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John Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-077
Overview
The John family was a Quaker family of Uwchlan and Shamokin Valley in Pennsylvania. The collection contains family correspondence, diaries, business and legal documents, memorabilia, pictures, and miscellaneous papers of the Reuben John family. Correspondents include Joanna Griffith, Phebe John, Ann Haines, Sarah H. Janney, Reuben John, Abia and Patty John, Pamela Brenholts, and their descendents. Also contains genealogical files of Don D. John which includes original family correspondence,...
Dates:
1775-1951
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
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- Brenholts, Pamela, 1775-1844 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Griffith, Joanna, 1773-1815 1
- Haines, Ann, 1776-1834 1
- Hunn family 1
- Hunn, Ezekiel, 1841-1926 1
- Hunn, Lydia Jones Sharpless, 1818-1911 1
- Janney, Sarah H, 1778-1837 1
- John family 1
- John, Abia, 1761-1838 1
- John, Don D., d. 1957 1
- John, Eliza, 1812-1863 1
- John, Kimber L. (Kimber LeRoy), 1838-1870 1
- John, Martha, 1769-1840 1
- John, Phebe, 1780-1855 1
- John, Reuben, 1744-1822 1
- Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
- Savery, William, 1721 or 1722-1787 1
- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
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