American Friends' letters MC.851
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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections American Friends' letters
Table of Contents
Summary Information...... 3 Biography/History...... 3 Scope and Contents...... 4 Administrative Information...... 4 Controlled Access Headings...... 5 Collection Inventory...... 7 Addendum...... 52
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Summary Information
Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Title American Friends' letters
Call number MC.851
Date [inclusive] 1682-1986
Extent 19 boxes (19 boxes)
Language English .
Abstract The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Cite as:
American Friends' letters (HC.MC.851), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
Biography/History
Quakers, also known as Friends, comprise a Christian religious movement called The Religious Society of Friends. The Religious Society of Friends began in England in the 17th century, and Quakers first arrived in North America in the mid-17th century. After facing persecution in Puritan Massachusetts, many Quakers settled in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, on Lenape land, following the lead of prominent
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Scope and Contents
The letters and documents in this collection, including many by prominent Friends, shed light on several aspects of Quaker history and thought from religious to economic and cultural developments. Topics discussed include news of family and Friends, slavery and freedmen, Native Americans, Society of Friends affairs and controversies (e.g. Elias Hicks American Friends' Letters and the Separation of 1827-1828, the Wilbur-Gurney controversy, the Richmond Declaration of Faith), as well as women's suffrage, Japan, missionary work, ministers, spiritual matters, business, education, Friends and the military, etc. Among the letters are those of Phineas Pemberton, 1682, on education and temperance; Thomas Chalkley, 1742, on women's dress; Nicholas Waln, 1766, relating to commerce; Richard Partridge, 1749, on trade and Canada expedition; John Hunt, 1742, on shipping and privateers; John Woolman, 1763, on religious affairs; Isaac Zane, 1777, on iron works and Revolutionary War events; Henry Drinker and John Pemberton, 1777, relating to their exile in Winchester, Virginia. Correspondents include Moses Brown, George Churchman, Elijah Coffin, Elihu Grant, Stephen Grellet, Mary Coates Groth, J. Rendel Harris, Elias Hicks, John Hunt, Esther B. Jones, Jesse Kersey, Benjamin W. Ladd, Joseph Mendenhall, Lucretia Mott, William H. Nicholson, Robert Pleasants, James E. Rhoads, Elbert Russell, William Savery, Joseph Turner, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Woolman and others. Also includes papers of Masters and Sharpless families.
Administrative Information
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Access Restrictions The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
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Controlled Access Headings
Family Name(s)
• Masters family • Sharpless family
Personal Name(s)
• Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 • Churchman, George, 1730-1814 • Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862 • Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 • Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 • Groth, Mary Coates • Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 • Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 • Hunt, John, 1711 or 1712-1778 • Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 • Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 • Ladd, Benjamin • Mendenhall, Joseph • Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 • Nicholson, William H. (William Hopkins), 1827-1908 • Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801 • Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 • Russell, Elbert, 1871-1951 • Turner, Joseph, 1765-1841 • Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 • Woolman, John, 1720-1772
Subject(s)
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Collection Inventory
box
Samuel Aaron. 1
Francis G. Allinson. 1
Samuel Allinson, (d. 1791). 1
Sibyl Allinson. 1
William J. Allinson. 1
Othniel Alsop. 1
Anonymous. 1
John Archdale. 1
Aaron Ashbridge. 1
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John Bacon. 1
John Bailey, fl. 1814. 1
(Mrs.) Josiah Tatum Baily, -. 1
Donald Gay Baker, 1905. 1
Joshua Baldwin. 1
David Barclay. 1
Peter Barker. 1
Hannah Barnard. 1
Sarah Barney. 1
Amelia Edith Barr. 1
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Jarvis Henry Bartlett. 1
Thomas Jesse Battey. 1
Hannah Elliot Bean. 1
Anthony Benezet. 1
Daniel Benezet. 1
Joyce Benezet. 1
Benjamin Berry. 1
John Biddle, 1763-1815. 1
Owen Biddle. 1
David Scull Bispham, 1857-1921. 1
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George Bowne. 1
Samuel Bowne, 1667-1745. 1
Samuel Bowne, 1721-1784. 1
Samuel Boyce. 1
Patience Brayton. 1
Preserved Brayton. 1
Joseph Bringhurst, 1732-1811. 1
Joan Broadfield. 1
Willliam Brockway. 1
Edwin Blaine Bronner, 1920. 1
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Miriam Jones Brown. 1
Moses Brown. 1
William Brown. 1
Joanna S. Buffum. 1
Benjamin Burley. 1
Joseph Burr. 1
J.F. Byrnes. 1
Henry Joel Cadbury. 1
William Canby. 1
Thomas Carrington. 1
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John Elliott Carter. 1 Scope and Contents
ALS Germantown, 11 mo. 1, 1922 addressed to Mary Hoxie Jones gift of Mary Hoxie Jones, 1958 - letter from her great-uncle
Gertrude W. Cartland. 1
Anna H. Chace. 1
Thomas Chalkley, 1675-1741. 1
Harold Chance. 1
Goldsmith Chandlee. 1
William Chase, 1813-1885. 1
Chester Friends. 1
George Churchman. 1
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John Churchman. 1
Alida Clark. 1
John Y. Clark. 1
Joseph Clark. 1
Rebecca Sinclair (Timbers) Clark. 1
Latham Clarke. 1
Samuel Clarke. 1
Thomas Clark. 1
Walter Clarke. 1
Charles Dexter Cleveland. 1
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Joshua Clibborn. 1
Amos Coates. 2
Coffin family letters (copies), 1849-1963. 2
Elijah Coffin. 2
Levi Coffin, 1798-1877. 2
T. Eugene Coffin. 2
Chalkley Collins. 2
Isaac Collins. 2
Job Scott Collins, 1795-1870. 2
Micajah Collins. 2
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Rebecca Collins. 2
Zaccheus Collins, 1764-1831. 2
Samuel Comfort. 2
William Wistar Comfort, 1874-1955. 2
Charity Wright Cook. 2
Alfred Cope. 2
Hiram Corson. 2
John Cox. 2
William Cox. 2
Nathaniel C. Crenshaw. 2
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John Crooke. 2
Paul Captain Cuffee. 2
Mahlon Day. 2
Mary Mumford Dow. 2
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1 of 2), 1842-1932. 2
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (2 of 2), 1842-1932. 2
John Hoag Dillingham. 2
George Dillwyn. 2
Joseph Dodgson, 1787-1863. 2
Paul Howard Douglas, 1892. 2
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Thomas Edward Drake, 1907. 2
Henry Drinker. 2
Thomas Eddy. 2
Joshua Edmundson. 2
Rebecca P. Elfreth, 1834-1906. 2
