Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Foster-Meyers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates:
1765-2006
Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Abstract
The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow...
Dates:
1792-1892
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
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- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 2
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- History 1
- Agriculture -- Rhode Island 1
- Architects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Conservative Quakers 1
- Diaries 1
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
- Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
- Quaker architects 1
- Quaker farmers 1
- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Anecdotes 1
- Quakers -- Biography 1
- Quakers -- Conduct of life 1
- Quakers -- Costume 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Genealogy 1
- Quakers -- Iowa 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Education 1
- Quakers -- Travel 1
- Smedley family 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Society of Friends -- Indiana 1
- Society of Friends -- Ohio 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1
- Society of Friends -- Rhode Island 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Warwick (R.I.) 1 + ∧ less
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