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Convention of Delegates from the Seven Yearly Meetings (Hicksite) on Indian Affairs. Executive Central Committee Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-017
Overview
The Convention of Delegates was an association of seven Hicksite Yearly Meetings who managed Indian affairs in the Northern Superintendency during the period of President U.S. Grant's “Peace Policy.” The collection contains correspondence and reports of Indian agents, extracts from minutes and reports, financial records, legislative documents, and printed materials published by the convention. Persons represented include William Burgess, John G. Gasmann, Albert L. Green, Samuel M. Janney,...
Dates:
1869-1884
Albert Lamborn Green Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-175
Overview
Albert Lamborn Green (1845-1947) was a Quaker Indian Agent for the Otoe Agency in Nebraska during the period of President Grant's "peace policy," 1869-1872. The bulk of the correspondence in this collection is comprised of letters written to Green from Philadelphia Friends in regard to gifts in support of Indian work. Later letters written by Green describe from memory the social life and customs of the Otoe Indians. The collection has information on the Otoe language, vocabulary, etc., and...
Dates:
1869-1935
Hicks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-282
Overview
The Hicks family was a Long Island, New York, Quaker family with extensive connections to prominent members of the Society of Friends. The collection contains correspondence, mostly relating to Quaker concerns, received by Isaac Hicks (1815-1900) and others; genealogical research of Benjamin D. Hicks, and miscellaneous collected papers concerning the Society of Friends and Swarthmore College.
Dates:
1784-1940
Asa M. Janney family papers
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-310
Overview
The collection consists of correspondence and other papers of the Virginia Quaker family of Asa M. Janney. The letters contain family news and note Quaker concerns and activities. Of special interest are letters from Asa's older brother, Samuel M. Janney, noted Quaker minister, author and abolitionist. Also included are an account book of Janney's Forest Mills flour mill, 1860-1862; a Swarthmore College student notebook kept by his grandson, Thomas Janney Brown; and a notebook of...
Dates:
1831 - 1950
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Joint Committee on Indian Affairs and the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-780
Overview
Records of the Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, and its predecessor, the Indian Committee (1837-1850) of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite). Also includes the letter books of John Saunders of Philadelphia, Secretary of the Joint Committee, and correspondence of Barclay White, Jesse W. Griest, Thomas Lightfoot, Samuel M. Janney, Levi K. Brown, Samuel Jeanes, and Albert Lamborn Green. Reports include information about the Senecas, the Otos and the Otoe Agency, the Santees and the Santee...
Dates:
1838-1901
Friends Historical Library Collection of Sermons
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-047
Overview
Collected sermons received from miscellaneous sources.
Dates:
1737 - 1870
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- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 3
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- Names
- Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 3
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 3
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 3
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 3
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 2
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
- Janney family 2
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 2
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 2
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 2
- Truman, George 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency 2
- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Brown family 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Brown, Levi K. (Levi Kirk), 1814-1899 1
- Brown, Lydia Neal Janney, 1844-1925 1
- Burgess, William, d.1905 1
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings on Indian Affairs (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 1
- Convention of Delegates of the Seven Yearly Meetings on Indian Affairs (Society of Friends : Hicksite). Central Executive Committee 1
- Cornell, John J., 1826-1909 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Eyre, Isaac, 1819-1904 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
- Fox, George 1
- Gasmann, John G. 1
- Griest, Jesse W., 1837-1885 1
- Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 1
- Hicks family 1
- Hicks, Benjamin D. (Benjamin Doughty), 1836-1906 1
- Hicks, Isaac, 1815-1900 1
- Hicks, John D., 1829-1907 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 1
- Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- Janney, Asa M., 1802-1877 1
- Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
- Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
- Jewett, Tacy M. 1
- Johnson, Jane 1
- Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
- Kent, Mahlon B., d.1929 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 1
- Quimby, Daniel 1
- Roberts, Benjamin Rush 1
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 1
- Stabler, Edward, 1769-1831 1
- Story, Thomas, 1662-1742 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
- Thomas, Philip W. 1
- Thompson, Jonah, 1702 or 1703-1780 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency 1
- Webster, Joseph (Indian Quaker agent) 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
- White, Howard, 1844-1916 1
- Willets, William, 1808-1844 1 ∧ less
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