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American Friends Fellowship Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-004
Abstract
The American Friends Fellowship Council had its origin in the Fellowship Committee of the American Friends Service Committee. Founded in 1933, its primary purpose was to foster an increased interest in Quakerism throughout the United States and to draw all Friends groups into closer sympathy and fellowship. The Fellowship Council merged with the Friends World Committee, American Section, in 1954. The collection includes correspondence and administrative records, minutes, financial...
Dates:
1933-1954
Harold Chance journals, reports, and evaluation of Friends Peace Service work
Collection — othertype: SC-195
Identifier: SFHL-SC-195
Abstract
Journals, reports, and surveys written by Harold Chance documenting his visits to and continuing relationships as an AFSC staff member with Evangelical Friends meetings, mostly in the western United States. The collection includes nine journals, 1949-1956, Friends Peace Service evaluation surveys, 1956 & n.d., and a number of miscellaneous reports to Friends Peace Service Council. Among the former is a report on the Second American Conference of Evangelical Friends (1950) and one on the...
Dates:
1949-1961
Friends Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-031
Abstract
Friends' Indian Aid Association of Philadelphia was an organization of Hicksite Quakers in Philadelphia founded in 1869 to solicit donations of money and goods to distribute to the Indian tribes in Nebraska assigned to the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) during the period of Grant's peace policy. The collection includes reports and minutes, financial reports, correspondence, and lists of goods.
Dates:
1869-1875
Friends World Committee for Consultation. Section of the Americas Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG1
Abstract
A Friends World Conference Committee, sponsored by the Fellowship Council of the American Friends Service Committee, was established in 1932 to promote better understanding among Friends world wide. The representatives at the Second World Conference of Friends, held at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Pa., in 1937, approved the establishment of a continuing international organization, a Friends World Committee, to promote international contacts and cooperation among Friends. In 1958, it...
Dates:
1933-2010
Albert Lamborn Green Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-175
Abstract
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
Illinois Yearly Meeting Records
Collection — othertype: SW/IL
Identifier: QM-IL
Scope and Contents
Records of predominately Hicksite Quaker meetings in Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1820-1961.
Dates:
1820-1972
Lightfoot Family Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-184
Abstract
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
Turner Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-152
Abstract
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
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- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 2
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1827- 1955). Sub-committee on Indian Concerns 2
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- Wider Quaker Fellowship (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
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- Baily, Sydney 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1968). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 1
- Beede, Willis 1
- Benjaminville Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Bentown, Ill.) 1
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- Buchinger, Hans, -1910 1
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- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
- Chance, Harold J., 1898-1975 1
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- Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947 1
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- Hill, Burton S. W. 1
- Hodgkin, Erika 1
- Hole, Helen G. (Helen Griscom), 1906-1983 1
- Honey Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : Prairieton, In.) 1
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- Jones, Thomas Elsa, 1888-1973 1
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