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Howland-Kirby Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-067
Overview
Howland and Kirby families were Quakers of Dartmouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, Mass. The collection contains primarily transcripts and photocopies of their papers. Of particular interest are dairies of Weston Howland, Jr., with notes on the arrival of whaling ships in New Bedford and details of a controversy over the New Bedford-Fairhaven bridge; those of Abby S., and Rachel, which describe a trip taken by Abby to New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. (1888) and women preaching at Friends...
Dates:
circa 1790-circa 1973
Howland-Shearman Family Correspondence,
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-303
Overview
The collection is composed of correspondence of the family of David Sands Shearman and his wife, Hepsa Hathaway Howland Shearman of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Poughkeepsie, New York. The Shearman and Howlands were prominent New England Quaker merchant and whaling families, intertwined by business and marriage. Much of the correspondence is directed to Hepsa, largely from her children who pursued a range of careers. Early correspondence is with her husband Captain David Sands...
Dates:
1800 - 1916; Majority of material found within 1832 - 1899
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- Garrett, Alice H. Howland, b. 1867 1
- Howland family 1
- Howland, Abigail Hathaway, 1774-1867 1
- Howland, Rachel, 1853-1934 1
- Howland, Rebecca Kirby, 1825-1895 1
- Howland, Weston, 1815-ca. 1901 1
- Howland, Weston, 1852-1878 1
- Kimber, Thomas, 1825-1890 1
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- Kirby, Abigail H. Smith, 1798-1861 1
- Kirby, George, 1794-1882 1
- Shearman, Alice Delano, 1840-1931 1
- Shearman, David Sands, 1802-1852 1
- Shearman, Henry F. (Henry Franklin Shearman), 1842-1922 1
- Shearman, Hepsa Hathway Howland, 1806-1892 1
- Shearman, Joseph Tucker, 1834-1894 1
- Shearman, Mary Eliza (Mary Eliza Shearman Kimber), 1838-1921 1
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