Research Tools - Phd Dissertation - Kinship networks
The value of published, peer reviewed, research. MIERS-HAWORTH LETTERS The letters of Quaker migrant Mary Haworth, later Mrs John Miers, to her brother James, and her Delawarean born son, John, to his mother’s brother, James Haworth, domiciled England, form part of "A Collection of Letters Written at Various Times from America” that have not been transcribed or published. Excerpts from these letters have been used by Thomas R Saxton in his essay, “Living in Two Worlds: Kinship networks and Pennsylvania's Integration into the Atlantic World. [1] letter writing - important to keep contact; knowledge of identity – where came from – important to sustain identity while at the sametime create a public identity in a new society. The Haworth Miers letters are an important resource for ancestral studies and present an inviolable representation of family relationships and lineage at a precise period. 1715: Writing to his brother James Haworth, in the summer of 1715, George wro...