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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

Benjamin Sharp Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-136
Abstract Benjamin Sharp (1858-1915), a zoologist who was primarily affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, attended Swarthmore College (1876) and earned a M.D. and Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania. A birthright member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), Dr. Sharp was the son of Benjamin and Hannah B. (Leedom) Sharp of the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pa. He was married to Virginia May of Ridley, Mass. The family moved to Massachusetts in the early 20th...
Dates: 1809-1915

Sharples-Paschall Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-324
Abstract Contains collected papers of the Sharples-Paschall family, Quakers of Philadelphia and Chester County, Pennsylvania. The family descended from Nathan H. and Martha (Price) Sharples and Thomas and Anne (Price Gibson) Paschall. The collection includes deeds, estate and other legal papers, and a small amount of family correspondence compiled by Alfred D. Sharples and his son, Alfred Roberts Sharples. The legal records include apprenticeship agreements, deeds relating to Rees, Price, and...
Dates: 1684 - 1948

Daniel Sharpless family papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-116
Identifier: SFHL-SC-116
Abstract

This collection primarily includes financial papers, bills, receipts and bonds, signed by Daniel Sharpless, Jr. or by his father, Daniel Sharpless.

Dates: 1734-1862 [bulk 1734-1808]

Enos and Hannah Sharpless family papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-117
Identifier: SFHL-SC-117
Abstract

This collection contains family papers and correspondence of Enos and Hannah Sharpless including two copy books of the latter. The letters primarily concern family matters. Two documents of note are a letter from Johnson Knight concerning the Quaker testimony on slavery and a pass issued for an enslaved person bought by Enos Sharpless in order to be liberated.

Dates: 1790-1861

Sharpless Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Abstract 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

Shaw Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-188
Abstract

Accounts, correspondence, indentures, and family papers which relate to the descendents of Samuel Shaw (1710-1781), Quaker farmer of Richland, Pennsylvania, and related families including Hill, Heacock, Foulke, and Rawlings. Some of his descendents moved to Ohio and Indiana. Letters from family members in Ohio give details of daily life and customs of Quaker families and sense of the hardships endured on the frontier.

Dates: 1737-1890

Anne E. Sheppard correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-118
Identifier: SFHL-SC-118
Abstract This collection includes letters received by Anne E. Sheppard from members of her family, including her mother, Margaret G. Sheppard, and her cousins John W. Biddle, Martha H. Garrett, Rebecca C. Sheppard, and Mary M. Sheppard. Of these the most extensive are those of Martha H. Garrett, describing the daily life, education, and concerns of a young Quaker woman in Philadelphia in the 1860's. Especially interesting are her accounts of Freedmen's relief work and of her unorthodox practice of...
Dates: 1856-1869

Shoemaker Family Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-138
Abstract

Contains one folder of business papers from the Shoemaker family, Quakers of Philadelphia and Pike County, Pennsylvania. Includes deeds, inventory, and appraisement papers.

Dates: 1831-1878

Mary Williams Shoemaker Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-139
Abstract Mary Williams Shoemaker (1861-1953) was a Quaker philanthropist from Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Franklin and Mary (Williams) Shoemaker. The collection contains chiefly journals (1934-1945) and correspondence (1914-1953) relating to Shoemaker's support of Quaker historical, educational, and social service agencies; together with correspondence of her brother, Thomas Howard Shoemaker (1851-1936), relating to his historical interests and civic activities. Includes deeds...
Dates: 1860-1957

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Swarthmore College 41
American Friends Service Committee 12
Westtown Boarding School 12
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 11
Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 6
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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 6
Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 6
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 6
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 6
Foulke family 5
George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 5
Hunn family 5
Lloyd family 5
Smedley family 5
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
Comly, John, 1773-1850 4
Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 4
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 4
Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
Jackson, John, 1809-1855 4
Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 4
Palmer family 4
Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 4
Penn, William, 1644-1718 4
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
Sharpless family 4
Truman, George 4
Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 4
Williams family 4
Allen family 3
Bunting family 3
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 3
Cooper family 3
Darlington family 3
Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 3
Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 3
Fisher family 3
Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 3
Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 3
Gwynedd Boarding School (Gwynedd, Pa.) 3
Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 3
Hamm, Thomas D. 3
Haverford College 3
Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 3
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 3
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 3
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 3
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 3
Mather family 3
Miller family 3
Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
Ogden family 3
Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 3
Parrish family 3
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 3
Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 3
Paschall family 3
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 3
Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 3
Price family 3
Richardson family 3
Schofield, Martha 3
Scott, Job, 1751-1793 3
Sellers family 3
Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 3
Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 3
Smith family 3
Swarthmore Chautauqua Association 3
Taylor family 3
Walker family 3
Walton family 3
Warner family 3
Wharton family 3
Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 3
Wilson family 3
Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
American Anti-slavery Society 2
Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 2
Atkinson family 2
Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956 2
Balderston, C. Canby (Caleb Canby), 1897-1979 2
Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 2
Bartram family 2
Bassett family 2
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
Birdsall, William W. (William Wilfred), 1854-1909 2
Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 2
Brinton family 2
Broomell, Anna Pettit 2
Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 2
Byberry Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
Bye family 2
Cadbury family 2
Carter, Arabella, 1867- 2
Chase, William Merritt, 1848-1916 2
Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 2
Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1934) 2
Churchman, George, 1730-1814 2
Comly family 2
Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends 2
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