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Livezey 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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.089
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], Livezey Family Papers, RG5/089, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1773-1925 (inclusive)
Creator:
Livezey family
Form:
albums (books) and genealogies (histories)
Abstract:
The Livezey family members were Quakers and residents of New Jersey. The collection contains correspondence, biographical data, genealogical chart, marriage certificates, memorials, piece books, and printed material of the Livezey and Underwood families.

The Livezey family members were Quakers and residents of New Jersey.

The collection contains correspondence, biographical data, genealogical chart, marriage certificates, memorials, piece books, and printed material of the Livezey and Underwood families.

The collection is divided into four series:

  1. Biographical and genealogical
  2. Correspondence, 1829-1844
  3. Memorabilia
  4. Quaker reference material.

Donor: Joseph M. Livezey, 1967

Sorted, arranged, and placed in document box in RG 5. Oversize marriage certificates placed in chart case.

The following material, originally part of the collection, has been removed and recatalogued:

  1. Certificate of removal for Joseph B. Livezey, a minor, from Gwynedd M.M. to Woodbury MM, 11mo 2, 1850. Placed in Meeting Papers, Misc., Certificates of Removal
  2. Ms. copy of minute from Woodbury Monthly Meeting to Salem Quarterly, recommending William Haines for the Ministry, 1860, transferred to Woodbury Monthly Meeting records
  3. Ms. copy, from Woodbury Monthly Meeting to Salem Quarterly, recommending David I. Griscom for the Ministry, 1859, transferred to Woodbury Monthly Meeting Records

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1967
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

Genealogical chart of Livezy family.
Box 1
Diary, T. Eliza John (Underwood), 1875.
Box 1
Diary, Joseph B. Livezey, 1880.
Box 1
Personal history of Joseph B. Livezey, 1904.
Box 1
Physical Description

notebook

Joseph Burr and Mary Hilyard, at Ancocas MM, 18?3, 2mo 10.
Box 1
Joseph Livezey and Edith S. Burr, at Cherry Street Meeting House, Philadelphia., 183?, 11mo 3.
Box 1
James M. John and Hannah Kester, at Fishing Creek Meeting, 1844 12mo 25.
Box 1
Warner Underwood and Eliza John, at residence of Hannah K. John, Greenwood Twp., Columbia Co., Pa. (under care of Fishing Creek MM)., 1875, 10mo 21.
Box 1
James Harris Underwood to Sadie Vansant Cliver, at 520 Hadden Avenue, Camden, N.J. (under care of Woodbury MM), 1909, 11mo 11.
Box 1
Miscellaneous genealogical data.
Box 1

Correspondence, 1829-1844.
Box 1

Piece book, Martha Livezey, Jan. 4, 1775.
Box 1
Piece book, Sarah Haines, n.d.
Box 1
Memorials and funeral invitations.
Box 1
"Poems by a Friend", 1939.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Gift from Phebe John to her niece, Eliza John, 1840.

Clipping, Epistle from London Yearly Meeting., 1819 5mo.
Box 1
"An Epistle to the young and rising generation..." by William Haines, Jr., 1836 2mo 29.
Box 1
William Haines recommended for Ministry, 1860, 1mo 30.
Box 1
Physical Description

typed carbon

"The Little Child's First Reader," Friends Educational Series, T. Ellwood Zell, 1862.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Gift from William Haines to William H. Livezey.

Notebook, requests for orders on the income of the Samuel Jeanes Fund for Meeting House purposes, 1901-1914.
Box 1
"Handbook of the Principles of the Religious Society of Friends", 1925.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Paper, "Are there non-essentials in Quakerism," n.d.

Print, Suggest