Archive Record
Metadata
Object Name |
Documents |
Title |
Smyth-Willson Collection |
Object ID |
788 |
Scope & Content |
Photocopies of a large collection of papers related to the Smyth and Willson families of Trumpington on Eastern Neck near Rock Hall, Kent County Maryland. The originals of these documents, along with a much larger collection, are owned by Mildred Willson Strong--a descendent and current owner of Trumpington. This porton of the collection contains mostly correspondence of the Willson family, beginning with letters to and from Anna Martha Young Willson, who came to Trumpington as a governess in 1838 and eventually married Richard Bennett Willson, grandson of Thomas Smyth (1730-1819) and heir to Trumpington. Included in the correspondence are letters written to Anna Young Willson by her former teacher, Julia Compton of Washington, DC; her uncle Alonzo Manning, her brothers and friends. A significant number of the letters are difficult to read as they have been written two ways on the paper, but many have been transcribed. |
Collection |
2017.007 |
People |
Pearce, James Alfred Compton, Julia Davidson, Jennie DeCoursey, Nannie Deeth, Edward Young, Anna M. Young, Benjamin Young, Aloysia Young, Martha Young, Nannie Young, Alexander Willson, Anna Peterson, H.W. Willson, Richard Deeth, Nellie Deeth, Jennie Hoffar, Jeanie Deeth, George Deeth, Walter Manning, Alonzo Watkins, L. P. H. Willson, Anne Willson, Bennett Willson, Thomas Wederstrandt, John W. Hammond, William |
Lexicon category |
8: Communication Artifact |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Search Terms |
Kent County Circuit Court Lawyers Attorneys Legal records Chestertown Washington College Emmanuel Episcopal Church Diary Journal Correspondence Victorian Era Queen Street Greenwood House Women's History |
Location of Originals |
Originals (including much larger collection) owned by Mildred Willson Strong of Trumpington, near Rock Hall as of 2009. An inventory of the full collection is included with HSKC's copies. |