Joseph Passmore Elkinton, 1887. 2
William T. Elkinton. 2
Amelia F. Emerson. 2
Vincent Emerson. 2
Ann Emlen. 2
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Eleanor (Cope) Emlen, 1920. 2
George Emlen. 2
Samuel Emlen, 1730-1799. 2
Charles Evans M.D. 2
Ellen Ellis Evans. 2
Jonathan Evans. 2
Thomas Evans. 2
William Bacon Evans, 1875-1964. 2
Abraham Farrington. 2
Kesia Farrington. 2
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Benjamin Ferris. 2
Zachariah Ferris. 2
Deborah Ferriss. 2
Grace Forbes. 2
David Hoopes Forsythe. 2
Martin Foss. 2
Thomas Franklin. 2
Caroline Fry. 2
William M. Fuson "Big Flats". 2
Larry Gara, 1922. 2
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Casper S. Garrett. 2
Frances Biddle Garrett. 3
Philip Garrett. 3 Scope and Contents
ALS Phila., 2 mo. 17, 1865 addressed to James E. Rhoads gift of Annie R. Ladd, 1937 sending volumes of Sunday School Union's little libraries as reading material for those learning to read needs teachers gives contents of box sent to JER
Philip C. Garrett. 3
Thomas Garrett, 1789-1871. 3
Thomas C. Garrett. 3
John Malin George. 3
Mary Jessie Gidley. 3
Stephen Wanton Gould. 3
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Thomas B. Gould. 3
Elihu Grant (addressee). 3
Elihu Grant. 3
Isaac Gray. 3
Rowland Greene. 3
Rachel Grellet. 3
Stephen Grellet. 3
William Griffith. 3
Thomas Smith Grimke. 3
John Griscom, 1774-1852. 3
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Mary Coates Groth. 3
Amelia Mott Gummere. 3
Elizabeth H. Gummere, 1819-1895. 3
Francis Barton Gummere, 1859-1919. 3
Samuel James Gummere, 1811-1874. 3
John Gurney. 3
M.D.H. 3
Reuben Haines. 3
Caleb Hallowell. 3
James Hallowell. 3
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James Rendel Harris, 1852-1941. 3
James Rendel Harris (Folder 2). 3
James Rendel Harris (Folder 3). 3
James Harrison. 3
W.I. Harrison. 3
John Hartshorne. 3
Richard Hartshorne. 3
William Brinton Harvey. 3
Henry Haydock (m. Katharine Rodman (1731-62) & Hannah, -44319. 3
John Heald. 3
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William Heald. 3
Caleb Heathcote. 3
Henry Theodore Hetzel, 1939. 3
Edward Hicks. 3
Elias Hicks. 3
Rachel Hicks. 3
William Wade Hinshaw, 1867-1947. 3
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1874-1964. 3
Lou Henry Hoover, 1876-1944. 3
Thomas Hopkins. 3
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Edward Hopper, 1811-1893. 4
Isaac Tatem Hopper. 4
Sarah Tatum Hopper. 4
C.W. Horner. 4
Emily Howland. 4
George Howland. 4
Thomas Howland. 4
Benjamin Hoyle. 4
John Hunt. 4
Mabel Leigh Hunt. 4
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William Hunt. 4
Robert Lee Hussey. 4
James Hutchinson. 4
Abel James. 4
Martha Jefferis. 4
Rebecca Jenks. 4
Jenkins Family. 4
Obadiah Johnson. 4
D.W. Jones. 4
Edward C. Jones. 4
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Jacob P. Jones. 4
Louise Coffin Jones. 4
Rebecca Jones. 4
Richard Mott Jones. 4
Rufus Matthew Jones. 4
Sybil Jones. 4
Edmund Jordan. 4
Richard Jordan. 4
Robert Jordan. 4
Samuel Jordan. 4
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Rayner Wickersham Kelsey, 1879-1934. 4
Jesse Kenworthy. 4
Jesse Kersey (Folder 1). 4
Jesse Kersey (Folder 2). 4
Jesse Kersey (Folder 3). 4
Francis T. King. 4
Rufus P. King. 4
John Kirk. 4
Elizabeth Butler Kirkbride, 1872-1970. 4
Ernest Kirkjian, fl. 1941. 4
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Joesph Kite. 4
Rachel Knight. 4
Esther B. Jones (1 of 7). 5
Esther B. Jones (2 of 7). 5
Esther B. Jones (3 of 7). 5
Esther B. Jones (4 of 7). 5
Esther B. Jones (5 of 7). 5
