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Ferris Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-040
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Ferris family of Wilmington, Delaware, a prominent Quaker family. Of particular note are the correspondence and writings of Benjamin Ferris concerning the Separation in the Society of Friends, as well as the journals and diaries of Anna M. Ferris, David Ferris, Matilda Ferris, Benjamin Ferris, and Henry Ferris. Correspondents include William Lloyd Garrison, William...
Dates:
1737-1940
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-087
Abstract
Bartholomew Fussell was a Quaker minister who married Rebecca Bond at Abington Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania in 1781. He was a member of Uwchlan Monthly Meeting of Friends at his death in 1838. The couple had eight children, viz. Esther, William, Sarah, Joseph, Jacob, Bartholomew, Rebecca, and Solomon. Esther married John Lewis in 1818, and they had four children, among whom was Graceanna Lewis, Quaker scientist and humanitarian. Joseph Fussell married Elizabeth Moore in 1814, and their...
Dates:
1698-1978
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- Biddle, Mary, 1780-1849 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1767-1834 1
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- Ferris, Anna M., 1815-1890 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Ferris, David, 1821-1908 1
- Ferris, Fanny, 1778-1833 1
- Ferris, Henry 1
- Ferris, John, 1775-1802 1
- Ferris, Matilda, 1853-1937 1
- Ferris, Ziba, 1743-1794 1
- Foster School for Girls (Clifton Springs, N.Y.) 1
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- Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
- Fussell, Henry B. (Henry Bartholomew), 1815-1890 1
- Fussell, Henry M. (Henry Moore), d.1917 1
- Fussell, Linnaeus, 1842-1907 1
- Fussell, Rebecca L. (Rebecca Lewis), 1820-1893 1
- Gibbons, Mary, 1795-1876 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
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- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
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- Lewis, Esther, 1782-1848 1
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- Poole, William, 1764-1829 1
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- Trimble, Esther Jane, 1838-1888 1
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