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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
Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Genesee, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-046
Overview
The Indian Committees of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Genesee (Hicksite) united in 1838 to protect the Seneca Indians from the Ogden Land Company which was trying to buy their land. This collection contains papers relating to the joint committee of representatives, including correspondence chiefly concerning the ceding of Seneca lands in New York by treaty under questionable circumstances. Correspondents include Benjamin Ferris (1780-1867).
Dates:
1836-1850
Lightfoot Family Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-184
Overview
The Lightfoot family was a Pennsylvania Quaker family descended from Thomas Lightfoot, a Quaker minister who emigrated from Ireland to Kennett Monthly Meeting in 1716 with his family. The collection includes three journals which have been attributed to his grandson Thomas on the basis of contextual detail. These accounts document visits to meetings in the mid Atlantic region, New Jersey to Virginia, from 1757 to 1760. Jacob Lightfoot, a son of Thomas and Sarah Lightfoot, married Mary...
Dates:
1737-ca. 1948
Letters and reports concerning Quakers work with Native Americans in Nebraska
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-293
Overview
This small collection contains letters and reports concerning Friends work with Native Americans in Nebraska during the era of Grant's Peace Policy.
Dates:
1793, 1867-1885 and undated; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1888
Edith R. Solenberger papers on the Kinzua Project
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-122
Abstract
This collection includes papers of Edith R. Solenberger, concerning her involvement in the Kinzua Project of the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Included are letters regarding the Seneca Indians, and letters regarding their legal representation.
Dates:
1961-1970
Turner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-152
Overview
This collection centers around the family and descendants of Joseph Turner, Jr., (1790-1850) and his wife Rebecca (Sinclair) Turner (1787-1877), members of Baltimore Monthly Meeting-Western District. They raised eight children and had fifty-four grandchildren. As a young man, Joseph left the family plantation near Still Pond, Kent County, Maryland, and became a lumber merchant in Baltimore. He served as Clerk of the Lombard Street Meeting. Rebecca was a recorded minister and traveled widely....
Dates:
1776-1954
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 3
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
- Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 2
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 2
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 2
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Standing Committee on the Indian Concern 1
- Burgess, William, d.1905 1
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 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
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Forbush, Bliss, 1896-1990 1
- Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
- Gasmann, John G. 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 1
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 1
- Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 1
- Kent, Mahlon B., d.1929 1
- Lightfoot family 1
- Lightfoot, Mary B. (Mary Bonner), 1820-1907 1
- Lightfoot, Samuel, 1701-1771 1
- Lightfoot, Susanna 1720 1781 (Susanna Hudson Hatton Lightfoot) 1
- Lightfoot, Thomas Montgomery, -1865 1
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1728-1793 1
- Lightner, Isaiah 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- Maiden Creek Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1735-1829 : Maiden Creek (Pa. : Township)) 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Indian Committee 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 1
- Roberts, Benjamin Rush 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Solenberger, Edith R. (Edith Reeves), 1886-1976 1
- Turner family 1
- Turner, Joseph, III, 1831-1865 1
- Turner, Joseph, Jr., 1790-1850 1
- Turner, Rebecca Sinclair, 1795-1877 1
- Turner, Richard Townsend, Jr., 1845-1908 1
- Turner, Richard Townsend, 1819-1892 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency 1
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency 1
- Webster, Joseph (Indian Quaker agent) 1
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1
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