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Margaret Clark Greene correspondence to Christine Williams Biddle, 1844 [August-December]
Margaret Clark Greene correspondence to Christine Williams Biddle, 1844 [August-December]
Margaret Clark Greene correspondence to Christine Williams Biddle, 1844 [August-December]
Margaret Clark Greene correspondence to Christine Williams Biddle, 1844 [August-December]
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Margaret Clark Greene correspondence to Christine Williams Biddle, 1844 [August-December]

Permanent ID:
13329
Dates:
September 23 1844
November 19 1844
Image Description:
This digital record contains four images that depict two letters written by Margaret Clark Greene to Christine Williams Biddle. Christine Williams Biddle (1780–1861) was the wife of Thomas Alexander Biddle (1776–1857), the son of American Revolutionary war soldier Clement Biddle (1740–1814). Margaret Clark Greene (1798-1861) was from a prominent Highland Scots family. Her father was Captain Alexander Clark, Royal Marines. Her mother was Margaret Shaw. In 1843, her sister Isabella married John A. Macdonald (later Sir), who became the first Prime Minister of Canada. Margaret had no settled home, living at one time or another in the Highlands, the Isle of Man, Liverpool, Philadelphia, New York City, New Haven, East Greenwich, RI; Burlington, NJ; Savannah, Cumberland Is., and elsewhere in GA. In 1822 she married John Ward Greene, a nephew of General Nathanael Greene. Less than three months later he died of illness. Never remarrying, Margaret became the close companion of Louisa Greene Shaw, a daughter of Nathanael Greene.

These letters are held, along with others, in folder 10 (box 7) titled "Christine Williams Biddle Correspondence, 1844 (August-December)," of the Biddle family collection.
Address:
New Haven
East Greenwich
Format:
Correspondence
Collection:
Biddle family papers, 1683-1954
Related Person or Organization:
The Biddle Family (relates to)
Library of Congress Subjects:
Quaker women [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85147407]
Correspondence [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh99001943]
Nineteenth century [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85091984]
Biddle, Thomas, 1776-1857 [info:lc/authorities/names/n86114538]