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Hanbury-Aggs Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-058
Overview
The Hanbury and Aggs families were prominent English Quakers who were involved in a variety of mercantile and philanthropic activities, predominantly in the 19th century. They were pharmacologists, silk merchant in Shanghai, travelers, and philanthropists (Thomas Hanbury was knighted in 1901 for his philanthropy). The collection contains correspondence, journals, business and financial papers, and other miscellaneous material. Includes Daniel Bell Hanbury's journals of his travels with...
Dates:
1718-1914
George M. Justice Memorandums, 1825-1861
Collection — othertype: RG5-298
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-298
Overview
George M. Justice was a successful Philadelphia merchant and important Hicksite Quaker. Beginning in 1825 until shortly before his death, he kept volumes of memorandum reflecting his thoughts on religion, the Hicksite Separation and its aftermath in Philadelphia, family information, astronomy, slavery, and other topics.
Dates:
1825-1861
New York Yearly Meeting collection of papers concerning slavery
Collection — othertype: SC-284
Identifier: SFHL-SC-284
Overview
The collection contains a small number of miscellaneous papers relating to efforts within New York Yearly Meeting to support the manumission of enslaved people, abolition, and education of formerly enslaved people, 1778-1870. Most are copies of reports presented to New York Monthly Meeting or to the Yearly Meeting, compiled as a reference file.
Dates:
1778 - 1870
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-320
Overview
The collection contains papers of Mira Sharpless Townsend, a major Quaker social activist and reformer in Philadelphia. Mira Sharpless Townsend (1798-1859) was born in Philadelphia, attended Friends Select School, and in 1828 married Samuel Townsend (1800-1887). He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting by whom she had six children, only two surviving to adulthood: Emily Sharpless Townsend who married Powell Stackhouse and Clara Gordon Townsend, married William Penn Troth. During...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1815 - 1858; 1806 - 1910
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- Aggs family 1
- Aggs, Anna C. (Anna Christy), 1831-1913 1
- Aggs, Henry Gurney, 1866- 1
- Aggs, Henry, 1780-1859 1
- Aggs, Mary, b. 1785 1
- Aggs, Thomas, 1750-1824 1
- Aggs, Thomas, 1822-1896 1
- Allen & Hanburys 1
- Allen, Charlotte, 1762-1816 1
- Allen, William, 1770-1843 1
- Congress of Verona (1822) 1
- Gibbins family 1
- Hanbury family 1
- Hanbury, Anna, 1761-1825 1
- Hanbury, Capel, 1764-1835 1
- Hanbury, Charlotte, fld d. 1839 1
- Hanbury, Daniel Bell, 1794-1882 1
- Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875 1
- Hanbury, Thomas, Sir, 1832-1907 1
- Justice, George M. (George Middleton), 1792-1862 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 1
- Rosine Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
- Townsend, Mira Sharpless, 1798-1859 1
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