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• Raised Doughnut Recipe By Mrs. Alfonso Smith
  Handwritten recipe of Clara Smith - sharing her doughnut recipe.
• Will of Jeremiah Langhorne
  Jeremiah Langhorne (d. 1742) of Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, set forth his last will and testament in May 1742. His primary estate, an 800-acre plantation known as Langhorne Park, is devised to his grand-nephew Thomas Biles, with provisions for heirs of his body, and in default, to his niece Sarah Growdon and her heirs, then to her husband Lawrence Growdon. He carefully stipulates that three enslaved men—Jo, Cudjo, and London—are to inherit land. Jo and Cudjo received approximately 310 acres, split mostly evenly, along with the equipment and livestock needed to farm as independent, free men. The land that Cudjo and Jo inherited was located in what was then Warwick Township, and included the land that is now Doylestown, the county seat of Bucks County. "Cudjo’s land extended from the present Hamilton Street, along Court for one-third mile to Church Street. In length it extended from the corner of Hamilton and Court, then diagonally southeast to Main and Ashland, and then along Green Street. It was a total distance of three-quarters of a mile." (See link to Bucks County Herald article, below). Both men had lifetime rights to the property. According to the Herald article, Cudjo surrendered his rights in 1751, while Jo worked his land until his death around 1768. Langhorne made provisions for the enslaved families that remained after his death, including housing, livestock, and, in some cases, small tracts of land. Langhorne further provides for the manumission of his enslaved people: all those aged twenty-four at his death (except a man named Boson) are to be freed immediately, and the remainder upon reaching twenty-four. Beyond provisions for servants and enslaved people, Langhorne bequeaths sums of money and land to members of his extended family. His nephews, nieces, and their children—including members of the Biles, Pennington, and Bates families—receive significant inheritances, both in cash and in landholdings across Bucks County and beyond. He also leaves property to friends’ heirs (notably the Hamiltons) and to distant kinsmen in England. In addition to financial gifts, he directs that livestock, farming equipment, and household provisions be distributed among Jo, Cudjo, London, and other servants. Langhorne’s will demonstrates both the complexity of landholding in colonial Pennsylvania and the intertwined presence of enslavement, family inheritance, and patronage networks within his estate planning.
• Handwritten Stoutsburg Cemetery Ledger
  This handwritten ledger was kept by Herbert Albert Hubbard (June 7, 1875-July 11, 1948), Beverly Mills's (co-founder of the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum) great-grandfather, at the Stoutsburg Cemetery. It includes minutes from Stoutsburg Cemetery Association meetings, including hymns sung and fundraising efforts, from 1912 through the 1920s.
• Program for recital at Ethical Society Auditorium.
  Lockhart's program for recital at Ethical Society Auditorium