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American Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Overview
The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Dates:
1682-1986
Hannah Hurnard family letters
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-062
Abstract
This collection includes the correspondence of Hannah Hurnard and her family, written between Essex, England, and Wilmington, Delaware. The letters document the family's emigration to America, their struggles adapting to life there, and finally their return to England. Letters between Hannah and her sister, Elizabeth Clark, share family and local news. Letters from Mary Thresher relate the activities of Quaker ministers, including Stephen Grellet, Jesse Kersey, and Nathan Hunt. The letters...
Dates:
1804-1836
Lewis-Garrigues collection of family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-046
Abstract
This collection centers on the correspodence and family history of the Garrigues family and the Price family, to whom the former were linked with the marriage of Edward Garrigues and Margaret Price. The correspondence, received by Edward Garrigues, is from many prominent Quaker ministers, including Isaac Hicks as he travelled with his cousin, Elias Hicks. Other correspondents include Rebecca Jones, Sarah Scattergood, Stephen Grellet, Charity Cook, Deborah Darby, and Martha Routh. The letters...
Dates:
1753-1840
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- Names
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 2
- Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
- Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862 1
- Cook, Charity, 1745-1822 1
- Darby, Deborah, 1754-1810 1
- Delaware Indians. Lenape Indians. Lenni Lenape Indians 1
- Fennell, George, b.1787 1
- Garrigues family 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 1
- Groth, Mary Coates 1
- Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
- Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820 1
- Hunt, John, 1711 or 1712-1778 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Hurnard, Hannah, 1778?-1835 1
- Hurnard, Robert, b.1774 1
- Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Ladd, Benjamin 1
- Lewis family 1
- Masters family 1
- Mendenhall, Joseph 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Nicholson, William H. (William Hopkins), 1827-1908 1
- Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801 1
- Price family 1
- Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
- Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817 1
- Russell, Elbert, 1871-1951 1
- Scattergood, Sarah, 1751-1832 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Turner, Joseph, 1765-1841 1
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1 ∧ less
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