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Box 3

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Contains 65 Results:

[Janney, Samuel M.] to Evans, David, 1860 11mo 14

 Sub-Series — Box: 3
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Draft, remarks on Orthodox Quaker's approach approximating Trinitarian Church beliefs from which Quakerism "came out."

Dates: 1860 11mo 14

Parrish, Dillwyn to Janney, Samuel M., 1861

 Sub-Series — Box: 3
Scope and Contents Dillwyn hopes (1861) that the border states will not follow the deep South. Sentiment in the North has been to not interfere with the states that presently enslave people. Joint Committee on the Education Concern advancing slowly. Growing interest in women establishing First Day Schools. Philadelphia suffering economic problems with the political situation. Extracts from a letter from his brother George who spent several weeks in London, visited Joseph Smith in his little house. Smith says...
Dates: 1861

Wharton, Deborah to Janney, Samuel M., 1861-1880

 Sub-Series — Box: 3
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Desires to go to Nebraska to see the results of "Quaker Policy," but family is discouraging her. New meeting house in Washington is to be opened.

Dates: 1861-1880

Griscom, Samuel E. to Janney, Samuel M., 1861 1mo 19

 Sub-Series — Box: 3
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Inquiring how Friends have come to adopt their form of public vocal prayer: "A Friend appearing in supplication in meeting kneels and the meeting rises and stands."

Dates: 1861 1mo 19

Janney, Samuel M. to Griscom, Samuel E., 1861 2mo 1

 Sub-Series — Box: 3
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Answer to Griscom's query.

Dates: 1861 2mo 1

Janney, Elizabeth to Janney, Samuel M., 1862-1865

 Sub-Series — Box: 3
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Eliza was questioned by a picket guard at the river. Anxious about the two armies. Difficulty of life during wartime.

Dates: 1862-1865

Long, L. to Guards and Pickets, 1863 8mo 29

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Pass to cross the Shenandoah for Janney and Nathan Walker, signed in Harpers Ferry.

Dates: 1863 8mo 29