7 F25]
In addition to W.B. Jolls' "The Jolls Family in America" the folder contains a photograph of a portrait of W.B. Jolls, the article "The Art of Ancestor Hunting," correspondence, and the copy of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling.
Copy of "The Jolls Family in America" 7th edition , 1953 [Box 7 F26]
Also includes a letter from Chris Jolls.
Ephraim Preston Jolls certificates , 1931–1941 [Box 7 F27]
Includes six of Ephraim Preston Jolls promotion certificates from the Army, dating from 1931 to 1941.
"Ye-Olde-School-Tie-No. 1" , 1951–1953 [Box 7 F28]
Includes Ephraim Preston Jolls University of Delaware class reunion booklet/newsletter entitled "Ye-Olde-School-Tie-No. 1"
Family trees , circa 1960s–1980s [Box 7 F29]
Includes four genealogical charts tracing the ancestors of William Truxton Boyce and Elizabeth ("Bess") Armstrong Morrow Boyce. These duplicate charts were included by Boyce elsewhere in the collection as needed. Of particular interest in this folder are two large illustrations depicting the Jolls family tree as a multi-branched, old, craggy, and well-developed tree. The illustration begins at the base of the trunk with ancestor Captain Thomas Jolls (d. 1694) and includes, among many others, Doris Lee Jolls. The tree was compiled and drawn by Beatrice Jolls-Read in 1932. One of the two illustrations is drawn on blueprint paper.
Miscellaneous and duplicate items , circa 1850s–1980s [Box 7 F30]
This folder includes photographs, funeral announcements, and notes. Most, though not all, of the items in this folder are duplicate items found elsewhere in the collection.
Duplicate items , circa 1960s–1980s [Box 7 F31]
This folder is entirely comprised of photocopied items, including research notes and primary source documents, that are housed elsewhere in the collection. The documents in this folder were originally housed in a folder labeled "Duplicates."
Email correspondence and family data , 1999 [Box 7 F32]
The folder contains e-mail correspondence between Truxton W. Boyce's niece, Betsy Hawkes, and fellow Boyce descendant Velma Sippie. Hawkes and Sippie both hoped to develop their understanding of the heritage of Daniel Boyce by sharing what little they both knew about this early ancestor. Also included in the folder are several pages of typed notes and genealogical charts tracing several generations of Boyce family members.
