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Samuel B. Morris diary

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-050
Abstract

Samuel B. Morris's diary entries describe his time at Haverford College, including classes he attended, meals, sporting events, socializing with friends, and family news and events.

Dates: 1885-1886

Samuel Newitt journal

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-051
Abstract

Travel journal of Samuel Newitt. Entries detail Newitt's journey to Rhode Island, including descriptions of visits with Friends and attendance at Meetings in various towns in Rhode Island.

Dates: circa 1792

John Pemberton diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-055
Abstract

John Pemberton was a Quaker minister who was involved in Native American issues. The first volume describes Pemberton's visit to England from 1750 to 1754, the second volume is composed of daily entries dated from 1778. The majority of entries in both volumes describe Quaker meetings attended and social visits with Friends and family.

Dates: 1750-1778

William G. Rhoads diary

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-057
Abstract

The first pages of William G. Rhoads's diary ask a series of questions concerning moral behavior and manners, which Rhoads subsequently answers in each entry. Entries also detail Rhoads's apprenticeship as a book keeper, social calls, and Quaker meetings he attended.

Dates: 1858

Walter Robson journal

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-058
Abstract

Walter Robson's journal is entitled “Voyage to America and travels in the United States.” Its entries describe Robson's departure from England and his voyages to and from the United States, including weather, accommodations, and fellow passengers. While in the United States, Robson traveled to various Friends and meetings in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Ohio, Chicago, Iowa, Indianapolis, Baltimore, North Carolina, and New York.

Dates: 1877-1878

Martha Routh journal

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-059
Abstract

Martha Routh's journal describes her voyage from London to Boston, which she took in 1794. Entries describe the small group of Quakers that Routh traveled with, including Thomas Scattergood, as well as descriptions of the weather, communications with other ships during the journey, and Routh's struggles with illness on board. The journal ends when Routh arrives in Boston, and her last entry describes her Quaker hosts there, and the burial of a man who died on board the ship.

Dates: 1794

Henry Russell diary

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-060
Abstract

Henry Russell's diary entries describe social calls, attendance at Quaker Meetings, personal and religious reflection, prayers, and reminiscences about his wife.

Dates: 1858-1861

William Savery diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-061
Abstract

William Savery's diaries. The majority of the first volume concerns the Treaty at Canandaigua, and the remaining volumes are accounts of religious visits Savery made throughout Europe. Entries generally describe details of travel between destinations, Quaker meetings attended, Quaker families visited, and descriptions of each location's culture, food, language, style of dress, and form of local government.

Dates: 1794-1798

Thomas Scantlebury diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-062
Abstract

Thomas Scantlebury's diaries describe his life in Bristol, England, particularly meetings attended, visits among Friends, business related news, and social calls.

Dates: 1771-1990

Scattergood family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-158
Abstract

Primarily the letters of the Quaker Scattergood family detailing daily life in the Philadelphia area and touching on issues of dress. There is a also a letter of Joseph Scattergood from Tunesassa, New York, telling of his work with Cornplanter's Native Americans. As well, there is a diary kept by Ann Sellers from 1853 to 1856 and a cookbook, circa 1800.

Dates: circa 1800-1876

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Bacon, Francis, 1812-1870 1
Bacon, George 1
Benezet, Eugenie 1
Browett, Elizabeth 1
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
Comfort, Howard 1
Davis, Samuel C. 1
Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824 1
Elfreth, Jacob R., Sr., 1789-1870 1
Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
Emlen, Samuel 1
Evans, Charles, 1802-1879 1
Evans, Elizabeth Reeve 1
Evans, Hannah Bacon 1
Fenimore, Amy 1
Foulke, Susan 1
Gould, Stephen, 1781?-1838 1
Greene, Anna, b. 1799 1
Griscom, John Mietou 1
Gummere, Samuel James 1
Hacker, Isaac 1
Haines, John S. 1
Hartshorne, Sara 1
Hodgson, William 1
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
Kenworthy, Leonard Stout, 1912- 1
Kite, John L. (John Letchworth), 1798-1878 1
Lindsey, Robert 1
Lloyd family 1
Lloyd, Mary Ann 1
Lloyd, Sarah Smith 1
Lloyd, Susan H. 1
Matlack, Mordecai 1
Maule, Jane 1
Morris, Elizabeth Hudson 1
Morris, Samuel B., 1868-1886 1
Newit, Samuel 1
Parrish, John, 1729-1807 1
Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 1
Rhoads, Sarah Wistar, 1839-1920 1
Rhoads, William Gibbons 1
Robson, Walter 1
Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817 1
Russell, Henry 1
Savery, William, 1750-1804 1
Scantlebury, Thomas 1
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Scattergood, Rachel 1
Scattergood, Rebecca 1
Scattergood, Thomas, 1748-1814 1
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Smiley, Sarah Frances 1
Stephenson, Isaac 1
Stokes, Janet 1
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Waln, Emma 1
Walton, Joseph 1
Warder, Ann Head 1
Webb, Elizabeth 1
Whitall, Ann Cooper 1
Whitall, John Siddons 1
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Wilson, Rachel, 1720-1775 1
Wistar, Esther Fisher Smith 1
Wistar, Thomas 1
Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1
Wright, Rebecca 1
Yarnall, Anna C. 1
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