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Nancy P. (Nancy Peel) Speers Genealogical 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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Call Number:
RG5.194
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
4 linear ft. (8 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG5/194, Nancy Speers Genealogical Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1906-1995 [bulk 1972-1995] (inclusive)
Creator:
Nancy P. (Nancy Peel) Speers (1925-1995)
Abstract:
Nancy Peel Speers (1925-1995) was a leading expert on Quaker genealogy. Married to David Speers (1919-1968), she was a lifelong resident of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She was employed as an archivist and staff genealogist at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. The Speers' Genealogical Research Papers consist of personal research on the Peel, Speers, and Olmsted families, research on Quaker families, including extensive work done on Cox, Kester, Griffith, and Lloyd families, and miscellaneous Quaker genealogical research.

Nancy Peel Speers (1925-1995) was a leading expert on Quaker genealogy. She was employed by Friends Historical Library as an archivist and staff genealogist, and she also worked as a private genealogist during her employment and after retirement from the Library.

She was the daughter of H. Lindley and Edna L. Peel and raised in the Borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Nancy Speers entered the College of Wooster in Ohio at the end of her junior year at Swarthmore High School, returning to graduate from Swarthmore High School with the class of 1943. She then transferred to Middlebury College in Vermont where she spent her sophomore and junior years. In August 1945 she married David Speers (Adam David McKinstry Speers) of Indianapolis, a Swarthmore College alumnus. They settled in Swarthmore. David Speers (1919-1968) was a partner in the law firm of Duane, Morris, and Heckscher in Philadelphia.

After her husband's death, Nancy Speers began to work at Friends Historical Library as an archivist and staff genealogist. She retired in 1992, and her genealogical papers were donated to the Library after her death by her three children.

The Speers' Genealogical Research Papers consist of personal research on the Peel, Speers, and Olmsted families, research on Quaker families, including extensive work done on Cox, Kester, Griffith, and Lloyd families, and miscellaneous Quaker genealogical research.

The collection is divided into two series:

  1. Research on Nancy Peel Speers's family genealogy
  2. Quaker family files, with an alphabetized checklist of names

Accession information

Donor: David M. Speers, Jonathan O. Speers, Lindley B. Speers, 1996; Accession number 96.016 & 96.028

The collection was given by the children of Nancy Speers.

Ten cartons of genealogical research papers and publications were given to FHL by Nancy Speers's children. A preliminary sort was done as the material was received, with personal letters and photographs returned to the family and books and other publications added to FHL duplicates.

The papers were sorted into three groups: Nancy Peel Speers genealogical research on her family lines; Quaker family genealogical files; and miscellaneous Quaker research. The materials within the groups were arranged alphabetically and stored temporarily in eight document boxes and three large cartons. Series 1 contains personal genealogical research on the Peel and Speers families; Series 2, containing Quaker family files, is stored in the FHL Reading Room for ease of access; and the third group, containing three cartons of miscellaneous Quaker research, has been checked for duplication and added to the Library's PG 7 files (genealogical/ biographical reference.)

Miscellaneous Quaker research has been added to FHL PG 7, Biographical and genealogical reference, for ease of access.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
SKM
Finding Aid Date
1997
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Includes research on Speers, Peel, Lippincott, Russell, McKinstry, Olmsted, and other collateral family lines.

Folders have not been entirely sorted and contain rough notes, correspondence, and charts.

Archival Resource Key. Typescript, "Lineal Descent of Nancy Peel Speers".
Box 1 Folder 1
Archival Resource Key. Typed transcription, "Diary of Trip to England, 1860" kept by Henry Clarke Peel, Sr.
Box 1 Folder 2
Archival Resource Key. Lippincott family.
Box 1 Folder 3
Archival Resource Key. Peel family.
Box 1 Folder 4
Archival Resource Key. Lippincott/Peel lines.
Box 1 Folder 5
Archival Resource Key. Typescript "Lineal Descent of Adam David McKinstry Speers".
Box 1 Folder 6
Archival Resource Key. Mimeograph mss "Spear Family History".
Box 1 Folder 7
Archival Resource Key. Peel/Speers research notes.
Box 1 Folder 8
Archival Resource Key. McKinstry family lines.
Box 1 Folder 9
Archival Resource Key. Speers.
Box 1 Folder 10
Archival Resource Key. Speers lineal descent.
Box 1 Folder 11
Archival Resource Key. Speers, with LeFevre, Bevier, Etting, etc. notes.
Box 1 Folder 12
Archival Resource Key. Speir line.
Box 2 Folder 13
Archival Resource Key. Mary Beare's correspondence regarding Speers family.
Box 2 Folder 14
Archival Resource Key. Nathaniel Bernard's correspondence.
Box 2 Folder 15
Archival Resource Key. Adam Speers/Nancy Ellen Speers Bernard correspondence, etc.
Box 2 Folder 16
Archival Resource Key. Olmstead/Browning lines.
Box 2 Folder 17
Archival Resource Key. Russell/Olmsted.
Box 2 Folder 18
Archival Resource Key. Olmsted family charts.
Box 2 Folder 19
Archival Resource Key. Olmsted family group charts.
Box 2 Folder 20
Archival Resource Key. Olmsted correspondence.
Box 2 Folder 21
Archival Resource Key. Olmsted family association.
Box 2 Folder 22
Archival Resource Key. Olmsted family reunion, notes.
Box 2 Folder 23

