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Moses Pierce correspondence with George F. White
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-238
Abstract
The collections contains correspondence between George F. White and Moses Pierce in which Pierce asks White to clarify his views on abolition, temperance, and peace. White does not agree with abolitionists who want an immediate end to slavery, and he thinks that Great Britain's Abolition of Slavery Act was a ill-conceived. He notes the wretched conditions of factories and mines in England and Scotland as other forms of slavery. Pierce, in copies or drafts of the letters he sent, argues that...
Dates:
1839-1926 (bulk 1842-1846)
Sarah Wistar Rhoads family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1211
Abstract
The Sarah Wistar Rhoads family papers indicate strong relationships and family ties that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries. Sarah Wistar Rhoads (1839-1920) married William Gibbons Rhoads (1838-1880) on November 28, 1866. At that time, the Rhoads, Gibbons and Wistar families began corresponding, the result being an outstanding collection illustrating family support, friendship and love. These papers include correspondence, financial records, diaries and journals, memorabilia, classwork and...
Dates:
Bulk, 1824-1930 1824-1963; Majority of material found within 1824 - 1930
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- Gibbons, Hannah, d. 1868 1
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- New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 1
- Pierce, Moses, 1816-1886 1
- Potts, Ethel Rhoads, 1870-1962 1
- Rhoads family 1
- Rhoads, Anne Gibbons, 1809-1890 1
- Rhoads, Edward, 1841-1871 1
- Rhoads, Edward, 1873-1903 1
- Rhoads, Jane Gibbons, 1870-1897 1
- Rhoads, Jane Gibbons, d. 1860 1
- Rhoads, Lydia Wistar, b. 1868 1
- Rhoads, Samuel, 1806-1868 1
- Rhoads, Samuel, b. 1878 1
- Rhoads, Sarah Wistar, 1839-1920 1
- Rhoads, William Gibbons, Jr., 1838-1880 1
- Rhoads, William Gibbons, b. 1876 1
- White, George F., 1789-1847 1
- Wing, Asa S. (Asa Shove), 1850-1931 1
- Wing, Sophia Rhoads, 1850-1901 1 ∧ less
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