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Nine Partners Boarding School papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-246
Identifier: SFHL-SC-246

Sarah Hopper Palmer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-115
Abstract Sarah Hopper Palmer (1796-1885) was the eldest child of Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), noted Hicksite Quaker abolitionist and social reformer. The collection was apparently compiled as a basis for Lydia Maria Child's Life of Isaac T. Hopper, which was first published in 1853. The original manuscript of the published book is included in the collection. The collection contains material on the Palmer, Hunn and Jenkins families, family correspondence, legal and...
Dates: 1705-1883

Samuel Parsons correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-229
Identifier: SFHL-SC-229
Abstract The collection contains correspondence received by Samuel Parsons of New York Monthly Meeting. Correspondents include William and Hannah Jackson, ministers of New Garden Monthly Meeting, Pa.; London Friends writing to James Mott, Parsons, and Richard R. Lawrence in response to their report of Friends' activities with native Americans; Samuel Bettle of Philadelphia concerning the Separation, offering advice for New York Yearly Meeting; Daniel Comstock describing the program of study at the...
Dates: 1805-1831

Moses Pierce correspondence with George F. White

 Collection — othertype: SC-238
Identifier: SFHL-SC-238
Abstract The collections contains correspondence between George F. White and Moses Pierce in which Pierce asks White to clarify his views on abolition, temperance, and peace. White does not agree with abolitionists who want an immediate end to slavery, and he thinks that Great Britain's Abolition of Slavery Act was a ill-conceived. He notes the wretched conditions of factories and mines in England and Scotland as other forms of slavery. Pierce, in copies or drafts of the letters he sent, argues that...
Dates: 1839-1926 (bulk 1842-1846)

Leon A. Rushmore collection of New York Yearly Meeting miscellaneous papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-213
Identifier: SFHL-SC-213
Abstract

This collection of miscellaneous papers collected by Leon A. Rushmore includes several religious essays or sermons, a copy of Nicholas Waln's 1772 prayer, and an undated address "To the great Sachems and Chief of the [missing] sitting around the Counsill at new york" possibly transcribed from dictation.

Dates: ca. 1789-1833

Rutherford Literary Association secretary's book

 Collection — othertype: SC-178
Identifier: SFHL-SC-178
Abstract

Constitution and minutes, 1889-1893, of Rutherford Literary.

Dates: 1889-1893

The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-051
Abstract

The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of Free People of Color was a Quaker society in New York City, organized in 1839. Its purpose was to support the abolition of slavery and educational charities for Black people. This small collection contains a minute book (6/1839-5/1843) and loose minutes (1844).

Dates: 1839-1844

Theodore Foulk and Mabel K. Foulk Collected Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCPC-CDG-A-Foulk, Theodore and Mabel K.
Abstract

Theodore Foulk (d. 1924) and his wife Mabel, a Quaker, provided funds for the use of the United States government to provide civilian relief; to the American Friends Service Committee for European relief work; and directly to French Ambassador Jusserand to aid and educate French war orphans.

Dates: 1917-1932

Thomas family papers

 Collection — othertype: SC-237
Identifier: SFHL-SC-237
Abstract The collection contains correspondence, a guest book, 1914-1939, kept by Edward and Margaret Thomas, and miscellaneous writings. Family correspondence includes letters from and received by Rebecca M. and Allen C. Thomas, 1885-1888 and 1902, and childhood correspondence of Edward Thomas, 1887-1892, together with his student transcript from Haverford College, 1897. A letter to Allen Thomas from biblical scholar James Rendel Harris, dated Feb. 16, 1889, Jerusalem, describes his visit and...
Dates: 1885 - 1963

Correspondence concerning John Unthank Gift

 Collection — othertype: SC-232
Identifier: SFHL-SC-232
Abstract Contains correspondence concerning the gift of Dr. John Unthank of Limerick, Ireland, of £1,000, to be divided between two concerns: first, to the Ohio, Indiana and Baltimore Yearly Meetings to be applied by them through their Indian committees toward promoting the so-called civilization and Christian instruction of Native Americans; and, secondly £250 each to Indiana and Ohio Yearly Meetings toward establishing boarding schools for the children of members. Samuel Parsons of New York Yearly...
Dates: 1835-1837

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New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 6
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 4
New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.) 4
Friends World College 3
Jackson, Anna M. (Anna Margaret), 1848-1920 3
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Jackson, William M. (William Morris), 1837-1919 3
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New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee on a Friends World College 3
Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 3
Swarthmore College 3
Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861 2
Bogardus, Joseph A., 1851-1896 2
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 2
Cox, John, 1860-1951 2
Friends' Employment Society (New York, N.Y.) 2
Gibbons family 2
Hopper family 2
Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends : Orthodox : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
New York Friends Group 2
New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1958-1974 : New York, N.Y.) 2
New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1957 : New York, N.Y.). Peace and Service Committee 2
Nicklin, George L. 2
Nine-Partners' Boarding School (Washington, N.Y.) 2
Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899 2
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 2
Scott, Job, 1751-1793 2
Underhill, Rachel W., 1844-1923 2
Wood, M. S. (Mary Sutton), 1805-1894 2
Young Friends Aid Association (New York, N.Y.) 2
American Friends Service Committee 1
Arnold family 1
Association of Friends for the Relief of Freedmen (New York, N.Y.) 1
Barrows, Samuel J. (Samuel June), 1845-1909 1
Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 1
Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921 1
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940 1
Boardman, Anna Florence, 1913-1978 1
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Bowne, Amy, 1795- 1
Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
Branson family 1
Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 1
Capron, George T. (George Truman), b. 1858 1
Capron, Jacob, d. 1891 1
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Chaffee, Edmund B. (Edmund Bigelow), 1887-1936 1
Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907 1
Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917. 1
Circle of the King's Daughters (New York, N.Y.) 1
Collins, Ellen, 1828-1927 1
Collins, Sarah, b. 1795 1
Committee of Correspondence (New York, N.Y. : 1960-1962) 1
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Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964 1
Cousins, Norman 1
Cromwell, Caroline A., b. 1833 1
Crozer Theological Seminary 1
Davis, Mary E., d. 1879 1
DeRosa, Ulysses, 1892- 1
Densmore, Christopher 1
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
Dodge, Grace H. (Grace Hoadley) 1
Downing family 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Emerson family 1
Emerson, Sarah Hopper, 1835- 1
Eyre, Isaac, 1819-1904 1
Foulk, Mabel P. 1
Foulk, Theodore 1
Foulke, Elizabeth, 1758-1820 1
Free Produce Association of Friends, of New-York Yearly Meeting 1
Free-School Society of New-York 1
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Friends Equal Rights Association (New York, N.Y.) 1
Friends Literary and Library Association of New York 1
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Frost, Gideon, 1798-1880 1
Frost, Mary W. (Mary Willets), 1803-1847 1
Garvan, Theresa 1
Gaskell family 1
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 1
Gibbons, J. S. (James Sloan), 1810-1892 1
Gillingham family 1
Gillingham, Anna, 1878-1964 1
Gillingham, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Hancock), 1837-1929 1
Gillingham, Theodore T. (Theodore Tyson), 1836-1923 1
Gilmore, Robert Wallace, 1921-1988 1
Grimke, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Haines family 1
Haines, Samuel B. (Samuel Bowne), 1834-1913 1
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804 1
Hanaford, Phebe A. (Phebe Ann), 1829-1921 1
Hancock, Charles Thomas "Tom", II, 1914-1997 1
Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927 1
Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
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