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Stabler-Lea 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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Call Number:
RG5.140
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], RG 5/140, Stabler-Lea Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1835-1932 (inclusive)
Creator:
Stabler, Mary Lea, 1822-1888, Lea, Elizabeth E., Tyson, Martha Ellicott, 1795-1873, Lea, James, 1816-1857, and Lea, Martha, 1819-1900
Abstract:
The Stabler and Lea families were Quakers of Sandy Spring, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia. The collections contains chiefly correspondence of Mary Lea Stabler (1822-1888), with her mother, Elizabeth Ellicott Lea (1793-1858), her sister, Martha Lea (1819-1900), her brother, James Lea (1816-1857), and Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795-1873).

The Stabler and Lea families were Quakers of Sandy Spring, Maryland, and Alexandria, Virginia.

The collections contains chiefly correspondence of Mary Lea Stabler (1822-1888), with her mother, Elizabeth Ellicott Lea (1793-1858), her sister, Martha Lea (1819-1900), her brother, James Lea (1816-1857), and Martha Ellicott Tyson (1795-1873).

The collection is divided into two series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Memorabilia

Donor: Isabel Stabler Moore, 1969-1971

The collection was given.

Formerly known as Stabler-Moore Family Papers.

See also:

  1. Hallowell-Stabler Papers, RG 5/057
  2. Eleanor Stabler Clarke Family Papers, RG 5/185
  3. Stabler Family papers, RG 5/234

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1969
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

Principally family correspondence.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Elizabeth E. Lea, her daughter Mary (Lea) Stabler, and Mary's husband, Henry Stabler. Elizabeth Lea lived near Sandy Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Stablers lived in Alexandria, Virginia, though by the 1860's the Stablers had moved to Brighton, Montgomery County, Maryland, near Sandy Spring.

Martha Ellicott Tyson to niece Mary Lea Stabler, 1865-1872.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

There are also a few letters addressed to Rebecca Russell on the occasion of her 100th birthday, 12mo 24 1886.

Physical Description

8 letters

Drawing of a man in uniform.
Box 1
Receipt, $5.00 from Elizabeth E. Lea to George L. Stabler in payment for two pigs., 1853.
Box 1
"Lines Addressed to Oliver Matthews of Baltimore County, In the 102nd year of his age" by R.H. Townsend, 1888, 2nd Month 21st.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Copied by his sister Hadassah J. Moore.

See also ancestral chart at front of box.

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