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"Teacher Willa"
The autobiography of Willa E. Ballard, a Quaker teacher, describes Ballard's early life, her parents and siblings, her experience growing up as a Quaker, her training as a teacher, and her experiences teaching in Moorestown and Atlantic City, New Jersey, and at the Mekusukey School in the Seminole Nation, as well as her time as a teacher and later a principal at various schools in California.
Baltimore Society for the Protection of Free People of Color minutes
Minute book of the Baltimore Society for the Protection of Free People of Color, 1827-29. Includes Constitution, Articles (by-laws), and signatures of sixteen members.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting correspondence
This collection contains the typed correspondence of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection
Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.
Joseph Bancroft Family Papers
William P. Bancroft Family Papers
The collection contains William P. Bancroft's letter books 1880-1928 and a small amount of Bancroft-Clark family correspondence and photographs. Also extensive transcribed material from William Bancroft's letter books and research on family members and individuals with detailed topical inventory.
Collection of Early Quaker Wills in Barbados, 1669-1709 (typed copies)
Typed copies of early wills of Quakers in Barbados.
Barclay letters
Primarily letters of Robert Barclay, a Quaker of the 18th and early 19th century, who established a brewery in England, on topics ranging from financial affairs and land transactions to personal matters.
"Apologie de la Vraie Theologie Christienne"
Robert Barclay's "Apology for the True Christian Divinity," translated into French by Georges Liens, summarizes the early Quaker theological concerns of the beliefs of Friends as Barclay heard them preached by George Fox and other influential Friends.
"Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House: A Biography"
The manuscript of Gergory Barnes's "Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House: A Biography" provides a history of Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House from the purchase of the land by William Penn in 1683, to the present, including important Quaker individuals, the influence of Philadelphia's history on the Meeting House, the Orthodox-Hicksite separation, and the Wilburite-Gurneyites.
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- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 20
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- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 8
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- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 7
- Jones family 7
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 7
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- Scott, Lawrence, 1908-1986 7
- Society of Friends 7
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- Taylor family 7
- Walton family 7
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 7
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 7
- A Quaker Action Group 6
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- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 6
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- Morris, Elliston P. (Elliston Perot), 1899-1980 6
- Parrish, John, 1729-1807 6
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 6
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 6
- Shinn family 6
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- Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975 6
- Valentino, Carmen 6
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- Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 6
- Williams family 6
- Wilson family 6
- Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916 5
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 5
- Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690 5
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 5
- Bettle, Samuel 5
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 5
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