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Quakers -- Family relationships

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Samuel Rowland Fisher correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-069
Overview

This collection includes the personal correspondence between Samuel Rowland Fisher, a Quaker merchant, and his friends and family, as well as a number of photocopies.

Dates: 1767-1768

Sarah Logan Fisher letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-006
Overview

The letterbook of Sarah Logan Fisher includes personal correspondence. The majority of letters are written to Fisher's family members, including her brother, Charles Fisher, and her cousin, Mary Arch, as well as a number of unnamed cousins. Letters largely concern family and friends, and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community.

Dates: 1783-1788

Fisher-Whitson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-281
Overview This collection contains manuscripts and other materials relating to the Whitson, Smedley, Fisher and other Quaker families of southeastern Pennsylvania. Along with commonplace books, correspondence, and photographs are a series of thematically arranged genealogical binders assembled by the donors. Of particular interest are the battlefield correspondence of Sam Smedley who was killed in the American Civil War and the journal of Esther Whitson, later Cope, who served as a nurse with the AFSC...
Dates: 1778-2011

Garrett family genealogical records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-080
Overview

This collection is comprised of the Garrett family genealogial records, and includes manuscripts concerning family history, research notes, and photographs of family members.

Dates: Undated.

Gummere family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-086
Overview

This collection is comprised of the correspondence, photographs, and clippings of the Gummere family.

Dates: 1901-1929

Jack Gummere photograph albums

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-06-004
Overview

This collection is comprised of two volumes of photograph albums which are largely comprised of the baby photos of John "Jack" Flagg Gummere.

Dates: 1895-1911

Haines and Bunting family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-190
Overview

This collection is comprised of the papers of the Bunting and Haines families, and includes clippings, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and marriage certificates of the family. While the majority of materials focus on Samuel Bunting Haines, other members of the family are represented among the materials as well.

Dates: 1682-1863

Hallowell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-087
Overview

This collection is comprised of the correspondence of Edward Needles Hallowell and various family members, as well as a single photograph of Edward N. Hallowell.

Dates: 1858-1869

Thomas Hamm Collection of Letters

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-278
Overview This collection consists of five letters, donated by Thomas Hamm, written by Quakers around the East Coast of the United States: a majority of who are from Pennsylvania. The first letter is addressed to Susannah B. Habers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1807 and is from a child of Habers. The second letter, from James to Thomas Kimber in 1820, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, updates Kimbers about James's infant. In the third letter, Alfred Cope, owner of a prominent Philadelphia shipping...
Dates: 1807-08-15 - 1879-07-20

Howard family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-098
Overview

This collection is comprised of the personal correspondence of the Howard family, as well as a printed genealogy of the Howard family.

Dates: 1838