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Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Overview
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
Ellen Starr Brinton Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-051
Abstract
Ellen Starr Brinton (1886-1954), Quaker, feminist and internationalist, served as the first curator of the Jane Addams Peace Collection (later the Swarthmore College Peace Collection) from 1935 until her retirement in 1951.
Dates:
1895-1980; Majority of material found within 1933-1954
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Joseph Brinton Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-233
Overview
Joseph Brinton, an outspoken member of the Society of Friends from southeastern Pennsylvania, was active in the Wilburite schisms of the 1850s and 1860's in New England. His family papers include his own journals, as well as his extensive correspondence. This collection also includes the correspondence of his two wives, Mary H. Brinton and Anna H. Brinton.
Dates:
1758-1931
Anna Pettit Broomell Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-019
Overview
This collection contains papers and relics collected by Anna Pettit Broomell concerning Quaker families of Columbiana County, Ohio, and Salem County, New Jersey. It includes family correspondence, accounts, albums, school copybooks, notebooks, piece book, almanacs, clippings, printed material, and memorabilia of the Pettit, Hussey, Griffith, and related families. Includes letters from Hannah G. Pettit of Columbiana County, Ohio, to her sister, Hester G. Hussey, from David Pettit to his...
Dates:
1797-1919
Broomell-Cleghorn-Fisher Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-278
Overview
This collection contains material collected by Anna Pettit Broomell and primarily consists of the writings and correspondence of Broomell, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and Sarah Cleghorn.
Dates:
1876-1967
Moses Brown papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1024
Overview
Correspondence, legal, land and estate papers (wills, powers of attorney, deeds, mortgages, bonds, etc.), account book, manuscript book, and other papers of the Quaker Brown family of Philadelphia and New Hampshire.
Dates:
1815-1911
T. Wistar Brown Fund papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1315
Overview
This collection includes the administrative and financial documents of the T. Wistar Brown Teachers Fund.
Dates:
1912-1999
Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends (Bucks County, Pa.) Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-011
Overview
The Bucks Auxiliary Bible Association of Friends, a Quaker Bible distribution society, located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was established in 2nd month, 1830, under the Bible Association of Friends in America. Its purpose was to supply “Friends and others with the Holy Scripture, “to encourage “the frequent and serious perusal of them”, and to promote “a more accurate knowledge of their invaluable contents”. All subscriptions collected by the Auxiliary were turned over to the parent body,...
Dates:
1830-1845
Bunting Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-220
Overview
The Bunting family was a Pennsylvania Quaker family, closely associated with Darby, Pa., and Darby Monthly Meeting. The Bunting family had many branches descending from the ten children of Josiah and Sarah (Hunt) Bunting; Josiah Bunting (1734-1813) was a minister and elder of Darby Monthly Meeting. One of his sons, Josiah (1773-1863) married Sarah Sellers. His son, Joseph (1830-1890) married Elizabeth Spencer Miller (1833-1905), a descendent of the Miller and McIlvain families, also...
Dates:
1739-1957
Morgan Bunting Genealogical Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-255
Overview
Morgan Bunting (1863-1929) was a member of the Society of Friends in Darby, Pa., and a descendant of Samuel Bunting (1692-1759) who emigrated from England in the early eighteenth century. An architect by occupation, Bunting had an avid interest in Darby history and genealogy. The collection includes correspondence and genealogical papers concerning the Sellers, Cadwallader, Bartram, and Coleman families. There are also some original documents concerning the Bunting family, including deeds,...
Dates:
ca. 1710-1938
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- United States -- History -- Colonial period -- ca. 1600-1775 5
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 5
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 4
- American poetry 4
- Antislavery movements 4
- Church work with older people -- Society of Friends 4
- Church work with the poor -- Society of Friends 4 ∧ less
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- Swarthmore College 43
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 16
- American Friends Service Committee 14
- Westtown Boarding School 12
- Penn, William, 1644-1718 8
- Haverford College 7
- Lloyd family 7
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 7
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 7
- George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 6
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 6
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 6
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 6
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 6
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 5
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 5
- Elkinton family 5
- Foulke family 5
- Hunn family 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Smith family 5
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
- Cope family 4
- Evans family 4
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 4
- Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 4
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 4
- Hull, Hannah Clothier, 1872-1958 4
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 4
- Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 4
- Palmer family 4
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 4
- Scattergood, Joseph 4
- Sharpless family 4
- Smedley family 4
- Taylor family 4
- Truman, George 4
- Walton family 4
- Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 4
- Williams family 4
- Allen family 3
- Bunting family 3
- Cooper family 3
- Darlington family 3
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 3
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
- Fisher family 3
- Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 3
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 3
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 3
- Gwynedd Boarding School (Gwynedd, Pa.) 3
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 3
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 3
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 3
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 3
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 3
- Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 3
- Mather family 3
- Miller family 3
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 3
- Parrish family 3
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 3
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 3
- Parrish, John, 1729-1807 3
- Paschall family 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 3
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 3
- Price family 3
- Reynolds, Earle L. 3
- Richardson family 3
- Savery, William, 1750-1804 3
- Schofield, Martha 3
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 3
- Sellers family 3
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 3
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 3
- Thomas family 3
- Walker family 3
- Warner family 3
- Wharton family 3
- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 3
- William Penn Charter School 3
- Willoughby, George, pacifist 3
- Wilson family 3
- A Quaker Action Group 2
- Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
- Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2
- Allinson, Brent D. (Brent Dow) 2
- Alsop family 2
- American Anti-slavery Society 2
- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 2
- Atkinson family 2
- Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956 2
- Bacon family 2
- Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916 2
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 2 ∧ less
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