Townsend family2021-12-032021-12-031851-1855Box 2, F15https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/29502Includes letters from Jesse Sharpe, William G. Whiteley, William P. Chandler, Albert O. Newton, James A. Bayard, and S. M. Harrington, Sr., regarding local politics, elections, conventions, legislation, and the railroad. Also includes a broadside by Samuel Townsend, entitled "To the Voters of Delaware," encouraging voters to not ratify the revised state constitution of 1853.EnglishNO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATESTownsend familyTownsend, Edmund, active 1830sTownsend, Israel, active 1830sTownsend, John, active 1830sTownsend, Samuel, 1812-1881Delaware--History--19th centuryDelaware--History--Civil War, 1861-1865Delaware--Politics and government--19th centurycorrespondenceMSS 0445