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"Account of Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless & John Pierce's Visits to the Indian Reservation in Western New York"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-130
Overview
This copy of an account from 1798 and 1799 was written in an unknown hand likely in the latter half of the 19th century. The volume describes Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless, and John Pierce's travel to Native American reservations on behalf of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee, and the work they did while there.
Dates:
Undated.
Agreement between Pennsylvania and the Susquehanna and Sheona
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-056
Overview
Agreement between James Logan, on behalf of William Penn, and six Susquehanna and Sheonah related to who can live among the Native Americans, permits for liquor sales, and punishments for those who declare that the English are not their friends.
Dates:
1700
Allinson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-968
abstract
This collection spans more than two centuries and includes most notably members of the Allinson and Taylor families. There are also letters from Joseph Bonaparte, Sarah Moore Grimke, Julia Ward Howe and George Washington. Prominent material types include correspondence, diaries, financial, legal and property papers, maps, photographs and poetry. The richest subject veins are anti-slavery, including the Free Produce Association of Friends, the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia and...
Dates:
1710 - 1939
Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-003
Overview
Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) was a Quaker writer and social activist, known for her work with consumer cooperatives. After an unsuccessful farming venture in her youth, Mary Ellicott Arnold and her lifelong companion, Mabel Reed, worked with the Karok Indians in California as employees of the United States Indian Bureau. After a period as chief organizer for the U.S. Employment Service in New York State, she and Mabel Reed were involved in a number of successful cooperative ventures. She...
Dates:
1888-1970
Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1003
Overview
Records deal with the work of Friends in running mission stations in Oklahoma to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma (Bah Kho-je), the Modoc Nation, the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, the Osage Nation (Wahzhazhe) and other Native American peoples. Letters from superintendents and missionaries in the field describe the difficulties and experiences of Friends in their work. Topics discussed include attempts to Christianize Native Americans, improve...
Dates:
1758-1929
Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs Documents
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-299
Overview
This collection contains various reports regarding the education of Indigenous children in Oklahoma between the years 1938-1946 by Quaker, Christian, and Indigenous people. The Indigenous childrens' nation of origin include the Wyandotte Nation, the Seneca Nation, and the Osage Nation. Their schools include The Kickapoo School, the Seneca Indian School, and various Sunday Schools.
Dates:
1932 - 1947; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1947
David Bacon journal
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-003
Overview
David Backon kept a journal during his time with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confderacy) in 1974. Entries describe Bacon’s journey to the Haudenosaunee territory, and interactions between himself and the members of the Haudenosaunee, as well as discussions between representatives from the United States and Six Nations governments concerning the treaty that was to determine the land rights of the Haudenosaunee after the end of the Revolutionary War. Bacon also includes his accounts of...
Dates:
1794
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
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
Anthony Benezet letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-852
Abstract
A collection of letters of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784), a prominent Friend, philanthropist and teacher. These letters, which are addressed to various persons, reflect cultural and religious aspects, the efforts of Friends to abolish slavery, interest in education, opposition to intolerance and war, missionary work, and observations on Indigenous Americans. Mention is made in the letters of Conrad Weiser, George Whitfield, Samuel Wetherill, and others; and there are frequent references to...
Dates:
1750 - 1936
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- Cornplanter, Seneca chief 8
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 6
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 6
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 5
- Simmons, Henry 5
- Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 4
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 4
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 4
- Sharpless, Joshua 4
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 4
- American Friends Service Committee 3
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 3
- Fothergill, Samuel 3
- Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 3
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 3
- Haverford College 3
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- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 3
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 3
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 3
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee Appointed for the Gradual Civilization and Welfare of the Indian Natives (1795-1827) 3
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 3
- Savery, William, 1750-1804 3
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Central Superintendency 3
- Wistar, Thomas 3
- Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 2
- Bacon, David 2
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
- Borton, Hugh 2
- Bryn Mawr College 2
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 2
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 2
- Elkinton, Joseph, 1794-1868 2
- Emlen Institution for the Benefit of Children of African and Indian Descent (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Emlen, Samuel 2
- Friends Boarding School for Indian Children (Tunesassa, N.Y.) 2
- Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 2
- Hoag, Enoch, 1812-1884 2
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 2
- Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 2
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 2
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- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 2
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 2
- Pemberton, Israel, 1715-1779 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
- Smith, John, 1722-1771 2
- Society of Friends 2
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- Teedyuscung, Delaware chief, 1700-1763 2
- United States. Board of Indian Commissioners 2
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- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency 2
- Vaux family 2
- Vaux, George, III, 1909-1996 2
- Vaux, George, Jr., 1863-1927 2
- Vaux, George, 1832-1915 2
- Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813 2
- Wills family 2
- Wistar, Edward Morris (1852-1941) 2
- Allinson family 1
- Allinson, Elizabeth 1
- Allinson, Margaret 1
- Allinson, Samuel, 1739-1791 1
- Allinson, Samuel, 1808-1883 1
- Allinson, William J., 1810-1874 1
- Allinson, William, 1766-1841 1
- Allison family 1
- American Association of Retired Persons 1
- Andrews, Fannie Fern, 1867-1950 1
- Angell, Stephen Ward, 1952- 1
- Arnold, Mary Ellicott 1
- Ashford, Bailey K. (Bailey Kelly) 1
- Aslan, Ana 1
- Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 1
- Baldwin, James, 1841-1925 1
- 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
- Barton, Clara, 1821-1912 1
- Bassett family 1
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 1
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 1
- Benezet, Anthony 1
- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Benoit, Emile 1
- Bliss, George I. 1
- Bradley, A. Day (Amos Day), -1905 1
- Brandt, Carl, 1892-1957 1
- Brandt, Zelma Corning, 1891-1990 1
- Brent, Charles Henry 1
- Broomell, Anna Pettit 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Brown, Levi K. (Levi Kirk), 1814-1899 1
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 1
- Burgess, William, d.1905 1
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