Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861

Dates

• Existence: 1793 - 1861

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Kite commonplace book

 Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-060

Overview

The commonplace book of Mary Kite includes extracts from her diary, correspondence, and an account of a religious visit to North Carolina. Diary entries concern family news, as well as Kite's attendance at Quaker meetings and social events.

Dates: 1831-1851

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Sharpless Family papers

 Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-1111

Overview

Letters, accounts, diaries, and journals of members of the interrelated Sharpless and Kite families, including the papers of Joshua Sharpless (1746/7-1826) and letters of Mary Kite (1792-1861) as well as the papers of Edward G. Smedley, ca. 1836-1908, dealing with his experiences as a conscientious objector during the Civil War, 1863-1866.

Dates: 1748-1875

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Smedley Family Papers

 Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319

Overview The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...

Dates: 1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Subject

Quakers -- Travel 2

diaries 2

Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1

Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- History 1

Architects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1

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Conscientious objection 1

Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1

Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1

Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1

Quaker architects 1

Quaker farmers 1

Quaker women 1

Quaker women -- Diaries 1

Quakers -- History 1

Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1

Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 1

Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1

Smedley family 1

Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1

Travel -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1

commonplace books 1

correspondence 1

letters (correspondence) 1

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