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Ohio -- Social life and customs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Shaw Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-188
Abstract

Accounts, correspondence, indentures, and family papers which relate to the descendents of Samuel Shaw (1710-1781), Quaker farmer of Richland, Pennsylvania, and related families including Hill, Heacock, Foulke, and Rawlings. Some of his descendents moved to Ohio and Indiana. Letters from family members in Ohio give details of daily life and customs of Quaker families and sense of the hardships endured on the frontier.

Dates: 1737-1890