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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

Chapman family correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-259
Identifier: SFHL-SC-259

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

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