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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
Daniel Neall papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-086
Abstract
This collection comprises the letters and papers of Daniel Neall. Included are essays on various academic subjects, poems, and an account of the life of his father, Daniel Neall. Also included are personal letters of Daniel Neall, and papers relating to the 50th Anniversary convention of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1883. Minutes of this meeting are included, as well as letters relating to its organization, from Edward M. Davis, Mary Grew, and Dillwyn Parrish. Among these are letters...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1834-1977- 1834-1884
John Parrish diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-053
Overview
John Parrish was a member and minister of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. His diaries describe his travels to Quaker families, including those disowned by their Meeting, throughout Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1796-1805
Pennsylvania Hall Association Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-074
Overview
The Pennsylvania Hall Association was a stockholders association formed in 1837 to erect a building in Philadelphia dedicated “to Liberty and the Rights of Man.” Many of the primary movers behind the Association were Quakers involved in the anti-slavery movement. The building was opened on May 14, 1838, and, as a symbol of the abolitionist movement, was destroyed by an angry mob on May 17, 1838. This collection contains minutes of the Board of Managers of the Association, 1838-1847, financial...
Dates:
1837-1899 (bulk 1837-1849)
Smedley Family Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-066
Overview
These manuscripts of the Smedley family, Quakers of Chester County, Pennsylvania, were collected by Mary (Green) Smedley in the early 20th century. The scrapbook contains primarily 18th century legal and property documents concerning Thomas Smedley (1688?-1758) of Willistown, Chester County, a member of Goshen Monthly Meeting, and his descendants, particularly George Smedley (d. 1783) and family. The scrapbook includes records relating to a property dispute between George Smedley and George...
Dates:
1700 - 1833
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- Davis, Edward M., 1811-1887 2
- Grew, Mary, 1813-1896 2
- Neall, Daniel, 1784-1846 2
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- American Anti-slavery Society 1
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1
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- Barney, Nathaniel 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878 1
- Collyer, Robert, 1823-1912 1
- Combe, George, 1788-1858 1
- Davis, Maria Mott 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Dugdale, Ruth 1
- Earle, Mary Hussey 1
- Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896 1
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 1
- Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 1
- Hallowell, Anna Davis, 1838-1913 1
- Hallowell, Mary 1
- Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921 1
- Johnson, Oliver, 1821-1907 1
- Lord, George 1
- Lord, Martha Mott, 1828-1916 1
- Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 1
- Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 1
- Marriott, Charles 1
- Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 1
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871 1
- McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874 1
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Mott, Thomas 1
- Neall, Daniel, 1817-1894 1
- Needles, Elizabeth 1
- Nichol, Elizabeth Pease 1
- Parker, Emma Parker, 1817-1898 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, John, 1729-1807 1
- Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 1
- Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas), 1828-1915 1
- Potter, William J. (William James), 1829?-1893 1
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 1
- Rotch, William, 1759-1850 1
- Schofield, Martha 1
- Smedley family 1
- Smedley, George, -1783 1
- Smedley, Mary C., 1844- 1
- Smedley, Thomas, -1758 1
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 1
- Stevenson, Thomas B., 1810-1863 1
- Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 1
- Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907 1
- Truman, Joseph M. 1
- Webb, Richard Davis 1
- Webb, Ruth D. 1
- Webb, Samuel 1
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
- Willets, Amos, 1792-1864 1
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