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"Account of Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless & John Pierce's Visits to the Indian Reservation in Western New York"
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.
American Friends' letters
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.
Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs
David Bacon journal
Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection
Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.
Convention of Delegates from the Seven Yearly Meetings (Hicksite) on Indian Affairs. Executive Central Committee Records
James Emlen journal
The diary details Emlen's travels in rural Pennsylvania to small towns and settlements of fellow Quakers. Entries often describe tensions and interactions between white settlers and Indigenous populations. Treaties between white settlers and native groups are also discussed.
Albert Lamborn Green Papers
Zebedee Haines Papers
Theodore Brinton Hetzel papers and graphics
Theodore Hetzel (1906-1990) was a Quaker professor of engineering at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, whose interests led him to involvement with Native American and Quaker issues. An avid photographer, the materials in this collection are primarily photographic, as well as correspondence and documents.
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1827-1948) 5
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 4
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 4
- Cornplanter, Seneca chief 3
- Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 3
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 3
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 3
- Simmons, Henry 3
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 2
- Delaware Indians. Lenape Indians. Lenni Lenape Indians 2
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 2
- Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 2
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 2
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
- Jeanes, Samuel, d.1894 2
- Joint Committee on Indian Affairs of the Four Yearly Meetings of Baltimore, Genesee, New York, and Philadelphia (Society of Friends : Hicksite) 2
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 2
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 2
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 2
- Peirce, John, 1756-1833 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 2
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 2
- Sharpless, Joshua 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Great Nemaha Agency 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Otoe Agency 2
- United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Santee Sioux Agency 2
- Wistar, Thomas 2
- Wood, Carolena Morris, 1871-1936 2
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 2
- American Friends Service Committee 1
- Associated Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs 1
- Bacon, David 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Standing Committee on the Indian Concern 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861 1
- Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
- Borton, Hugh 1
- Bradley, A. Day (Amos Day), -1905 1
- Brown, Levi K. (Levi Kirk), 1814-1899 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Burgess, William, d.1905 1
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
- Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 1
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
- Coates, Isaac, d. 1809 1
- Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862 1
- Coleman, John Royston 1
- Collins, Micajah, 1764-1827 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
- Cooper, Griffith M., 1790?-1864. 1
- Deer, Ada Elizabeth 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Emlen, James, 1760-1798 1
- Forbush, Bliss, 1896-1990 1
- Friends Boarding School for Indian Children (Tunesassa, N.Y.) 1
- Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia 1
- Garrett, Thomas, 1789-1871 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Gasmann, John G. 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 1
- Griest, Jesse W., 1837-1885 1
- Groth, Mary Coates 1
- Haines, Anna P. (Anna Philips), 1849-1924 1
- Haines, Mary Elizabeth, 1886-1920 1
- Haines, T. Harvey (Thomas Harvey), b. 1871 1
- Haines, Zebedee, 1843-1923 1
- Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
- Haverford College 1
- Hayes, John Russell, 1866-1945 1
- Hazard, Elizabeth L. 1
- Hetzel, Theodore Brinton, 1906-1990 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hunt, John, 1711 or 1712-1778 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, Rachel, 1807?-1883 1
- Janschka, Fritz 1
- Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 1
- Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham 1
- Kent, Mahlon B., d.1929 1
- Ladd, Benjamin 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
- Masters family 1 ∧ less