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SFHL/FHL/SC. Small Collections

 Record Group Term
Identifier: SFHL/FHL/SC
This record group includes small collections that are less than a box-worth of material.

Found in 292 Collections and/or Records:

Solomon Frazer prison letters, 1864-1865 (copies)

 Collection — Othertype SC-042
Identifier: SFHL-SC-042
Abstract

This collection is a compilation of photocopies and typescripts of the letters of Solomon Frazer, written while he was imprisoned at Salisbury Confederate Prison as a religious objector to the Civil War. The letters are arranged as an informal history of the prison and of the Quaker community of North Carolina during the Civil War. Also included are letters from several other Quakers, some of whom were imprisoned as religious objectors and others who participated in the conflict.

Dates: 1864-1865

Free Produce Association of Friends of New-York Yearly Meeting collected records

 Collection — Othertype SC-217
Identifier: SFHL-SC-217
Abstract

This collection contains a circular with extracts of the minutes of the Executive Committee of the Free Produce Association of Friends, 1834, which notes its organization in Sixth Month [June] of the previous year; a circular dated 1848 addressed to Isaac Thorne announcing the opening of a store on Pearl Street; and published reports of the Board of Managers, 1849, 1851-1854.

Dates: 1834-1854

Joseph Scattergood (collector) An account of the Free Quakers

 Collection — Othertype SC-113
Identifier: SFHL-SC-113
Abstract This volume contains the collection of Joseph Scattergood of original and manuscript copies of documents relating to the Free Quakers, bound by his son George Scattergood. The Free Quakers disagreed with the strict disownment policy for members of the Society of Friends who fought in the Revolutionary War. Led by Samuel Wetherhill, this group wanted to practice Quakerism without the strict rules of discipline and disownment. The papers in Scattergood's collection include petitions, published...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1781-1885 [ 1781-1802]

French War Victims Fund collection

 Collection — Othertype SC-241
Identifier: SFHL-SC-241
Abstract

Contains an accounting of funds raised for the War Victims Fund by members of New York Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), 1870-1871, together with cover letters for contributions made to the Fund.

Dates: 1870-1871

Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SFHL-SC-043
Abstract

Correspondence, including that with civil and military authorities, accounts of preliminary meetings with Indian delegates, and invoices, relating to the Treaty of Easton.

Dates: 1756 - 1762

Friends Association in Aid of Freedmen records

 Collection — Othertype SC-210
Identifier: SFHL-SC-210
Abstract

Minutes and financial records of the Friends' Association in Aid of Freedmen.

Dates: 1864-1867

Friends Equal Rights Association Records

 Collection — Othertype SC-179
Identifier: SFHL-SC-179
Abstract

Minutes of the Friends Equals Rights Association, 1900-1905 and 1915-1917, and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1900-1917

Friends' Social Union (New York, N.Y.) minutes

 Collection — Othertype SC-181
Identifier: SFHL-SC-181
Abstract

Minutes, 1869-1872, of Friends' Social Union, New York City. Aaron M. Powell was one of the early chairmen, and Maria Mitchell included in the speakers. One of the group's continuing concerns was the plight of the American Indians.

Dates: 1869-1872

Frost family correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-292
Identifier: SFHL-SC-292
Overview

The collection contains correspondence between members of the Gideon and Mary W. (Willets) Frost family, Hicksite Quakers of Westbury, Long Island, New York. Gideon Frost was a successful merchant, philanthropist, and founder of Friends Academy at Locust Valley. Family members were active in Quaker concerns, especially education and abolition. The letters mention prominent Friends, family, and anti-slavery concerns.

Dates: 1831 - 1871

Elizabeth Gurney Fry collection

 Collection — Othertype SC-044
Identifier: SFHL-SC-044
Abstract This collection includes letters of Elizabeth Fry, both original and photocopies. The letters cover a wide range of subjects, from personal news to prison reform. Her correspondence is particularly concerned with education and religious instruction of prisoners, and the treatment of women and children prisoners. One letter describes the philosophy of Quaker marriages. Most of the recipients are unnamed. Also included are several letters of Joseph Fry, passes to visit Newgate prison, and...
Dates: 1800-1845