Entries drawn from collection & document descriptions
This collection includes letters, documents, clippings, pamphlets, and photographs relating to Joseph Priestley and his descendants. It was presented to the college by Mrs. Temple Fay.
Location: MC 1998.1
Subject: Health and Medicine, Politics and Government, Science and Technology
Format: Artifacts and Objects, Engravings and Illustrations, Essays and Dissertations, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs, Scrapbooks
Time Period: Before 1760, 1760-1779, 1780-1799, 1800-1819, 1820-1839, 1840-1859, 1860-1879, 1880-1899, 1900-1919, 1920-1939, 1940-1959, 1960-1979
Collection Inventory: 
mc1998.01.pdf
Collection Inventory: Priestley Family Collection Pamphlet
Benjamin Rush writes and signs this legal document, which transfers a deed to Joseph Priestley, Jr. Transcript included.
Location: I-Original-1794-3
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Legal Affairs
Format: Legal and Government Documents
Time Period: 1780-1799
Samuel Vaughan writes to Rev. Dr. John Andrews and introduces Joseph Priestley, who is seeking asylum in the United States. Vaughan explains that Priestley is "now driven to seek an asylum in your rising Empire."
Location: MC 1998.1, B2, F8
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Politics and Government
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1780-1799
Joseph Priestley Jr. writes to John Beckley and asks about having a tract of land surveyed on behalf of his father, Dr. Joseph Priestley, who is "very unwell."
Location: MC 1998.1, B1, F12
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Joseph Priestley Jr. writes to John Smith of Philadelphia (102 S. 18th St.) after receiving reports that Mr. Dean's tract of land is on a mountain top and not worth surveying.
Location: MC 1998.1, B1, F12
Subject: Land and Real Estate
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
Joseph Priestley Jr. writes to Nicholas LeFevre about a proposed exchange of "my brick house in Northd." for lands in Catawissa.
Location: MC 1998.1, B1, F12
Subject: Land and Real Estate, Personal and Family Life
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1800-1819
