Repository: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections / Place: Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: .01 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of the single folder collection of Robert Proud's manuscripts. The majority of the collection is comprised of notes on Robert Proud's life, presumably written by a descendant. The most significant item is titled "Notes & memorandums by Robert Proud of Philadelphia respecting his early turn of mind, education etc., anno 1786." There is also information in another hand about other Proud family members, a Robert Proud signature, and some fragments.

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Extent:: .1 linear ft. (1 box, 1 oversize box)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of the maps from the Quaker collection.

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Extent:: .1 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: Joseph Elkinton's journal entries describe his 1816 trip from Philadelphia to a Quaker missionary settlement and school called "Tunessassa," among the Seneca in upstate New York. His entries describe the preparation for the trip and his travel from Philadelphia to Tunessassa. The location of the original journal is unknown.

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Extent:: 0.0040 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: 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.

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Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: This collection contains a diary created by Sarah D. Wilt between the years 1864 and 1872. In her entries she wrote about traveling with her family.

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Extent:: .2 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: The Christian Arbitration and Peace Society was founded in 1886 in Philadelphia as a branch of the American Peace Society.

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Extent:: 3.03 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection contains the records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records Project compiled between the years of 1984 and 1989. Included in the collection are the published materials of the project, processing plans, photographs, notes, and scanned copies of the listing of archival records for this Meeting, for individual Yearly Meetings, Quaker Meetings, and Monthly Meetings.

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