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Guide to the Ferree and McCombs Family Papers and Photographs 1775-c1930
Metadata Details
- Title
- Ferree and McCombs Family papers and photographs 1775-1930
- Subject
- Ferree Family, McCombs Family, McCombs, Norris, 1813-1887, McCombs, Elizabeth Ferree, Real estate--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)--History
- Description
- The Ferree and McCombs Family papers and photographs contain records, letters, accounting documents, drawings, notes, personal albums, and a songbook from the Ferree and McCombs families of western Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 1760s, these families were involved in real estate, land management, Native American relations, and other business and legal transactions in the Pittsburgh area. The Ferree and McCombs Family papers and photographs contain letters, deeds, notes, indentures, bills of sale, and other documents related to these transactions. The documents in the collection are from the years 1775 through c1930 and include extensive handwritten materials from the late 18th century. Also included are several notebooks, pencil drawings, photographs, a book of poems, and a 19th century songbook with sheet music. The Ferree and McCombs papers and photographs document business and legal transactions involving John Ferree, James OHara, John McCombs, William Crawford, John Wilkins, John Marshall, George McClelland, Archibald Thaw, Geroge Peebles, and others. The collection is housed in four boxes. Box 1 contains individually sealed documents from the years 1785 through 1842, including legal, business, and personal records of John Ferree. These records include correspondence with James OHara and John Wilkins. Box 2 contains six folders of real estate papers, wills, lot plans, photographs, drawings and other documents from the years 1777 through 1924. Photographs and pencil drawings depict Ferree and McCombs family homes in the Squirrel Hill area. Box 3 contains a personal album of Elizabeth Ferree, a handwriting workbook of Frederick Ferree, an account book of John Ferree, a 1971 magazine with an article on the history of Squirrel Hill, and a folder of real estate documents recording transactions in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Indiana. Box 4 contains two bound volumes of sheet music., Ferree and McCombs Family papers and photographs, 1775-1930, MSS 857, Thomas Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives, Senator John Heinz History Center, Cataloging of this collection was funded by a Basic Processing grant from NHPRC., Virginia Swanagan Gift 2008, 2009 2009.0047; 2008.0146, The Ferree family of Pittsburgh, Pa., descends from Madame Maria Ferree, a widowed French Huguenot who came to the American colonies around 1707 and was granted a 2,000 acre tract of land in Lancaster County by William Penn. Her descendants acquired land in western Pennsylvania, near the Pittsburgh Squirrel Hill neighborhood, in the 1760s. A Pittsburgh descendant, Elizabeth Ferree, married Norris McCombs in 1841. The McCombs family descends from John McCombs, who was born in Scotland in 1747. In 1770, he came to the American colonies from Ireland and married Elizabeth Marshall, also from Ireland. After living in Lancaster county, they moved to Washington County, Pa., and then to Mahoning County, Ohio. Their son, John McCombs, married Hannah Morrison of Pittsburgh and moved there in 1803, before giving birth to Norris McCombs. For several generations, the Ferree and McCombs families were involved in the purchase, improvement, and sale of real estate in the Pittsburgh area., Gift of Virginia Swanagan, Processed MSS 0857 10/2012 P. Dunn, Collection level finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Ferree Family., Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1775-1930
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, 2.5 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:818192811, pitt:US-QQS-mss857
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss857
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Squirrel Hill (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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