Robert Barclay of Ury family papers and maps

The collection includes two letters from Robert Barclay to William Penn, 8 February 1685/86, on spiritual matters and referring to East Jersey, and 9 December 1687 referring to financial matters; his daughter Christian's receipt book, 1697-1723, with indexes to the first and second of three parts concerning home remedies, cooking recipes, and cloth dying, and containing two pages of marriage and birth records of her children with Alexander Jaffray. Also, a manuscript map, copied by Samuel Woodward, of the Barclay tract in Pennsylvania surveyed and described by Samuel Rhoads, Jr., 1835, showing cultivated areas, mills, and coal seams, with two letters by Samuel Rhoads describing the tract in Bradford County; and a manuscript map of sundry tracts of land situated in Northumberland and Luzerne counties, Pa., ca. 1794. Removed from the collection and cataloged separately are Barclay family copies of the books: two copies of Robert Barclay's An apology for the true christian divinity (Birmingham, 1765); Truth triumphant through the spiritual warfare, christian labours and writings (London, 1692); first French edition of Apologie de la veritable theologie chretienne (London, 1702). Also removed are Walter Thom's Pedestrianism (Aberdeen, 1813); Robert Barclay Allardyce's Agricultural tour of the United States and upper Canada (Edinburgh, 1842); and A genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie (London, 1812) with manuscript annotations and genealogical notes bound in.