American Friends' letters MC.851 Last updated on April 14, 2021. 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 - Page 2 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 3 - American Friends' letters Quaker William Penn. Quakers are organized into local congregations, called Meetings (often Monthly Meetings), and larger organizations, called Yearly Meetings. The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, for example, joins together many Monthly Meetings in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area. 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). - Page 4 - American Friends' letters Processing Information Original processing information unknown. Revised by Allison Hall; completed June, 2020. 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) - Page 5 - American Friends' letters • Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends • Society of Friends -- Education • Business • Society of Friends -- Indian Affairs -- History • Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan • Society of Friends -- Wilburite controversy • Spiritual life -- Society of Friends • Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History - Page 6 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 7 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 8 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 9 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 10 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 11 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 12 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 13 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 14 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 15 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 16 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 17 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 18 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 19 - American Friends' letters 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 - Page 20 - American Friends' letters Thomas B. Gould. 3 Elihu Grant (addressee). 3 Elihu Grant. 3