Stackhouse-Matlack family papers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Quaker and other family records of the Stackhouse, Matlack, Roberts, Coles, Collins and related families. It includes some older documents collected by the Stackhouse family of New Jersey and extensive genealogical research.
Dates
- Creation: 1686-1943
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1800 - 1900
Creator
- Stackhouse, Ann Matlack (Person)
- Matlack, Asa (Person)
- Stackhouse, Asa Matlack (Asa Matlack Stackhouse) (Person)
- Stackhouse, Robert, 1801-1881 (Person)
- Stackhouse, Powell, Jr., 1827-1900 (Person)
- Hoskins, Jane (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Donors retain to themselves and to Mary Jeanette Stackhouse all literary and copyright rights to which they are entitled for the writings, photographs, and other material donated to Friends Historical Library. Further and in case, the Donors and Mary Jeanette Stackhouse and their heirs retain the right to publish any of the materials donated and are not required to seek or obtain permission from Friends Historical Library to do so.
Biographical / Historical
Amos Stackhouse (1757-1825), son of James Stackhouse and Martha Hastings Stackhouse, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Mary Powell (1763-1841) were married in January 1779 by license in New Jersey. Amos requested to be retained in membership, and Mary, with daughter Susanna, became members on request in 1781. The family removed from Mount Holly Monthly Meeting to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Northern District, in 1790. Amos was in the china business, and the couple had 11 surviving children, several represented in the collection.
Their son Robert Stackhouse (1801-1881) married first Elizabeth Davis Kimber (1805-1839). After her death, he married in 1841 Ann Roberts Matlack (1810-1893), daughter of Asa Matlack (1783-1851) and Tamar Roberts (1783-1853). Their grandson, Asa Matlack Stackhouse (1845-1916), a physician and historian, intended to publish a family genealogy, working with a cousin, Powell Stackhouse, Jr., (1827-1900) who pursued a "scientific" method of genealogical research in the 1890s. Their project was continued by Asa Matlack Stackhouse's son, William R. Stackhouse.
Extent
3.25 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains Quaker and other family records of the Stackhouse, Matlack, Roberts, Coles, Collins and related families. It includes some older documents collected by the Stackhouse family of New Jersey and extensive genealogical research.
Arrangement
Arranged in four series: 1. Stackhouse family papers. 2. Matlack family papers. 3. Collected Quaker papers. 4. Genealogy.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Kathryn Stackhouse and Thomas Stackhouse, Accession FHL 2022.005. Additional accession FHL 2022.064.
Separated Materials
Two cased photographs removed to PA 107, FHL Cased Photograp:
Asa M. Stackhouse as a young boy.
Margaret Stackhouse France.
Publications removed to FHL books: Rules of Discipline (1894) and Fox's Book of Martyrs (1829).
Small broadside announcing Swarthmore Chautauqua program presented in Woodstown, NJ., 1928. Removed to Swarthmore Chautauaqua memorabilia collection, RG7/006
Epistle Yearly Meeting of Woman Friends, New York, added to Epistles.
Processing Information
The collection included an inventory with extensive annotation by the donor, Kathryn Collins Stackhouse. Her order is largely maintained.
Subject
- Stackhouse family (Family)
- Matlack family (Family)
- Title
- Stackhouse-Matlack family papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Susanna Morikawa
- Date
- May 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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