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Haviland Family Papers

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 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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Call Number:
RG5.059
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Haviland Family Papers, RG5/059, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1754-1931 (inclusive)
Creator:
Haviland family, Haviland, James S., 1849-1939, Eastburn, Rachel, 1808-1876, Parry, Seneca E. (Seneca Ely), 1813-1848, Walton, Priscilla S. (Priscilla Stubbs), 1815-1897, and Walton, Louise H. (Louise Haviland), 1875-1951
Abstract:
James S. Haviland, a birthright Quaker, was born in 1849, the son of William F. and Sarah Ann (Carpenter) Haviland of Purchase Monthly Meeting (N.Y.). The collection contains correspondence, financial, and legal papers, and miscellaneous manuscripts of the families of James S. and Elizabeth (Griffen) Haviland. Includes materials of the related Griffen, Field, and Parry families, especially the correspondence of Seneca Ely and Priscilla Stubbs Parry of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1826-67, and of his sister, Rachel Parry Brosius.

James S. Haviland, a birthright Quaker, was born in 1849, the son of William F. and Sarah Ann (Carpenter) Haviland of Purchase Monthly Meeting (N.Y.). In 1874 the married Elizabeth Griffen, daughter of Henry. They had two daughters, Martha G. and Louise E.; the latter married J. Barnard Walton in 1910.

The collection contains correspondence, financial, and legal papers, and miscellaneous manuscripts of the families of James S. and Elizabeth (Griffen) Haviland. Includes materials of the related Griffen, Field, and Parry families, especially the correspondence of Seneca Ely and Priscilla Stubbs Parry of Lancaster County, Pa, 1826-67, and of his sister, Rachel Parry Brosius.

The collection is divided into thirteen series, according to family names.

Donors: Gift of Barnard Walton, 1957

Gift of Margaret S. Walton, 1977

Papers descended to donor, Barnard Walton, through is wife's family.

Collection was composed of letters, documents, newspaper accounts from Haviland family and related families (including Bowne, Carpenter, Cromwell, Field, Griffen, Haydock, Stoutenburgh and Sutton) and reference material. Collection sorted and filed in documents box, fall of 1957. Additional materials added in 1977. In 1982, Minute Book of the Young Friends Association of Purchase, N.Y., removed from collection and transferred to RG 4. Individually catalogued as RG 4/075.

The following material has been removed from the collection and recatalogued:

  1. For marriage certificate of Charles Carpenter and Phebe Cromwell see: Chart Case Marr. C.
  2. Minutes of the Young Friends Association of Purchase, New York, 11mo 4, 1892 to 4mo 20, 1894. [Transferred to RG2 Friends Associations on 9-22-1982]
  3. For deeds of the Haines family, see Chart Case-Deeds H.
  4. For Certificate from the Woman's Central Association of Relief to the Soldiers and Society of Harrison, N.Y., 1mo 1, 1866 see: RG 5 Oversize.

Subject

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1957
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Indenture, 1772 2mo 27.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

The Carpenters were the grandparents of James Haviland.

Archival Resource Key. Papers, 1813-1846.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Papers, 1784-1813.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Papers, 1763-1823.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence and papers, 1754-1789.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Newspaper account of fire on the Erie, 1841 8mo.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Paper and correspondence, 1791-1931, n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes letter from Szechwan Yearly Meeting to New York Yearly Meeting.

Archival Resource Key. Minutes of the Young Friends Association of Purchase, New York, 1892 11mo 4-1894 4mo 20.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Transferred to RG2 Friends Associations on 9-22-1982

Archival Resource Key. Louise E. Haviland, Scrapbook of Verse, 1904.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Louise E. Haviland, Account Book, 1910.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Deed, 1785 6mo 26.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Deed, 1785 10mo 10.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Letter from James Sutton to Benjamin Field,, 1783 1mo 29.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. 2 letters concerning the Separation, 1822 11mo 15, n.d.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Biographical and genealogical, n.d.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Elizabeth Ely Parry, 1815.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Ely Parry, 1858.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Rachel Parry Broius, 1852-1855, n.d.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Seneca Parry, 1826-1896, n.d.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Priscilla Stubbs Parry, 1833-1867, n.d.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Ruthanna Parry, 1852-1856.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1822-1917, n.d.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Rachel Stubbs, Book of Verse, 1849.
Box 2

Archival Resource Key. Log book, 1896.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Sketch book, n.d.
Box 2

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