Sarah Jones Family Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains family correspondence and correspondence between Sarah Jones and her schoolmates at Ercildoun Boarding School. It also includes miscellaneous material such as a sermon by George Truman (1863) and teaching certificates for Sarah Jones, 1843-1856.
Dates
- Creation: 1817-1907
Creator
- Cox, Sallie (Sarah Jones), 1837-1930 (Person)
- Ercildoun Boarding School (East Fallowfield, Pa.) (Contributor, Organization)
- Truman, George (Contributor, Person)
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Collection is open for research.
Copyright and Rights Information
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Sarah (Sallie) Jones was a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Hicksite Quaker. She was the daughter of Amos and Margery Jones of Makefield Monthly Meeting and was educated at Ercildoun School in Kennett, PA. In 1859, she married William G. Cox of Goshen Monthly Meeting.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language
English
Overview
Sarah (Sallie) Jones was a Bucks County Hicksite Quaker. She was the daughter of Amos and Margery Jones of Makefield Monthly Meeting and was educated at Ercildoun School in Kennett, PA. In 1859, she married William G. Cox of Goshen Monthly Meeting. This collection contains family correspondence and correspondence between Sarah Jones and her schoolmates at Ercildoun Boarding School. It also includes miscellaneous material such as a sermon by George Truman (1863) and teaching certificates for Sarah Jones, 1843-1856.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into five series:
- Correspondence
- Manuscripts
- Memorabilia
- Miscellaneous material
- Pictures
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Mrs. Joseph T. McDowell, 1937
The donor was the daughter of Sarah Jones.
Processing Information
Previously known as McDowell-Jones Paper.
Subject
- Jones family (Family)
- Title
- An Inventory of the Sarah Jones Family Papers, 1817-1907
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- ca. 1940
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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