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Alsop Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-191
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence of the Alsop and Brown families, particularly Othniel Alsop, Hannah Brown Alsop, and Othneil's English siblings, Ann and Robert Alsop. Other correspondents include Alice Jackson, Mary Coffin, and Ann Douglas. Also included are Othniel's naturalization documents, various wills, and calling cards from friends. Of particular interest is a letter dated 1799 from Othniel Alsop to sister in England, describing the "contagious fever" (yellow fever), a letter...
Dates:
1795-1830
Ash-Schofield Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-004
Overview
Samuel Shinn Ash and his wife, Sarah Jane Schofield Ash, were prominent Quakers, active in a variety of philanthropic activities, including anti-slavery, peace, temperance, women's rights, and education. Samuel Shinn Ash was apprenticed as an engineer and machinist and worked in manufacturing. This collection consists of family papers, manuscript letters and memorabilia, largely of a domestic nature. Includes some descriptions of Meetings and religious journeys, of the early struggles of Samuel...
Dates:
1796 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1912
Lewis Benson papers addition
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1290
Overview
The Lewis Benson papers addition comprises many additions of materials to his original collection (HC.MC.1162). The collection is composed primarily of correspondence, Benson's writings, materials on fellowships Benson was involved with, and resources he may have used in his writings.
Dates:
1932-1986
Mary Bradway correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-013
Abstract
This collection includes the personal correspondence of Mary S. Bradway with John Comly, John and Judith Cornell, and John Hallowell. The letters are personal in content, with some discussion of the nature of contemporary Quaker spirituality.
Dates:
1829-1886
George H. Burr Collected Papers on the Quaker Separation
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-313
Overview
The Burr Collection includes manuscripts which document the Hicksite position during the Separation of 1827/28 in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and the trial over the Crosswicks School Fund. It is directly related to the Southard Papers/RG5/312, which contain a more complete description of the controversy. It also includes Burr's manuscript on the History of the Society of Friends which he compiled for Southard as background in preparing his case representing the Hicksite position.
Dates:
1822 - 1836
Linda Chidsey writings and speeches
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-274
Abstract
Letters, articles, and speeches by Linda Chidsey, former Clerk of New York Yearly Meeting and acknowledged minister. Of special interest are the materials that relate to the peace testimony after the attacks of September 11, 2001 and renewal in the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1995-2006
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
Committee on the Religious Life of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records
Collection
Identifier: QM-Phy-507
Overview
In 3mo 1944, Rufus Jones published an article, "Are We Ready," in Friends Intelligencer. In response to his concern for deepening the spiritual life of the Religious Society of Friends, members of both the Race Street and Arch Street Philadelphia Yearly Meetings gathered six months later in the meeting house at 15th and Race Streets. Records include minutes, correspondence, and publications.
Dates:
1944-1950
Conrow-Hunt Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-203
Abstract
Contains three letters, 1786-1787, with later manuscript copies, to Quaker minister and diarist, John Hunt, from Darling Conrow. John Hunt added a biographical note concerning Conrow to the final letter. Also contains a letter, 1886, concerning Hunt genealogy.
Dates:
1786-1886
Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-044
Overview
Elias Hicks (1748-1830) was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. In the 1820s, a religious controversy within the Society of Friends which focused on Hicks' ministry led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation of 1827-1828. The collection includes correspondence written and received by Elias Hicks, sermons, surveyor's drawings, family correspondence, and other papers. Also includes the original 1748-1822 manuscript journal of Elias Hicks (in three parts) and the 1828 Ohio...
Dates:
1779 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1779 - 1830
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- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 6
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 5
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 4
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 4
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 4
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 4
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 4
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 4
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 4
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 3
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 3
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 3
- Hunn family 3
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 3
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 3
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 3
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 3
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative : 1854- ) 3
- Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1854) 3
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 3
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 3
- Truman, George 3
- Westtown Boarding School 3
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 2
- Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 2
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 2
- Cornell, John J., 1826-1909 2
- Darby, Deborah, 1754-1810 2
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 2
- Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 2
- Fox, George 2
- Friends General Conference (U.S.) 2
- Fritchley Monthly Meeting of Friends (England) 2
- Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 2
- General Meeting of Men and Women Primitive Friends of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey 2
- Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2
- Hallock family 2
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 2
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 2
- Hunn, John, 1818-1894 2
- Hunt, John, 1740-1824 2
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 2
- Jenkins, Mehetabel, 1731-1815 2
- Judge, Hugh, 1750?-1834 2
- Kite, Mary, 1793?-1861 2
- Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 2
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 2
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 2
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- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 2
- Rotch, William, 1759-1850 2
- Schofield, Martha 2
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 2
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 2
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 2
- Sharpless family 2
- Stratton, Edward F., 1876-1968 2
- Valentino, Carmen 2
- Wilbur, John, 1774-1856 2
- Willis, Thomas, 1770 or 1771-1864 2
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 2
- Alaska Yearly Meeting 1
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- Alloways Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends 1
- Alsop family 1
- Alsop, Ann, b. 1774 1
- Alsop, Hannah, d. 1820 1
- Alsop, Othniel, 1770-1836 1
- Alsop, Robert, 1777-1850 1
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1
- Ash, Samuel S. (Samuel Shinn), 1829-1911 1
- Ash, Sarah J. (Sarah Jane), 1835-1912 1
- Bailey, Hannah Jane 1
- Balderston, Ida Smedley (Ida Roberts Smedley Balderston), 1896-1993 1
- Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Committee Appointed for Indian Affairs 1
- Barney, Nathaniel 1
- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Benson, Lewis 1
- Bolivian Friends Church 1
- Bradford Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 1
- Bradway, Mary, 1804-1894 1
- Brenholts, Rachel, 1775-1844 1
- Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
- Britain Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Brown family 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Burleigh, Charles C. (Charles Calistus), 1810-1878 1
- Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends (1827-1959: Rancocas, N.J.) 1
- Burr, George H. (George Harris), born 1791 1
- California Yearly Meeting of Friends Church 1
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- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Carter, Jessie Gidley, 1876-1946 1
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