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Elizabeth R. Lippincott (Elizabeth Roberts) 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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Elizabeth Roberts Lippincott (1888-1979) was a Quaker genealogist from Moorestown, N.J.

The collection contains chiefly genealogical and card files relating to the Lippincott, Shinn, Thorne, and related Quaker families of Moorestown and elsewhere, together with correspondence, journals, and essays, and collected materials relating to Quaker history, particularly various Friends Meetings and Moorestown Friends School.

The collection is divided into six series:

  1. Biographical and genealogical (primarily card files)
  2. Correspondence
  3. Financial papers
  4. Memorabilia
  5. Writings
  6. Reference material

Donor: Elizabeth R. Lippincott and her estate, 1961-1980 Later accrual: accession 2023.022, removed from a Moorestown Historical Society donation of Greenleaf Boarding Home records.

Pictures of Friends Meeting, originally processed as part of Series 6 (Reference material), were transferred to FHL picture collection in 1974. Autograph albums, copybooks, exercise book, account and bank books that were originally catalogued as a Small Collection were added to this Record Group 5 collection in 1974. along with some Miscellaneous Manuscripts from the same donor.

Pictures of Quaker meeting houses, originally part of the collection, have been removed added to FHL Meeting House Pictured Collection.

Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1974
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. "Descendants of Richard Lippincott of Stone House, England".
Box 1
Scope and Contents

This is an index to the Richard Lippincott Family card file. The index was prepared by S. Robert Stiles.

Archival Resource Key. Richard Lippincott Family card file prepared by Elizabeth R. Lippincott.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Note: card file located in basement at bottom of stairs.

Archival Resource Key. "Lippincott Family including Thorne data.".
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Thornes were E.R. Lippincott's father's maternal ancestors.

Archival Resource Key. "The Lippincott Family. Marriages, Births, and Deaths. Father's side. Collected by Chas. Lippincott. 1859.".
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Shinn family genealogy.
Box 1
Physical Description

1 small notebook

Archival Resource Key. Asa R. Lippincott, Chester M.M., 1843 3mo 14.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Hannah D. Lippincott (later Thorne), Haddonfield M.M., 1843 4mo 10.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Letters and notes, 1850-1903.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Christmas greetings sent by Elizabeth R. Lippincott, 1953-1979 and n.d. (with gaps).
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Christmas greetings received from Rachel Cadbury, 1950-1968 (with gaps).
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Asa R. Lippincott, relating to legacy of Mary Thorne, 1860-61.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Joseph R. Lippincott, 1891-1895.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Lydia L. Hancock, 1893-1925.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Bank book: Asa R. Lippincott, 1858-1861.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Funeral expenses, itemized: Estate of Mary Thorne, 1860.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Document of Asa R. Lippincott, executor, 1860 8mo 6.

Archival Resource Key. Hannah D. Thorne, 1841.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Martie M. Roberts, 1871.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Joseph R. Lippincott, 1889-1891.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Exercise book, William Thorn, 179?.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Composition book: Elizabeth Lippincott (Friends High School, Moorestown, N.J.), late 1890s.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Vacationing With the Birds travel journal, 1953.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Journal contains numerous photographs, maps, and a sample of needles from a piñon pine tree.

Archival Resource Key. Photograph album.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes information about Swarthmore College and Friends Central Bureau.

Archival Resource Key. "Thoughts Devotional".
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "Hospital Days", 1941.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "Thorndale Chronicle", Colestown, N.J., June 27, 1907.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "The Lake from My Window" [on birdwatching].
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "Circumstantial Evidence".
Box 3
Scope and Contents

George Harner Pierce's story about Hannah Ann Jones, from the family papers of Rachel Roberts.

Physical Description

typed copy

Archival Resource Key. Burlington Quarterly Meeting.
Archival Resource Key. Clippings, map, notebook of histories of Meetings.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Map, clippings, pictures, booklet on Moorestown M.M.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Map showing location of Meetings within the Phila. Y.M., prepared by Young Friends Movement, 1940.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Miscellaneous.
Scope and Contents

Includes clippings, notebooks (2) of ms. brief histories of Meetings in N.J.; ms. notes on Meetings in Phila. area; pictures; brochure on Flushing, L.I. Meeting, 1939; Book of Meetings, Phila. Y.M., 1905, 1940.

Archival Resource Key. Moorestown Friends School.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes articles, clippings, report cards, mss. about alumni, pictures.

Archival Resource Key. Salem Quarterly Meeting.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Includes map, pictures.

Archival Resource Key. Articles by Elbert Russell on New Testament., [1916].
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Pictures.
Box 3
Scope and Contents

Approximately 300 pictures and postcards of Meeting Houses, mostly in U.S., have been transferred to Meeting House Picture Collection.

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