John Hill Brinton (1811-1893) was born in Thornbury, Pennsylvania on , the son of Thomas Hill and Catharine Odenheimer Brinton. He attended Strode’s Academy, West Chester, Pennsylvania and Germantown Academy in Philadelphia. The volume begins with a 23 page index followed by 240 pages of Brinton’s handwritten synopses.
These recollections include many members of the Carr, Darlington, Dilworth, Downing, Hickman, Hoopes, Mendenhall, Sharpless, and Taylor families. The second section, “Some account of William Brinton one of the early settlers in Penn’s Colony of Pennsylvania and of His Descendants,” is an essay on the life of William Brinton, who settled in America in the 1600s. This digitized diary includes a range of daily life events recorded by Mary Eliza Brinton Hopkins. Mary Eliza Brinton was born in 1830/31 to William Brinton (1785-1878) and Gulielma Cooper … The digitized reminiscences recorded by John Hill Brinton consist of five volumes (three original and two typed transcripts) and date from 1856 to 1868.
brinton lake doctors, Found within the collection are descriptions … Brinton, Frances D. “Transcript Of Notebook 1”. 2005.5001.45.1, Chester County History Center - John Hill Brinton Reminiscences Collection, 1915. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A272042. Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
