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Sarah Jones 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
Sarah (Sallie) Jones was a Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Hicksite Quaker. She was the daughter of Amos and Margery Jones of Makefield Monthly Meeting and was educated at Ercildoun School in Kennett, PA. In 1859, she married William G. Cox of Goshen Monthly Meeting.
This collection contains family correspondence and correspondence between Sarah Jones and her schoolmates at Ercildoun Boarding School. It also includes miscellaneous material such as a sermon by George Truman (1863) and teaching certificates for Sarah Jones, 1843-1856.
The collection is divided into five series:
- Correspondence
- Manuscripts
- Memorabilia
- Miscellaneous material
- Pictures
Donor: Mrs. Joseph T. McDowell, 1937
The donor was the daughter of Sarah Jones.
Previously known as McDowell-Jones Paper.
People
Subject
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Society of Friends -- Education
- Education -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Bucks County
Place
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- ca. 1940
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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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
Among the authors are Sarah (Sallie) Jones, mother of Mrs. Jos. T. McDowell; Margery Jones, mother of Sarah Jones; Annie Kent (Bradley), Esther Kent (Smedley), and other schoolmates of Sarah Jones at Ercildoun Boarding School for Girls (Smedley Darlington principal).
3 certificates
3 statements
Mainly poems by A.F.K. (Annie Kent?) and E.K. (Esther Kent); also, "Valedictory Address" by A.F.K. (Annie Kent?), Ercildoun Boarding School, 3-21-1856
"At which report was made of vote on location of Swarthmore College."
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