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William Hobson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-062
Abstract
William Hobson, 1820-1891, was a Quaker minister and farmer from North Carolina, Iowa, and Oregon. The collection contains chiefly diaries (1859-1891) describing rural life in Iowa and ministerial visits to California, Kansas, Missouri, and Oregon; together with autobiographical fragments and notes for sermons.
Dates:
1851-1891
Redman family papers
Collection — othertype: SC-106
Identifier: SFHL-SC-106
Abstract
This collection includes Mercy Redman's journal of her visits to eighty-seven meetings in New York, New England, and Pennsylvania. During this time she met and travelled with John Woolman. Also included is a copy of the record kept by Thomas Redman of his imprisonment and trial for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the United States. A poem written by John E. Redman and various other family documents are also included.
Dates:
1760-1806
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
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
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
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- Chalkley, Thomas, 1675-1741 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Hobson, William, 1820-1891 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Jordan, Robert, 1692-1742 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
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- Redman, John E., 1786- 1
- Redman, Mercy, 1722-1778 1
- Redman, Thomas, 1742-1823 1
- Reeve, Anna N. (Anna N. Sharpless Reeve), 1825-1891 1
- Reeve, Mary Offley, 1861-1947 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Sharpless, Edward, 1831-1894 1
- Smith, Annie Way, 1867-1938 1
- Smith, Samuel, ca. 1738-1817 1
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