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Sarah Jones Family Papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.100
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.25 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG5/100, Sarah Jones Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1817-1907 (inclusive)
Creator:
Cox, Sallie (Sarah Jones), 1837-1930, Ercildoun Boarding School (East Fallowfield, Pa.), and Truman, George
Abstract:
Sarah (Sallie) Jones was a Bucks County 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.

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:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Manuscripts
  3. Memorabilia
  4. Miscellaneous material
  5. Pictures

Donor: Mrs. Joseph T. McDowell, 1937

The donor was the daughter of Sarah Jones.

Previously known as McDowell-Jones Paper.

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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

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

Archival Resource Key. Correspondence, 1817-1888, n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

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).

Archival Resource Key. Removal of Amos Jones from Richland to Buckingham Monthly Meeting, 11-28-1823.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Record of "First Journey to Balt.", author unknown., 10-23-1826 to 12-2-1826.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Copy of Testimony against Amos Jones by Orthodox Friends, Buckingham Monthly Meeting, 5-5-1828.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. School compositions, eight by Sallie Jones, ca. 1855.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Sermon by George Truman, 8-27-1863.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Verse, "A Hundred Years from now," author unknown.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. "A vision of Joseph Hoag".
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. Teacher's Certificates for Sarah Jones, 1854-1856.
Box 1
Physical Description

3 certificates

Archival Resource Key. "Statements of the Progress in Study, the Conduct, etc." of Sallie Jones, 1855-1856.
Box 1
Physical Description

3 statements

Archival Resource Key. Copy stick, with explanatory letter.
Box 1

Archival Resource Key. The Olive Branch General Herald of Temperance News..., Doylestown, Pa., 8-6-1845.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Circular of Ercildoun Boarding School, 1854.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Clippings, 1856, n.d.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

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

Archival Resource Key. Bucks County Academy, brochure, 1857.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Phila Mercantile Journal, 7-17-1871.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Daily Local News, West Chester, 11-19-1872 & 9-16-1875.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Henry S. Kent Memorial, 2-19-1907.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. "The Red Apple," by Mary D., Leaflets of the Law of Kindness.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. "A Lesson from a Monkey," by Edward Carswell, pub. by The National Temperance Society and Publishing House.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Proceedings of Friends Educational Association, 12-1-1863.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

"At which report was made of vote on location of Swarthmore College."

Archival Resource Key. John J. Cornell and wife.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Dalton Hall.
Box 1
Physical Description

5 views

Archival Resource Key. Robt. Haviland and wife H.M.J. and Marianna.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Dolington, Makefield, Merion Friends', 1830.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Meetings Houses.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Sharon Female Seminary.
Box 1

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