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Quakers

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 563 Collections and/or Records:

Smith family commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-050
Overview

This commonplace book features writings from the Smith family.

Dates: Undated.

"Lives of the Ministers of the Gospel Among the People Called Quakers"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-087
Overview

The manuscripts of John Smith's "The Lives of Ministers of the Gospel Among the People called Quakers" are comprised of entries about Quaker ministers, arranged alphabetically. Entries briefly describe the life of each minister, largely relying upon quoted testimonies from Monthly and Yearly Meetings.

Dates: 1770

Joseph Smith account book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-08-030
Overview

The personal account book of Joseph Smith includes an account of John Smith’s estate, and Joseph Smith’s personal accounts, including records of deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.

Dates: 1771-1795

Richard Smith account book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-08-031
Overview

The account book of Richard Smith records deposits, withdrawals for payments for goods and services, and account balances.

Dates: 1786-1788

Richard S. Smith deeds

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-039
Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the single volume book which includes the copied deeds of Richard S. Smith, and his brother, Joseph Smith.

Dates: 1766- 1776

"Some Account of Baltimore Yearly Meeting 1825"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-003
Overview

This collection is composed of the single, handwritten document by an unknown author. It reads similiarly to minutes that may have been taken. It also includes a note on the inside that "The Individuals to whose names the * is attached in the following sheets were acive and influential "Hicksites" at the time or afterwards" [Emphasis theirs].

Dates: 1825

Speakers' Bureau of the Friends Peace Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-012
Overview The Speakers' Bureau of the Friends Peace Committee, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was founded as a volunteer-run sub-committee for the Friends Peace Committee. The Bureau worked with schools, civic groups, service clubs, and church groups, among other organizations interested in "discussing or studying problems of the international order and the strengthening of the peace," according to one of their brochures. This collection is comprised of six volumes of record books for the Speakers'...
Dates: 1926-1963

Ann Roberts Matlack Stackhouse commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-036
Overview The commonplace book of Ann Matlack Stackhouse includes religious excerpts, excerpts of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes (1848), and excerpts of letters, including a letter from Samuel Johnson to Edward Hicks. Also included are the testimony of Robert Barrow at George Fox's burial, the prayer of Nicholas Waln, James Simpson's sermon, a timeline of discoveries and settlements in the United States, a warning to the people called Quakers, and a letter to parents who have the care of youth in...
Dates: 1837-1845

Asa M. Stackhouse manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-115
Overview

The manuscripts written by Asa Matlack Stackhouse largely focus on Quaker history, particularly during the colonial period in and around Burlington County, New Jersey.

Dates: Undated.

Herbert Standing papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-165
Overview

This collection is comprised of materials collected by Herbert Standing.

Dates: Undated.