Box 4

Scope and Contents Consisting mainly of receipts and bills for goods and services purchased by Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Deford, 1870-72, and deeds and other legal documents concerning farmland and other property in Pennsylvania and involving such persons as William McVitty, John Taylor, George Johnston, and others, 1790-1843. Also, receipts and bills of Benjamin Deford, 1841-1843, a few items of Thomas Deford correspondence, including an 1861 letter from the “Committee for the Ward” advising him to keep his “most...