Emlen Family Papers, 1740 - 1886

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Emlen Family Papers, 1740 - 1886

1740-1886

https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/5038_emlen

Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school in Chester County, Pa., where both Emlens taught; the Hicksite-Orthodox separation; slavery, the free produce movement and other Quaker concersn. Correspondents include Moses Brown, John Churchman, Samuel Emlen (ca. 1765-1837), Josiah Forster, Samuel Fothergill, Isaac Hadwen, Thomas Kite, Thomas Shillitoe, Esther Tuke, Joseph Whitall, and John Wilbur.

0.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

eng, Latn

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Whitall, Joseph, 1770-1847

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Joseph Whitall was a farmer and Quaker minister from Woodbury, New Jersey, who served as an early superintendent of Westtown School. Whitall was born to Benjamin and Elizabeth Whitall of Woodbury, New Jersey, on March 17, 1770. Around the age of 19, at his father's urging, he went to Trenton to pursue training as a lawyer. While there he began attending Quaker meetings and felt drawn to their principles. Soon Whitall felt and complied with a spiritual obligation to give up the study of th...

Churchman, John, 1705-1775

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John Churchman was a traveling Quaker minister who lived in Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was born to John and Hannah Churchman on the 15th of the 8th month 1705. In 1729/30, he married Margaret Brown, daughter of William and Esther Brown; the couple had a son named George. A minister of 42 years (since 1733), Churchman died on July 24 1775 near 70 years of age and was buried in East Nottingham. He had spent upwards of four years in the European Islands....