Sands-Ring family papers, 1797-[ca. 1970]

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Sands-Ring family papers, 1797-[ca. 1970]

Original diary kept by David Sands while traveling in Ireland as a Quaker missionary, 1797; and three notebooks on the history of the Sands-Ring family, excerpted and compiled from various sources, including letters between Catherine Sands Ring of Cornwall and Edward Pease, 1843-1852, about the publication of her father David Sands' 1797 journal, and events in her own life; letters by Samuel Ring of Ohio and Indiana, 1859-1862, about his grandfather Benjamin Ring and the Battle of Brandywine during the American Revolution; family letters of Moses Cunningham, including ones from his son Jeremiah Clark Cunningham about military service with Argentinian and Colombian Navies, 1828-1830, and family and business life in New Orleans, 1832-1837; and letters of Caroline Bell of New Orleans to Eliza Ring Cunningham about the death of her husband Jeremiah Clark Cunningham and other personal news, 1838-1841.

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Sands family.

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Ring, Samuel

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Ring, Benjamin A., 1925-1992

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Benjamin A. Ring was born November 4, 1925 in Catonsville, Maryland, where his father was a gardener at Spring Grove State Hospital. He grew up near Baltimore and attended the University of Maryland from 1943-1947. After earning a BA in history, Ring obtained an instructorship at Virginia Poly-technical Institute, teaching history, economics, and political science from 1948-1950. From 1952 through 1961 Ring held various positions within the Registrar's Office at Johns Hopkins University. At the ...

Sands, David, 1745-1818

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David Sands was a Quaker minister from southeastern New York. He was born into a Presbyterian family at Cowneck, Long Island, on 11 mo. 4 1745. Around 1759 the family moved to Cornwall in Orange County, N.Y., where the sickly youth spent much of his time in contemplation of religious matters. In 1766 Sands was convinced to join the Society of Friends through the ministry of English Quaker Samuel Nottingham and was accepted into membership in Nine Partners Monthly Meet1ng, N.Y. ...

Pease, Edward R. (Edward Reynolds), 1857-

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Ring, Catherine Sands.

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Cunningham, Eliza Ring.

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Cunningham, Jeremiah Clark.

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Bell, Caroline, 1953-

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Cunningham, Moses.

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