Elizabeth R. Lippincott (Elizabeth Roberts) Family Papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains chiefly genealogical and card files relating to the Lippincott, Shinn, Thorne, and related Quaker families of Moorestown and elsewhere, together with correspondence, journals, and essays, and collected materials relating to Quaker history, particularly various Friends Meetings and Moorestown Friends School.
Dates
- Creation: 1793-1979
Creator
- Elizabeth R. Lippincott (Elizabeth Roberts), 1888-1979 (Person)
- Moorestown Friends School (Moorestown, N.J.) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Some of the items in this collection may be protected by copyright. The user is solely responsible for making a final determination of copyright status. If copyright protection applies, permission must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns to reuse, publish, or reproduce relevant items beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to the law. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
Elizabeth Roberts Lippincott (1888-1979) was a Quaker genealogist from Moorestown, N.J.
Extent
2 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Elizabeth Roberts Lippincott (1888-1979) was a Quaker genealogist from Moorestown, New Jersey. The collection contains chiefly genealogical and card files relating to the Lippincott, Shinn, Thorne, and related Quaker families of Moorestown and elsewhere, together with correspondence, journals, and essays, and collected materials relating to Quaker history, particularly various Friends Meetings and Moorestown Friends School.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into six series:
- Biographical and genealogical (primarily card files)
- Correspondence
- Financial papers
- Memorabilia
- Writings
- Reference material
Physical Location
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Elizabeth R. Lippincott and her estate, 1961-1980 Later accrual: accession 2023.022, removed from a Moorestown Historical Society donation of Greenleaf Boarding Home records.
Separated Materials
Pictures of Quaker meeting houses, originally part of the collection, have been removed added to FHL Meeting House Pictured Collection.
Processing Information
Pictures of Friends Meeting, originally processed as part of Series 6 (Reference material), were transferred to FHL picture collection in 1974. Autograph albums, copybooks, exercise book, account and bank books that were originally catalogued as a Small Collection were added to this Record Group 5 collection in 1974. along with some Miscellaneous Manuscripts from the same donor.
Subject
- Shinn family -- Genealogy (Family)
- Thorne family -- Genealogy (Family)
- Lippincott family -- Genealogy (Family)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- An Inventory of the Elizabeth R. Lippincott Family Papers, 1793-1979
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1974
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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