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Lay ministry -- Society of Friends

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:

Some account of the journeys of Thomas and Elizabeth Robson of Liverpool upon the Continent and elsewhere in 1823-1845

 Collection — Othertype SC-173
Identifier: SFHL-SC-173
Abstract

Bound collection of 29 ALsS, plus 3 typewritten items. Includes a genealogical chart of the Robson family and a summary account of a journey to the Continent in 1831, in part a transcription of the original journal. Also includes silhouettes of members of the Crewdson and Robson families.

Dates: 1823-1909
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Leon A. Rushmore collection of New York Yearly Meeting miscellaneous papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-213
Identifier: SFHL-SC-213
Abstract

This collection of miscellaneous papers collected by Leon A. Rushmore includes several religious essays or sermons, a copy of Nicholas Waln's 1772 prayer, and an undated address "To the great Sachems and Chief of the [missing] sitting around the Counsill at new york" possibly transcribed from dictation.

Dates: ca. 1789-1833
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Job Scott letters

 Collection — Othertype SC-067
Identifier: SFHL-SC-067
Abstract

This collection contains three letters written by Job Scott to fellow Quaker Hugh Judge. Scott wrote the letters while travelling in religious ministry in Oxbridge, Philadelphia, and Charleston, S.C. The letters mostly contain spiritual musings.

Dates: 1788-1790
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Friends Historical Library Collection of Sermons

 Collection — Othertype MSS-047
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-047
Abstract

Collected sermons received from miscellaneous sources.

Dates: 1737 - 1870
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Sharpless Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Abstract The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow...
Dates: 1792-1892
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Sharpless-Reeve family papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-325
Abstract The collected papers of the Sharpless and Reeve family of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence is between Edward Sharpless (1831-1894), a New Jersey Quaker minister, and his sister, Anna N. Sharpless, who married John Newbold Reeve in 1857. Their daughter, Mary Offley Reeve, worked as a school teacher when young and became involved in temperance and evangelical Christianity. She shared these interests, reflected in diaries and other writings, with Annie Way Smith, a...
Dates: 1852 - 1957
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Sheppard Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-858
Abstract

The collection particularly provides connections between the Irish and Philadelphia Friends in the 18th century, especially by the Sheppard and Wansborough families who intermarried. Included are letters of John Wilbur, central in the Gurney-Wilbur controversy.

Dates: 1656 - 1887
Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Smedley Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-319
Abstract The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Smedley family, a large and prominent Quaker family of Penncrest Farm, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The family was related to the Kite and Sharples/Sharpless families of Chester and Delaware Counties. The papers include significant correspondence of the Kite family, especially Thomas Kite (1785-1845) and Mary Kite (1792-1861), both prominent...
Dates: 1751 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1821 - 1950
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Samuel Smith papers

 Collection — Othertype SC-119
Identifier: SFHL-SC-119
Abstract This collection includes 10 memorandum books of Samuel Smith, recounting his experiences as a travelling Quaker minister on his journeys in the eastern United States, Liverpool, London and Scotland. Also included is the copy book of a certain "S.B." of Darby Monthly Meeting, dated 1740-1746. This book contains tables of climates and distances, home remedies, and personal financial records. Notable are a list of the holdings of the Philadelphia library in 1741, an elegy to John Chalkley...
Dates: 1740-1817
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

C. Marshall (Caleb Marshall) Taylor, Trends amongst Friends questionnaires

 Collection — Othertype SC-215
Identifier: SFHL-SC-215
Abstract

This collection contains the completed questionnaires and related correspondence which were the basis for C. Marshall Taylor's Trends amongst Friends : Study which was made as a result of a questionnaire sent to pastors of Friends churches in U.S.A. The study was made independently by Taylor to survey the reaction of Friends pastors concerning the possibility of unification of all American Friends.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Bryn Mawr College Special Collections
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections