Subject: Quakers -- Diaries / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1800">1800</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1849">1849</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Susan Foulke diary, 1814-1840 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.04 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Susan Foulke was an Orthodox Quaker and a member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Entries detail Susan's daily life and include prayers, religious reflection, descriptions of visits to friends and family in Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey, and births, deaths, and marriages within her family and the Quaker community.

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

Stephen Gould diary, 1812-1815 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.06 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Stephen Gould was an active Quaker and a repairer of clocks in Newport, Rhode Island. His diary entries include descriptions of social calls, Quaker Meetings, the health of Gould's young son, births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community, and discussions of the War of 1812 and Gould's opposition to warfare in general.

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

Anna Greene diary, 1809-1819 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.16 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Anna Greene was born circa 1790, to Paul and Anna Green in Naragansett, Rhode Island. She was a Quaker preacher. Her diary entries focus on prayer and religious reflection.

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

John S. Haines diary, 1839-1865 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.06 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: John S. Haines's "Farm and Garden" diary entries detail the weather, farm work done each day, harvests, planting, and crops yielded. Entries also describe farm-related business, including the sale of crops and the purchasing of farm equipment.

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

William Hodgson Jr. diary, 1827

Extent:: 0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: William Hodgson Jr. was a Quaker minister. His diary entries describe the voyage from Liverpool, England, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, including descriptions of the weather, books Hodgson read while on board, and the Captain and other passengers. Later entries related to Hodgson's time in Philadelphia describe the terrain, his attendance at the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and other Quaker Meetings, visits to schools in Philadelphia, and discussions of the Hicksite separation.

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]

Ann Shipley diary, 1820 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.02 linear ft. (1 volume)
Abstract:: Ann Shipley accompanied Anna Braithwaite on her two interviews with Elias Hicks in January and March 1824, and wrote a letter, dated October 15, 1824, defending Anna Braithwaite's account of the meeting. Her diary entries detail her travels throughout Pennsylvania, including visits with Friends and attendance at Quaker meetings.

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]

George Bacon diaries, 1813-1829 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.89 linear ft. (17 volumes)
Abstract:: George Bacon's entries largely focus on descriptions of the weather, Quaker meetings attended, Yearly Meetings attended, births, deaths, and marriages in the Quaker community, social calls, and news of his family and business. In addition to the 17 original volumes of diaries, the collection includes a folder of partial transcripts of Bacon's diaries, some typed, some handwritten, as well as an index of journal entries by topic.

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

Rowland Greene journals, 1830-1857, 1907 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.7 linear ft. (10 volumes)
Abstract:: Rowland Greene was a Quaker minister from Rhode Island. His diary entries focus largely on religious visits Greene made throughout New England, as well as Quaker meetings he attended, social calls, family news, deaths within the Quaker community, and passages of religious reflection.

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

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