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Emmor Roberts transcribed letters to Israel Roberts
Collection — othertype: SC-282
Identifier: SFHL-SC-282
Abstract
Collection of typed transcribed letters written by Emmor Robert, New Jersey Quaker farmer, to his son, Israel Roberts, a student at Swarthmore College, Class of 1878. Contains descriptions of daily life on the farm, family and Quaker local news.
Dates:
Transcript not dated. Original letters dated 1875-1877
Roberts-French family papers
Collection — othertype: SC-109
Identifier: SFHL-SC-109
Abstract
This collection includes letters and papers of the Roberts and French families. Included is a record of the disownment of Asa Roberts from the Orthodox meeting in 1828, presumably due to his Hicksite beliefs,and a letter from John Mott to Josiah Mott, regarding Quaker testimony and issues of the Hicksite separation. Also included are wills and deeds of Robert French and other members of the family, as well as maps and charts of their properties in Burlington County, NJ.
Dates:
1731-1910
"Transition from the Horse and Buggy Days to the Space Age"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-103
Abstract
The autobiography or memoir of Ruth Abbott Rogers is structured to act as a tour of the family home, called Quillity, outside of Philadelphia. In Rogers's words, "I will start at the top of the house under the slate roof and wander down room by room going over the accumulation of a family from colonial times in America." The manuscript therefore acts as both an autobiography of Roger's own life in the house, and as a family history.
Dates:
1963
Sharpless-Reeve family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-325
Abstract
The collected papers of the Sharpless and Reeve family of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence is between Edward Sharpless (1831-1894), a New Jersey Quaker minister, and his sister, Anna N. Sharpless, who married John Newbold Reeve in 1857. Their daughter, Mary Offley Reeve, worked as a school teacher when young and became involved in temperance and evangelical Christianity. She shared these interests, reflected in diaries and other writings, with Annie Way Smith, a...
Dates:
1852 - 1957
Samuel L. Southard Papers concerning the Quaker Separation
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-312
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence and legal papers of Samuel L. Southard, New Jersey lawyer and politician, concerning his defense of the Hicksite position in the trial over the Crosswicks School Fund at the time of the Separation in the Society of Friends. The School Fund of Crosswick Preparative Meeting, New Jersey, was claimed by both factions, Hicksite and Orthodox.
Dates:
1827 - 1833
Asa M. Stackhouse manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-115
Abstract
The manuscripts written by Asa Matlack Stackhouse largely focus on Quaker history, particularly during the colonial period in and around Burlington County, New Jersey.
Dates:
Undated.
Stackhouse Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-306
Abstract
The Stackhouse family was a Pennsylvania and New Jersey Quaker family with roots in the earliest settlement of America. The papers include diaries, ledgers, correspondence and other family papers and voluminous genealogical research conducted by Powell Stackhouse, Jr. They were united by the descendants of two sons of Amos and Mary (Powell) Stackhouse who shared an interest in family history. Powell Stackhouse, Jr., (1827-1900) was a real estate lawyer and conveyancer who pursued a...
Dates:
1804 - 1951; Majority of material found within 1820-1916
Stony Brook Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-S715
Abstract
Minutes, vital records and financial records of Stony Brook Preparative Meeting from 1796-1891.
Dates:
1796-1891
Benjamin Swett letterbook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-021
Abstract
The first half of the volume contains business correspondence concerning merchant's orders and the status of shipments. The second half of the volume contains personal correspondence, chiefly letters from Benjamin Swett to Mary Howell Swett, his wife. Letters are addressed to William Johnson, Isaac Milnor, Harper & Hartshorne, John Wickman & Sons, Barclay & Sons, Richard Mayhew, Joseph Brown, Jonathon Cowpland, David Symour, Arnoll & Mayhew, Thomas Letchworth, George Dillwyn,...
Dates:
1765-1806
C. Marshall (Caleb Marshall) Taylor Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-147
Abstract
C. Marshall (Caleb Marshall) Taylor (1884-1957) was a Quaker businessman and book collector, of Montclair, New Jersey. The collection contains papers relating to Taylor's activities as collector of the books and manuscripts of John Greenleaf Whittier, and correspondence reflecting Taylor's advocacy of liberal Quakerism.
Dates:
1925-1957
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- Bond, Elizabeth Powell, 1841-1926 1
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- Cooper, Anna, 1872-1926 1
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- Cooper, Henry R. (Henry Roberts), 1856-1928 1
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- Elizabeth A. Lippincott 1
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- Engle, Emma P. (Emma Peaslee) 1
- Engle, James G., 1875-1960 1
- Engle, Ruth W. (Ruth Waddington), b.1879 1
- Esterbrook Steel Pen Manufacturing Company 1
- Evans, Jonathan, 1759-1839 1
- Evans, Joshua, 1731-1798 1
- Evans, William Bacon, 1875-1964 1
- Female Association of Philadelphia for Promoting the Manufacture and Use of Free Cotton 1
- Foster, J. Ellen (Judith Ellen), 1840-1910 1
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- Furnas, Paul J. 1
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- Gimbel Brothers 1
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- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hopper, Edward 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
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