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"A Account of the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly & Particular Meetings of the people called Quakers"
This manuscript book of meetings, compiled in about 1765 by an anonymous author, lists the Quaker Meetings in the Yearly Meetings of New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and North Carolina. According to a note on the back of the first page of the photostatic copy, the original manuscript was located at the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, as of 1932, and that it had previously belonged to a woman named Mary Olney.
A Quaker Action Group Records
Abington Friends School (Abington, Pa.) Account book
Abington Friends School was established by Abington Monthly Meeting in the latter part of the eighteenth century as a day school. The account book covers the period 1828-1842. Pupil's names are given with the status of their payments, etc.
Allen Family Papers
Alsop Family Papers
"Some Account of William Penn's Birth, Education, and Death"
The anonymous manuscript "Some Account of William Penn's Birth, Education, and Death, Also: Some Account of his travels in the work of the ministry in some parts of Germany and Holland, etc.," is organized chronologically, and after providing initial biographical information about William Penn, provides brief descriptions of important events in Penn's life, organized by year.
“An Account of all the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly and Particular Meetings of the Friends of America, 1772”
This anonymously written volume provides a list of every meeting held in Colonial United States in 1772. Entries include the locations and dates of the yearly and quarterly meetings, and each entry for a monthly meeting includes a list of the particular meetings belonging to that monthly meeting. Meetings for Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. The volume includes an index for the meetings at the back.
Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) Papers
Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans Records
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 6
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 5
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 5
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- 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
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- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 4
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- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 3
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- 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
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- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
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- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 3
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 3
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 3
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- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 3
- William Penn Charter School 3
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- A Quaker Action Group 2
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- Aydelotte, Frank, 1880-1956 2
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- Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916 2
- Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 2
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2 ∧ less