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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records: Committee on Philanthropic Labor (1892-1936)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/759
Identifier: QM-Phy-759
Overview
The Committee on Philanthropic Labor was appointed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) in 1892, merging the existing committees of Indian Concerns, Temperance and Intoxicating Beverages, and Colored People of the South. The Committee coordinated Philadelphia Hicksite Quaker activity in a number of social concerns, including race relations, Indian affairs, temperance and peace. In 1892, Subcommittees included Peace and Arbitration, Improper Publications, the Colored People,...
Dates:
1892-1937
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Indian Affairs and its predecessors (1795-1892)
Collection — othertype: SW/Phy/780
Identifier: QM-Phy-780
Overview
Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, and its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Also includes the letter books of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee...
Dates:
1838-1901
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Quaker Fund for Indigenous Communities and its predecessors (Indian Committee, Friendly Association) (1795- )
Collection — othertype: HV/Phy/838
Identifier: QM-Phy-838
Scope and Contents
The records of the Indian Committee include minutes, financial materials, correspondence, reports, journals, scrapbooks, papers, maps, lists, transcripts, miscellaneous projects, published items, film, video and other material. Major topics discussed in the records include Friends' 18th and 19th century visits to various First Nations peoples (Oneida people, Genesanguhta people, Stockbridge people, for example), the settlement at Tunesassa and later boarding school (Friends Indian School),...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1795-2007
Portraits & Miscellaneous Photographs
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-850
Overview
This collection contains an expansive range of subjects, with historical highlights including portraits of a wide variety of Quakers, Quaker Native American missions, the early years of Haverford College, and the rise of photography.
Dates:
Undated.
Achilles Pugh journal
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-056
Overview
Journal entries describe Pugh's travel from St. Louis, Missouri, to Lawrence, Kansas, Quaker meetings attended, meetings with "Indian agents" and officials, and visits to tribes and make payments.
Dates:
1869
John Richards letterbooks
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-016
Overview
Each volume of John Richards's letterbooks contains business correspondence related to his work as an Indian Agent in Kansas. All letters are written by John Richards, and the majority of letters are addressed to Enoch Hoag, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. In addition to Enoch Hoag, correspondence in Richards's letterbooks is addressed to the following: Dunlap & Flora, Russell Shlickler, James Haworth, F. Buckley, Robert Ferris, George P. Laflin, Henry Breiner, General Davidson,...
Dates:
1870-1876
William Savery diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-061
Overview
William Savery's diaries. The majority of the first volume concerns the Treaty at Canandaigua, and the remaining volumes are accounts of religious visits Savery made throughout Europe. Entries generally describe details of travel between destinations, Quaker meetings attended, Quaker families visited, and descriptions of each location's culture, food, language, style of dress, and form of local government.
Dates:
1794-1798
Scattergood family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-158
Overview
Primarily the letters of the Quaker Scattergood family detailing daily life in the Philadelphia area and touching on issues of dress. There is a also a letter of Joseph Scattergood from Tunesassa, New York, telling of his work with Cornplanter's Native Americans. As well, there is a diary kept by Ann Sellers from 1853 to 1856 and a cookbook, circa 1800.
Dates:
circa 1800-1876
Joshua Sharpless diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-069
Overview
Entries describe Sharpless's travel to, and time spent in, Cornplanter's village during 1798.
Dates:
1798, 1965
Henry Simmons journals
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-072
Overview
Henry Simmons was a Quaker missionary to the Seneca Nation and a member Middletown Monthly Meeting. Henry Simmons's journals are related to time Simmons spent with the Oneida and Seneca nations.
Dates:
1796-1800
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- Indians of North America 33
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 25
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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
- 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
- Swayne, Joel 2
- Teedyuscung, Delaware chief, 1700-1763 2
- United States. Board of Indian Commissioners 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency 2
- 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
- Burlington Company Association 1 ∧ less
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