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Morris-Shinn-Maier Collection Morris-Shinn-Maier collection MC.1191 Janela Harris and Jon Sweitzer-Lamme Other authors include: Daniel Lenahan, Kate Janoski, Jonathan Berke, Henry Wiencek and John Powers. Last updated on May 14, 2021. Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Morris-Shinn-Maier collection Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................6 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................7 Scope and Contents..................................................................................................................................... 14 Administrative Information......................................................................................................................... 15 Controlled Access Headings........................................................................................................................16 Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 18 Historical Papers.................................................................................................................................... 18 Individuals..............................................................................................................................................23 Photographs..........................................................................................................................................319 - Page 2 - Morris-Shinn-Maier collection Summary Information Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Creator Shinn, Earl, 1838-1886 Creator Shinn, Ellen Morris Creator Morris, Wistar Creator Shinn, Earl, 1796-1865 Creator Shinn, Rebecca Creator Shinn, Emma Morris Creator Shinn, James Thornton Creator Rees, Thomas, fl. 1754 Creator Thomson, Charles Creator Shinn, Sarah Comfort Creator Shipley, Anna, 1826-1888 Creator Vaux, Sarah H. Morris Creator Vaux, William Sansom Creator Vaux, George, Jr., 1863-1927 Creator Walcott, Mary Vaux, 1860-1940 - Page 3 - Morris-Shinn-Maier collection Creator Morris, Catharine Wistar, 1772-1859 Creator Collins, Julia Cope Creator Cadorus, Page Creator Cadbury, Richard, 1825-1897 Creator Wood, Emily Hollingsworth Morr Creator Haines, Elizabeth Shinn, 1823-1883 Creator Grimké, Sarah Moore Creator Grimké, Angelina Emily Creator Cope, E. D. (Edward Drinker) Creator Haines, Henry Creator Morris, Levi Creator Morris, Israel Wistar Creator Morris, Israel Creator Maier, Paul David Irwin Creator Maier, William Morris Creator Anna Morris Shinn Maier Creator Maier, James Shinn Creator Cadbury, Lydia C. Shinn - Page 4 - Morris-Shinn-Maier collection Creator Morris, Catharine Wistar, 1840-1922 Creator Morris, Henry Creator Morris, Caspar Creator Jones, Owen Creator Morris, Stephen Paschall Creator Morris, Naomi McClenachan Creator Harrison, Hannah Creator Leeds, Morris Evans Title Morris-Shinn-Maier collection Call number MC.1191 Date [inclusive] 1720-1975 Extent 78 linear feet (131 boxes) Extent Quantity of papers as described in each instance is estimated. Language English . Abstract This collection spans approximately 200 years, from the late 1700s to the late 1900s, and five generations of the Morris-Shinn-Maier family, which are traced through matrilineal and patrilineal lines. They were prominent Quaker businessmen and lawyers in the Philadelphia area, and a large portion of the collection is dedicated to their legal and business material, as well as a great deal of very detailed financial material. There is also a quantity of personal material, namely diaries and correspondence, and material from philanthropic work done by later generations. Principal - Page 5 - Morris-Shinn-Maier collection individuals include Paul David Irwin Maier, William Morris Maier, Anna Shinn Maier, Levi Morris and Naomi McClenachan Morris. Cite as: Morris-Shinn-Maier collection (HC.MC 1191) Quaker and Special Collections Haverford College, Haverford PA. Biography/History History of the Harriton Estate: Rowland Ellis (1650-1731) was born in Dolgellu, Wales. He visited Pennsylvania in 1686, and moved there in 1696. He settled on about 698 acres in a region designated by William Penn for Welsh Quakers. Ellis named his property "Bryn Mawr," after his estate in Wales (which passed to his daughter Ann). Ellis is said to have built the mansion house, which still exists as a museum, in 1704. Richard Harrison (?