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Atkinson family scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-166
Abstract
Includes Westtown mensuration book, 1835, with newspaper clippings glued in, 1889-1893 & n.d. Also assorted newspaper clippings concerning the Twining, Atkinson, and Smith families, the Carlisle Indian School, Quakers in Bucks County (Pa.), Bucks County history, the Molloy family, and Friends' schools. Obituaries of note in this folder are Isaiah Quinby, 1716-1807; Eleanor Mabel Malloy, 1883-1908; Miranda Doan Baker, d. 1900; Mary B. Stradling, d. 1899; Abram R. Vail, d. 1899; Marcie A....
Dates:
1804, 1835-ca. 1935
Evans family correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-035
Abstract
This collection includes photocopies of letters from Joseph and Hannah Evans addressed to their children William, Joseph, and Mary, while they attended Westtown Boarding School. Also included are letters from William Evans to his parents, and from Joseph Evans to his brother. These letters primarily relate family news.
Dates:
1799-1801
Fair Hill Boarding School records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-036
Abstract
This collection includes manuscripts relating to the establishment of Fair Hill Boarding School by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Included are documents concerning the purchase of land, distribution of the Fair Hill Fund, and lists of rules for Westtown and Nine Partners Boarding Schools. These materials reflect Quaker views of education and their objectives in the establishment of Quaker schools. Especially interesting is a letter from Ann King relating the efforts of Nine Partners School to...
Dates:
1815-1869
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- Atkinson, Stephen, b. 1819 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Committee on Education 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Fair Hill Fund 1
- Bentley, Caleb, 1761?-1851 1
- Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 1
- Canby, Whitson, 1751?-1823 1
- Ellicott, John, 1769-1820 1
- Evans family 1
- Evans, Hannah 1
- Evans, Jonathan, 1759-1839 1
- Evans, Joseph, 1789-1871 1
- Evans, Mary, 1791-1858 1
- Evans, William, 1787-1867 1
- Fair Hill Boarding School 1
- King, Ann, active 1800-1836 1
- Malloy family 1
- Morsell, William, 1778- 1
- Nine-Partners' Boarding School (Washington, N.Y.) 1
- Smith family 1
- Smith, Esther, b. 1786 1
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