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James Emlen journal
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-021
Abstract
The diary details Emlen's travels in rural Pennsylvania to small towns and settlements of fellow Quakers. Entries often describe tensions and interactions between white settlers and Indigenous populations. Treaties between white settlers and native groups are also discussed.
Dates:
1794
Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SFHL-SC-043
Abstract
Correspondence, including that with civil and military authorities, accounts of preliminary meetings with Indian delegates, and invoices, relating to the Treaty of Easton.
Dates:
1756 - 1762
Friends Committee on National Legislation Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-047
Abstract
A Quaker lobbying group established in 1943 to bring conscience and spiritual values to the political process in Washington; it grew out of the work of the Friends War Problems Committee in 1940.
Dates:
1943-
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Friends Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-031
Abstract
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia was an organization of Hicksite Quakers in Philadelphia founded in 1869 to solicit donations of money and goods to distribute to the Native American tribes assigned to the oversight of the Yearly Meeting by the Department of Interior during the period of Grant's peace policy. The collection includes reports and minutes, financial reports, correspondence, and lists of goods.
Dates:
1869-1875
Friends' Social Union (New York, N.Y.) minutes
Collection — othertype: SC-181
Identifier: SFHL-SC-181
Abstract
Minutes, 1869-1872, of Friends' Social Union, New York City. Aaron M. Powell was one of the early chairmen, and Maria Mitchell included in the speakers. One of the group's continuing concerns was the plight of the American Indians.
Dates:
1869-1872
John B. Garrett papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-903
Abstract
John B. Garrett (1836-1924) was an original member of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. Topics discussed include appointment of agents, missionary work, education and citizenship of Indigenous Americans, use of military force, annuity goods, opening of Indigenous territory to settlement by white people, etc. Includes minutes of the 1871 committee meeting, letter of Garrett to his family telling of a 1865 visit to Fort Smith, Arkansas, as part of the "Grand...
Dates:
1822 - 1961; Majority of material found within 1853 - 1872
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
Theodore Brinton Hetzel papers and graphics
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1168
Abstract
Theodore Hetzel (1906-1990) was a Quaker professor of engineering at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, whose interests led him to involvement with Native American and Quaker issues. An avid photographer, the materials in this collection are primarily photographic, as well as correspondence and documents.
Dates:
1866-1987; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1987
Enoch Hoag letterbooks
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1104
Abstract
Letters to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington, letters to Indian Agents under the jurisdiction of Hoag, and letters characterized as "Individual letters" from 1870 to 1878.
Dates:
1870-1878
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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
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 3
- 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
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 3
- 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
- Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham 2
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- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 2
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- Society of Friends 2
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- United States. Board of Indian Commissioners 2
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- 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
- Barclay, David, 1729-1809 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
- Bonsall, Isaac 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 + ∧ less
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