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John Comly Separation papers
Collection — othertype: SC-022
Identifier: SFHL-SC-022
Abstract
The papers relate to the Hicksite Separation of 1827. Included are copies of the published Orthodox declaration of 1828, a letter from John Comly (1773-1850) in defense of his own actions in the Separation, a copy of the address by John Comly to Green Street Monthly Meeting, and a refutation of Orthodox charges against Hicksites by William Gibbons.
Dates:
1827-1908
Christopher Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-068
Overview
This collection includes correspondence of Thomas Chalkley (1675-1741), Henry Cope (1793- 1865), Thomas Evans (1798-1868), and Daniel Offley (1756-1793).
Dates:
1698-1737, 1824-1865, undated
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Overview
This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates:
1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859
Friends' Reading Room Association records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-013
Overview
The Friends' Reading Room Association was founded in 1835, and dissolved in 1842. Its Constitution, included in the minutes, states its purpose: "An Institution in a central part of the city, which shall be furnished with a judcious selection of books, maps and periodical publications, calculated to promote moral and religous improvement, a knowledge of the principles and history of the Society of Friends and an acquiantance with the arts, science and general literature." This volume...
Dates:
1835-1886
Hoskins family letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-034
Overview
This collection is comprised of the single volume letterbook of the Hoskins family. The primary correspondents in the volume are members of the Hoskins family, though quite a number of the letters are directed to Benjamin H. Warder. Most of the letters were written in the 18th century, but some are from the 19th century. A number of them are religious in nature, while others deal with service in the ministry or visiting Friends, and some deal with states of health and mortality. The letters...
Dates:
1729-1864
Stokes-Evans-Cope Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1169
Overview
Correspondence, diaries, legal and business papers, artifacts, printed volumes, scrapbook, account books, marriage certificates, deeds, photographs and photo-album, computer disks, typed transcripts and various misc. papers. Papers are chiefly of the related Quaker families of Stokes, Evans, Cope and Wistar of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Dates:
1713-1981
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- Names
- Allinson, Elizabeth 1
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
- Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 1
- Comly family 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Comly, John, 1831-1916 1
- Cope family 1
- Cope, Henry 1
- Cresson, Sarah 1
- Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824 1
- Evans family 1
- Evans, Hannah 1
- Fisher, Hannah Logan 1
- Friends' Reading Room Association 1
- Gibbons, William, 1781-1845 1
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hoskins, John 1
- Hoskins, Lydia 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia 1
- Morris, Samuel Buckley (1791-1859) 1
- Offley, Daniel 1
- Stokes family 1
- Stokes, Francis Joseph 1
- Stokes, John 1
- Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813 1
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