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SFHL/FHL/SC. Small Collections

 Record Group Term
Identifier: SFHL/FHL/SC
This record group includes small collections that are less than a box-worth of material.

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Chapman family correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-259
Identifier: SFHL-SC-259
Dates: 1828-1870
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Collection of Chester County Quaker property records and other manuscripts

 Collection — Othertype SC-270
Identifier: SFHL-SC-270
Abstract

Collection contains Chester County, Pa., land-related records including a deed for land sold to Peter Chambers (colored) in East Marlborough in 1833 and survey papers for lands in the 1821-1838, including an 1824 survey of land for a burial ground for people of color conveyed from James Steemer. miscellaneous notes concerning funerals, report of First Day School, 1879, New Garden.

Dates: 1787-1879
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Clark-Allen family papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-268
Identifier: SFHL-SC-268
Abstract The collection contains family correspondence (4 ALsS), genealogical notes, and bible records. It includes family correspondence received by Rebecca Clark, 1804-1806, before her marriage to John Humphrey. One letter is from her sister Elizabeth and the other letters were written by her mother Bathsheba Clark. Bathsheba mentions caring for a grandchild with smallpox and various needlework projects. The genealogical information includes pages from a family bible, research on the Allen, Clark,...
Dates: 1725-1932
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Edwards Clock scrapbook

 Collection — Othertype SC-264
Identifier: SFHL-SC-264
Abstract

This collection contains papers of the Leonard, Pyle, Edwards, and Horne families of Chester Co., Pa., including a small amount of correspondence, financial papers, photographs, and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1742-1932
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Ely-Eastburn family correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-267
Identifier: SFHL-SC-267
Abstract The collection contains correspondence received by members of the Ely and Eastburn family, Quakers of Bucks County, Pa. Much of the correspondence concerns estate matters which was received by Hugh B. Ely as an executor of the estate of Elias Ely. The second group is largely family correspondence received by Mary Anna Ely who married Moses Eastburn in 1845. Most of the letters were written by her sister Francenia (Fanny) before Mary Anna's marriage and are devoted to family matters. The...
Dates: 1825, 1837-1876
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Marshall Fell writings

 Collection — Othertype SC-256
Identifier: SFHL-SC-256
Abstract

The collection contains drafts of poems, letters to the editor, and a few personal letters. 1880-1890. Most of the letters express support for prohibition; one letter mentions the school run by Bradford Preparative meeting.

Dates: 1880-1890
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

King family correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-265
Identifier: SFHL-SC-265
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence received by members of the King family, Quaker residents of Ceres, McKean County, Pennsylvania. The letters primarily deal with family concerns. One from Mary (King) Swayne, written in 1817, mentions that her husband, Joel Swayne, had contemplated returning to Indian territory but her poor health prevented his leaving. Anna King mentions her students and is distressed by the tensions in the Society of Friends in 1828.

Dates: 1817-1835
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Caleb McComber correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-260
Identifier: SFHL-SC-260
Dates: 1814-1827
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Paul A. Rodebaugh collected manuscripts

 Collection — Othertype SC-263
Identifier: SFHL-SC-263
Abstract The collection contains miscellaneous manuscripts collected by Paul Rodebaugh. It includes: drafts of letters by an unknown author, 1844-1849, which express support for abolition and discuss contemporary U.S. politics; an anonymous Quaker journal of an 1817 trip from Philadelphia to Ohio; an undated journal of a sea and river journey from Philadelphia to Europe and then from Florida to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and a small number of miscellaneous letters involving the Dilworth and Sharpless...
Dates: 1809-1870
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Eugene Vickers Civil War correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-138
Identifier: SFHL-SC-138
Overview This small collection of Civil War correspondence consists of letters of a Hicksite Quaker family of West Chester, Pennsylvania, received by Eugene Vickers while he was serving with Company C of the 97th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the coastal South. Most of the letters are from his mother, Elizabeth (Painter) Vickers. A few are from his brothers, Jonathan and Joseph P. Vickers, who also served the Union cause, and his father, Joseph Vickers. The material is particularly...
Dates: 1862-1864
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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