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Jennings-Clark-Eldridge Family Papers

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

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.076
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Jennings-Clark-Eldridge Family Papers, RG5/076, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1768-1871 (inclusive)
Creator:
Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859, Jones, Ann, 1774-1846, Imlay, Maria, d. 1829, Eldridge, Phebe, 1776-1845, Jennings, Hannah A., 1803-1853, Jennings, Levi, b. 1799, and Female Association of Philadelphia for Promoting the Manufacture and Use of Free Cotton
Form:
Account books
Abstract:
Hannah A. Jennings was the daughter of Phebe (Glover) and John Clark of Gloucester, N.J. She married Levi Jennings, a bricklayer, in 1832. The collection contains correspondence (1805-1861), household accounts, and miscellaneous papers of Hannah A. Jennings, her husband, Levi Jennings, and her mother, Phebe (Glover) Clark Eldridge. Includes a manuscript account of a sermon by Priscilla Hunt at Merion in 1823, the renunciation of Maria Emily (Imlay) by Ann Jones in 1826, and letters discussing the Hicksite controversy.

Hannah A. Jennings (1803-1853), a New Jersey Quaker, was the daughter of Phebe (Glover) and John Clark of Gloucester, N.J. After her father's death, her mother married a widower, Isaac Eldridge, of Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting of Friends, in 1807. Hannah Clark married Levi Jennings, a bricklayer, in 1832.

The collection contains correspondence (1805-1861), household accounts, and miscellaneous papers of Hannah A. Jennings, her husband, Levi Jennings, and her mother, Phebe (Glover) Clark Eldridge. Includes a manuscript account of a sermon by Priscilla Hunt at Merion in 1823, the renunciation of Maria Emily (Imlay) by Ann Jones in 1826, and letters discussing the Hicksite controversy.

The collection is divided into six series

  1. Correspondence
  2. Journal (fragments), 1820, 1826
  3. Financial papers
  4. Legal papers
  5. Genealogical and related papers
  6. Miscellaneous

Donor: Jennings Family, 1946

Formerly known as Jennings Family Papers.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1946, 2000
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

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Organized by recipient and arranged chronologically.

Archival Resource Key. Phebe Clark, recipient, 1805-1807.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Isaac Eldridge, recipient, 1807-1810.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Phebe Eldridge, recipient, 1808-1817.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Phebe Eldridge, recipient, 1821-1844.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Hannah A. (Clark) Jennings, recipient, 1807-1852.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Levi Jennings, recipient, 1830-1848.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Other family correspondence, 1820-1861.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Fragments, 1820, 1826.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Accounts, bills, receipts, 1809-1871.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Bonds, guardianship papers, wills, and papers relating to estates, mortgage papers.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. John Hampton Ann (his wife), to James Atkinson, 1768.
Archival Resource Key. Isaac Elizabeth Somers to Samuel Lippincott, 1777.
Archival Resource Key. Thomas Rachel Jennings to Levi Jennings, 1803.

Archival Resource Key. Births deaths, Jennings family and Logue family.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Thomas Jennings to Rachel Glover, 1797.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. John Clark to Phebe Glover, 1798.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Levi Jennings to Hannah A. Clark, 1832.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Phebe Clark, Removal cert. from Evesham to Pilesgrove MM.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Phebe Clark, Disownment from Evesham MM, 1799.
Archival Resource Key. Phebe Eldridge, Removal cert. from Phila. MM to Pilesgrove MM, 1827.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Plot plans.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Essays and extracts.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Including a manuscript account of a sermon by Priscilla Hunt at Merion in 1823, and the account of a sermon by Ann Jones in 1826 in which she renounced Maria Emily (Imlay).

Archival Resource Key. Exercise books.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Female Association of Philadelphia for promoting the manufacture and use of free cotton, Opening Minute and Rules, 1829.
Box 1
Physical Description

Mss

Archival Resource Key. Recipes and cures.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Verses, mostly copies; some verses inspired by Elias Hicks.
Box 1

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