Hamm, Thomas D.
Person
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Chapman family correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-259
Identifier: SFHL-SC-259
Dates:
1828-1870
Ely-Eastburn family correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-267
Identifier: SFHL-SC-267
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence received by members of the Ely and Eastburn family, Quakers of Bucks County, Pa. Much of the correspondence concerns estate matters which was received by Hugh B. Ely as an executor of the estate of Elias Ely. The second group is largely family correspondence received by Mary Anna Ely who married Moses Eastburn in 1845. Most of the letters were written by her sister Francenia (Fanny) before Mary Anna's marriage and are devoted to family matters. The...
Dates:
1825, 1837-1876
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
King family correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-265
Identifier: SFHL-SC-265
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence received by members of the King family, Quaker residents of Ceres, McKean County, Pennsylvania. The letters primarily deal with family concerns. One from Mary (King) Swayne, written in 1817, mentions that her husband, Joel Swayne, had contemplated returning to Indian territory but her poor health prevented his leaving. Anna King mentions her students and is distressed by the tensions in the Society of Friends in 1828.
Dates:
1817-1835
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