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Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates:
1831-2012
Sharpless Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Abstract
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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- Darlington, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1894-1966 1
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- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
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- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
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- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
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