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Box 21

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Answers to queries and espistles, 1820-1897 and n.d.

 File — Box: 21
Identifier: RG2/Ph/G7 8.10
Scope and Contents

Chiefly answers to queries from Green Street and Frankford Preparative Meetings (1820-1853 and n.d.). Also included are answers to queries from the Meeting of Ministers and Elders (1897).

Dates: 1820-1897 and n.d.

Correspondence regarding Fair Hill, 1954-1994

 File — Box: 21
Identifier: RG2/Ph/G7 7.7-7.8
Scope and Contents

Includes records of the sale of Friends Fair Hill Burial Ground and correspondence with Trustees.

Dates: 1954-1994

Histories of Green Street and its associates, 1912-1990

 File — Box: 21
Identifier: RG2/Ph/G7 8.11
Scope and Contents

Includes handwritten speeches and typescripts, and a 1912 "list of Friends residing in Germantown and its vicinity" which indexes their membership (Green Street, Race Street, or other) and whether they support Germantown Preparative Meeting and/or Friends' Association of Germantown. Printed histories of Green Street and its associated meetings and schools are filed with Swarthmore's PG series and published books are cataloged separately.

Dates: Other: 1912-1990

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1817 - 1860

 File — Box: 21
Identifier: RG2/Ph/G7 8.8-8.9
Scope and Contents

Includes drafts related to Elias Hicks' travels and the earliest objections to his ministry.

Dates: Other: 1817 - 1860

Interment Records, 1920s-1970s

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG2/Ph/G7 7.3, 7.19
Scope and Contents

7.3 is a folder of records related to lots under perpetual care. The book (7.19) is largely blank, but several names were entered in the front A-Z index pages with age, dates of death and burial, and section and lot locations.

Dates: 1920s-1970s

Fair Hill Burial Ground records, 1970 - 1993

 File — Box: 21
Identifier: RG2/Ph/G7 7.11-7.12
Scope and Contents

Records relating to the use of the Fair Hill Burial Ground property, including the summer 1970 use by AFNA (American Foundation for Negro Affairs), the failed sale to the Philadelphia School District, the successful sale to Ephesians Baptist Church, and discussions of repurchasing the property.

Dates: 1970 - 1993

Fair Hill Friends Meeting House [Henry Beck's file], 1963 - 1971

 File — Box: 21
Identifier: RG2/Ph/G7 7.17
Scope and Contents

Henry Beck's file of attempts to find weekday uses for the Meeting House and community complaints about the Meeting House and gentrification.

Dates: 1963 - 1971