Genealogical notes, 1891-1920.

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Genealogical notes, 1891-1920.

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Contains cemetery inscriptions and records of Friends' meetings copied by Frank and Elizabeth Seaman Haviland for localities which include New York City, Hamburg, Portchester, Ticondaroga, Schroon Lake, South Ticondaroga, and Pottersville, all in New York state. Also includes list of Quaker records at Friends' Meeting House in New York City; list of towns and cemeteries in Middlesex County, Mass.; church yard records of First Presbyterian Church, York, Pa., 1905; and genealogy of Robert Day of Ipswich, Mass., 1908.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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First Presbyterian Church (York, Pa.)

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Day, Robert, 1941-

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Haviland, Frank

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Frank Haviland was born on September 12, 1847 in Purchase, N.Y. and resided at 66 Willow Street in Brooklyn, N.Y. as an adult. Though he worked for the Haviland family business--importing fine china from Limoges, France--Frank Haviland also followed in the footsteps of his first cousin Frederick Haviland and conducted extensive genealogical research on his and other Quaker families. This work resulted in several cemetery inscription lists and membership rolls of Quaker meetings thro...

Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Haviland, Elizabeth Seaman.

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