-174?) was a Maryland tobacco farmer, slave owner and Quaker. He married Hannah Norris in 1717, and bought "Bryn Mawr" estate from Rowland Ellis in 1719. Harrison moved his family there from Herring Creek, Maryland. He renamed the estate "Harriton," following the example of his father-in-law Isaac Norris, who named his New Jersey estate "Norriton." Richard Harrison kept slaves at Harriton, which became one of the largest northern slave plantations of its time, but he was at one point chastised by his meeting for keeping too many slaves. Harrison built a meetinghouse (which was razed in the 1820s) and a family burial ground on Harriton grounds. Hannah Harrison Thomson (1728-1807) was the daughter of Richard Harrison and Hannah Norris Harrison, a Quaker minister whose parents had been a prominent colonial official, and the daughter of a prominent colonial official. Hannah Harrison married the Secretary of the Continental Congresses, Charles Thomson in 1774, and inherited the Harriton estate from her father after his death. Hannah Harrison Thomson lived with her husband at Fourth and Spruce during his political career. After his retirement in 1789, Hannah Harrison Thomson and Charles Thomson returned to her childhood home. Charles Thomson was an abolitionist, and presumably it was he who ended the practice of keeping slaves at Harriton. The Thomsons had no children, and after helping to raise her great-nephew Charles McClenachan, the eldest surviving child of his generation, they selected Charles to inherit the Harriton estate after their deaths. However, Hannah Harrison Thomson died in 1807, and Charles McClenachan in 1811 (during the lifetime of Charles Thomson). Charles McClenachan then left his inheritance to a six-week old daughter - Page 6 - Morris-Shinn-Maier collection Naomi McClenachan, but under the terms of a life estate, Charles Thomson remained in the old Harriton mansion until his death in 1824. Page Cadorus (1774-1840) was a former servant or slave, of black or mixed-race. He was a favorite of Charles Thomson, and was probably raised in the Thomson household. During his lifetime, Charles Thomson gave Cadorus a life-estate on another part of the Harriton property. The land was known as Cadorus (or Codorus) Farm, and was legally owned by Page Cadorus, but he never resided there; instead, he leased it to tenant farmers. After Cadorus died in 1840, his life estate reverted back to the ownership of Naomi McClenachan Morris, who had inherited the entire property from her father. She moved there with her husband, Levi Morris. Levi handled the management of the estate until his death in 1868, and under his guidance, the Harriton property was leased to a number of tenant farmers. Levi also organized the building and leasing of a mill. He sold plots of land for their timber, and then resold the land as a farm (called Woodleave Farm). There were a number of different farms on the Harriton property, all of which generated money for the Morris family. It is unclear what buildings existed on this part of the property. A building called Lane's End, which still stands, may have housed Cadorus' tenant farmer as well as a springhouse. The building as it stands now, however, was probably significantly altered (if not entirely re-built) by Levi Morris during the nineteenth century. The same goes for the mansion house in which the Morris family lived. There was probably a building on the same spot before the Morris's moved to the property after Cadorus' death in 1840, but it is unknown exactly what type of building. The current mansion may have been built on top of the former building, or expanded from it. The old Harriton mansion built by Rowland Ellis and lived in by Richard Harrison and family was the home of tenant farmers throughout the nineteenth century, but the Morris family never lived in it. In the late nineteenth century, Naomi McClenachan Morris decided that it was improper for a Quaker lady to live in a house named after a slave—although Page Cadorus was not necessarily one—and she decided to rename the house and farm where she resided "Harriton." After Naomi's death, her heirs squabbled over the "Harriton" name, and whether it should apply to the former Cadorus region of the estate or to the original side, with the old mansion house. Biography/History Lydia Comfort Shinn Cadbury (1828-1904) – Daughter of Earl and Sarah Comfort Shinn, Lydia Shinn married Richard Cadbury in 1850 and they had four children: Caroline (1851-1914), Richard Tapper (1853-1929), Sara "Sally" Shinn (1855-1876), and Lydia "Lilly" Comfort (1856-1857/8). She was an active member of the Twelfth Street Meeting in Philadelphia. Richard Cadbury (1825-1897) – Son of Joel and Caroline Cadbury, Richard Cadbury married Lydia Shinn
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