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Abington Friends School (Abington, Pa.) Account book
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-001
Overview
Abington Friends School was established by Abington Monthly Meeting in the latter part of the eighteenth century as a day school. The account book covers the period 1828-1842. Pupil's names are given with the status of their payments, etc.
Dates:
1828-1842
Biddle family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-177
Overview
This collection contains the papers of Philadelphia Quaker Owen Biddle (1737-1799), his son, Clement Biddle (1778-1856), and numerous descendants. Owen Biddle, a scientist and merchant, was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and helped in the establishment of Westtown School (1799). Owen Biddle's papers, 1772-1793, (Series 1) include correspondence, and journals, some of which relate to his Revolutionary War activities. Three of his letterbooks, 1778-1779, have been microfilmed. The...
Dates:
1793-1951
Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-018
Overview
The Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing was a Quaker charity founded in 1828 to distribute clothing and provide other assistance to the sick and poor of Philadelphia. It went out of existence in 1975.
Dates:
1828-1978
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
Stout-Alston Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-141
Overview
The Stout and Alston families were Quaker merchant families of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and Maryland. This collection of paper contains the personal and business correspondence, business and legal papers of Quaker merchants in Delaware, Philadelphia, and Maryland. The papers are chiefly of Jacob Stout (1774-1855), of Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware, who served as Governor of Delaware and Judge of Court of Appeals, and Jonathan Alston of Leipsic, Delaware.
Dates:
1750-1905 (bulk, 1750-1830)
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- Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
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- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- James, Dorothy Biddle 1
- James, Rachel P. (Rachel Painter), 1792-1863 1
- John J. Tyler Arboretum (Media, Pa.) 1
- Lewis, Lucy Biddle, 1861- 1
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1699-1827 : Delaware County, Pa.) 1
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- Tyler, John J., 1851-1930 1
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