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Ann Warder diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-082
Abstract

This collection includes three bound volumes of handwritten transcriptions and extracts of Ann Head Warder’s diaries, originally written between 1786 and 1789. The transcriptions were written by later family members during the 19th century. Diary entries describe Ann’s voyage to America and her travels within New York and Pennsylvania, including people she met, Quaker meetings she attended, and social calls made during her travels.

Dates: 1786-1789

Anna Simpson White correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-335
Abstract The collection contains the correspondence of Anna M. Simpson White (1866-1965), daughter of David and Tacie Satterthwaite Simpson of Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She was a birthright member of Falls Monthly Meeting. In 1871 the family transferred to Middletown Monthly Meeting where in 1905 Anna married Ashton White, a local farmer. He died in 1911. The correspondence contains primarily informal letters received from family and friends with mention of family, Quaker meetings,...
Dates: 1868 - 1924

Hannah Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-344
Abstract Primarily manuscript letters addressed to Hannah Wilson of Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a member of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. Most of the correspondents were family and friends of the Wilson, Schofield, and Williams families. The letters contain family news with reference to social and political concerns including slavery and abolition. The letters were transcribed and published with annotations. The collection also contains photographs of the Mills family (Hannah's...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1836 - 1860; 1795 - 1920

Sarah Wistar diary

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-088
Abstract

Early diary entries describe Sallie's classes and studies in her efforts to earn her high school diploma, while later entries describe social calls, illnesses in the family, and other family news, as well as Sallie's responsibilities as the eldest daughter living at home.

Dates: 1857-1859

Anna Yarnall diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-094
Abstract

Anna Yarnall's diary entries describe weather, social calls, domestic duties, family news, attendance at meetings, births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community, and the health of herself and family members.

Dates: 1856-1885

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Bacon, Francis, 1812-1870 1
Baily, Joshua L. (Joshua Longstreth), 1826-1916 1
Baily, Theodate Lang 1
Chapman, Isaac 1
Comfort, Howard 1
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Comfort, William Wistar 1
Conowingo & Stafford Flint and Feldspar Mills and Quarries 1
Cooke, Lydia Barton 1
Cope family 1
Cope, Annette 1
Cope, Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth) 1
Cope, Clementine 1
Cope, Elizabeth Stewardson 1
Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854 1
Cope, William D. (William Drinker) 1
Dinsmore family 1
Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith 1
Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 1
Elkinton family 1
Elkinton, Joseph, 1794-1868 1
Emlen, Samuel 1
Evans family 1
Evans, Anne Tall 1
Evans, Elizabeth Reeve 1
Evans, Francis Algernon 1
Evans, Hannah Bacon 1
Evans, J. Morris 1
Evans, Rachel Reeve Cope 1
Ewing family 1
Ewing, Elizabeth Newlin Smith 1
Ewing, J.M. Sharpless 1
Foulke, Susan 1
Friends Select School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Haverford College 1
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
Howell family 1
Howell, Elizabeth, 1834-1876 1
Howell, Israel, 1786-1864 1
Howell, Jacob, 1827-1891 1
Howell, Sally R., 1829-1850 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
Lloyd family 1
Mason family 1
Mason, Samuel 1
Mason, Samuel, IV 1
Newlin family 1
Nitobe, Inazō, 1862-1933 1
Nitobe, Mary Patterson Elkinton, 1857-1938 1
Palmer, Charles, 1863-1966 1
Passmore, Mary, 1795-1869 1
Potts family 1
Potts, Anna, 1827-1905 1
Potts, Elizabeth 1
Potts, Joseph 1
Potts, Mary 1
Rhoads, Sarah Wistar, 1839-1920 1
Scattergood, Joseph 1
Shoemaker, John 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Edith Mason 1
Smith, Jean M., 1883-1966 1
Smith, Joshua Cowgill 1
Taylor family 1
Taylor, Jonathan 1
Thomas, Arthur Henry, 1872-1942 1
Thomas, Esther Willits, 1875-1975 1
Tyler, John, 1790-1862 1
Updegraff family 1
Updegraff, Ann Taylor 1
Updegraff, David Benjamin 1
Updegraff, David Brainerd 1
Updegraff, Jonathan Taylor 1
Updegraff, Rebecca A. 1
Updegraff, Rebecca Taylor 1
Valentino, Carmen 1
Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 1
Waln, Emma 1
Warder, Ann Head 1
Whitall, James 1
Whitall, Mildred Smith 1
White, Anna Simpson (Anna M. Simpson White), 1866-1965 1
Wilson family 1
Wistar, Thomas 1
Yarnall, Anna C. 1
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