Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
Ferris Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-040
Overview
The collection contains correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Ferris family of Wilmington, Delaware, a prominent Quaker family. Of particular note are the correspondence and writings of Benjamin Ferris concerning the Separation in the Society of Friends, as well as the journals and diaries of Anna M. Ferris, David Ferris, Matilda Ferris, Benjamin Ferris, and Henry Ferris. Correspondents include William Lloyd Garrison, William...
Dates:
1737-1940
Collection of Isaac T. Hopper papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-058
Abstract
This collection includes Isaac T. Hopper's original and photocopied letters and his letterbook. Much of the material concerns his bookselling business and the Hicksite separation. He relates news of figures central to the controversy, including Elisha Bates, Elias Hicks, and Anna Braithwaite. Also included is Hopper's copy of the book, The History of the Life of Thomas Elwood.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1833-1902 [ 1833-1845]
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Samuel L. Southard Papers concerning the Quaker Separation
Collection — Container: Box 1
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-312
Overview
This collection contains the correspondence and legal papers of Samuel L. Southard, New Jersey lawyer and politician, concerning his defense of the Hicksite position in the trial over the Crosswicks School Fund at the time of the Separation in the Society of Friends. The School Fund of Crosswick Preparative Meeting, New Jersey, was claimed by both factions, Hicksite and Orthodox.
Dates:
1827 - 1833
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 2
- Slavery -- United States 2
- Abolitionists 1
- Antislavery movements 1
- Bookstores -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Church work with Indians -- Society of Friends 1
- Freedmen -- Virginia 1
- Freedmen -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Hicksites -- 19th century 1
- Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1869-1934 1
- Indians of North America -- Missions 1
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 1
- Peace -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends 1
- Progressive Quakers 1
- Quaker abolitionists 1
- Quaker authors 1
- Quaker social reformers 1
- Quakers -- Delaware 1
- Quakers -- Delaware -- Wilmington 1
- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- New Jersey -- Crosswicks 1
- Quakers -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Quakers -- Virginia 1
- Sermons, American 1
- Social reform 1
- Social reformers -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- History 1
- Society of Friends -- Peace testimony 1
- Society of Friends -- Sermons 1
- account books 1
- genealogies (histories) 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 2
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 2
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 2
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 2
- Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861 1
- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Biddle, Mary, 1780-1849 1
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1767-1834 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Burr, George H. (George Harris), born 1791 1
- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Crosswicks Preparative Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1919-1958) 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Ferris family 1
- Ferris, Anna M., 1815-1890 1
- Ferris, David, 1821-1908 1
- Ferris, Fanny, 1778-1833 1
- Ferris, Henry 1
- Ferris, John, 1775-1802 1
- Ferris, Matilda, 1853-1937 1
- Ferris, Ziba, 1743-1794 1
- Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
- Gibbons, Mary, 1795-1876 1
- Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Hopper, Edward 1
- Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
- Janney family 1
- Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
- Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 1
- Jewett, Tacy M. 1
- Johnson, Jane 1
- Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 1
- Quimby, Daniel 1
- Rakestraw, Joseph, 1780?-1860 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Southard , Samuel L. (Samuel Lewis), 1787-1842 1
- Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
- Thomas, Philip W. 1
- Truman, George 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