Archival Resource Key. Ashead.
Box 3 Folder 1
Archival Resource Key. Atkinson.
Box 3 Folder 2
Archival Resource Key. Baker.
Box 3 Folder 3
Archival Resource Key. Beales: see Hunt.
Archival Resource Key. Beals.
Box 3 Folder 4
Archival Resource Key. Bevan.
Box 3 Folder 5
Archival Resource Key. Birdsall.
Box 3 Folder 6
Archival Resource Key. Bonsall.
Box 3 Folder 7
Archival Resource Key. Borton: see Lippincott.
Archival Resource Key. Bowater: see Beals.
Archival Resource Key. Brindley: see Lukens.
Archival Resource Key. Brown.
Box 3 Folder 8
Archival Resource Key. Burrough: see Lippincott.
Archival Resource Key. Burson: see Griffith.
Archival Resource Key. Bye: see Brown.
Archival Resource Key. Canby.
Box 3 Folder 9
Archival Resource Key. Canby: see Heston.
Archival Resource Key. Carver: see Reeves.
Archival Resource Key. Chaffin/Chalfant.
Box 3 Folder 10
Archival Resource Key. Clayton.
Box 3 Folder 11
Archival Resource Key. Clendennon.
Box 3 Folder 12
Archival Resource Key. Cloud.
Box 3 Folder 13
Archival Resource Key. Coales: see Truman.
Archival Resource Key. Cooper: see Truman.
Archival Resource Key. Coppock: also, see Tucker.
Box 3 Folder 14
Archival Resource Key. Cowgill.
Box 3 Folder 15
Archival Resource Key. Cox (2 folders).
Box 4 Folder 16-17
Archival Resource Key. Crawford.
Box 4 Folder 18
Archival Resource Key. Crew: see Stanley.
Archival Resource Key. Day: see Hussey.
Archival Resource Key. Dickinson: see Hallock.
Archival Resource Key. Dixon: see Hutton.
Archival Resource Key. Doane: see Phillips.
Archival Resource Key. Doors: see Lukens.
Archival Resource Key. Durham.
Box 4 Folder 19
Archival Resource Key. Elliott.
Box 4 Folder 20
Archival Resource Key. Endicott: see Gaskill.
Archival Resource Key. Evans.
Box 4 Folder 21
Archival Resource Key. Fayle.
Box 4 Folder 22
Archival Resource Key. Fisher: also, see Kirk.
Box 4 Folder 23
Archival Resource Key. Foulke: see Lippincott.
Archival Resource Key. Franzier: see Coppock.
Archival Resource Key. Gaskill.
Box 4 Folder 24
Archival Resource Key. Griffith.
Box 4 Folder 25
Archival Resource Key. Haines: see Lippincott.
Archival Resource Key. Hallock.
Box 4 Folder 26
Archival Resource Key. Halloway: see Pharo.
Archival Resource Key. Hammer.
Box 4 Folder 27
Archival Resource Key. Hanson.
Box 4 Folder 28
Archival Resource Key. Harvey: see Hollingsworth.
Archival Resource Key. Heacock: see John.
Archival Resource Key. Hester.
Box 5 Folder 29
Archival Resource Key. Heston.
Box 5 Folder 30
Archival Resource Key. Hibbs.
Box 5 Folder 31
Archival Resource Key. Hill: see Cox and Phillips.
Archival Resource Key. Hinshaw.
Box 5 Folder 32
Archival Resource Key. Hoag: see Narramore.
Archival Resource Key. Hodson: see Cox.
Archival Resource Key. Hollingsworth; also, see Hinshaw.
Box 5 Folder 33
Archival Resource Key. Hooten: see Langstaff.
Archival Resource Key. Hunt: also, see Beals, Hinshaw, and Jones.
Box 5 Folder 34
Archival Resource Key. Hussey.
Box 5 Folder 35
Archival Resource Key. Hutton.
Box 5 Folder 36
Archival Resource Key. James.
Box 5 Folder 37
Archival Resource Key. John.
Box 5 Folder 38
Archival Resource Key. Jones.
Box 5 Folder 39
Archival Resource Key. Kester/Kuster.
Box 5 Folder 40
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive correspondence

Archival Resource Key. Donald Kester.
Archival Resource Key. Kirk.
Box 5 Folder 41
Archival Resource Key. Langstaff (NJ).
Box 6 Folder 42
Archival Resource Key. Lightfoot: see Hutton.
Archival Resource Key. Lippincott: also, see Brown.
Box 6 Folder 43
Archival Resource Key. Llewellyn: see Hunt.
Archival Resource Key. Lloyd (7 folders).
Box 6 Folder 44
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive correspondence

Archival Resource Key. R.Douglas Lloyd (2 folders).
Box 6 Folder 45-46
Archival Resource Key. Lloyd.
Box 6 Folder 47
Archival Resource Key. Lloyd.
Box 6 Folder 48
Archival Resource Key. Lloyd.
Box 6 Folder 49
Archival Resource Key. Lloyd.
Box 6 Folder 50
Archival Resource Key. Lownes: see Heston.
Archival Resource Key. Lukens.
Box 7 Folder 51
Archival Resource Key. Lupton.
Box 7 Folder 52
Archival Resource Key. Malone: see Brown.
Archival Resource Key. McCarty.
Box 7 Folder 53
Archival Resource Key. Mendenhall: see Griffith.
Archival Resource Key. Michener: see Scarborough.
Archival Resource Key. Middletown: see Ashead.
Archival Resource Key. Moore, Ann.
Box 7 Folder 54
Archival Resource Key. Morlan: see Richardson.
Archival Resource Key. Narramore.
Box 7 Folder 55
Archival Resource Key. Neill.
Box 7 Folder 56
Archival Resource Key. Newlin: see Hinshaw.
Archival Resource Key. Owen: see Griffith.
Archival Resource Key. Parson: see Lukens.
Archival Resource Key. Patterson: see Phillips.
Archival Resource Key. Paxson: see Roberts.
Archival Resource Key. Pearson.
Box 7 Folder 57
Archival Resource Key. Pedrick: see Hunt.
Archival Resource Key. Pennington: see Brown.
Archival Resource Key. Penrose.
Box 7 Folder 58
Archival Resource Key. Pharo.
Box 7 Folder 59
Archival Resource Key. Phillips.
Box 7 Folder 60
Archival Resource Key. Plumley: see Roberts.
Archival Resource Key. Preston: see Scarborough.
Archival Resource Key. Price.
Box 7 Folder 61
Archival Resource Key. Price: see Jones.
Archival Resource Key. Reeves.
Box 7 Folder 62
Archival Resource Key. Richardson.
Box 7 Folder 63
Archival Resource Key. Roberts.
Box 7 Folder 64
Archival Resource Key. Robeson: see Elliott.
Archival Resource Key. Rutter: see Elliott.
Archival Resource Key. Sanders: see Woodrow.
Archival Resource Key. Sanders: see Wright.
Archival Resource Key. Scarborough: also, see Pearson.
Box 7 Folder 65
Archival Resource Key. Scull: see Reeves.
Archival Resource Key. Shinn: see Atkinson.
Archival Resource Key. Shreve: see Atkinson.
Archival Resource Key. Smith.
Box 7 Folder 66
Archival Resource Key. Stanfield: see Tucker.
Archival Resource Key. Stanley.
Box 7 Folder 67
Archival Resource Key. Starbuck: see Hester.
Box 7 Folder 68
Archival Resource Key. Taber.
Box 8 Folder 69
Archival Resource Key. Truman.
Box 8 Folder 70
Archival Resource Key. Tucker.
Box 8 Folder 71
Archival Resource Key. Tyson.
Box 8 Folder 72
Archival Resource Key. Underwood: see Kirk.
Archival Resource Key. Varney: see John.
Archival Resource Key. Wells: see Woodrow.
Archival Resource Key. Wells: see Wright.
Archival Resource Key. Wierman: see Cox.
Archival Resource Key. Woodrow.
Box 8 Folder 73
Archival Resource Key. Woolman: see Lippincott.
Archival Resource Key. Woolston: see Heston.
Archival Resource Key. Worrall.
Box 8 Folder 74
Archival Resource Key. Wright.
Box 8 Folder 75

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