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John Alston Papers
John Alston (1794-1874) was a Quaker farmer who lived in Middletown, Delaware. This collection contains his journals (1837 (?)-1847 and n.d.), account books and business papers (1821-1874), and essays by Nathan Lord on slavery and salvation (1797).
Biddle family Papers
Bye Family Papers
Contains papers of Quakers of Delaware and southern Chester County (Pa.), particularly members of the Bye, Jenkinson, Passmore, Speakman, and Smith families. The collection includes correspondence, business records, photographs, and memorabilia of E. Mortimer and Pusey Passmore Bye, Thomas Jenkinson, Thomas H. Speakman, and Nathaniel Smith. Also includes accounts of Phebe Thomas who died at the age of 104 in Chester County (Pa.) and had witnessed the Battle of Brandywine as a child.
Ferris Family Papers
Ferris-Wetherald Family Papers
Contains correspondence, legal papers, deeds, and memorabilia of the Ferris and Wetherald families, who were Quakers of Wilmington, Delaware, and Lancashire, England. Persons represented include Benjamin Ferris (1780-1867), of Wilmington, Del., and his daughters, Deborah (1813-1897) and Anna M. Ferris (1815-1890), and Joseph Wetherald (1787-1842), of Wilmington, and his brother, James Wetherald, of Wakefield, England.
Friends Social Lyceum (Wilmington, De.)
Friends Social Lyceum, a Quaker social and study group, was established by 1872 in Wilmington, Delaware. This collection contains the minutes, 1872-1881, in two bound volumes.
Lavinia Lloyd Knight Papers
Lavinia Lloyd Knight (1816-1863) was a Quaker, of Wilmington, Delaware. The collection contains corresondence with Knight's sister, Elizabeth Knorr Knight (1814-1841), lesson book and journal kept as student (1830-1832) of Eli Hilles (1783-1863), essays, poems, biographical material, and other papers.
Emma Worrell Family Papers
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- Alston, John, 1794-1874 1
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- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
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- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1767-1834 1
- Bye family 1
- Bye, E. Mortimer (Enoch Mortimer), 1818-1894 1
- Bye, Pusey P. (Pusey Passmore), 1846-1931 1
- Emma Worrell (1834-1930) 1
- Ferris, David, 1821-1908 1
- Ferris, Deborah, 1813-1897 1
- Ferris, Fanny, 1778-1833 1
- Ferris, Henry 1
- Ferris, John, 1775-1802 1
- Ferris, Matilda, 1853-1937 1
- Ferris, Ziba, 1743-1794 1
- Friends Social Lyceum (Wilmington, Del.) 1
- Gibbons, Mary, 1795-1876 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hilles, Eli, 1783-1863 1
- Hollingsworth, H. (Henry), 1737-1803 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- James, Dorothy Biddle 1
- Jenkinson family 1
- Jenkinson, Thomas, 1794-1890 1
- Knight family 1
- Knight, Elizabeth Knorr, 1814-1841 1
- Knight, Lavinia Lloyd, 1816-1863 1
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- Lord, Nathan, 1792-1870 1
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- Richardson, Thomas, 1816-1867 1
- Rickman, Lydia Cooper Lewis, -1885 1
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- Smith, Nathaniel, b. 1755 1
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- Speakman, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1820-1904 1
- Stirling, Anne Biddle, -1857 1
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- Thomas, Phebe, 1770-1875 1
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- Wetherald, James 1
- Wetherald, Joseph, 1787-1842 1
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