Creator: Rhoads, Samuel, 1806-1868 - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: Nineteenth century letters and papers primarily of the Quaker Gibbons and Rhoads families, often relating to abolition and the Free Produce Association.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.134 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: The Free Produce Assocation of Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting was a Quaker organization, founded in 1845 in Philadelphia, PA. The free produce association was a boycott movement against "produce," anything produced by slave labor. This collection contains the minutes from 1845 - 1852, from the Free Produce Association of the Friends of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The minutes contain finance reports, nominations for officiers, and reports from various committees, including reports from a committee delegated to be in correspondence with Quakers in England doing similar work.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: This letterbook contains the correspondence between William G. Rhoads, Samuel Rhoads, and Asa Wing. The volume includes both personal and business correspondence.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.22 linear ft.
Abstract:: Letters written to Edward Rhoads, a Quaker physician and Haverford College graduate. Letters writers include Edward Rhoads's parents (Samuel and Anne Gibbons Rhoads), Thomas Chase, Josiah Forster, Anna Harrison, Sophie and John Pease, Elisabeth and Henry Crosfield, William Pepper, M.A. and William Longstreth, James Carey Thomas, the Yarnall family, and others. The letters generally offer friendly regard.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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