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Jacob R. Elfreth Sr. diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-019
Overview
Jacob R. Elfreth Sr. was a teacher and a bookkeeper for the Leigh Navigation Company. The majority of entries detail family news, Quaker meetings, Elfreth's work with the Leigh Navigation Company, and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community,
Dates:
1814-1870
Emlen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Overview
Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates:
1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849
Edward W. Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCPC-DG-122
Overview
Edward Wyatt Evans (1882-1976) was a lifelong member of the Germantown (Pennsylvania) Monthly Meeting and was active in the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Evans was instrumental in the founding of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (Fellowship of Reconcilation), and was the executive secretary from 1916-1919. During the 1920s, he was also active in educational and peace programs of the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1916-1922
Found in:
Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Edward W. Evans Quaker Concerns Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-237
Overview
Edward W. Evans (1882-1976) was a Quaker leader and lawyer active in the educational and peace concerns of the Society of Friends. The collection primarily contains papers compiled by Edward W. Evans during his time as Secretary of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), from 1938-1946. Of particular interest are the materials concerning Civilian Public Service. The collection is significant in its documentation of pacifist attitudes and the ways in which the Society of Friends was active...
Dates:
1920, 1938-1951
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Overview
This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates:
1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859
Exeter Monthly Meeting (1955- ) Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Ph/E950
Identifier: QM-Ph-E950
Scope and Contents
Records of Exeter Monthly Meeting, 1956-2015. Includes: Minutes, 1956-2015.
Dates:
1956-2015
Eyre Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-179
Overview
The collection contains papers concerning the Eyre family, Pennsylvania Quakers. descendents of Isaac and Eleanor (Cooper) Eyre, of Philadelphia and Bucks County. Isaac Eyre (1778-1843) was a prominent Philadelphia shipbuilder. In 1828, he removed to a farm in Bucks County, Pa. William Eyre (1804-1885) was their oldest son, a Philadelphia master builder. His brother, Isaac (1819-1904) was a farmer and promoter of the railroad from Bucks County, Pa. He was also one of the founders of the...
Dates:
1840-1912
Fair Hill Burial Ground
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-069
Overview
Fair Hill Burial Ground was established on land bequeathed by George Fox in 1690 to Friends in Pennsylvania, including six acres "for a meeting house and school house and a burying place." Part of the land was set aside as a burial ground as early 1707, but there were few interments. In 1830, it was proposed that a burial ground be established for three Hicksite Philadelphia Monthly meetings, Philadelphia, Spruce Street, and Green Street. In 1985, the property was sold to Ephesians Baptist...
Dates:
1705-[ongoing]
Fallowfield Monthly Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-F300
Scope and Contents
Records include: pre-Separation and Hicksite mnutes, 1811-1980; pre-Separation, Hicksite, Orthodox, and United vital records,1740-1934, including births and deaths, burial chart, marriage records, membership lists, removals; pre-Separation and Hicksite women's meeting minutes, 1811-1893; minutes of Hicksite Ministers and Elders, 1829-1916, and of Worship and Ministry, 1919-1959; Hicksite Ercildoun First Day School minutes; 1893-1935; Hicksite financial records, 1903-1961; miscellaneous...
