Box 10

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Anna T. Jeanes bequeathed a fund to the Trustees of Green Street (responsible for the Fair Hill Burial Ground) to defray the costs of cremation for any member of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Green Street's Trustees managed the fund from 1922 through its transfer to PYM in 2017.

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Filings from Orphans Court regarding the estate of Anna T. Jeanes, its use as a cremation fund and for care of Fair Hill, related legal correspondence, stipulations, and reports.

Scope and Contents Deed, Sam’l Bettle et al to Joseph Townsend et al., 1817 (Greene Street and various); Deed, W.M. Stevenson et al to John M Ogden et al, 1847 (various); Deed, John M. Ogden et al to Sam’l Jeanes, 1881 (Greene St.); Deed, Sam’l Jeanes to John M. Ogden et al, 1881 (Greene St.); Deed, Clarkson L. Webster to Joseph Bacon et al, 1891 (Greene St.); Deed, Arnold Cassell to Nicholas Waln et al, 1703 (Fair Hill); Deed of Trust, Nicholas Waln et al, 1703; Lease, Job Goodson to John Warder et al, 1728...

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The Friends Asylum, also known as the Frankford Asylum for the Insane (now Friends Hospital) was founded in 1813 by Quakers: mostly individual subscribers supporting it but also monthly meetings. The Separation complicated fundraising and support and management, and it was separately incorporated in 1858.