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Parrish Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-229
Overview
Collection contains papers of the Parrish family, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family. Includes correspondence, writings, and other papers of Edward Parrish, first president of Swarthmore College. Also of special interest is the correspondence of Dillwyn Parrish and his aunt and uncle, William and Deborah Parrish Wright; the letters of the Wrights in 1835 and 1836 give information about abolition and anti-slavery efforts in Lancaster County. A scrapbook assembled by Clemmons Parrish contains...
Dates:
1780-1966
Joseph Tallcot correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-186
Abstract
Contains five letters from Quaker educator Joseph Talcot, including one to New York Yearly Meeting for Sufferings and four to Samuel Parsons (1744-1841), long-time elder and clerk of New York Yearly Meeting. The letters deal with concerns of the Meeting for Suffering and providing literature to Friends in remote quarterly meetings.
Dates:
1814-1824
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- Carey, Matthew, 1760-1839 1
- Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847 1
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
- McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874 1
- Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings 1
- Parrish family 1
- Parrish, Clemmons, 1848-1912 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Parrish, John, 1729-1807 1
- Parrish, Margaret S. (Margaret Shreve), 1824-1872 1
- Parrish, Thomas C. (Thomas Clarkson), 1847-1899 1
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 1
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 1
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853 1
- Wharton, Susanna Parrish, 1852-1928 1
- Wharton, Susanna, 1827-1915 1
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