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Allen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-001
Abstract
Contains the papers of the Allen Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which traced its ancestry back to one of William Penn's commissioners. Includes papers relating to the Allen and related Breidenhart, Casdorp, Gibbons, Hubley, Jacobs, Matlack, and Samuel families. The Allen family papers contain extensive genealogical material, family correspondence, journals and memorials which provide excellent source material on Quaker family life in the 19th...
Dates:
1700-1954
Samuel J. Bunting, Jr., Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-021
Abstract
Samuel J. Bunting, Jr., (1889-1966) was a birthright Hicksite Friend descended from a family that was associated for many generations with the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania and, in particular, with the Darby Monthly Meeting. A graduate of Swarthmore College and banker by profession, he was interested in genealogy and worked over a long period of time to compile family records. Included is material on the Bunting, Ridgways, Andrews, and Lloyd families as well as original documents, such...
Dates:
1789-1959
Chester Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-C431
Scope and Contents
Records of the Chester Monthly Meetings in Chester and Media, Pennsylvania. Includes: births, deaths, marriage certificates, and other vital records, 1677-1961; men's, women's, and joint minutes, 1681-1984; records of the Meeting of Worship and Ministry and Overseers and its predecessors; financial records; and committee and other miscellaneous records. Of additional interest are pre-Separation accounts of sufferings, 1778-1783; manumissions, 1776-1780; and a series of scrapbooks assembled...
Dates:
1677-2004
Chichester Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/C490
Identifier: QM-Ph-C490
Scope and Contents
Records include: pre-Separation men's meeting minutes, 1804-1813; Hicksite women's minutes, 1843-1899; a pre-Separation account book, 1781-1875; pre-Separation trustees' minutes, 1802-1823.
Dates:
1765-1899
Concord Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-C610
Scope and Contents
Pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox and United records include: Minutes since 1684; vital records since 1679; women's meeting minutes, 1715-1902; property records; financial records, and miscellaneous papers, 1776-1801 and 1959-2011.
The volume of manumissions has been digitized and is available online; born-digital financial records 1999-2011 are available to on-campus users only.
Dates:
1679-2012
Concord Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-C670
Scope and Contents
Records include: Minutes of the pre-Separation women's meeting, 1813-1819; a pre-Separation subscription book, 1810-1813. Minutes of the Hicksite men's meeting and later, of joint sessions of men and women Friends, 1850-1914; minutes of the Hicksite women's meeting, 1850-1877; Minutes of the pre-Separation men's meeting, 1807-1827; minutes of the Orthodox men's meeting, 1827-1834; school fund account book, 1786-1827; poor fund account book, 1791-1826.
Dates:
1736-1914
Darby Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/D300
Identifier: QM-Ph-D300
Scope and Contents
Records include: minutes since 1684; vital records since 1670; women's minutes; ministers and elders' minutes; financial and property records, etc. Records include a digitized minute book (held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania) and a digital press release related to Darby Meeting's history with the Underground Rail Road.
Dates:
1670 - 2023
J & J Darlington Brothers Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-333
Content Description
Business records of the historic Delaware County, Pennsylvania, dairy farm and creamery of J and J Darlington, as well as the business records of the Darlington/Darling Post Office, about 1879-1922. The rural branch of Postal Service was established about 1879 and officially closed in 1976. The name was changed to Darling Post Office in 1896 to avoid confusion with a Darlington in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The collection also contains some family papers - specifically, designs by...
Dates:
Majority of material found within about 1875-1922
Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates:
1831-2012
Delaware County Campaign for Peace and Justice Collected Records
Collection — othertype: CDG-A
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Delaware County Campaign for Peace and Justice
Abstract
Includes: correspondence and meeting agendas and minutes.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 2001-2002
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
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- Westtown Boarding School 4
- Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 3
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 2
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Media, Pa.) 2
- Darlington family 2
- Haverford Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite 1827-1950) 2
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1699-1827 : Delaware County, Pa.) 2
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827- : Delaware County, Pa.) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 2
- Sharpless family 2
- Smedley family 2
- Smedley, Walter, 1862-1939 2
- Swarthmore College 2
- Allen family 1
- Allen, Charles, 1776-1843 1
- Allen, George Briedenhart, 1804-1869 1
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Andrews family 1
- Balderston, C. Canby (Caleb Canby), 1897-1979 1
- Booth family 1
- Booth, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Martin), 1816-1882 1
- Booth, Ellen M. (Ellen Miller), 1853-1929 1
- Booth, George M. (George Martin), 1851-1918 1
- Booth, William, 1812-1877 1
- Breidenhart family 1
- Brinton family 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Bunting family 1
- Bunting, Josiah, 1734-1813 1
- Bunting, Martha, 1861-1944 1
- Bunting, Samuel J., 1889-1966 1
- Casdorp family 1
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (1955- ) 1
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1934-1948) 1
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1952) 1
- Chester United Monthly Meeting of Friends (1948-1955) 1
- Chichester Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1700-1827) 1
- Chichester Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1914) 1
- Churchman, John, 1753-1805 1
- Concord Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Concord Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1937) 1
- Concord Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1937) 1
- Concord Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox) 1
- Concord Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Concord Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) 1
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends 1
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1849) 1
- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
- Darlington, Esther 1
- Darlington, Martha Sharples, 1906-1979 1
- Darlington, Richard Stiles 1
- Delaware County Campaign for Peace & Justice 1
- Delaware County Campaign for Peace in the Middle East 1
- Delaware County Committee on Hiroshima-Nagasaki 1
- Delaware County Peace Action (Organization) 1
- Delaware County Wage Peace & Justice 1
- Emlen family 1
- Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
- Emlen, James, 1792-1866 1
- Emlen, Samuel 1
- Emlen, Samuel, 1829-1920 1
- Emlen, Sarah Foulke Farquhar (Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen), 1787-1849 1
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 1
- Flitcraft, Sarah B. (Sarah Booth), 1841-1917 1
- Forster, Josiah, 1782-1870 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 1
- Gause family 1
- Gibbons Home (Springfield, Delaware County, Pa.) 1
- Gibbons family 1
- Gibbons, Joseph, 1799-1880 1
- Gibbons, Sallie P. 1
- Haverford Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1684-1796) 1
- Haverford Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1950-1951) 1
- Haverford Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends 1701-1827) 1
- Haverford Preparative Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1904-1907) 1
- Hubley family 1
- International Arms Trade Action Group 1
- Jacobs family 1
- James, Rachel P. (Rachel Painter), 1792-1863 1
- John J. Tyler Arboretum (Media, Pa.) 1
- Kite family 1
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 1
- Kite, Thomas, 1785-1845 1
- Lamb family 1
- Lamb, Elizabeth B. (Elizabeth Booth), 1882-1966 1
- Lamb, James G. (James Gibson), 1889-1969. 1
- Lamb, Robert E. (Robert Emerson), 1881-1959. 1
- Lloyd family 1
- Matlack family 1
- Media Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Media Preparative Meeting of Friends 1
- Middletown Lyceum (Delaware Co., Pa.) 1
- Middletown Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends: Delaware County, PA) 1
- Middletown Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends: Delaware County, PA) (Orthodox : 1935-1955) 1
- Middletown Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1827-1950 : Delaware County, Pa.) 1
- Miller family 1
- Miller, Clara B. (Clara Booth), 1843-1919 1 + ∧ less
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