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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Quakers are members of the Christian denomination known as the Religious Society of Friends.
This collection is comprised of the single folder collections of financial records.
See item aquisition note.
Processed by Kara Flynn; completed January, 2016.
Subject
- Publisher
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Kara Flynn
- Finding Aid Date
- January, 2016
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Collection Inventory
A Bill of Exchange for David Barclay, written up in Antigua in 1758.
Handwritten "Bills of expenses going to North Carolina Yearly Meeting."
Printed bond between William Penn and William Rodney, signed by William Rodney.
Tuition receipts from the Friends Grammar and Friends Central schools (1873-1874), and a letter concerning the donation of items in 1954.
Share of stock in the Wilmington and Kennett Turnpike Company.
Share of stock in the Nautilus Pearl Fishing Company.
Financial account of Benjamin Kite, for his son John's expenses at Westtown School.
Receipts for the school.
Shares in Provident Life and Trust, some with stamps, purchased in 1917 by: Corporation of Haverford College, Asa Wing, Samuel Shipley, Samuel Troth, Elizabeth M. Wistar, Henry Stokes, Anna D. Thurston, Ethel R. Potts et al. Provident Life was begun by Quakers. Asa Wing (1850-1931) became its president.
General Physical DescriptionSee Oversize Box 3, Folder 4.
Single unbound, handwritten account book of George Borton, which includes the guardianship accounts for John W. Borton, and Borton estate and family accounts.
General Physical DescriptionSee Oversize Box 3, Folder 5.
Two handwritten copies of the Bill of sale of land, sold by William Penn to James Peter on 9/26/1681. The second copy was made later, and was written on the back of of a printed engraving entitled "La Cigale," by Edouard Bisson, and dated 1890.
General Physical DescriptionSee Oversize Box 3, Folder 6.