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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Genealogical and vital records documents for Merton/Jenkins family

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1921-1937

Volume: 3 item(s); 6 pg(s)

Scope and Content

The file contains some scanned copies of death certificates for: Thomas Merton's mother, Ruth Jenkins Merton; and for this maternal grandparents, Samuel Adams Jenkins and Martha Caroline Baldwin Jenkins.

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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1921/10/03 other[x] Borough of Manhattan Department of Health of The City of New York [-] Name of Institution Bellevue  [death certificate for Ruth Merton, mother of John Paul and Thomas Merton]
 1936/10/27 other[x] Borough of Queens No 50 Rushmore Rd, Douglaston LI Certificate No 7253  [death certificate for Samuel Adams Jenkins, father of Ruth Jenkins Merton]
 1937/08/13 other[x] Borough of Queens No 50 Rushmore Road, Douglaston Registered No 5847  [death certificate for Martha Caroline Baldwin Jenkins, mother of Ruth Jenkins Merton]
        

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