Form: Diaries / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1750">1750</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1799">1799</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Samuel Newitt journal, circa 1792

Extent:: 0.0080 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Travel journal of Samuel Newitt. Entries detail Newitt's journey to Rhode Island, including descriptions of visits with Friends and attendance at Meetings in various towns in Rhode Island.

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

John Parrish diaries, 1796-1805 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.14 linear ft. (7 volumes)
Abstract:: John Parrish was a member and minister of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. His diaries describe his travels to Quaker families, including those disowned by their Meeting, throughout Rhode Island, Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania.

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

Rebecca Scattergood diary, 1774-1775 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.01 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: The diary of Rebecca Scattergood's trip to Nantucket from the fall of 1774 to the spring of 1775. Entries describe travel to Nantucket from Philadelphia, remedies for various illnesses, attendance at meetings, and social calls.

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

Henry Simmons journals, 1796-1800 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear ft. (4 volumes)
Abstract:: Henry Simmons was a Quaker missionary to the Seneca Nation and a member Middletown Monthly Meeting. Henry Simmons's journals are related to time Simmons spent with the Oneida and Seneca nations.

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

Rebecca Wright diary, 1784, Undated

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 volume, 1 folder)
Abstract:: Entries in Rebecca Wright's diary of her religious visit to England and Ireland provide an account of her voyage to Ireland, her recuperation in Waterford after arriving, her attendance at meetings in Ireland, her travel to Liverpool, and attendance at meetings throughout England.

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

William Savery diaries, 1794-1798 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.7 linear ft. (4 volumes)
Abstract:: William Savery's diaries. The majority of the first volume concerns the Treaty at Canandaigua, and the remaining volumes are accounts of religious visits Savery made throughout Europe. Entries generally describe details of travel between destinations, Quaker meetings attended, Quaker families visited, and descriptions of each location's culture, food, language, style of dress, and form of local government.

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

Rachel Wilson diary, 1768-1769 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Rachel Wilson was a Quaker minister who made a religious visit to the British colonies in North America in 1768, and attended the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the fall of 1769, where she addressed John Woolman. The diary of Rachel Wilson's religious visit to New England and Charleston, South Carolina, from England. Entries describe her travels, Quaker families visited, and meetings attended.

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

Friends Historical Library collection of journals, 1676-1992 (inclusive)

Extent:: 10 linear ft.
Abstract:: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College has a large collection of Journals, the broad term which is also used to refer to diaries and daybooks. This inventory lists journals in Friends Historical Library, including those catalogued individually in MSS 003, Journal Collection, as well as volumes which are part of a larger collections and journals available in the Library on microfilm.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Clendenon Family Papers, 1789-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Abstract:: The collection contains correspondence, journals, and other papers of the Robert and Elizabeth Clendenon family who served as Quaker missionaries to the Native Americans in Tunesassa, Cattaraugus County, New York, in 1812-1816 and were early settlers of Ceres, McKean County, Pennsylvania. Of special note are the diary and correspondence of Robert Clendenon. The bulk of the correspondence was received by Lydia Clendenon Chevalier and includes two letters dictated by Jacob Johnson, a member of the Seneca tribe whom she met at Tunesassa. Other letters provide insight into the lives of her unmarried sisters who struggled to make a living as teachers. The letters mention family events, Quaker and anti-slavery concerns. Also included are research material and writing compiled by Dorothy Godfrey Wayman in preparation for her articles on the Clendenon and Chevalier families.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Furness family papers, 1765-1937 (inclusive)

Extent:: 49 boxes
Abstract:: Family records, personal records, and materials related to the publication of the New Variorum editions of Shakespearean texts. The collection includes the work of Furness and his son, as writers, editors, and collectors, but it also includes personal materials related to their non-scholarly interests. Family members include: Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912), Horace Howard Furness (1865-1930), Helen Kate Furness, William Henry Furness, and Louise Brooks Winsor Furness.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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