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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
Abstract
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
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
Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Abstract
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
Abstract
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
Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-009
Abstract
The Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult Colored Persons was a Quaker organization organized in 1789 in Philadelphia to operate a charity school for black adults. The Association provided free adult education to African-Americans until 1904 when it was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the Institute for Colored Youth. This collection contains minutes, financial records, and some correspondence of the Association of Friends for the Free Instruction of Adult...
Dates:
1789-1905
Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason collected records
Collection — othertype: SC-218
Identifier: SFHL-SC-218
Abstract
This collection contains information sent to Tyler Williams, agent for Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, N.J., concerning the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason. It includes the proposal for the Asylum, announcement of its opening, an admission certificate, and other circulars that were sent to meetings under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Dates:
1812-1831
David Bacon journal
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-003
Abstract
David Backon kept a journal during his time with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confderacy) in 1974. Entries describe Bacon’s journey to the Haudenosaunee territory, and interactions between himself and the members of the Haudenosaunee, as well as discussions between representatives from the United States and Six Nations governments concerning the treaty that was to determine the land rights of the Haudenosaunee after the end of the Revolutionary War. Bacon also includes his accounts of...
Dates:
1794
Balderston Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-299
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence of the family of C. Canby Balderston, a prominent Quaker and businessman. He served with the Friends Relief Service and the Relief Commission for Belgium during WWI and both of his sons, Frederick Emery Balderston and Robert W. Balderston, were COs in WWII, working as ambulance drivers. Frederick E. Balderston (1923-2007) married Judith Braude (1926-1993) in 1949. A significant part of the collection consists of her childhood and college...
Dates:
1853-1949
Esther A. and Lloyd Balderston papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1185
Abstract
Materials documenting the life of Esther Balderston Jones during her time as a missionary in Japan (1914-1924) and from her father, Lloyd Balderston, about family history and geneology.
Dates:
1885-1961
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 9
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- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 5
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 5
- Penn, William, 1644-1718 5
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 5
- George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 4
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 4
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 4
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 4
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 3
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 3
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 3
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 3
- Foulke family 3
- Gwynedd Boarding School (Gwynedd, Pa.) 3
- Haverford College 3
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 3
- Hunn family 3
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 3
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 3
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 3
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 3
- Mather family 3
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
- Parrish, John, 1729-1807 3
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 3
- Schofield, Martha 3
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 3
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 3
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 3
- Sharpless family 3
- Smedley family 3
- Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
- Allinson, Samuel, 1739-1791 2
- Alsop family 2
- Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans (Cheyney, Pa.) 2
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 2
- Brinton family 2
- Bye, Mary, 1913- 2
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 2
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 2
- Eaton, Robert Whittington 2
- Elkinton family 2
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 2
- Female Association of Philadelphia for the Relief of the Sick and Infirm Poor with Clothing 2
- Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 2
- Five Years Meeting (Society of Friends: U.S.) 2
- Foulke, Joseph, 1786-1863 2
- Friends Freedmen's Association 2
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 2
- Friends Housing, Inc. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Friends Instruction Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Friends' Boarding House Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 2
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 2
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 2
- Holcombe, Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds), 1891-1878 2
- Hull, William I. (William Isaac), 1868-1939 2
- Hunn, John, 1818-1894 2
- Institute for Colored Youth (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Jeanes, Anna T. (Anna Thomas), 1822-1907 2
- Jenkins family (Jenkins, Jabez, 1792-1858) 2
- Kite family 2
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 2
- Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 2
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
- Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 2
- Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972 2
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 2
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 2
- Paschall family 2
- Penn Sewing School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
- Plymouth Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 2
- Providence Preparative Meeting of Friends (Media, Pa.) 2
- Rathbone, William, 1757-1809 2
- Richard Humphreys Foundation 2
- Rotch, William, 1759-1850 2
- Schofield Normal and Industrial School (Aiken, S.C.) 2
- School of the Spirit (Society of Friends) 2
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 2
- Sharon Female Academy (Darby, Pa. : Township) 2
- Smith, Samuel, ca. 1738-1817 2
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968 2
- Thomas, Wilbur K. (Wilbur Kelsey), 1882-1953 2
- Thornton, James, 1727-1794 2
- Truman, George 2
- Tuke, Esther, 1727-1794 2
- Walton family 2
- Walton, George A. (George Arthur), 1883- 2 + ∧ less
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