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Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection

 Collection — othertype: SC-269
Identifier: SFHL-SC-269
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1776-1815

Lewis and Sarah Benson family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1303
Abstract

This collection is primarily 20th century letters from the Benson, Potts, and Rhoads families.

Dates: 1906-2014

Clark-Allen family papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-268
Identifier: SFHL-SC-268
Abstract The collection contains family correspondence (4 ALsS), genealogical notes, and bible records. It includes family correspondence received by Rebecca Clark, 1804-1806, before her marriage to John Humphrey. One letter is from her sister Elizabeth and the other letters were written by her mother Bathsheba Clark. Bathsheba mentions caring for a grandchild with smallpox and various needlework projects. The genealogical information includes pages from a family bible, research on the Allen, Clark,...
Dates: 1725-1932

Edwards Clock scrapbook

 Collection — othertype: SC-264
Identifier: SFHL-SC-264
Abstract

This collection contains papers of the Leonard, Pyle, Edwards, and Horne families of Chester Co., Pa., including a small amount of correspondence, financial papers, photographs, and miscellaneous papers.

Dates: 1742-1932

Ely-Eastburn family correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-267
Identifier: SFHL-SC-267
Abstract The collection contains correspondence received by members of the Ely and Eastburn family, Quakers of Bucks County, Pa. Much of the correspondence concerns estate matters which was received by Hugh B. Ely as an executor of the estate of Elias Ely. The second group is largely family correspondence received by Mary Anna Ely who married Moses Eastburn in 1845. Most of the letters were written by her sister Francenia (Fanny) before Mary Anna's marriage and are devoted to family matters. The...
Dates: 1825, 1837-1876

Fisher-Whitson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-281
Abstract This collection contains manuscripts and other materials relating to the Whitson, Smedley, Fisher and other Quaker families of southeastern Pennsylvania. Along with commonplace books, correspondence, and photographs are a series of thematically arranged genealogical binders assembled by the donors. Of particular interest are the battlefield correspondence of Sam Smedley who was killed in the American Civil War and the journal of Esther Whitson, later Cope, who served as a nurse with the AFSC...
Dates: 1778-2011

Gurney-Clarke-Shoemaker correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-070
Identifier: SFHL-SC-070
Abstract

This collection includes correspondence between three of the Kirkbride sisters, Francis Maria Shoemaker, Julia K. Clarke, and Eliza Paul Gurney. The letters relate family and local news, and the letters written by Eliza Paul Gurney from England reflect some of her spiritual philosophy. Also included are brief notes on the genealogy of the Kirkbride family.

Dates: 1850-1905

King family correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-265
Identifier: SFHL-SC-265
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence received by members of the King family, Quaker residents of Ceres, McKean County, Pennsylvania. The letters primarily deal with family concerns. One from Mary (King) Swayne, written in 1817, mentions that her husband, Joel Swayne, had contemplated returning to Indian territory but her poor health prevented his leaving. Anna King mentions her students and is distressed by the tensions in the Society of Friends in 1828.

Dates: 1817-1835

Rebecca W. Lightfoot family papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-126
Identifier: SFHL-SC-126
Abstract

This collection includes family invitations, a letter from Amos S. Jackson, and several letters from Mary Cadwallader Lightfoot to her daughter-in-law Rebecca, regarding family news. Also included is a small book of Hannah Wood's, containing personal notes.

Dates: 1817-1902

Friends Historical Library Collection of miscellaneous manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-004
Abstract The Society of Friends or Quakers (today the terms are synonymous) was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century in England by George Fox and others. The Friends Historical Library Miscellaneous Manuscripts is an artificial collection, established in the middle of the 20th century to store single and very small groups of manuscripts and documents, both originals and copies. The collection includes holdings relevant to antislavery, temperance, women's rights, penal reform, and other...
Dates: 1547 - 1994

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Names
Comly, John, 1773-1850 2
Hamm, Thomas D. 2
Mott, John, 1783-1848 2
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Allen family 1
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Allinson, Samuel, 1739-1791 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
Benezet, Anthony 1
Benson, Lewis 1
Bromley family 1
Carter, Arabella, 1867- 1
Carter, W. (William), 1651-1739 1
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 1
Clark family 1
Clarke, Julia K. (Julia Kirkbride), -1866 1
Cope, Esther Whitson, b.1900 1
Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 1
Eastburn family 1
Edwards family 1
Ely family 1
Fisher family 1
Fisher, Alfred William 1
Fisher, Thomas S., b.1928 1
Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 1
Garrett, Thomas, 1789-1871 1
Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
Gummere, Richard M. (Richard Mott), 1883-1969 1
Gurney, Eliza Paul, 1801-1881 1
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
Horne family 1
Humphrey family 1
Jackson, Amos S. (Amos Smith), 1820-1886 1
Jackson, Hannah Wood 1
Jacob, Caroline M. 1
Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
Jones, Richard Mott, 1843-1917 1
King family 1
Kirkbride family 1
Leonard family 1
Lightfoot, Mary B. (Mary Bonner), 1820-1907 1
Lightfoot, Rebecca W., 1851?-1934 1
Michener, Annie, b. 1848? 1
Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
Palmer, Anna S., 1881-1973 1
Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
Passmore family 1
Passmore, George S. (George Stroud), 1788-1876 1
Passmore, Margaret, 1778-1874 1
Passmore, Mary, 1795-1869 1
Passmore, Pennock, 1790-1857 1
Passmore, Rachel, 1785-1831 1
Paxson family 1
Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 1
Penn, William, 1644-1718 1
Pennell family 1
Pennell, Clarence 1
Price family 1
Price, Benjamin, 1793-1872 1
Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 1
Price, Jane, 1791-1876 1
Price, Lydia H., 1827-1907 1
Pyle family 1
Pyle, Francis C., 1864-1947 1
Rathbone, William, 1757-1809 1
Regen, Rosalie 1
Schneider, Rebecca Fisher 1
Sharpless, William P., 1808-1879 1
Shihadeh, Fred (Fred Shihadeh) 1
Shoemaker, Frances Maria, 1789?-1860 1
Simpson, John, 1739-1811 1
Smedley family 1
Smedley, Benjamin D. 1
Smedley, Otto, 1827-1882 1
Smedley, Sam (Samuel Fothergill), 1839-1864 1
Smith family 1
Smyth, David, 1783-1866 1
Smyth, John, 1775-1820 1
Smyth, Thomas, 1773- 1
Stokes, Jane 1
Stokes, Sarah 1
Stork, Charles Wharton, -1881 1
Stork, Elisabeth von Pausinger 1
Stradling, Mary Anna, 1847-1917 1
Swarthmore College Preparative School 1
Thornton, James, 1727-1794 1
Vickers, Elizabeth, 1813-1863 1
Vickers, Eugene 1
Vickers, Joseph, 1811-1864 1
Walton, Joseph S. (Joseph Shoemaker), 1792-1876 1
Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
Wharton, William, 1790-1856 1
Whitson family 1
Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 1
Whitson, Margaret 1
Whitson, T. (Thomas Barclay), b.1894 1
William Penn Charter School 1
Woodman, William, 1838-1917 1
Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends (Waterloo, N.Y.) 1
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