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Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Overview
The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow...
Dates:
1792-1892
Smedley Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates:
1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
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- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
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- Philadelphia (Pa.) 1
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- Quakers -- Travel 1
- Smedley family 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
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- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Kite family 1
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
- Pocono Manor (Pa.) 1
- Pocono Manor Association 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharpless, Aaron, 1809-1876 1
- Sharpless, Susanna Kite, 1809-1844 1
- Smedley family 1
- Smedley, Elizabeth Sharpless, 1842-1924 1
- Smedley, Emma, 1868-1944 1
- Smedley, Walter, 1862-1939 1
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