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Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Overview
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
Hiram Doty collected papers relating to Quaker history
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-029
Abstract
This collection includes original manuscripts collected by Hi Doty relating to early Quaker involvement in Indian affairs from 1756 to 1821 and the Friendly Association. Of particular interest are documents concerning the settlement at Oneida and the Treaty of Easton. Correspondents include Tedyuscung, Nathaniel Holland, Frederick Post, John Hunt, William Cooper, Israel Chapin, William Savery, James Pemberton, and Joseph Elkinton. Also included in the collection are several letters written by...
Dates:
1756-1874
Henry Drinker correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-031
Abstract
This collection includes letters received by Henry Drinker regarding various business and personal matters. The correspondents include Ruth Anna Rutter (later Lindley), George Churchman, and William Brinton, who wrote concerning a subscription from Lampeter Preparative Meeting for relief in Europe.
Dates:
1791-1801
Gulielma M. Howland Collection
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1000
Abstract
In these papers collected by Gulielma Howland are letters or other writings of such notable Quakers as George Dillwyn, Susanna Dillwyn, Samuel Emlen, John Fothergill,, Rebecca Grellet, Hannah Griffitts, Sarah Moore Grimke, Hill family, Margaret H. Hilles, James Logan, Margaret Hill Morris, Milcah Martha Moore, James and John Pemberton,, Daniel B. Smith, John Smith, Margaret H. Smith, Roberts Vaux, Daniel Wheeler and Thomas Wistar.
Dates:
ca. 1700-1867
Parrish Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-229
Overview
Collection contains papers of the Parrish family, a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family. Includes correspondence, writings, and other papers of Edward Parrish, first president of Swarthmore College. Also of special interest is the correspondence of Dillwyn Parrish and his aunt and uncle, William and Deborah Parrish Wright; the letters of the Wrights in 1835 and 1836 give information about abolition and anti-slavery efforts in Lancaster County. A scrapbook assembled by Clemmons Parrish contains...
Dates:
1780-1966
Pemberton Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1036
Overview
Correspondence (personal and business) and other papers of Israel Pemberton (1715-1779), James Pemberton (1723-1809) and John Pemberton (1727-1795), the sons of Israel Pemberton (1684-1754) and Rachel Read Pemberton of Philadelphia.
Dates:
1741-1789
James Pemberton biography
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-075
Overview
The biography of James Pemberton includes descriptions of the Pemberton family, their history and genealogical roots, and the early life of James Pemberton, as well as his adult life. The biography includes quoted sections from Quaker meeting minutes.
Dates:
Undated.
Pemberton Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-039
Overview
The collection contains primarily family correspondence of the three Pemberton brothers -- Israel, James, and John, prominent members of the Society of Friends in Philadelphia who were exiled to Virginia during the Revolutionary War for their pacifism. It also includes a small number of correspondence from Edward Stabler and Alexander White, an account on the life of James Pemberton, and the will of his wife, Phebe Lewis Pemberton. Topics include the Pembertons' exile to Winchester, Va., with...
Dates:
1756-1812
Jonah Thompson correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-131
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence received by English Quaker Jonah Thompson. The bulk of these are written by Friends in Pennsylvania, relating the developing conflict between the Pennsylvania government and the Delaware Indians, and expressing concern with the role Quakers should have in a military defense of the colony. Included is a detailed account of developments regarding this issue in the Pennsylvania government by James Pemberton. Other prominent Philadelphia correspondents...
Dates:
1756-1759
Yearly Meeting Epistles and Extracts
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-971
Overview
Contemporary copies of epistles and extracts of Yearly Meeting minutes, and of Women Friends, of London, Dublin, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Virginia, Rhode Island from 1698-1842.
Dates:
1668 - 1940
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- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 3
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 2
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 2
- Pemberton, Israel, 1715-1779 2
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 2
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 1
- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 1
- Bettle, Samuel 1
- Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
- Brinton, William, 1759-1842 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Carey, Matthew, 1760-1839 1
- Chapin, Israel 1
- Cooper, Milton William 1
- Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Dillwyn, Susanna 1
- Doty, Hiram, 1913-1988 1
- Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 1
- Dublin Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Elkinton, Joseph, 1794-1868 1
- Ely, Ruth 1
- Emlen, Samuel 1
- Evans, William, 1787-1867 1
- Fothergill, Samuel 1
- Foulke, Elizabeth, 1758-1820 1
- Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures 1
- Grellet, Rebecca, 1772-1861 1
- Griffitts, Hannah 1
- Grimké, Sarah Moore 1
- Hill family 1
- Hilles, Margaret Hill Smith, 1786-1882 1
- Holland, Nathaniel 1
- Howland, Gulielma M. 1
- Hunt, John, 1740-1824 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox: 1828- ) 1
- John Fothergill 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Lampeter Preparative Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Lindley, Ruth Anna, 1768-1810 1
- Logan, Hannah, 1723-1777 1
- Logan, James, 1674-1751 1
- London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874 1
- Mitchell, Maria, 1818-1889 1
- Moore, Milcah Martha 1
- Morris, Margaret Hill 1
- Murray, John, 1758-1819 1
- Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 1
- New England Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends (1698- ) 1
- Parrish family 1
- Parrish, Clemmons, 1848-1912 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Parrish, John, 1729-1807 1
- Parrish, Margaret S. (Margaret Shreve), 1824-1872 1
- Parrish, Thomas C. (Thomas Clarkson), 1847-1899 1
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 1
- Pemberton family 1
- Pemberton, Hannah, 1734-1764 1
- Pemberton, Henry 1
- Pemberton, Israel, 1685-1754 1
- Pemberton, Phebe, d. 1812 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Indian Committee (1837-1850) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee Appointed for the Gradual Civilization and Welfare of the Indian Natives (1795-1827) 1
- Post, Christian Frederick, 1710?-1785 1
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 1
- Rhoads, Hannah 1
- Rhode Island Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Savery, William, 1750-1804 1
- Scattergood, Joseph 1
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 1
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 1
- Smith, Daniel B. 1
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 1
- Smith, John, 1722-1771 1
- Swarthmore College 1
- Teedyuscung, Delaware chief, 1700-1763 1
- Thompson, Jonah, 1702 or 1703-1780 1
- Vaux, Roberts, 1786-1836 1
- Wharton, Susanna Parrish, 1852-1928 1
- Wharton, Susanna, 1827-1915 1
- Wheeler, Daniel, 1771-1840 1
- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 1
- Wistar, Margaret, 1728?-1793 1
- Wright, William, d.1846 1
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