Bassett family
Family
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Bassett Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-009
Abstract
This collection contains deeds, will, land and other property documents of the Bassett, Wright, and other families of Salem County, NJ, many of whom were Quakers.
Dates:
1676-1846
Bassett-Little Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-277
Abstract
The collection contain papers of the Bassett and Little families who resided in Swarthmore, Pa., in the first half of the twentieth century. In the 1980s, May Virginia Bassett Little (1913-1994) created a series of family scrapbooks accompanied by short memoirs and excerpts from her diaries. Her father was a birthright Quaker, and the family had deep roots in Swarthmore College and the Borough of Swarthmore. Her husband, Ralph V. Little, Jr., (1909-2001), also was raised in Swarthmore. Their...
Dates:
ca. 1923-2015
Anna Pettit Broomell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-019
Abstract
This collection contains papers and relics collected by Anna Pettit Broomell concerning Quaker families of Columbiana County, Ohio, and Salem County, New Jersey. It includes family correspondence, accounts, albums, school copybooks, notebooks, piece book, almanacs, clippings, printed material, and memorabilia of the Pettit, Hussey, Griffith, and related families. Includes letters from Hannah G. Pettit of Columbiana County, Ohio, to her sister, Hester G. Hussey, from David Pettit to his...
Dates:
1797-1919
Anna Bassett Griscom Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-053
Abstract
Anna Bassett Griscom (Elkinton) (1889-1974) was a prominent American Quaker active in the peace movement. She served as Executive Secretary of the Friends General Conference, chairman of a committee to organize the Friends World Conference held at Swarthmore College in 1937, chairman of the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was a founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She married J. Passmore Elkinton in 1931. The collection includes correspondence, speeches...
Dates:
ca. 1914-1962
Wayne Bassett Hadley photograph collection
Collection — Othertype PA-151
Identifier: SFHL-PA-151
Abstract
Wayne B. Hadley (1926-2001) was a family historian whose particular interest was in Quaker history and genealogy. This collection contains family photographs, both in photo albums and loose, and slides of various meeting houses and residences.
Dates:
1926 - 2001
Julia Yerkes Atkinson (Class of 1907), 1905 - 1908
File — Box 9
Identifier: PA 10/14
Scope and Contents
Bound album of snapshots of students and campus. Includes friends Ellie Simons (’10) and Edward Bassett (‘05) of Swarthmore. Mostly leisure activities on campus including May Day, the Crum, girls dissecting class, senior hockey team, interior dorm rooms, rose garden, President's cottage, .
Dates:
1905 - 1908
May Virginia Bassett Little photograph albums
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-154
Abstract
In the 1980s, May Virginia Bassett Little (1913-1994) created a series of family scrapbooks accompanied by short memoirs and excerpts from her diaries. Her father was a birthright Quaker, and the family had deep roots in Swarthmore College and the Borough of Swarthmore. Her husband, Ralph V. Little, Jr., (1909-2001), also was raised in Swarthmore. Their son, Donald Townsend Little, continued his mother's interest in autobiography and compiling family history. This collection contains...
Dates:
1923 - 2015
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- Archival Object 1
- Subject
- Quakers -- New Jersey 2
- Deeds -- New Jersey -- Salem County 1
- Indians of North America -- Nebraska 1
- Land titles -- New Jersey 1
- New Jersey -- History -- Sources 1
- Peace 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker church buildings 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- United States -- Biography 1
- Salem County (N.J.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Salem County (N.J.) -- Real property 1
- Swarthmore (Pa.) 1
- Wills -- New Jersey -- Salem County 1 + ∧ less
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