Esther B. Jones (6 of 7). 5
Esther B. Jones (7 of 7). 5
Benjamin M. Ladd. 6
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Elizabeth Ladd. 6
Samuel Langdale. 6
Isaac Lawton. 6
Robert J. Leach. 6
Amelia Risley Leeds, 1820-1898. 6
Arthur Newlin Leeds. 6
Samuel Leeds. 6
Mary Lefavour. 6
John Letchworth. 6
Benjamin Lightfoot. 6
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Thomas Lightfoot. 6
Horace Mather Lippincott. 6
James Starr Lippincott. 6
Susan Ecroyd Lippincott. 6
James Logan, 1674-1751. 6
Daniel Longstreth. 6
Mary Anna Longstreth. 6
Malcolm R. Lovell (1 of 2), ca. 1890. 6
Malcolm R. Lovell (2 of 2). 6
Alfred Lowry. 6
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Susan H. Loyd. 6
Benjamin Lundy. 6
John McKim. 6
Peter Macy. 6
Charles Marriott. 6
Susanna Marriott. 6
John W. Mason. 6
Masters family. 6
George Matthews. 6
William Matthews. 6
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John Meader. 6
Cyrus Mendenhall. 6
George C. Mendenhall. 6
Joseph Mendenhall, 1829. 6
Nathan Mendenhall. 6
William F. Mendenhall. 6
Brian Michener. 6
Warner Mifflin, 1 mo 11 1781. 6
Warner Mifflin. 6
Peleg. Mitchell. 6
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William Mitchell. 6
William Forster Mitchell. 6
Charles Henry Moon. 6
Orval Duane Moon, 1926. 7
Martha Jane Moore. 7
Charles P. Morlan, 1871-1964. 7
Anthony Morris. 7
Israel W. Morris. 7
Samuel Buckley Morris, 1868-1886. 7
Mary R. Morton. 7
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James Mott, 1788-1868. 7
James Mott, 1742-1823. 7
Lucretia Mott. 7
William Mott. 7
John Murray. 7
Lindley Murray, 1745-1826. 7
A.J. Muste. 7
Mary Peisley Neale. 7
Agnes Nevill. 7
Benjamin Newberry. 7
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George Newbold. 6
William Newbold. 6
Lindzey Nicholson. 6
Timothy Nicholson. 6
William H. Nicholson. 7
Polly Norris. 7
Norwegian Quakers' letters, 1870-1885. 7
Daniel Offley. 7
Daniel Oliver. 7
Sophronia Page. 7
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer. 7
Elvira (Hester) Parker, 1861-1912. 7
George D. Parrish. 7
Oliver Paxson Parry (1 of 2), ca. 1795-1874. 7
Oliver Paxson Parry (2 of 2), ca. 1795-1874. 7
James B. Parsons. 7
Samuel Parsons. 7
Richard Partridge. 7
Lewis Passmore. 7
Abigail Pemberton, 1680-1750. 7
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Hannah (Zane) Pemberton. 7
James Pemberton. 7
John Pemberton (1 of 2), 1727-1795. 7
John Pemberton (2 of 2), 1727-1795. 7
Phineas Pemberton. 7
Edward Penington. 7
John Penn. 7
Levi Pennington, 1875. 7
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, 1842. 7
Elijah F. Pennypacker. 7
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James Penrose. 7
Elliston Perot. 7
Charles Perry. 7
Philadelphia Friends. 7
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - Meeting of Ministers and Elders. 7
William P. Pinkham, 1919. 7
Israel Pleasants. 7
Mary Pleasants. 7
Robert Pleasants. 7
Thomas Pleasants. 7
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William Poole. 7
Calista Post. 7
Anne Preston, M. D. (letters to). 7
R. Price. 7
Edmund Prior. 7
Robert Proud, 1728-1813. 7
Edward Randolph, 1754-1837. 8
Mary Randolph (wife of Edward Randolph). 8
William Rathbone. 8
Caroline Newbold Rhoads. 8
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Charles Rhoads. 8
Charles James Rhoads. 8
James E. Rhoads (1 of 4), 1860-1864. 8
James E. Rhoads (2 of 4), 1865-1871. 8
James E. Rhoads (3 of 4), 1870-1875. 8
James E. Rhoads (4 of 4), 1888-1894. 8
Jonathan E. Rhoads, 1892. 8
Margaret E. Rhoads. 8
Sarah Rhoads. 8
