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Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Elijah F. Pennypacker anti-slavery correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-097
Identifier: SFHL-SC-097
Abstract

This collection includes letters written to Elijah Pennypacker concerning the anti-slavery movement. It includes correspondence from Abby Kelly and H.B. Stanton relating to the American Anti-Slavery Society, from Thomas Garrett concerning arrangements for transportation and placement of emancipated and self-emancipated people, and from William Still about a visit and lecture by William Wells Brown.

Dates: 1839-1861
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

John Salkeld legal papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-112
Identifier: SFHL-SC-112
Abstract

This collection includes six signed bonds and obligations of John Salkeld with various individuals.

Dates: 1735-1757
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Norman Walton Swayne Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-144
Abstract The Swayne family were Quakers of southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Caleb Swayne was a farmer and tanner, and his son, Benjamin, also operated a tan yard and conducted a school for boys, the London Grove Boarding School. Evan Thomas Swayne also taught at London Grove, but moved to the Eaton Institute, a boarding school for girls in Kennett, after 1865. His son, Edward Swayne, had a greenhouse business and wrote poetry. Edward's sister, Anna Belle, was a photographer before her marriage...
Dates: 1733-1987
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Thomas family papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-209
Identifier: SFHL-SC-209
Abstract

Contains primarily financial and estate papers of the Charles Thomas family of Montgomery County, Pa., especially the marriage settlement and estate papers of his mother, Sarah Roberts, widow of John Thomas. Also a brief account of the family estate by his granddaughter, marriage certificates, and deeds.

Dates: 1808-1909
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Eugene Vickers Civil War correspondence

 Collection — Othertype SC-138
Identifier: SFHL-SC-138
Abstract This small collection of Civil War correspondence consists of letters of a Hicksite Quaker family of West Chester, Pennsylvania, received by Eugene Vickers while he was serving with Company C of the 97th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the coastal South. Most of the letters are from his mother, Elizabeth (Painter) Vickers. A few are from his brothers, Jonathan and Joseph P. Vickers, who also served the Union cause, and his father, Joseph Vickers. The material is particularly...
Dates: 1862-1864
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
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