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Ezekiel Cleaver 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:
SC.021
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (20 items.))
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Ezekiel Cleaver Papers, 1729-1825.
Date:
1729-1895 (inclusive)
Creator:
Cleaver, Ezekiel, 1757-1832, Cleaver, Ezekiel, 1729-1785, Cleaver, Sarah, 1755-1820, Cleaver, Ellis, 1801-1874, Cleaver, Ellis, 1758-1829, and Cleaver, Solomon, 1797-1865
Abstract:
This collection includes the correspondence and miscellaneous papers of a Quaker family concerning the Hicksite/Orthodox controversy in Ohio, conditions of everyday life in Virginia and the Midwest, and observations on slavery and the use of tobacco. Also included is an account of Cleaver family births and deaths, 1729-1895.

Ezekiel and Ellis were sons of Ezekiel and Mary Lewis Cleaver of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) in Pennsylvania. The former married Abigail Richards in 1787 after moving to Crooked Run in Virginia; he and his family subsequently received a certificate of removal to Westland in 1801 and settled in Warren County, Ohio.

Source of acquisition--Thomas and Elizabeth Foulke. Method of acquisition--Gift of.

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