Brown, Moses, 1738-1836
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Overview
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
Emlen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Overview
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
Mott Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-035
Overview
Lucretia Mott was a prominent Philadelphia Quaker minister and a leader in reform movements, especially antislavery, education, peace, and women's rights. She was born in 1793 in Nantucket, Mass., the daughter of Thomas and Anna Coffin, and educated at Nine Partners Boarding School in Dutchess Co., N.Y. In 1811, she married James Mott and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa. The Motts were active Hicksite Quakers, and Lucretia served as clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and traveled in the...
Dates:
1831-1898
Filtered By
- Subject: Quaker women X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Antislavery movements -- United States 2
- Quaker women 2
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 2
- Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends 2
- Abolitionists -- United States 1
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1
- Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Church and social problems -- Society of Friends 1
- Church work with African Americans 1
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States 1
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Feminists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Free produce movement 1
- Indians, treatment of 1
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
- Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Poor -- Services for 1
- Prison reformers 1
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania 1
- Quakers -- Charities -- History -- Sources 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Quakers -- Great Britain 1
- Quakers -- Ireland 1
- Quakers -- New England 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- North Carolina 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Social service 1
- Quakers -- Tennessee 1
- Quakers -- Virginia 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
- Slave labor -- United States 1
- Slavery -- United States 1
- Social reformers -- United States 1
- Society of Friends -- Education -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Great Britain 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Ireland 1
- Society of Friends -- New England 1
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
- Society of Friends -- North Carolina 1
- Society of Friends -- Ohio 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Tennessee 1
- Society of Friends -- Virginia 1
- Spirituality -- Society of Friends 1
- Teachers -- Pennsylvania 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public Opinion 1
- Voyages and travels -- 19th century 1
- Women abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Women clergy -- Pennsylvania 1
- Women teachers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Yellow fever -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 1 + ∧ less
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