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Aimwell School records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1183
Abstract

The Aimwell School in Philadelphia was founded in 1796 by Anne Parrish (1760-1800) for the purpose of providing "a good English education" in the primary and grammar grades for underprivileged girls. It was instituted by the Society for the Free Instruction of Female Children and operated under the management of the Society of Friends.

Dates: 1796-1935

"Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House: A Biography"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-010
Abstract

The manuscript of Gergory Barnes's "Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House: A Biography" provides a history of Philadelphia's Arch Street Meeting House from the purchase of the land by William Penn in 1683, to the present, including important Quaker individuals, the influence of Philadelphia's history on the Meeting House, the Orthodox-Hicksite separation, and the Wilburite-Gurneyites.

Dates: 2011

Richard T. Cadbury collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-954
Abstract

Letters of English and American Friends written at the end of the 18th century on topics relating to travel in the ministry in England and the northeastern United States, Friends, and health. Almost all the letters are directed to Quaker minister, James Thornton.

Dates: 1780 - 1878

Earnest Workers records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-062
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the minutes and annual reports for the Earnest Workers of Philadelphia.

Dates: 1901-1904

Jacob R. Elfreth Jr. diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-020
Abstract The diaries of Jacob R. Elfreth Jr., a Quaker merchant, elder, and minister. Early diaries, from 1861 to 1867, focus on military movement and battles during the Civil War, reactions to President Lincoln's assassination, and the political tensions during the aftermath of the war. The majority of entries detail day-to-day activities, family news, news of Elfreth's carpet business, attendance at Quaker meetings, social calls, accounts of weather, and births, deaths, and marriages within the...
Dates: 1861-1924

Jacob R. Elfreth Sr. diaries

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-019
Abstract

Jacob R. Elfreth Sr. was a teacher and a bookkeeper for the Leigh Navigation Company. The majority of entries detail family news, Quaker meetings, Elfreth's work with the Leigh Navigation Company, and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community,

Dates: 1814-1870

Elfreth, Morris, Satterthwaite families

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1227

Thomas Evans papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Abstract This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates: 1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859

Families of Philadelphia papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1184
Abstract

Papers of the Philadelphia families Bloomfield, Coates, Cresson, Emlen, Gumbes, Horner, Howel, Lloyd, Macomb, Moore, Vaux and Wetherill families from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of these families were Quaker, including Coates, Emlen and Vaux; others had some Quaker family members, including Cresson, other families, including Gumbes and Wetherill, did not remain Quaker.

Dates: 1700-1942

Friends Burial Ground, Philadelphia records

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-074
Abstract

Handwritten records related to the establishment of the Friends Burial Ground in Philadelphia.

Dates: 1810

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Haverford College 3
Elfreth, Jacob R. Jr., 1837-1924 2
Elfreth, Jacob R., Sr., 1789-1870 2
Aimwell School (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Alexander, Samuel, 1840-1914 1
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Allinson, Samuel, 1739-1791 1
Anna Morris Shinn Maier 1
Barnes, Gregory Allen, Sir 1
Bloomfield family 1
Bloomfield, Isabella Macomb 1
Bloomfield, Joseph, 1753-1823 1
Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
Bronner, Edward 1
Brown, Elizabeth Potts 1
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
Brown, Moses, 1793-1879 1
Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974 1
Cadbury, Richard Tapper, 1853-1929 1
Cherry, Charles L. 1
Coates family 1
Coates, Benjamin Hornor, 1797-1881 1
Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887 1
Coates, George M., 1845-1894 1
Coates, Sarah Hornor, 1825-1912 1
Coates, William Morrison, 1845-1937 1
Collins, Isaac 1
Conard family 1
Coppin, Fanny Jackson 1
Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847 1
Cresson family 1
Cresson, Caleb, 1775-1821 1
Cresson, Francis Macomb, 1867- 1
Cresson, George Vaux, 1836-1908 1
Cresson, Isabella Bloomfield Gumbes, 1844-1913 1
Cresson, Mary B. 1
Cresson, Sarah E., 1787-1870 1
Cresson, Susan Vaux, -1890 1
Cresson, William Penn, 1814-1892 1
Curtis, Barbara 1
Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809 1
Earnest Workers of Philadelphia 1
Elfreth family 1
Emlen family 1
Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 1
Fisher, Thomas 1
Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1
Friends Historical Association 1
Friends Historical Association. Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association 1
Friends Historical Association. Quaker History 1
Friends Historical Commission 1
Fritchley Monthly Meeting of Friends (England) 1
General Meeting of Men and Women Primitive Friends of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey 1
George School (Bucks County, Pa.) 1
Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 1
Gumbes family 1
Gumbes, Francis 1
Gumbes, Rebecca W., 1789-1869 1
Gumbes, Samuel Wetherill, 1813-1865 1
Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
Hornor family 1
Hornor, Benjamin C., approximately 1806-1875 1
Hornor, Benjamin, 1737-1823 1
Hornor, Benjamin, 1769-1810 1
Hornor, Sarah, 1767-1848 1
Howell family 1
James, John, -1710? 1
Jones, Mary Hoxie 1
Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
Keith, George, 1639?-1716 1
Leeds family 1
Leeds, Morris Evans 1
Lloyd family 1
Lloyd, Mary Ann 1
Logan, James, 1674-1751 1
Macomb family 1
Maule family 1
Moore family 1
Morris family 1
Morris, Margaret Hill 1
Muhlenberg, William Augustus, 1796-1877 1
North House 1
Parrish, Anne 1
Parrish, John, 1729-1807 1
Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 1
Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Meeting for Sufferings 1
Ramsay family 1
Rathbone, William, 1757-1809 1
Rhoads, William Gibbons 1
Richie, Sarah A. 1
Riley, Lyman W. 1
Robinson, Jo Ann 1
Scull family 1
Smith, Samuel, ca. 1738-1817 1
Society for the Free Instruction of Females. (Philadelphia Pa.) 1
Swarthmore College 1
Thornton, James, 1727-1794 1
Tolles, Frederick Barnes, 1915-1975 1
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