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Quakers -- Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Rankin Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1132
Overview

The case of James Rankin, a loyalist during the American Revolution, whose estate was confiscated and sold. Rankin's heirs sued for restitution and won.

Dates: 1804-1894

Roberts Family Genealogical Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-131
Overview This collection consists of unpublished books and papers compiled by Charles and Lucy Roberts on the descendants of Robert Cadwalader of Wales and his children who came to America, settled in Gwynedd Township, and took the surname Roberts. After the death of Charles Roberts in 1902, his widow, Lucy Roberts, hired Gilbert Cope to continue the compilation and put it in useful order with the intention of publication. Cope had family group sheets bound into two large volumes, which he called...
Dates: 1864-1918

S. Robert Stiles Genealogical Research, 1990

 Collection — Box FHL-884 (offsite): [Barcode: 31198064876589]
Identifier: MSS 024
Scope and Contents

Includes Haines family summary based on the files of John W. Haines, index of Moorestown MM (partial), and miscellaneoous notes.

Dates: 1990

Sharpless Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-040
Overview 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

Edward Wanton Smith papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-955
Overview

This collection includes letters, biographical accounts of Friends, genealogical material, legal and financial papers, business accounts, minutes, accounts of dreams and visions of Friends, essays, notebooks, epistles of Friends' Meetings, marriage certificates, maps, pictures, deeds, and other material of the Smith and Atwater families.

Dates: 1681-1971

Nancy P. (Nancy Peel) Speers Genealogical Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-194
Overview Nancy Peel Speers (1925-1995) was a leading expert on Quaker genealogy. Married to David Speers (1919-1968), she was a lifelong resident of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She was employed as an archivist and staff genealogist at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. The Speers' Genealogical Research Papers consist of personal research on the Peel, Speers, and Olmsted families, research on Quaker families, including extensive work done on Cox, Kester, Griffith, and Lloyd families, and...
Dates: 1906-1995 [bulk 1972-1995]

Priscilla Walker Streets Genealogical Research Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-143
Overview

Priscilla Walker Streets (1848-1927) was a birthright member of Radnor Monthly Meeting (Quaker) and a genealogist of the Walker family of Chester Valley, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Thomas R. and Mary Baynes Walker and in 1875 was married to Dr. Thomas Hale Streets. These papers are largely genealogical data compiled on the Walker family for her book, Lewis Walker of Chester Valley and His Descendents, 1686-1896, and correspondence after its publication.

Dates: 1779-ca. 1923 (bulk 1880-1923)

Taylor farm and family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1347
Overview

This collection contains records of the Taylor family farm, as well biographical documentation on the genealogy of the family. Extensive records of Howard Taylor, including his "Farm News" volumes are included in this collection.

Dates: 1818 - 2009

Thornton Family Research Papers (copies)

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-150
Overview

This group of papers relating to the Thornton family, all copies, were made available to Harriet Frorer Durham, a Quaker writer who was working on a biography of Dr. William Thornton (1759-1828) of Philadelphia. William Thornton of England, Dr. Thorton's descendent, provided the papers. The collection contains genealogical material compiled for Dr. William Thornton and photocopies of business and legal papers (1673-1802).

Dates: 1673-1963

Edwin C. Tyson Research Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-314
Overview

The collection contains research and writings concerning the history of Menallen Monthly Meeting, research correspondence, Tyson family genealogical research, and some Meeting correspondence assembled by Edwin C. Tyson before his death in 1945. It includes his correspondence with genealogists and local historians regarding Quaker families and property in Adams and York Counties, Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1898 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945