Lewis-Pratt Family Papers, ca.1790-1851 & n.d.

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Lewis-Pratt Family Papers, ca.1790-1851 & n.d.

Collection of manuscripts of the Lewis and Pratt families of Delaware County in Pennsylvania. Includes bible pages with births, marriages, and deaths, as well as Quaker documents. Of particular interest is a letter from Thomas H. Speakman to his sister, M.M. Jenkinson on an inheritance which also includes a reference to Rowland Johnson, Lucretia Mott, Clement Biddle, and James Martin at the Cherry Street meeting house.

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Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880

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Lucretia Mott (née Coffin) was born Jan. 3, 1793 in Nantucket, MA. She was a descendent of Peter Folger and Mary Morrell Folger and a cousin of Framer Benjamin Franklin. Mott became a teacher; her interest in women's rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid significantly more than female staff. A well known abolitionist, Mott considered slavery to be evil, a Quaker view. When she moved to Philadelphia, she became Quaker minister. Along with white and black wo...

Johnson, Rowland, 1816-1886.

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Lewis family.

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Dutton, Ruth A.P. (Ruth A. Pratt), d.1909

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Ruth A. Pratt Dutton who died in 1901 was the daughter of David Pratt and Sarah A. Jones and the granddaughter of Tamer Lewis Pratt. From the description of Lewis-Pratt Family Papers, ca.1790-1851 & n.d. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 244827302 ...

Speakman, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1820-1904

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Pratt family.

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