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Emlen family

 Family

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Emlen and Jones Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1194
Abstract

Ancestral information on the Quaker Emlen and Jones families going back to the time of William Penn and Francis Daniel Pastorius in the 17th century and comprised of genealogy and biography, letters, documents and photographs.

Dates: 1767-1976

Emlen and Mifflin Family collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1288
Abstract

Materials related to various members of the Emlen and Mifflin families, including Ann Emlen Mifflin and James Emlen, as well as others who are unidentified.

Dates: 1777-1868

Emlen Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Abstract Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates: 1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849

Families of Philadelphia papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1184
Abstract

Papers of the Philadelphia families Bloomfield, Coates, Cresson, Emlen, Gumbes, Horner, Howel, Lloyd, Macomb, Moore, Vaux and Wetherill families from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of these families were Quaker, including Coates, Emlen and Vaux; others had some Quaker family members, including Cresson, other families, including Gumbes and Wetherill, did not remain Quaker.

Dates: 1700-1942

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Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 2
Antislavery movements -- United States 1
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania 1
Free produce movement 1
Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1