Rhoads family
Family
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Deeds and Documents
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-990A
Overview
This collection includes an assortment of legal documents, including deeds, marriage certificates, indentures, and leases.
Dates:
1688-1880
Rhoads Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1033
Overview
Nineteenth century letters and papers primarily of the Quaker Gibbons and Rhoads families, often relating to abolition and the Free Produce Association.
Dates:
1822-1955
Rhoads-Gibbons family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1299
Overview
The collection contains the records of members of the Rhoads and Gibbons families between 1832 and 1963. It consists of correspondence, genealogical materials, ephemera, manuscripts, and photographs.
Dates:
1832-1963
Sarah Wistar Rhoads family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1211
Abstract
The Sarah Wistar Rhoads family papers indicate strong relationships and family ties that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries. Sarah Wistar Rhoads (1839-1920) married William Gibbons Rhoads (1838-1880) on November 28, 1866. At that time, the Rhoads, Gibbons and Wistar families began corresponding, the result being an outstanding collection illustrating family support, friendship and love. These papers include correspondence, financial records, diaries and journals, memorabilia, classwork and...
Dates:
Bulk, 1824-1930 1824-1963; Majority of material found within 1824 - 1930
Speakers' Bureau of the Friends Peace Committee records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-012
Overview
The Speakers' Bureau of the Friends Peace Committee, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was founded as a volunteer-run sub-committee for the Friends Peace Committee. The Bureau worked with schools, civic groups, service clubs, and church groups, among other organizations interested in "discussing or studying problems of the international order and the strengthening of the peace," according to one of their brochures. This collection is comprised of six volumes of record books for the Speakers'...
Dates:
1926-1963
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- Quakers 3
- commonplace books 2
- deeds 2
- diaries 2
- manuscripts (documents) 2
- photographs 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Antislavery movements -- United States 1
- Free produce movement 1
- Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Haverford (Pa.) 1
- Nuclear disarmament 1
- Peace 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Physicians 1
- Quaker deeds 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Sermons 1
- Wills 1
- account books 1
- clippings (information artifacts) 1
- correspondence 1
- estate records 1
- family papers 1
- genealogical tables 1
- indentures 1
- marriage certificates 1
- obituaries 1
- prayers (documents) 1
- speeches (documents) 1 + ∧ less
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