Scope and content Papers comprise a genealogy chart of thirteen generations starting with John Carman and Florence Fordham through children born in the 1960s and significant correspondence from the 1830s to the 1880s, by which time the family was in upstate New York in Mecklenburg, Bridgewater, Buffalo, and Trumansburg. Members of the family were Quakers and the correspondence includes positions on faith and religion, news about the Civil War, views about slavery, hungar, factory work, and the Mexican War,...