The collection contains property leases, deeds, legal briefs, copies of wills, letters, family records, warrants, land surveys, charts, notes, and "fragments". The records primarily relate to property in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
See the External Documents section below for the collection's inventory.
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1.35 Cubic Feet (1 legal size document case and one oversize flat box)
English
Gift of Clifford Lewis 3rd, of Philadelphia. Property by inheritance of Miss Agnes Plowden who gave them to her sister-in-law Mrs. Edmund J. Plowden, Bushwood, St. Mary's County, Maryland. Acquired in 1935 by Mrs. Clifford Lewis Jr. and her son Clifford Lewis 3rd, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Plowden cousins. Presented in 1940 to Georgetown Library by Mrs. Clifford Lewis Jr., Clifford Lewis 3rd, and Miss Agnes Plowden.
The collection was inventoried some time after delivery in 1940, perhaps by Wilfrid Parsons.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository