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Turner Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-152
Abstract This collection centers around the family and descendants of Joseph Turner, Jr., (1790-1850) and his wife Rebecca (Sinclair) Turner (1787-1877), members of Baltimore Monthly Meeting-Western District. They raised eight children and had fifty-four grandchildren. As a young man, Joseph left the family plantation near Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland, and became a lumber merchant in Baltimore. He served as Clerk of the Lombard Street Meeting. Rebecca was a recorded minister and traveled widely....
Dates: 1776-1954

Thomas Wistar journals

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-089
Abstract

Thomas Wistar's journal entries largely describe his work as an Indian Commissioner, including visits to Washington D.C., the Seneca Nation, the Wichita Indian Agency, and other Native American Reservations. In addition to his work as a commissioner, entries detail social calls with family and friends, descriptions of Quaker meetings, and religious reflection and prayers.

Dates: 1841-1875

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Indians of North America -- Missions 5
Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 4
Quakers -- Social service -- United States 4
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Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 3
Indian agents -- United States 3
Indians of North America -- Nebraska 3
Kickapoo Indians -- History 3
Osage Indians -- History 3
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Society of Friends -- Nebraska 3
correspondence 3
Kinzua Dam (Pa.) 2
Quakers -- History 2
Quakers -- Maryland 2
Quakers -- Nebraska 2
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Seneca Indians 2
diaries 2
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Fox Indians 1
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Indian land transfers -- New York (State) 1
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Indians, treatment of 1
Iowa Indians 1
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Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
Modoc Indians -- History 1
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Quaker abolitionists 1
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Real property -- New York (State) 1
Santee Indians 1
Sauk Indians 1
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Seneca Indians -- Treaties 1
Shawnee Indians -- History 1
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Quakers 1
family papers 1
manuscripts (documents) 1
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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 3
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 2
Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 2
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Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 2
Wistar, Thomas 2
American Friends Service Committee 1
Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Standing Committee on the Indian Concern 1
Borton, Hugh 1
Burgess, William, d.1905 1
Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
Coleman, John Royston 1
Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings on Indian Affairs (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 1
Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings on Indian Affairs (Society of Friends : Hicksite). Central Executive Committee 1
Cornplanter, Seneca chief 1
Deer, Ada Elizabeth 1
Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
Forbush, Bliss, 1896-1990 1
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
Gasmann, John G. 1
Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 1
Haverford College 1
Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 1
Hetzel, Theodore Brinton, 1906-1990 1
Janschka, Fritz 1
Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 1
Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 1
Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham 1
Kent, Mahlon B., d.1929 1
Lightfoot family 1
Lightfoot, Mary B. (Mary Bonner), 1820-1907 1
Lightfoot, Samuel, 1701-1771 1
Lightfoot, Susanna 1720 1781 (Susanna Hudson Hatton Lightfoot) 1
Lightfoot, Thomas Montgomery, -1865 1
Lightfoot, Thomas, 1728-1793 1
Lightner, Isaiah 1
Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
Maiden Creek Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1735-1829 : Maiden Creek (Pa. : Township)) 1
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922- 1
Morgan, Arthur E. (Arthur Ernest), 1878-1975 1
New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Indian Committee 1
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 1
Richards, John 1
Roberts, Benjamin Rush 1
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 1
Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
Sniffen, Matthew K. 1
Society of Friends 1
Solenberger, Edith R. (Edith Reeves), 1886-1976 1
Steere, Jonathan M. 1
Taylor, Walter 1
Test, Elizabeth 1
Turner family 1
Turner, Joseph, III, 1831-1865 1
Turner, Joseph, Jr., 1790-1850 1
Turner, Rebecca Sinclair, 1795-1877 1
Turner, Richard Townsend, Jr., 1845-1908 1
Turner, Richard Townsend, 1819-1892 1
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Central Superintendency 1
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency 1
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency 1
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency 1
Webster, Joseph (Indian Quaker agent) 1
Welsh, Herbert, 1851-1941 1
White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1
White, Gilbert F. 1
White, Howard, 1844-1916 1
Wistar, Edward Morris (1852-1941) 1
Wood, Carolena Morris, 1871-1936 1
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