Scattergood Family papers

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Scattergood Family papers

1681-1909

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Correspondence, illustrations, marriage certificates, legal and business related papers, photographs, poetry, facsimiles, and other misc. papers related primarily to Thomas Scattergood family of Philadelphia. Correspondence includes approx. 320 letters (1781-1814) of Thomas Scattergood (1748-1814) to family and friends discussing spiritual matters and his travels in Great Britain, New England, North and South Carolina, Virginia, etc.; approx. 250 letters (1781-1814) to Scattergood discuss spiritual matters and Friends' activities, correspondents include Jonathan Binns, Josiah Bunting, John Cox, William Dillwyn, Henry Drinker, William Forster, Susanna Horne, Rebecca Jones, John Pemberton, Joseph Scattergood, Rebecca Scattergood, Rachel Smith, and others; 36 letters (1784-1798) of Sarah (Hoskins) Scattergood to her husband, Thomas Scattergood; approx. 52 letters (1729-1864) of various Friends (chiefly with Hoskins family members), correspondents include John Hoskins, Nicholas Waln and others; extracts (1822-1857) from letters and papers of William Scattergood (1804-1857). Scrapbook of Mary (McCollin) Scattergood, containing illustrations and portraits of Biblical and Quaker subjects, famous people and places; scrapbook (1681-1903) of Alfred G. Scattergood containing letters (includes letters of Thomas Scattergood (1668-1745) to his son Joseph), marriage certificates and other documents of Scattergood and related families, as well as facsimiles, broadsides and other papers related to Quakers; misc. family papers include marriage certificates, photographs, poetry, etc.

2.5 Linear Feet, ca. 768 items (in 9 v. and 1 box)

eng, Latn

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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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...

Scattergood, Alfred Garrett, 1878-1954.

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Smith, Rachel, d. 1814.

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Scattergood, Sarah, 1751-1832

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Bunting, Josiah.

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Scattergood, Rebecca.

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Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817

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Rebecca Jones was a Quaker minister from Philadelphia. She was born in Philadelphia, 7mo. 8 (old style), 1739, of pious parents of the Church of England. Her father, William Jones, was a seaman, and was lost on a voyage when Rebecca was a young child. Kary, Jones's mother, opened a school at No. 8 Drinker's Alley, which proved very successful, and she was able to give a careful education to Rebecca and her older brother Daniel. Rebecca never married. Jones was convinced of ...

Scattergood, Joseph

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Forster, William, of Egerton MS 2713

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Epithet: Vicar of Stanford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x000106 Epithet: of Egerton MS 2713 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x000100 Epithet: servant of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001345.0x000104 ...

Dillwyn, William, 1743-1824

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The Dillwyn and Emlen family was joined in 1795 when Susanna Dillwyn married Samuel Emlen, Jr. Both the Dillwyn and Emlen families were prominent in early America as Quakers and advocates for abolition. William Dillwyn was born in Philadelphia on July 21, 1743, the son of John Dillwyn and Susanna Painter. According to Clarkson, William Dillwyn was “a pupil of the venerable [Anthony] Benezet, who took pains very early to interest his feeling on [abolition],” (Clarkson). A...

Hoskins family.

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Scattergood family.

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Thomas Scattergood (1748-1814), Quaker minister, was the son of Joseph and Rebecca Scattergood of Burlington, N.J. In 1772 he married Elizabeth Bacon (d. 1780), in 1783 he married Sarah Hoskins (1751-1832). He traveled extensively in the ministry in America and Great Britain, spending six years in the latter (1794-1800). During his travels in the American South, he spoke out against slavery. From the description of Papers, 1681-1909. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 2...

Scattergood, William, 1804-1857.

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Binns, Jonathan, -1812

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Scattergood, Mary.

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Allinson, Martha Cooper, 1748-1823

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Martha Cooper Allinson was a Quaker minister from Burlington County, New Jersey. She was born to David Cooper and Sibyl (Matlack) Cooper on 10th Month 31, 1747, old style (January 11, 1748, by the Gregorian calendar). Martha married Samuel Allinson, widower of Elizabeth Smith, and the couple had seven children. Allinson died on the 9th of 3rd month, 1823....

Scattergood, Thomas, 1668-1745.

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Waln, Nicholas, 1742-1813

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Nicholas Waln (1742-1813), Quaker minister, was the son of Nicholas and Mary Shoemaker Waln. He married Sarah Richardson in 1771. Their children included Joseph R. Waln (1773-1783), Jacob Shoemaker Waln (1784-1847), and William and Nicholas Waln. Waln was educated as a lawyer but, as a result of a profound religious experience in 1772, gave up his lucrative practice. Waln began to travel in the ministry in 1774 and made two religious visits to Great Britain, in 1783 and 1795. From t...

Cox, John, approximately 1754-1847

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John Cox was a minister in the Society of Friends. Cox was born around 1754 to John and Abigail Cox of New Jersey. He married Hannah Smith, daughter of John Smith and Hannah Logan. After Hannah's death in 1783, Cox remarried, this time to Ann Dillwyn, and spent much of his life at a home in Burlington County that Ann had inherited from her father called "Oxmead." While he was recognized as a Quaker minister, Cox traveled little. Like many Quakers, he devoted much of his time to civil service and...

Scattergood, Thomas, 1748-1814

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Thomas Scattergood (1748-1814), Quaker minister, was the son of Joseph and Rebecca (Watson) Scattergood of Burlington, New Jersey. In 1772, he married Elizabeth Bacon (d. 1780), and in 1783, married Sarah Hoskins (1751-1832). He traveled extensively in the ministry in North America and Great Britain, spending six years in the latter (1794-1800). During his travels in the American South, he spoke out against slavery. From the description of the Scattergood Family Papers, 1681-1909 (Haverford Col...

Hoskins, John, approximately 1728-1814

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John Hoskins was a Quaker from Burlington County, New Jersey. Born around the year 1728, he married Mary Raper, daughter of Joshua and Sara Raper in 1750; the couple had eleven children. His daughter Sarah married minister Thomas Scattergood (1748-1814) and his daughter Mary married twice, first to Samuel Newbold (1771-), and then to minister Isaac Bonsall (1765-). His daughter Abigail married educator John Griscom (1774). Hoskins himself was a member of Burlington Monthly Meeting, where he serv...

Drinker, Henry, 1734-1809

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Henry Drinker, a prominent Quaker merchant in Philadelphia, was the son of Henry and Mary Gottier Drinker. He married Ann Swett in 1754 and then, after her death, married Elizabeth Sandwith in 1761. Drinker is perhaps best known for his exile with other Quaker pacifists to Winchester, Virginia, during 1777-1778. He was a Clerk of the Meeting for Sufferings, Treasurer of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and an Elder. From the description of Correspondence, 1791-1801. (Swarthmore College)....

Horne, Susanna.

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