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"A Account of the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly & Particular Meetings of the people called Quakers"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-141
Overview
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.
Dates:
1765
A Quaker Action Group Records
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-074
Scope and Contents
A Quaker Action Group (AQAG) records in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection include minutes, correspondence (1966-1971), memoranda, financial records, subject files (organizations), research files (topics), project files, newsletters, press releases, statements of Quaker yearly meetings in various cities, clippings, photographs and sound recordings. The files were first processed in 1974, and then again in 1980. In 2004, archival intern, Joe Clark, sorted the papers into the present...
Dates:
1965-1973
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Abington Friends School (Abington, Pa.) Account book
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-001
Overview
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.
Dates:
1828-1842
Allen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-001
Overview
Contains the papers of the Allen Family, a Quaker family of Philadelphia and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, which traced its ancestry back to one of William Penn's commissioners. Includes papers relating to the Allen and related Breidenhart, Casdorp, Gibbons, Hubley, Jacobs, Matlack, and Samuel families. The Allen family papers contain extensive genealogical material, family correspondence, journals and memorials which provide excellent source material on Quaker family life in the 19th...
Dates:
1700-1954
Alsop Family Papers
Collection — othertype: SC-191
Identifier: SFHL-SC-191
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence of the Alsop and Brown families, particularly Othniel Alsop, Hannah Brown Alsop, and Othneil's English siblings, Ann and Robert Alsop. Other correspondents include Alice Jackson, Mary Coffin, and Ann Douglas. Also included are Othniel's naturalization documents, various wills, and calling cards from friends. Of particular interest is a letter dated 1799 from Othniel Alsop to sister in England, describing the "contagious fever" (yellow fever), a...
Dates:
1795-1830
"Some Account of William Penn's Birth, Education, and Death"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-106
Overview
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.
Dates:
1863
“An Account of all the Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly and Particular Meetings of the Friends of America, 1772”
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-122
Overview
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.
Dates:
1772
Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-003
Overview
Mary Ellicott Arnold (1876-1968) was a Quaker writer and social activist, known for her work with consumer cooperatives. After an unsuccessful farming venture in her youth, Mary Ellicott Arnold and her lifelong companion, Mabel Reed, worked with the Karok Indians in California as employees of the United States Indian Bureau. After a period as chief organizer for the U.S. Employment Service in New York State, she and Mabel Reed were involved in a number of successful cooperative ventures. She...
Dates:
1888-1970
Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Overview
Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah Jane Schofield Ash, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of...
Dates:
1796 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1912
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-008
Overview
The Association for the Care of Colored Orphans, also known as “The Shelter,” was founded in Philadelphia by Quaker women in 1822 to care for black orphans, both boys and girls, within a nurturing, home-like environment. In 1915, it relocated to Cheyney, Pa, and became a home for girls. In 1965, its name was changed to “Friends Shelter for Girls,” and its mission evolved to serve as a home for teenaged girls. In 1981 it ceased to function as a group home and was succeeded by Friends...
Dates:
1822-1979
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- Swarthmore College 43
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- American Friends Service Committee 14
- Westtown Boarding School 11
- Penn, William, 1644-1718 8
- Haverford College 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
- Lloyd family 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
- 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
- Walton 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
- 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
- Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981 2 ∧ less
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