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Marshall Fell writings
Collection — othertype: SC-256
Identifier: SFHL-SC-256
Abstract
The collection contains drafts of poems, letters to the editor, and a few personal letters. 1880-1890. Most of the letters express support for prohibition; one letter mentions the school run by Bradford Preparative meeting.
Dates:
1880-1890
Ferris Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-040
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Ferris family of Wilmington, Delaware, a prominent Quaker family. Of particular note are the correspondence and writings of Benjamin Ferris concerning the Separation in the Society of Friends, as well as the journals and diaries of Anna M. Ferris, David Ferris, Matilda Ferris, Benjamin Ferris, and Henry Ferris. Correspondents include William Lloyd Garrison, William...
Dates:
1737-1940
Ferris-Wetherald Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-041
Overview
Contains correspondence, legal papers, deeds, and memorabilia of the Ferris and Wetherald families, who were Quakers of Wilmington, Delaware, and Lancashire, England. Persons represented include Benjamin Ferris (1780-1867), of Wilmington, Del., and his daughters, Deborah (1813-1897) and Anna M. Ferris (1815-1890), and Joseph Wetherald (1787-1842), of Wilmington, and his brother, James Wetherald, of Wakefield, England.
Dates:
1773-1888
Fisher-Warner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-042
Overview
Miers Fisher (1748-1819), a birthright Quaker, was a prominent lawyer, legislator, philanthropist, merchant, and scientist in early Federal Philadelphia. Benjamin Warner, publisher and bookseller, married Fisher's daughter, Lydia, in 1814. Born in 1748 in Philadelphia, the son of Joshua and Sarah Rowland Fisher, Miers Fisher married Sarah Redwood in 1774. He was among a group of prominent Quaker merchants who were temporarily exiled to Winchester, Virginia, during the Revolution. Miers and...
Dates:
1684-1924
Foster-Meyers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Overview
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates:
1765-2006
Foster-Meyers family pictures
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-PA-103
Overview
The Meyers-Foster family are Quakers with close ties to Pennsylvania and in particular Westtown School. This collection consists primarily of color slides, card photographs, and loose photographs, both of the Foster-Meyers family and of organizations they were involved with.
Dates:
1865 - 1985
Foulke Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-045
Overview
The Foulke family was a prominent Quaker family of Richland, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, descended from Edward (1651-1741) and Eleanor (Hugh) Foulke (d. 1733) who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1698. Their descendents married into the Roberts, Mather, Morris, and other Quaker families and were active in Quaker and Bucks County affairs. The Foulke Family Papers contain correspondence, business and legal papers, surveys, genealogical notes, and memorabilia of the Foulke, Roberts, and Mather, and...
Dates:
ca. 1654-1999 (bulk ca. 1750-1860)
Elizabeth Pearsall Frazier Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-120
Overview
This small collection of Quaker family papers appears to have been collected and preserved by Elizabeth Pearsall Frazier (1869-1957) and her daughter, Elizabeth P. Frazier (b. 1902). They include family genealogy, some correspondence, manuscript writings, financial papers, two wills, and reference material. The Pearsall side and its allied families, especially Parrish, were Quakers of long standing. Prior to 1800 the Pearsalls were a New York family, but after that they intermarried with...
Dates:
1769-1914 (bulk 1807-1848)
Friends Association of Byberry Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-019
Overview
The Byberry Friends Association was a Quaker group which met monthly in Byberry, Pa, to hear papers on a variety of topics and to discuss issues of the day. This collection contains the records of the Friends Association of Byberry, 1900-1932.
Dates:
1900-1932
Friends Circle (Baltimore, Md.)
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-080
Overview
Friends Circle, a Quaker study and social group, was established in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1884. The group met regularly to discuss topics of mutual interest. The collection contains four volumes of bound minutes, 1884-1896.
Dates:
1884-1896
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- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 5
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- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 4
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- Comly, John, 1773-1850 3
- Fisher family 3
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- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
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- Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 3
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- Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 2
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- Fisher, Jabez Maud, 1750-1779 2
- Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819 2
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- Foster family 2
- Foulke, Joseph, 1786-1863 2
- Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio) 2
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- Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 2
- Gwynedd Boarding School (Gwynedd, Pa.) 2
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- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
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- Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
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- Richardson, Elizabeth C., 1863-1947 2
- Richardson, Nathaniel, 1839-1920 2
- Rotch, William, 1734-1828 2
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- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 2
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- Stratton, Edward F., 1876-1968 2
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