Repository: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1697">1697</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (1 folder.))
Abstract:: This collection contains a bound volume of manuscript essays by early English Quaker John Whiting, most written during his imprisonment for failing to pay tithes. These essays include accounts of his confinement, testimonies on tiths, and accounts of Mary Whiting and of William Penn. Also included is typescript of a 1955 article written for the Journal of the Friends Historical Society by Frederick B. Tolles which describes the contents and significance of the volume.

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Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (2 folders.))
Abstract:: Includes genealogical data on the Bissell Family in the 17th century as well as two apprenticeship indentures, to patton ringmaking in Worcester County, England, dated 1704, and to farming in New Jersey, dated 1835.

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Extent:: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes plus oversized folder and photographs)
Abstract:: Contains collected papers of the Sharples-Paschall family, Quakers of Philadelphia and Chester County, Pennsylvania. The family descended from Nathan H. and Martha (Price) Sharples and Thomas and Anne (Price Gibson) Paschall. The collection includes deeds, estate and other legal papers, and a small amount of family correspondence compiled by Alfred D. Sharples and his son, Alfred Roberts Sharples. The legal records include apprenticeship agreements, deeds relating to Rees, Price, and Sharples/Sharpless properties in Chester County, and the notarized 1837 freedom paper for Nancy Laws. The correspondence includes letters written by a Sharples relation serving on the gunboat U.S. Delaware in 1862.

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Extent:: 4 linear ft. (8 flat file drawers)
Abstract:: This collection consists of miscellaneous Quaker marriage certificates collected by the Friends Historical Library from different sources at different times.

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