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Painter Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-110
Overview
The Painter family was an early Pennsylvania Quaker family that married into the Minshall family of Delaware County. In 1681, William Penn granted Thomas Minshall a land tract which now includes the Tyler Arboretum. The property was home to eight generations of the same family. The collection includes family correspondence, business and legal papers, property records, papers on interests and concerns of the Painter brothers, genealogical papers, and miscellaneous deeds and other papers...
Dates:
1687-1948
Elizabeth Sellers Papers
Collection — othertype: SC-115
Identifier: SFHL-SC-115
Abstract
This collection consists of documents relating to the withdrawal of Elizabeth Sellers from the Society of Friends and her subsequent disownment. Included is a letter from to Darby Monthly Meeting explaining her reasons for leaving the Society of Friends. In the letter she accuses Quakers of failing to take action on issues of temperance, pacifism, and abolition. Also included are genealogical notes on the Sellers family.
Dates:
1845-1851 & n.d
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- Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 1
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- James, Rachel P. (Rachel Painter), 1792-1863 1
- John J. Tyler Arboretum (Media, Pa.) 1
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1699-1827 : Delaware County, Pa.) 1
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827- : Delaware County, Pa.) 1
- Minshall family 1
- Minshall, Jacob, 1738-1817 1
- Painter family 1
- Painter, Enos, 1773-1857 1
- Painter, Jacob, 1814-1876 1
- Painter, Minshall, 1801-1873 1
- Salkeld, John, 1672-1739 1
- Sellers family 1
- Sellers, Elizabeth, 1821-1898 1
- Tyler, Ann Painter, 1818-1914 1
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