Townsend family2021-12-032021-12-031866-1871Box 2, F17https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/29504Includes letters from Elias S. Reed, Henry Ridgely, Thomas B. Bradford, Benjamin T. Biggs, George W. Smith, Gove Saulsbury, and others regarding local politics, railroads, Democratic conventions and meetings, Reconstruction, and other political matters. Also contains letters from [Joseph P.] Comegys and Henry Eckel, regarding the formation of the White Man's Party. Includes three letters from George Purnell Fisher on personal and political matters, a letter from Thomas F. Bayard thanking Samuel Townsend for peaches, and one letter from William Hemphill Jones regarding Israel Townsend. Also contains a letter asking for Samuel Townsend's assistance in getting an orphaned girl her father's Civil War pension.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 centuryMSS 0445