Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Friends Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-031
Abstract
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia was an organization of Hicksite Quakers in Philadelphia founded in 1869 to solicit donations of money and goods to distribute to the Native American tribes assigned to the oversight of the Yearly Meeting by the Department of Interior during the period of Grant's peace policy. The collection includes reports and minutes, financial reports, correspondence, and lists of goods.
Dates:
1869-1875
Lightfoot Family Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-184
Abstract
The Lightfoot family was a Pennsylvania Quaker family descended from Thomas Lightfoot, a Quaker minister who emigrated from Ireland to Kennett Monthly Meeting in 1716 with his family. The collection includes three journals which have been attributed to his grandson Thomas on the basis of contextual detail. These accounts document visits to meetings in the mid Atlantic region, New Jersey to Virginia, from 1757 to 1760. Jacob Lightfoot, a son of Thomas and Sarah Lightfoot, married Mary...
Dates:
1737-ca. 1948
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/759
Identifier: QM-Phy-759
Abstract
The Committee on Philanthropic Labor was appointed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) in 1892, merging the existing committees of Indian Concerns, Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages, and Colored People of the South. The Committee coordinated Philadelphia Hicksite Quaker activity in a number of social concerns, including race relations, Indian affairs, temperance and peace. In 1892, Subcommittees included Peace and Arbitration, Improper Publications, the Colored People,...
Dates:
1892-1937
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Indian Affairs and its predecessors (1795-1892)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/780
Identifier: QM-Phy-780
Abstract
Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, and its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Also includes the letter books of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee...
Dates:
1838-1901
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- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 3
- Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 2
- Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 2
- Fox Indians 2
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 2
- Indians of North America -- Missions 2
- Indians of North America -- Nebraska 2
- Quakers -- Social service -- United States 2
- Sauk Indians 2
- Society of Friends -- Charities 2
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 2
- Society of Friends -- Nebraska 2
- African Americans -- Charities 1
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 1
- Fresh-air charity 1
- Gambling 1
- Indians of North America -- Charities 1
- Indians of North America -- New York (State) 1
- Iowa Indians 1
- Maternal and infant welfare 1
- Oto Indians 1
- Quakers -- Nebraska 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Santee Indians 1
- Society of Friends -- Delaware 1
- Society of Friends -- Maryland 1
- Society of Friends -- New Jersey 1
- Substance abuse 1
- Temperance -- Pennsylvania 1
- Unemployment 1 + ∧ less
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