Dates:
1740-1998
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- Quaker Meeting Records at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections and Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College 255
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- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 97
- Society of Friends -- New Jersey 61
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- Chester County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 32
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- Bucks County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 22
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 20
- Delaware County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 19
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Montgomery County 19
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 15
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Genealogy 11
- Montgomery County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 10
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- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Adams County 5
- Columbia County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 4
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- Nonprofit organizations -- Pennsylvania 4
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- Schools -- Pennsylvania 4
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- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Berks County 4
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- Adams County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 3
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- Indians of North America -- New York (State) 3
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- Quakers -- New York (State) 3
- Quakers -- Ohio 3
- Religious education -- Society of Friends 3
- Society of Friends -- Charities -- Records and correspondence 3
- Society of Friends -- History 3
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 3
- Society of Friends -- Missions 3
- Society of Friends -- Nebraska 3
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Bedford County 3
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square 3
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Lycoming County 3
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania -- Quakertown 3
- Society of Friends -- Reunification 3
- Society of Friends -- Virginia 3
- Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy 3
- Spiritual life -- Society of Friends 3
- Temperance -- Pennsylvania -- Societies, etc. 3
- York County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 3
- Youth -- Religious life 3
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania 2
- Architecture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Centre County (Pa.) -- Genealogy 2
- Charities -- Pennsylvania 2
- Chester County (Pa.) 2
- Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 2
- Church work with older people -- Society of Friends 2
- Conflict management 2
- Diaries 2
- Ercildoun (Pa.) 2
- Fox Indians 2
- Housing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 2
- Indians of North America -- Missions 2
- Indians of North America -- Nebraska 2
- Inner cities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 2
- Jungian Psychology 2
- Lawyers -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifism -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Pacifists -- Pennsylvania -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends -- History -- Sources 2
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- Sources 2
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions 2
- Primitive Quakers 2
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- Names
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 26
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 25
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 11
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 9
- American Friends Service Committee 5
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 5
- Pendle Hill (School: Wallingford, Pa.) 5
- Friends Conference on Religion and Psychology 4
- Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1936) 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. International Outreach Committee (1974-) 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Religious Education Committee 4
- Westtown Boarding School 4
- Young Friends Movement (Philadelphia, Pa.) 4
- Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 3
- American Young Friends Fellowship 3
- Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 3
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 3
- Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends 3
- Davis, Bainbridge C., 1910-1993 3
- Friends Peace Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Germantown Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Haverford College 3
- Haverford Monthly Meeting of Friends (1904-) 3
- Miller, Richmond P. (Richmond Pearson), 1902-1972 3
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 3
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia held at Spruce Street (Hicksite : 1833-1903) 3
- Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892) 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Japan Committee 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Mission Board 3
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 3
- Woolman School (Swarthmore, Pa.) 3
- Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1944) 2
- Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- American Friends Fellowship Council 2
- American Friends Service Committee. Message Committee 2
- Ann Arbor Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Ann Arbor, Mich.) 2
- Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 2
- Black Economic Development Conference 2
- Brinton family 2
- Brinton, Anna Cox 2
- Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 2
- Brinton, Joseph, 1828-1917 2
- Brinton, Mary H. (Mary Howland), 1833-1870 2
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 2
- Byberry Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Cheltenham Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Chester Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1681-1827) 2
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1934) 2
- Chester Monthly Meeting of Friends (Media, Pa.) 2
- Clark, Rebecca Timbres, 1896- 2
- Cleveland Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Cleveland, Ohio) 2
- Conference of All Friends (1920) (London, England) 2
- Cunningham, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne), 1934-2020 2
- Darby Monthly Meeting of Friends 2
- Earlham College 2
- Elfreth, Jacob R. Jr., 1837-1924 2
- Elfreth, Jacob R., Sr., 1789-1870 2
- Elkinton, J. Passmore (Joseph Passmore), 1887-1971 2
- Emlen family 2
- Evans, Edward W. (Edward Wyatt), 1882-1976 2
- Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) 2
- Foreign Missionary Association of Friends of Philadelphia 2
- Frankford Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1805-1827) 2
- Frankford Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) 2
- Friendly Acres (Orphanage : Secane, Pa.) 2
- Friends Center Corporation (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Friends Committee on National Legislation (U.S.) 2
- Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Friends Temperance Association of Philadelphia 2
- General Meeting of Men and Women Primitive Friends of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey 2
- George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 2
- Germantown Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1877-1914) 2
- Goodenow, Leanore 2
- Gould, Thomas B., 1813-1856 2
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.). Fair Hill Friends' Meeting 2
- Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1714-1827) 2
- Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1936) 2
- Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1936- ) 2
- Haverford Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite 1827-1950) 2
- Heacock, Walter G. 2
- Hodgkin, Henry T. (Henry Theodore), 1877-1933 2
- Howland, David P., 1809-1852 2
- Jones, Margaret E., 1895-1984 2
- Kennett Monthly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite) 2
- Kennett Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Hicksite : 1827-1904) 2
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 2
- Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896 2
- Little Elk Meeting (Society of Friends : Hickory Hill, Pa.) 2
- London Grove Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 2
- Marlborough Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Media Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia 2
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia for the Western District (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Moorestown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1951- ) 2
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 2
- Norristown Preparative Meeting of Friends (1860-1936) 2
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 2
- Oxford Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : Oxford, Pa.) 2 ∧ less
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