Jennings-Clark-Eldridge Family Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence (1805-1861), household accounts, and miscellaneous papers of Hannah A. Jennings, her husband, Levi Jennings, and her mother, Phebe (Glover) Clark Eldridge. Includes a manuscript account of a sermon by Priscilla Hunt at Merion in 1823, the renunciation of Maria Emily (Imlay) by Ann Jones in 1826, and letters discussing the Hicksite controversy.
Dates
- Creation: 1768-1871
Creator
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 (Contributor, Person)
- Jones, Ann, 1774-1846 (Contributor, Person)
- Imlay, Maria, d. 1829 (Contributor, Person)
- Eldridge, Phebe, 1776-1845 (Contributor, Person)
- Jennings, Hannah A., 1803-1853 (Contributor, Person)
- Jennings, Levi, b. 1799 (Contributor, Person)
- Female Association of Philadelphia for Promoting the Manufacture and Use of Free Cotton (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Hannah A. Jennings (1803-1853), a New Jersey Quaker, was the daughter of Phebe (Glover) and John Clark of Gloucester, N.J. After her father's death, her mother married a widower, Isaac Eldridge, of Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting of Friends, in 1807. Hannah Clark married Levi Jennings, a bricklayer, in 1832.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Hannah A. Jennings was the daughter of Phebe (Glover) and John Clark of Gloucester, N.J. She married Levi Jennings, a bricklayer, in 1832. The collection contains correspondence (1805-1861), household accounts, and miscellaneous papers of Hannah A. Jennings, her husband, Levi Jennings, and her mother, Phebe (Glover) Clark Eldridge. Includes a manuscript account of a sermon by Priscilla Hunt at Merion in 1823, the renunciation of Maria Emily (Imlay) by Ann Jones in 1826, and letters discussing the Hicksite controversy.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into six series
- Correspondence
- Journal (fragments), 1820, 1826
- Financial papers
- Legal papers
- Genealogical and related papers
- Miscellaneous
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Jennings Family, 1946
Processing Information
Formerly known as Jennings Family Papers.
Subject
- Jennings family (Family)
- Title
- An Inventory of the Jennings-Clark-Eldridge Family Papers, 1768-1871
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1946, 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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