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Abington monthly meeting manumissions

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-001
Scope and Content note This volume records the manumissions of enslaved people for various members of Abington Monthly meeting. The Manumissions include a statement describing who the enslaver is freeing, and why, and includes the signatures of the enslavers and their witnesses. Individuals whose manumission of enslaved people is recorded in the volume include: Thomas Walton, David Parry, Thomas Fletcher, Susannah and Thomas Walmsley, Sarah Bolton, Margaret Bolton, Rachel Bolton, and Isaac Bolton, Silar Walmsey,...
Dates: 1775

"Account of Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless & John Pierce's Visits to the Indian Reservation in Western New York"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-130
Overview

This copy of an account from 1798 and 1799 was written in an unknown hand likely in the latter half of the 19th century. The volume describes Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless, and John Pierce's travel to Native American reservations on behalf of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee, and the work they did while there.

Dates: Undated.

Ackworth School, England records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-001
Overview

Ackworth School was founded in 1779 as a co-educational boarding school for Quaker children by Dr. John Fothergill and other Quakers. It is located in West Workshire, England. It was intended to be a board school for children whose parents were not rich. This collection is comprised of four volumes, one of which is a transcription of one of the other volumes. They all relate to the rules and regulations for the Ackworth School in England.

Dates: 1785-1786, undated

Aimwell School records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1183
Overview

The Aimwell School in Philadelphia was founded in 1796 by Anne Parrish (1760-1800) for the purpose of providing "a good English education" in the primary and grammar grades for underprivileged girls. It was instituted by the Society for the Free Instruction of Female Children and operated under the management of the Society of Friends.

Dates: 1796-1935

Henry H. Albertson collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1110
Overview

Includes letters, many of which are by and to William Hodgson (1804-1878). All or most of the letter writers are Friends; a number of them are British Friends. Topics often include visits to other Friends, attending Meeting, health, religious or philosophical reflections, and because of the period of writing, often refer openly or obliquely to the Wilbur-Gurney controversy.

Dates: 1826-1918

William C. Allen diaries

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-001
Overview

Diaries of William C. Allen's religious visits around the world from 1904 to 1937. Entries generally describe the customs, manners, language, transportation, food, and religious beliefs of each location Allen visited, as well as Quaker meetings he lead and religious and political leaders he met with in each place he visited. One volume of the collection does not record a religious visit, but is a record of Allen's thoughts on World War I, which he kept during 1917.

Dates: 1904-1937

Allinson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-968
abstract This collection spans more than two centuries and includes most notably members of the Allinson and Taylor families. There are also letters from Joseph Bonaparte, Sarah Moore Grimke, Julia Ward Howe and George Washington. Prominent material types include correspondence, diaries, financial, legal and property papers, maps, photographs and poetry. The richest subject veins are anti-slavery, including the Free Produce Association of Friends, the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia and...
Dates: 1710 - 1939

Samuel Allinson commonplace book

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-003
Overview

Samuel Allinson was a Quaker active in early New Jersey politics. The commonplace book of Samuel Allinson includes reflections on a variety of topics, including: Jealousy, Constancy and Fortitude, Human Trouble or Infelicity, Deceit, Novels, Romances, Riches and Poverty, Parents and Children, Women, and Marriage. He also includes remarks on slavery (p. 71), and extracts of poetry.

Dates: 1761

American Friends' letters

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Identifier: HC.MC-851
Overview

The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.

Dates: 1682-1986

Peter Andrews journal

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Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-002
Overview

Journal kept during Andrews's travels in England during the years 1755 and 1756. Entries describe his voyage from Philadelphia to Newcastle, including the weather, fellow passengers, and Quaker meetings held on board. Upon Andrews’s arrival in England, entries describe visits to fellow Quakers, Quaker meetings, and discussions of the state of the Society of Friends in England.

Dates: 1755-1756

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Antislavery movements -- United States 12
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deeds 4
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pamphlets 4
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American Friends Service Committee 27
Haverford College 18
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Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 9
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 8
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Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 7
Fox, George 7
Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 7
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 6
Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 5
Cornplanter, Seneca chief 5
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 5
Sharpless, Joshua 5
Simmons, Henry 5
Society of Friends 5
Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 4
Bryn Mawr College 4
Friends World Committee for Consultation 4
Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 4
Harvard University 4
Kite family 4
Nitobe, Inazō, 1862-1933 4
Parrish, John, 1729-1807 4
Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 4
Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 4
Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 4
Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995 4
Taylor family 4
Walton family 4
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 4
Wistar, Thomas 4
Wood, Carolena Morris, 1871-1936 4
Allinson, Samuel, 1739-1791 3
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 3
Benson, Lewis 3
Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960 3
Brinton, Anna Cox 3
Cadbury family 3
Cadbury, William Warder 3
Carter family 3
Earlham College 3
Evans family 3
Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 3
Evans, William Bacon, 1875-1964 3
Friends Girls School (Tokyo, Japan) 3
Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 3
Hartshorne, Anna C. (Anna Cope) 3
Jones, Mary Hoxie 3
Ling nan da xue (Guangzhou, China) 3
Morris family 3
Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 3
Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 3
Rhoads, Samuel, 1806-1868 3
Sharpless family 3
Shipley family 3
Taylor, George Washington 3
Vaux family 3
Vaux, George, Jr., 1863-1927 3
Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 3
Woolman, John, 1720-1772 3
Akihito, Emperor of Japan 2
Allen family 2
Allinson family 2
Allinson, William J., 1810-1874 2
Anna Morris Shinn Maier 2
Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 2
Bacon, David 2
Bacon, George 2
Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 2
Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 2
Benezet, Anthony 2
Bettle, Samuel 2
Bowles, Gordon Townsend 2
Bowles, Jane T. 2
Brown family 2
Brown, Caroline Cadbury, 1851-1914 2
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 2
Brown, Thomas Kite, 1851-1929 2
Brown, Thomas Kite, 1885-1944 2
Cadbury, Catharine Balderston 2
Cadbury, Catherine J. 2
Cadbury, Lydia C. Shinn 2
Cadbury, Lydia Caroline Brown, 1889-1978 2
Cadbury, Richard, 1825-1897 2
Canton Christian College 2
Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China) 2
Cary, Stephen G. 2
Churchman, George, 1730-1814 2
Civilian Public Service 2
Coleman, John Royston 2
Collins, Isaac 2
Comfort family 2
Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847 2
Cresson, Sarah 2
Delaware Indians. Lenape Indians. Lenni Lenape Indians 2
Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824 2
Elfreth family 2
Elfreth, Jacob R. Jr., 1837-1924 2
Elfreth, Jacob R., Sr., 1789-1870 2
Garrett, John Biddle 2
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