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Jacob R. Elfreth Jr. diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-020
Abstract
The diaries of Jacob R. Elfreth Jr., a Quaker merchant, elder, and minister. Early diaries, from 1861 to 1867, focus on military movement and battles during the Civil War, reactions to President Lincoln's assassination, and the political tensions during the aftermath of the war. The majority of entries detail day-to-day activities, family news, news of Elfreth's carpet business, attendance at Quaker meetings, social calls, accounts of weather, and births, deaths, and marriages within the...
Dates:
1861-1924
Jacob R. Elfreth Sr. diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-019
Abstract
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
Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Abstract
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
Fair Hill Burial Ground
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-069
Abstract
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]
Frankford Monthly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Ph-F600
Scope and Contents
Records of the Orthodox branch of Frankford Monthly Meeting, 1788-1987, include: vital records, 1788-2005; men’s minutes, 1816-2005; women’s minutes, 1816-1915; ministers’ and elders’ minutes, 1816-1970; financial records, 1831-1934; overseers’ records, 1904-1990s; school committee records, 1840s-1999.
Dates:
1816-2005
Frankford Preparative Meeting Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: QM-Ph-F700
Scope and Contents
Minutes and other records of Frankford Preparative Meeting, 1733-1928, as follows: Hicksite and Orthodox men's meeting minutes, 1772-1928; Hicksite and Orthodox women's meeting minutes, 1795-1907; minutes of the School Committee, 1783-1844; Hicksite financial records, including Treasurer's book, 1772-1928; Hicksite women's meeting (Germantown branch) account book, 1863-1877; School Committee account book,1783-1857 with receipt book, 1795-1798 and minutes, 1843-1852; carpentry agreement in...
Dates:
1733-1928
Friends Association of Byberry Records
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG4-019
Abstract
The Byberry Friends Association was a Quaker group which met monthly in Byberry, Pa, to hear papers on a variety of topics and to discuss issues of the day. This collection contains the records of the Friends Association of Byberry, 1900-1932.
Dates:
1900-1932
Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-074
Abstract
Handwritten records related to the establishment of the Friends Burial Ground in Philadelphia.
Dates:
1810
Friends Historical Association records
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-901
Abstract
The collection contains records of meeting minutes, correspondence, financial statements, information concerning the Conference for Quaker Historians and Archivists, details about various committes within the association, publications and publicity, events, and miscellaneous materials of the Friends Historical Association.
Dates:
1873-2012
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- Byberry Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
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- Elfreth, Jacob R. Jr., 1837-1924 2
- Elfreth, Jacob R., Sr., 1789-1870 2
- Frankford Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends : 1805-1827) 2
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- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
- Carter, Arabella, 1867- 1
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- Chestnut Hill Meeting of Friends (1924-1933 : Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
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- Cunningham, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne), 1934-2020 1
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- Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 1
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- Frankford Monthly Meeting of Friends 1
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- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
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- Jones, Mary Hoxie 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
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- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
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- Quaker Information Center 1
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- Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975 1
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