Wing family papers, 1788-1857.

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Wing family papers, 1788-1857.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/183611047

The collection contains journals and two commonplace books, business papers, and a few family letters. It includes a small journal written by a young woman (unknown) on a trip from New York City to Poughkeepsie, 6 month 1835; an album, 1834, which contains a list of the scholars and teachers at Nine Partners Boarding School, and an undated commonplace book containing copies of Quaker sermons and other writings. A Friends Pocket Almanac for the year 1857 contains brief notes concerning family events and Quaker meetings. Correspondence includes two letters from James Wing to his family and a letter, 1844 from M[oses?] Wanzer, Jr., of New Fairfield, Connecticut, to Joseph E. Macomber of Farmington; the two apparently had been classmates at Nine Partners School. Miscellaneous business and legal papers, 1788-1853, concern the Wing, Arnold, and Carpenter families.

6 folders.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 6945547

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Nine-Partners' Boarding School (Washington, N.Y.)

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Nine Partners was established in 1795 by New York Yearly Meeting and opened in 1796. By the 1850's it was in some financial trouble, but it did not close its doors until after 1862. Nine Parters was indirectly succeeded by Friends Academy at Union Springs (later Oakwood), founded 1858. From the description of Records, 1784-1862. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 40511680 ...

Carpenter family.

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Arnold family.

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Wing family.

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