Stokes-Evans-Cope family papers, 1713-1981.

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Stokes-Evans-Cope family papers, 1713-1981.

http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/hcmc-1169

Correspondence, diaries, legal and business papers, deeds, marriage certificates, scrapbook, photographs, account books, artifacts, printed volumes, computer disks and misc. papers chiefly of the related Quaker families of Stokes, Evans, Cope, Wistar and Smith of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Includes letters (1830-1868) of Thomas Evans to Bartholomew Wistar discussing Quaker affairs (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting [PYM] Indian Committee), letters to wife Catharine Evans and children, also letters and papers related to PYM Meeting for Sufferings' work to free Friends pressed into military service during Civil War; letter of Charlotte N. Freedland (1797-1850) reporting on PYM of 1827; correspondence (1864-1904) of Francis Stokes and Katharine W. Stokes discusses family and personal matters; letters, etc. of John Stokes (1800-1868) include papers related to financial difficulties and estate of brother-in-law Joseph Smith; letter (1828) of Bartholomew Wistar (1790-1841) gives eyewitness account of events at New York Yearly Meeting. Additional persons represented are Thomas Pim Cope, Eleanor T. Evans, Hannah Bacon Evans, Catharine Evans, Letitia Evans, Esther Newlin Stokes, Francis Joseph Stokes, Joseph Stokes, Joseph Waln Stokes and others. Diaries include those of Hannah Bacon Evans (8 v., 1858-1868), William B. Hockett (1862-1863, handwritten transcript of detention in Confederate Army) and Richard Jordan (ca. 1807, travel as minister in Europe). Also photograph album of Stokes family, family Bible of John Stokes, scrapbook and various artifacts connected to Evans and Stokes families.

ca. 550 items (8 boxes and 2 packages)

Haverford College Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7265048

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There are 23 Entities related to this resource.

Hockett, William B., 1828-1905.

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Stokes, Katharine W. (Katharine Wistar), 1841-1904.

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Stokes, Francis Joseph, 1873-1955.

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Stokes, Joseph, 1778-1804.

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Evans, Letitia.

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Evans family.

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Evans, Catharine, 1802-1871.

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Cope, Thomas Pim, 1823-1900

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Thomas P. Cope traveled to Norway in June of 1889. From the description of Extracts from the letters of Thomas P. Cope, 1889. circa 1900-1923. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 310102173 ...

Stokes, Joseph W. (Joseph Waln), 1835-1863.

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Smith, Joseph, jr., 1805-1844

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First president of the Mormon Church and mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois. From the description of Arrest warrant, 1842. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367395229 First president of the Mormon Church and Illinois militia leader. From the description of Letter, 1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435774 Founder of the Mormon Church and its first president. From the description of Diaries, 1832-1844. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122609014 ...

Stokes, Francis, 1833-1917.

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Stokes, John, 1800-1868.

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Evans, Eleanor T. (Eleanor Tyson), 1840-1919.

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Wistar family.

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Cope family.

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Wistar, Bartholomew, 1790-1841

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Smith family.

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Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868

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Evans, Hannah Bacon, 1839-1939.

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Jordan, Richard, 1756-1826

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Richard Jordan was a well-traveled Quaker minister who lived in Virginia, North Carolina, and New Jersey, and who traveled in Europe from 1800 to 1802. Jordan was born in Norfolk County, Virginia, to Joseph and Patience Jordan, on 19 December 1756. In 1786 the family moved to Rich Square, North Carolina. Jordan eventually married Pharaby Knox, and the couple settled on a farm near his parents. In 1781 he began to speak in the ministry and made visits to other Quakers in North Carolina. In 1797 h...

Stokes, Esther Newlin, 1870-1913.

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Stokes family.

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Freedland, Charlotte N. (Charlotte Newbold), 1797-1850.

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