Edward P. Rich. 8
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Harriett Robbins. 8
Charles Roberts (1 of 3). 8
Charles Roberts (2 of 3), 1784-1845. 8
Charles Roberts (3 of 3), 1846-1902. 8
David Roberts. 8
Elihu Roberts. 8
Hannah White Roberts. 8
John W. Roberts. 8
Lucy Branson Roberts. 8
Thomas Robinson. 8
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Mary Middleton Rogers. 8
Jane Palen Rushmore, 1864-1958. 8
Elbert Russel, 1871-1951. 8
Barnabas Russell. 8
Martha Sankey. 8
Sarah B. Satterthwaite. 8
William Savery (1 of 2), 1750-1804. 8
William Savery (2 of 2), 1783-1804. 8
George J. Scattergood. 8
J. Henry Scattergood. 8
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Joseph Scattergood. 8
Thomas Scattergood, 1909. 8
Job Scott. 8
Nathaniel and Rachel Seaman. 8
Nathan Sharples. 8
Aaron Sharpless, 1756-1798. 8
Isaac Sharpless. 8
Samuel Jones Sharpless, 1816-1904. 8
Townsend Sharpless. 8
Margaret G. Sheppard, 1848-1936. 8
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Samuel Earl Shinn. 9
Thomas Howard Shoemaker. 9
Carroll T. Sinclair. 9
Jeffrey Smedley. 9
Albanus Longstreth Smith, 1859-1938. 9
Daniel B. Smith. 9
Elizabeth Smith, fl. 1772. 9
John J. Smith, 1798-1881. 9
Robert E. Smith, 1771-1851. 9
Edmund B. Spaeth. 9
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R. Barclay Spicer. 9
Deborah Stabler. 9
Sada F. Stanley. 9
Sarah Stern. 9
Samuel Emlen Stokes. 9
John Street, 1836-1914. 9
Thomas Tatnall. 9
Walter G. Tatnall. 9
Josiah Tatum. 9
Charles W. Taylor. 9
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Abel Thomas, 1737-1816. 9
Allen C. Thomas. 9
Ellen L. Thomas. 9
Richard Henry Thomas (1 of 2), 1846-1858. 9
Richard Henry Thomas (2 of 2), 1874. 9
Samuel Boyd Tobey. 9
Frederick Barnes Tolles. 9
William Troth. 9
Benjamin F. Trueblood. 9
David Elton Trueblood. 9
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Joseph Turner, 1765-1841. 9
John Tyndall. 9
Roberts Vaux. 9
Elizabeth Gray Vining. 9
Caleb A. Wall. 9
Joseph Wall. 9
Nicholas Waln. 9
George Arthur Walton, 1883. 9
Joseph Walton (1 of 2), 1817-1898. 9
Joseph Walton (2 of 2). 9
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Gilbert Fowler White, 1911. 9
Hannah White. 9
Joseph White. 9
Elizabeth Hussey Whittier. 9
John Greenleaf Whittier (1 of 3), 1837-1867. 9
John Greenleaf Whittier (2 of 3), 1870-1883. 9
John Greenleaf Whittier (3 of 3), 1884-1891. 9
C. Williams. 10
Charles Rhoads Williams. 10
Peter Williams. 10
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Christopher Wilson. 10
Asa Shove Wing. 10
Winslow Family. 10
Thomas Wistar (1 of 2), 1764-1851. 10
Thomas Wistar (2 of 2), 1764-1851. 10
Carolena M. Wood. 10
Emily Hollingsworth Wood. 10
George Bacon Wood, 1832-1909. 10
Isaac F. Wood. 10
Woodbury (NJ) Monthly Meeting - Meeting of Ministers and Elders. 10
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Benjamin Woolcott. 10
John Woolman. 10
Sarah Ellis Woolman. 10
Charles Yarnall. 10
Ellis Yarnall, 1756-1846. 10
Ellis Yarnall, 1817-1905. 10
Peter Yarnall. 10
Isaac Zane, Sr., 1710-1794. 10
Isaac Zane, Jr. (1 of 2), 1710-1794. 10
Isaac Zane, Jr. (2 of 2), 1743-1794. 10
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Sarah Zane (1 of 2). 10
Sarah Zane (2 of 2). 10
David Zeisberger. 10
Addendum.
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David Scull Bisphan. 10
T. Eugene Coffin. 10
Ludovic Estes. 10
Jan de Hartog. 10
David Scull Hinshaw. 10
Maria Mitchell. 10
Elizabeth Robins Pennell. 10
Joseph Pennell. 10
Ned Rorem. 10
Elizabeth Yates. 10
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