Brown, Moses, 1738-1836
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Emlen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Overview
Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates:
1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849
Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Overview
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
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- Free produce movement 1
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public Opinion 1
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- Women abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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