The Winterthur Library

 The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera

 

 

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:          Miller-Jaquett-Wetherall family                        

Title:               Papers

Dates:             1813-1906

Call No.:         Col. 761

Acc. No.:         04x130

Quantity:        24 items

Location:        34 K 4

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

The Jaquett family (sometimes spelled Jaquette) lived in Honey Brook, Chester County, Pa.  The Jaquetts were descended from a French man who settled in America in 1734; a distinguished ancestor was Major Peter Jaquett who fought in the Revolutionary War.  The Wetherall family (sometimes spelled Wetherell) lived in West Goshen Township, Chester County, Pa.  The Millers also originally lived in Chester County, although some of them later moved a short distance away to Lancaster County, Pa.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Primarily genealogical information about the Miller, Jaquett, and Wetherall families of Chester and Lancaster counties, Pa.  As well, includes a bill to or from John Miller for weaving flanning [sic] and linen.  Poems and a page with a calligraphic drawing removed from a friendship album are also found.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

           

The items are in accession number order.

 

 

PROVENANCE

           

Purchased from The Book Garden Gallery.

 

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

People:

            Miller family.

            Jaquith family.

            Wetherill family.

 

Topics:

            Weaving – Pennsylvania.

            Epitaphs – Pennsylvania.

            Autograph albums – Pennsylvania.

            Calligraphy.

            Obituaries.

Poems.

           

 

 

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION

 

Location: 34 K 4

 

04x130.1         bill, to or from John Miller, for weaving flanning [sic], flax linen, and tow linen, 1813-1814

 

04x130.2         packet of genealogical information:

notes about marriage of John H. Jaquett (b.1824) to Elizabeth Miller (b.1827), 1850;

list of births of their children (Emily Elnora, Elmer Price, Mary Anna, Cora Theresse);

marriage of their daughter Emily Elnora Jaquett(b.1852) to William Cooper Wetherall (b.1838) in 1882;

list of births of their children (Mabel Jaquett, William John, Edna Elsie);

marriage of John Miller (b.1772) to Mary Kurtz (b. 1785) in 1803, and births of their children ((Jacob, Hannah, John, Mary, Anna, Leah, Rachael, Elizabeth, Isaac);

another list of the children of John and Mary Kurtz Miller and a list of births of other Kurtz children, probably Mary’s siblings (Barbra, Mary, John, Abraham, Hannah)

 

 

04x130.3         death notice of Elizabeth Miller Jaquett, died at age 60, with an elegy signed E.W. [no year, but ca.1887];

                        inside: death of Mary Anna Jaquett in 1888, at age 28

 

04x130.4         a loose newspaper clipping with death notice of Cooper Wetherell, died in 53d year of his age, ca. 1891;

                        death notices from newspapers glued to sheet of paper:

two for Mary Miller (b.1785, died at age 89), one includes a poem initialed N.R.K.;

Miss Mary Miller [daughter of John and Mary Kurtz Miller, b. 1812], died in 62d year of her age, with poem initialed R.M.B.;

John Miller, Sr., died in 80th year of his age, he was a farmer in Lancaster County (no year);

Jacob Miller, age about 80 (no year)

 

04x130.5         a loose newspaper clipping with death notice of Eliza Ann Jaquett (daughter of Peter and Ellen Jaquett), d. January 11, 1916 at age 84;

                        death notices from newspapers glued to sheet of paper:

two notices for Elizabeth Miller Jaquett, aged 60, one with an elegy signed E.W. [no year, but ca.1887];

                        notice for Mary Ann Jaquett, died Oct. 10, 1888, in 29th year of her age (daughter of Elizabeth Miller and John Jaquett);

                        Ann Jaquett, widow of Peter, in 93d year of her age, no year;

                        Two notices for Cora T. Jaquett, in her 42d year, September 22, 1905 (daughter of Elizabeth Miller and John Jaquett), one of which gives details of the funeral;

                        Four notices for John H. Jaquett, d. Feb. 1, 1906, one of which gives details of his Civil War service and some information about his family

 

04x130.6         newspaper clipping about a Miller family reunion held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry MacNeal at Black Horse, probably 1925; a list of those present is included

 

04x130.7         “Friendship,” a poem signed Maggie Gilbert, Willistown, [Chester County, Penn.,] probably removed from an autograph album (one line begins “Farewell class-mate …”); a leaf decorates the title and the names E.E. Jaquett and M. Gilbert are written on the leaf

 

04x130.8         “The Old Arm Chair,” a poem, unsigned

 

04x130.9-10    two copies of an epitaph for Edward W. Jacquett, son of Peter and Ann Jaquett, died 1855 in the 26th year of his age

 

04x130.11       “Dear Brother Has Gone Away from Us,” a poem signed M.A. Jaquett Hustins(?), written for her brother Edward, undated, ca.1855

 

04x130.12       letter, Aunt Eliza, Radnor, to “Dear Niece,” February 12, 1888, explaining why she and Thomas had been unable to attend the funeral of the niece’s mother

 

04x130.13       copy of newspaper notice of death of Mary Miller, widow of John Miller, died January 31 [no year] at age 89

 

04x130.14       “Lines on the Death of My Brother,” unsigned and undated poem

                        [paper bears a crown watermark]

 

04x130.15       “Solemn Summons,” unsigned and undated poem about the author’s own death

 

04x130.16       “Our Mother Has Passed Away,” unsigned, undated poem

 

04x130.17       “Thou Art Gone,” a poem signed P.M.(?)J., perhaps a continuation of that in .16 above

 

04x130.18       copies of the two newspaper notices about the death of Mary Miller in .4 above