Have fun searching for Waldo on the cover of this book: Journal or Diary of Henry B. Chew at the Epsom Farm in 1831.1832.1833. He's there - really.
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania received a two-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to process the papers of the Chew Family.
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- conservation
- Benjamin Chew Jr.
- correspondence
- maps
- land
- "Bad Ben"
- Samuel Chew
- food and drink
- illness
- slavery
- surveys
- Benjamin Chew III
- William White Chew
- fun
- occupational hazards
- processing
- Anne S.P. Chew
- Anthony B. Chew
- Civil War
- Frisby family
- James M. Mason
- Mary J. B. Chew
- Richard Penn
- Samuel Chew Jr.
- Springetsbury Manor
- childhood
- completion
- estate
- farming
- finding aid
- fundraising
- home remedies
- melodrama
- plantations
- recipes
- speculation
- the joys of processing
- women
- Camden
- David S. Brown and Co.
- Gloucester City
- Henry B. Chew
- James Wilson
- John Chew
- John E. Howard
- New Jersey
- PA/MD boundary dispute
- Pennsylvania
- South Philadelphia history
- Treaty at Easton
- Whitehall
- blog
- celebration
- clothing
- cookbooks
- currency
- death
- description
- discoveries
- drawings
- fabric
- family life
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- financial crisis
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- gratitude
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- mourning
- new projects
- our supporters
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- private thoughts
- schools
- settlement
- shipping
- spirit communications
- spiritualism
- staff
- surprises
- telegrams
- theatre
- turkey
- wharves
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