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Balderston Collected Manuscripts
Collection — othertype: SC-006
Identifier: SFHL-SC-006
Abstract
Most of the correspondence in this collection is addressed to Henry Drinker concerning trivial and more substantive matters of his business and that of the Society of Friends, including a letter from William Savery in 1794 from Canadagua describing a visit to the Oneidas. Also included are a document from the Philadelphia Committee to Joseph Elkinton in Tunesassah (1822) and a subscription list (1831) for J.J. Foster's publication on the New Jersey Crosswicks trial, signed by Roberts Vaux...
Dates:
1735-1822
Balderston Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-299
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence of the family of C. Canby Balderston, a prominent Quaker and businessman. He served with the Friends Relief Service and the Relief Commission for Belgium during WWI and both of his sons, Frederick Emery Balderston and Robert W. Balderston, were COs in WWII, working as ambulance drivers. Frederick E. Balderston (1923-2007) married Judith Braude (1926-1993) in 1949. A significant part of the collection consists of her childhood and college...
Dates:
1853-1949
Baltimore Society for the Protection of Free People of Color minutes
Collection — othertype: SC-211
Identifier: SFHL-SC-211
Abstract
Minute book of the Baltimore Society for the Protection of Free People of Color, 1827-29. Includes Constitution, Articles (by-laws), and signatures of sixteen members.
Dates:
1827-1829
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
Joseph Bancroft Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-007
Abstract
Joseph Bancroft (1803-1874) was Hicksite Quaker and cloth manufacturer from Wilmington, Delaware, who worked for the reunification of the Society of Friends in the 1860's and 1870's. He wrote a number of religious tracts and published a book, A Persuasive To Unity, which he published in 1874. At his death, Bancroft established a trust fund to secure the free circulation of this book among Quakers. This collection includes materials which relate to Joseph Bancroft's writing and other...
Dates:
1868-1989 [bulk, 1868-1914]
William P. Bancroft Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-349
Abstract
The collection contains William P. Bancroft's letter books 1880-1928 and a small amount of Bancroft-Clark family correspondence and photographs. Also extensive transcribed material from William Bancroft's letter books and research on family members and individuals with detailed topical inventory.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1880 - 1928; ca. 1880-2003
Collection of Early Quaker Wills in Barbados, 1669-1709 (typed copies)
Collection — othertype: SC-007
Identifier: SFHL-SC-007
Abstract
Typed copies of early wills of Quakers in Barbados.
Dates:
1669-1709
Hugh Barbour lecture papers
Collection — othertype: SC-008
Identifier: SFHL-SC-008
Abstract
Includes outline and course materials for five lectures given at Pendle Hill in the winter of 1975, notes on "Ethics and Theology in the Hicksite Separation" and the manuscript of a lecture on "Quakers and the Trinity" given at Swarthmore College in the spring of 1975.
Dates:
1975
Ella Kent Barnard photograph collection for "Maulsby Genealogy"
Collection — othertype: PA-020
Identifier: SFHL-PA-020
Abstract
Ella Kent Barnard was born in 1853, the only daughter of Mary Anna Kent and John Barnard. She was a Quaker and the author of three books: Daniel Kent, Emigrant, The Maulsby Genealogy, and Dorothy Payne, Quakeress. The Maulsby family were Pennsylvania Quakers, based at least for a time in Plymouth.
This collection contains pictures related to The Maulsby Genealogy, along with pictures of...
Dates:
1909
Bernard Barton Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-311
Abstract
The collection contains primarily the corrrespondence of Bernard Barton, English Quaker poet and bank clerk. Most of the letters are to William S. Fitch, a chemist and druggist, and other correspondents include R. Ackerman and Edward Moxon. Many of the letters concern Barton's poetry. Also included are few poems and other papers. All items in the collection were written by Bernard Barton; most were written from the location of Woodbridge (Suffolk, England).
Dates:
1818 - 1848
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- Comly, John, 1773-1850 12
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- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 11
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 11
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- Penn, William, 1644-1718 9
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 8
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 8
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 8
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 8
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 8
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 7
- Cooper family 7
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 7
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 7
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- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 6
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- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 6
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- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 4
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