Call Number:

MC.950.069

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Samuel Rowland Fisher correspondence (HC.MC.950.069), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1767-1768 (inclusive)

Creator:

Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834

Form:

letters (correspondence) and Correspondence

Abstract:

This collection includes the personal correspondence between Samuel Rowland Fisher, a Quaker merchant, and his friends and family, as well as a number of photocopies.

Samuel Rowland Fisher (1745-1834) was born in Lewes, Delaware, the son of Joshua Fisher and Sarah Rowland. He was a prominent Philadelphia merchant involved in the transatlantic trade, and ran a packet line between London and Philadelphia. Fisher tried to remain neutral during the Revolutionary War, and was exiled to Winchester, Virginia, for a year with 20 other Quakers. He married Hannah Rodman, and the couple had four children: Sarah (1794-1830), Deborah (1795-1888), Rodman (1798-1800), and Thomas (1801-1856). He died on May 6, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This collection includes 25 handwritten letters of the personal correspondence between Samuel Rowland Fisher and his friends and family, as well as a number of photocopies. The letters and accounts were written to Samuel Rowland Fisher while he was in England on a business trip for his father's firm, Joshua Fisher & Sons of Philadelphia, a shipping-importing business. The materials are from merchants in England, including Thomas and William Dillworth and others and give insight into Quaker business practice and language of the 18th century.