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Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates:
1831-2012
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-070
Overview
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn (1818-1911) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Quaker. The collection contains diaries (1881-1908), reminiscences (1893), and other family papers.
Dates:
1881-1908
Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Overview
The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow...
Dates:
1792-1892
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
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- Quakers -- Diaries 3
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- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Quakers -- Genealogy 2
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- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- History 1
- Architects -- United States -- History -- Sources 1
- Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Delaware County (Pa.) 1
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- Europe -- Description and travel -- 19th century 1
- Lay ministry -- Pennsylvania 1
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- Middletown (Delaware County, Pa. : Township) 1
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
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- Quaker architects 1
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- Quaker women -- Diaries 1
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- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries 1
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1 ∧ less
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- Hunn family 2
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 2
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 2
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 2
- Westtown Boarding School 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Brinton family 1
- Darlington family 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Darlington, Esther 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Gause family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Kite family 1
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- Pocono Manor (Pa.) 1
- Pocono Manor Association 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 1
- Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 1
- Shortlidge family 1
- Smedley family 1
- Smedley, Elizabeth Sharpless, 1842-1924 1
- Smedley, Emma, 1868-1944 1
- Smedley, Walter, 1862-1939 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Woodstown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1 ∧ less
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