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Bringhurst family. Diaries, 1777-1811 (inclusive), 1777-1782, 1808-1811 (bulk).

Title: Diaries, 1777-1811 (inclusive), 1777-1782, 1808-1811 (bulk).

A compendium compiled after 1811 of several spiritual diaries: an account of the death of Anna Pole Bringhurst by her husband James Bringhurst, Philadelphia Quaker merchant, 1777; diary of the last months of Hannah Peters Bringhurst, Bringhurst's second wife, 1781-1782; and, finally, a diary, 1808-1810, of Elizabeth Almy of Portsmouth, R.I. recounting Bringhurst's last illness and death.

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Nicholas Waln Family papers, 1783-1895 (bulk 1783-1819)

Title: Nicholas Waln Family papers, 1783-1895 (bulk 1783-1819)

Correspondence, portraits, photographs, poetry, genealogy and misc. papers related to Nicholas Waln and Waln family. Bulk of material consists of correspondence related to Nicholas Waln's journeys as a Quaker minister in England and Ireland. Topics discussed include news of family, Friends' activities, travel, friendship, spiritual matters, ministry, slave conditions in West Indies (1784 letter of William B. Clark); other correspondents include James Bringhurst, Joseph Bringhurst, Henry Drinker, Rebecca Jones, John Parrish, M. Richardson, David Sands, Hannah Stephenson, John Townsend, Robert Valentine, Richard Waln, Robert Waln and Sarah Richardson Waln. Includes letters (1807-1809, 1818-1819) of Jacob Shoemaker Waln while studying law in England and visiting France, letters discuss his travels and activities and include comments on social life; letters (1818-1819) of Townsend Compton to Sarah R. Waln giving news of her son Jacob; letter of Lloyd Mifflin on provenance of Waln letters; poetry written on the death of Joseph R. Waln (1773-1783), includes poem by Robert Proud; chart of Waln genealogy. Papers consist of deeds relating to Nicholas Waln's (1650-1721/2) land holdings in the Northern Liberties area of Philadelphia where his estate, Walnford, was located (Box 2); wills, including the certified copy of the will of Nicholas Waln in 1721/2 (Box 3); letters to Richard Waln (1737-1809), brother of Nicholas Waln (Box 3); documents, including the appointment of Thomas Wistar as "Indian Commissioner" by Andrew Johnson (Box 3) and Zachary Taylor; and a photograph of Wistar with Sac, Fox, and Kiowa Native Americans taken in ca. 1866 by Alexander Gardner.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes

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American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa, 1743-1806

Title: American Philosophical Society Archives. Record Group IIa 1743-1806

This is part of the large inventory for the American Philosophical Society Archives. For complete information concerning this collection, please view the . Collection Description

ArchivalResource: 1.0 section

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Bringhurst, James, d. 1810. Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence, 1780-1811.

Title: Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence, 1780-1811.

Collection of Bringhurst family letters in two groups. The first group was collected, transcribed, and indexed by C. Marshall Taylor and contains correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman, James Bringhurst. These include letters received by James Bringhurst from John Murray of New York City which reveal the correspondents' concern for education, preventing poverty, prison reform, and improving the condition of Indians. Other correspondents include John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are the descriptions of life in Philadelphia and conditions of free blacks, as well as Quaker religious and social concerns and visits from traveling ministers. The second group contains primarily affectionate letters from Joseph Bringhurst, brother of James, to his niece, Elizabeth Foulke, while she was traveling in the ministry. The letters deal with family concerns and Philadelphia life and customs. Mention is made of prominent Quakers, outbreaks of yellow fever, and concern for the stresses of his niece' life in the ministry.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

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Allen, William Charles, 1857-1938. Journal and diary collection, ca. 1599-1986.

Title: Journal and diary collection, ca. 1599-1986.

Journals, diaries, memoirs, commonplace books, memorandum books, account books, notebooks, academic dissertations, autograph and photograph albums, scrapbooks, letterbooks, records (minute books, etc.), copybooks, book manuscripts, poetry, plays, silhouettes, genealogy, etc. chiefly by or about Quakers. Collection consists primarily of manuscript volumes reflecting Quaker life and thought. Journals and diaries include those of William C. Allen (7 v., worldwide travel in the ministry, 1904-1937), Peter Andrews (travel in England as minister, 1755-1756), Joshua L. Baily (42 v., 1845-1916), George Churchman (10 v., Meetings and travel in ministry, 1759-1813), Thomas Pym Cope (10 v., shipping business and philanthropic concerns, 1800-1851), Jacob R. Elfreth (45 v., 1814-1870) and son Jacob R. Elfreth (64 v., 1861-1924), Elizabeth Reeve Evans (7 v., 1882-1899), Mary Rhoads Haines (3 v., travel in England, includes photographs, 1874-1875), William Hunt (travel as minister, 1748-1772), Isaac Jackson (visit to Maryland Friends w/slaves, 1776), Jane Maule (11 v., 1866-1939), Margaret Hill Morris (Revolutionary War, 1776-1778), John Parrish. (7 v., 1796-1805), William Savery (4 v., 1794-1798), Joshua Sharples (3 v., 1798 visit to Indians), John Shoemaker (3 v., 1805-1815), Henry Simmons (4 v., 1796-1800), Anna Spencer (50 v., 1855-1905), Joseph Walton (19 v., 1875-1894), Thomas Wistar (6 v., 1841-1876), Emma Yarnall (43 v., 1856-1885) and others. Memoirs and autobiographical works of Friends; letterbooks include typed transcripts of letters of James Bringhurst (5 v., 1780-1807); book and other mss. include George Aaron Barton's "Boston Broad Brim," Thomas Clarkson's work on the African slave trade (1808), Logan Pearsall Smith's "On reading Shakespeare"; privately printed book of extracts, letters, etc. of Joseph John Gurney prepared for his family; records of Friends organizations include Friends Hospital records (43 v., 1812-1943), etc.; scrapbooks include 12 v. of Christopher Morley's "The Bowling Green" (1920-1923), Joseph Elkinton's indexed collection of obituaries (1789-1905), clippings on the 1851 Christiana riot collected by William Parker, and a scrapbook of original Quaker records (1633-1750).

ArchivalResource: ca. 1, 250 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28828430 View

Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Title: Marian S. Carson collection of manuscripts, 1656-1995

Collector. A collection of Americana including historical letters and documents, family and personal papers, broadsides, financial and legal papers, illustrated and printed ephemera, government and legislative documents, military records, journals, and printed matter relating primarily to the expansion and development of the United States from the colonial period through the 1876 centennial.

ArchivalResource: 14,250 items

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