Rhoads Family papers

Sarah Wistar (1839-1920) married William Gibbons Rhoads (1838-1880) on November 28, 1866. This event joined three Quaker families, the Rhoads, Gibbons, and Wistars, beginning a long correspondence between them all. Samuel Rhoads, Jr. (1806-1868) was born on September 19, 1806, the son of Samuel and Sarah (Garrett) Rhoads. Samuel Rhoads, Jr. was a manager of Haverford College and the publisher and editor of the Friends Review from 1853 to 1867. On March 15, 1837, he married Anne Gibbons (1809-1890). Gibbons was born on September 28, 1809 and died on February 16, 1890, at the age of 81.

The Free Produce Assocation of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was a Quaker organization, founded in 1845, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Free Produce Association was a boycott movement against "produce," which referred to anything produced through the labor of enslaved people. Its constitution begins: "We believe that slaveholding is diametrically opposed to the whole spirit and tenor of the Christian religion, and that while it sustains the traffic in slaves, it is mainly supported by the traffic in and the consumption of the productions of slave labor. In order therefore to promote the use and facilitate the acquirement of goods, supplied by free labour, we unite in an Asssocation under the title of the Free Produce Association of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting."