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Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection
Collection — othertype: SC-269
Identifier: SFHL-SC-269
Abstract
Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.
Dates:
1776-1815
Convention of Delegates from the Seven Yearly Meetings (Hicksite) on Indian Affairs. Executive Central Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-017
Abstract
The Convention of Delegates was an association of seven Hicksite Yearly Meetings who managed Native American affairs in the Northern Superintendency during the period of President U.S. Grant's “Peace Policy.” The collection contains correspondence and reports of Indian agents, extracts from minutes and reports, financial records, legislative documents, and printed materials published by the convention. Persons represented include William Burgess, John G. Gasmann, Albert L. Green, Samuel M....
Dates:
1869-1884
Albert Lamborn Green Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-175
Abstract
Albert Lamborn Green (1845-1947) was a Quaker Indian Agent for the Otoe Agency in Nebraska during the period of President Grant's "peace policy," 1869-1872. The bulk of the correspondence in this collection is comprised of letters written to Green from Philadelphia Friends in regard to gifts in support of Indian work. Later letters written by Green describe from memory the social life and customs of the Otoe Indians. The collection has information on the Otoe language, vocabulary, etc., and...
Dates:
1869-1935
Zebedee Haines Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-056
Abstract
Zebedee Haines (1843-1923) was a Quaker who was active in the work of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends and of its Indian Committee in the late 19th century. Zebedee was also a student, teacher, administrator, and school committee member at Westtown School. The Haines family ran a dairy farm in West Grove, Pennsylvania. The collection contains family correspondence and diaries. Also includes letters of Zebedee Haines to his wife, describing his visits to Tunesassa and to native...
Dates:
1857-1922
Halliday Jackson Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-182
Abstract
Halliday Jackson (1771-1835) was a Quaker minister from New Garden and Darby, Pa.. From 1798 to 1800 he joined the Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians organized by the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Shortly after his return from the mission to the Seneca, Halliday Jackson married Jane Hough and moved to Darby, Pa. Following Jane's death in 1830, Halliday Jackson remarried in 1833 to Ann P. Paschall (1792-1874), also a Quaker minister. These records contain documents...
Dates:
1755-1833
John Jackson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-171
Abstract
John Jackson (1809-1855), son of Halliday and Jane Jackson of Darby, Pennsylvania, married Rachel Tyson (1807?-1883), daughter of Isaac Tyson of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1832. Together they established the Sharon Female Academy in Delaware County, Pa. John Jackson was a Quaker minister and served on the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs. Collection contains correspondence and other papers, 1827-1849. Series I is made up primarily of correspondence and drafts of correspondence between Griffith...
Dates:
1827-1849
Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Genesee, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-046
Abstract
The Indian Committees of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Genesee (Hicksite) united in 1838 to protect the Seneca from the Ogden Land Company which was trying to buy their land. This collection contains papers relating to the joint committee of representatives, including correspondence chiefly concerning the ceding of Seneca lands in New York by treaty under questionable circumstances. Correspondents include Benjamin Ferris (1780-1867).
Dates:
1836-1850
Lightfoot Family Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-184
Abstract
The Lightfoot family was a Pennsylvania Quaker family descended from Thomas Lightfoot, a Quaker minister who emigrated from Ireland to Kennett Monthly Meeting in 1716 with his family. The collection includes three journals which have been attributed to his grandson Thomas on the basis of contextual detail. These accounts document visits to meetings in the mid Atlantic region, New Jersey to Virginia, from 1757 to 1760. Jacob Lightfoot, a son of Thomas and Sarah Lightfoot, married Mary...
Dates:
1737-ca. 1948
Benjamin H. Miller, U.S. Indian Inspector transcribed letters,1889-1890.
Collection — othertype: SC-250
Identifier: SFHL-SC-250
Abstract
The collection consists of typed transcripts of letters published in a local newspaper. They describe the places and people visited during Benjamin H. Miller's tenure as Indian Agent in South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and elsewhere. The nineteen clippings, 1889-1890, were transcribed by William T. Thom, 3rd, a great-grandson. Also includes a typed manuscript introduction that describes Miller's farm, Mt Airy, Montgomery County, Maryland, and a typed index to the letters, 1974-1975.
Dates:
ca. 1974-1975
Letters and reports concerning Quakers work with Native Americans in Nebraska
Collection — othertype: SC-293
Identifier: SFHL-SC-293
Abstract
This small collection contains letters and reports concerning Friends work with Native Americans in Nebraska during the era of Grant's Peace Policy.
Dates:
1793, 1867-1885 and undated; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1888
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 3
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 2
- Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 2
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 2
- Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 2
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 2
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 2
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 2
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Standing Committee on the Indian Concern 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861 1
- Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
- Bradley, A. Day (Amos Day), -1905 1
- Burgess, William, d.1905 1
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
- Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 1
- Collins, Micajah, 1764-1827 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings on Indian Affairs (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 1
- Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings on Indian Affairs (Society of Friends : Hicksite). Central Executive Committee 1
- Cooper, Griffith M., 1790?-1864. 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Forbush, Bliss, 1896-1990 1
- Friends Boarding School for Indian Children (Tunesassa, N.Y.) 1
- Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
- Garrett, Thomas, 1789-1871 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Gasmann, John G. 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Haines, Anna P. (Anna Philips), 1849-1924 1
- Haines, Mary Elizabeth, 1886-1920 1
- Haines, T. Harvey (Thomas Harvey), b. 1871 1
- Haines, Zebedee, 1843-1923 1
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 1
- Hazard, Elizabeth L. 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, Rachel, 1807?-1883 1
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 1
- Kent, Mahlon B., d.1929 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Lightfoot family 1
- Lightfoot, Mary B. (Mary Bonner), 1820-1907 1
- Lightfoot, Samuel, 1701-1771 1
- Lightfoot, Susanna 1720 1781 (Susanna Hudson Hatton Lightfoot) 1
- Lightfoot, Thomas Montgomery, -1865 1
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1728-1793 1
- Lightner, Isaiah 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- Maiden Creek Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1735-1829 : Maiden Creek (Pa. : Township)) 1
- Monkton Monthly Meeting of Friends (approximately 1925-1996 : Monkton, Vt.) 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Mott, John, 1783-1848 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Indian Committee 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Meeting for Sufferings 1
- Painter, Levinus King 1
- Paxson family 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 1
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 1
- Price family 1
- Price, Benjamin, 1793-1872 1
- Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 1
- Price, Jane, 1791-1876 1
- Price, Lydia H., 1827-1907 1
- Roberts, Benjamin Rush 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 1
- Sharon Female Academy (Darby, Pa. : Township) 1
- Shipley, Ann 1
- Solenberger, Edith R. (Edith Reeves), 1886-1976 1
- Turner family 1
- Turner, Joseph, III, 1831-1865 1
- Turner, Joseph, Jr., 1790-1850 1
- Turner, Rebecca Sinclair, 1795-1877 1
- Turner, Richard Townsend, Jr., 1845-1908 1
- Turner, Richard Townsend, 1819-1892 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency 1
- Unthank, John, 1754-1840 1
- Warner, Joseph, d. 1859 1
- Webster, Joseph (Indian Quaker agent) 1
- Westtown Boarding School 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
- Wharton, William, 1790-1856 1
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1
- White, Howard, 1844-1916 1
- Wood, Carolena Morris, 1871-1936 1 + ∧ less
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