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Quakers -- Maryland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Bliss Forbush Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-043
Abstract Bliss Forbush (1896-1987), Quaker educator, administrator, and author, served as the Headmaster of Baltimore Friends School, Chairman of Friends General Conference, and Executive Secretary of Baltimore Monthly Meeting. The collection contains many of his scrapbooks, including “A Forbush Chronicle” is the three volume manuscript 1896-1976, with additions to 1979, of his autobiography. Also in this collection are the manuscripts of Elias Hicks, Quaker Liberal, and A History of Baltimore Yearly...
Dates: circa 1915-1945

Collected Writings of Friends House Residents

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-225
Abstract Contains collected writings of residents of Friends House, a Quaker retirement home in Sandy Spring, Md., and Haviland Hall, its nursing home extension. Margaret P. Apgar collected, typed and edited the writings between 1980 and 1994. The collection includes Gleanings, the published collection of residents’ work in six volumes, and additional writings by individuals including by Grace Yaukey who published under the name of Cornelia Spencer, Margaret Wells...
Dates: 1980-1995

A. Thomas Hallowell family papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-052
Identifier: SFHL-SC-052
Abstract

This collection, assembled by A. Thomas Hallowell, contains the photocopy of a letter from Benjamin Hallowell to his son, Henry Clay, a typescript copy of the childhood reminiscences of Henry C. Hallowell, and also a typescript copy of childhood memories of Mary H. Stabler.

Dates: 1851-1940

Hollingsworth, Hannah Carter (1834-1897). Journal., 1876 - 1879

 Item
Identifier: MSS 003/204
Scope and Contents

The diary contains regular brief entries covering family events and Hannah's activities which included attending Quaker meetings as well as lyceum and other local Protestant services. See the transcription for additional detail.

Dates: 1876 - 1879

“A Short Account of a visit made by Isaac Jackson to Friends on the Western Shore of Maryland: 1776”

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-017
Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the single volume manuscript which describes Jackson’s interviews with Quaker enslavers in Maryland. The volume is organized by the names of individuals that Jackson interviewed, their reasons for enslaving people, and whether they could be peruaded to emancipate them.

Dates: 1776

Patricia Loring papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-316
Abstract Patricia Loring was a Quaker author, teacher, and retreat leader, most active in her related work in the 1980s and 1990s. She was the author of a widely read Quaker spiritual guide, Listening Spirituality, vols. 1 and 2. For eight years her ministry was supported by Bethesda Friends Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland. This collection includes a variety of Patricia Loring's papers, largely beginning when she joined the Religious Society of Friends. Much of the collection consists of papers from...
Dates: 1982 - 2015

Benjamin H. Miller, U.S. Indian Inspector transcribed letters,1889-1890.

 Collection — Othertype SC-250
Identifier: SFHL-SC-250
Abstract

The collection consists of typed transcripts of letters published in a local newspaper. They describe the places and people visited during Benjamin H. Miller's tenure as Indian Agent in South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and elsewhere. The nineteen clippings, 1889-1890, were transcribed by William T. Thom, 3rd, a great-grandson. Also includes a typed manuscript introduction that describes Miller's farm, Mt Airy, Montgomery County, Maryland, and a typed index to the letters, 1974-1975.

Dates: ca. 1974-1975

Moore-Tyson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-206
Abstract The Moore and Tysons were Maryland Quaker families. Robert Rowland Moore (1863-1934) was married in 1886 to Margaret Gittings Tyson (1859-1937). The collection contains secondary and genealogical information, photographs, diaries, and some miscellaneous papers descending in the Moore, Townsend, Ellicott, and Tyson families. It includes writings about Elisha Tyson and the Tyson family, a copybook and other material concerning Joseph Townsend, Mary Ellicott’s diary of a journey to State of...
Dates: 1803-1986

Virginia Parry Correspondence Received

 Collection — Othertype SC-257
Identifier: SFHL-SC-257
Abstract

The collection contains correspondence received by Virginia Parry concerning Quaker meetings within Baltimore Yearly Meeting. The seven letters from a trustee of Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting discuss preservation of burial grounds and Quaker meeting concerns.

Dates: 1985-1989

Caroline Roberts family scrapbook

 Collection — Othertype SC-152
Identifier: SFHL-SC-152
Abstract

Photocopy of a scrapbook compiled by Caroline Roberts, featuring photographs of her family and their residences, with brief genealogical notes.

Dates: [19--]