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Sarah Upton Bowerman diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-008
Overview
The diary begins with a description of Bowerman's childhood and early adulthood. Entries are composed of religious reflection, descriptions of meetings attended in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, family news, and social calls.
Dates:
1841-1868
Cooper-Richardson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-032
Overview
The Cooper-Richardson collection contains correspondence and family memorabilia from the Cooper family (William Evans and Sarah Matlack Roberts Cooper). The Cooper family were Quakers of New Jersey, attending meetings in the Woodbury and Byberry areas. The collection includes correspondence and family memorabilia. Of particular interest is the journal of their granddaughter, Anna C. Richardson, written on her trip to California in 1904, and the writings of Sarah Cooper.
Dates:
1863-1977
Joshua Evans Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-190
Overview
Joshua Evans, a Quaker minister and abolitionist, was born in 1731 in West Jersey. About the year 1754, he experienced a religious conversion and thereafter devoted his life to sharing his rigorous interpretation of the gospel through an ascetic and pious life style and simple ministry. Barely educated, he was nevertheless acknowledged as a minister by Haddonfield Monthly Meeting in 1759. Evans was a vegetarian and a fervent proponent of the peace testimony, Quaker plainness, and ending...
Dates:
ca. 1788- ca. 1804
Hannah M. (Hannah Moore) Levick Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-086
Overview
Hannah M. Levick was a Hicksite Quaker, the daughter of Richard and Sara Moore of Richmond in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and a granddaughter of Theophilus and Hannah Foulke. In 1843 she married William M. Levick of Philadelphia, and they became members of Green Street Monthly Meeting. Her husband was employed as a conveyancer in Philadelphia, and Hannah wrote a number of articles for Quaker publications. The collection includes correspondence of Theophilus and Hannah Foulke, 1794-1796, and...
Dates:
1766-1896
Robbins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-130
Overview
This small collection concerning the Robbins family, Quakers who owned the historic Seven Stars Tavern property in Salem County, New Jersey, was compiled by John H. Bourne. The Robbins family purchased the tavern about 1805, and the property remained in the family until it was purchased by John H. Bourne in 1927. The Robbins family belonged to Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which in 1928 became Woodstown Monthly Meeting. John Bourne also was a member of Woodstown Monthly Meeting. The...
Dates:
1849-1934
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- Bourne, John H. (John Hill), 1870-1944 1
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- Cooper, Anna, 1872-1926 1
- Cooper, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Matlack), 1815-1902 1
- Cooper, Henry R. (Henry Roberts), 1856-1928 1
- Cooper, Sarah, 1838-1923 1
- Cooper, William E. (William Evans), 1812-1856 1
- Evans, Joshua, 1731-1798 1
- Foulke family 1
- Foulke, Hannah, 1767-1850 1
- Foulke, Theophilus, 1761-1798 1
- Franklin, Henry, -1889 1
- Hannah M. (Hannah Moore) Levick 1
- Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 1
- Lester family 1
- Levick, William M., 1821-1874 1
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- Moore family 1
- Richardson, Elizabeth C., 1863-1947 1
- Richardson, Mary K. (Mary Kaighn), 1841-1912 1
- Richardson, Nathaniel, 1839-1920 1
- Robbins family 1
- Robbins, Annie Lawrie, 1828-1916 1
- Seven Stars Tavern (Salem County, N.J.) 1
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