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Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-070
Overview
Lydia Jones Sharpless Hunn (1818-1911) was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Quaker. The collection contains diaries (1881-1908), reminiscences (1893), and other family papers.
Dates:
1881-1908
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
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- Chester County (Pa.) -- History -- Sources 1
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- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
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