Allinson family papers, 1710-1939

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Allinson family papers, 1710-1939

1710-1939

This collection spans more than two centuries and includes most notably members of the Allinson and Taylor families. There are also letters from Joseph Bonaparte, Sarah Moore Grimke, Julia Ward Howe and George Washington. Prominent material types include correspondence, diaries, financial, legal and property papers, maps, photographs and poetry. The richest subject veins are anti-slavery, including the Free Produce Association of Friends; the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia; and settlement of land in New York.

5.5 Linear Feet (13 boxes)

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 7265233

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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...

Walker, Robert, 1717-1785

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Robert Walker was born the 17th of the 3rd month 1717 (old style), the son of John and Sarah Walker of Batley, Yorks. He was appointed an Elder when young and was very serviceable in meetings for discipline. He became a clothier. He married in 1743, at Liversedge, Hannah Firth, daughter of Jacob Firth of Liversedge, Torks. They lived at Gildersome, near Leeds. In 1751 he was called to the ministry, in which he appeared with few words and mostly in his home neighborhood until 1756, after wh...

Chattin family.

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Allinson family.

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Allinson, Francis Greenleaf, 1856-1931

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Philologist; professor of classical philology at Brown University. From the description of Francis Greenleaf Allinson papers, 1899-1929. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122587242 ...

Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817

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Martha Routh or Martha Winter (25 June 1743 – 18 July 1817) was a British Quaker minister and writer. Martha Winter was the last child, born in Stourbridge in 1743, to Henry and Jane Winter. She had nine siblings, although only five survived childhood. By the age of 24, she was the head of a Quaker boarding school in Nottingham after starting to teach there when she was seventeen. She was made a minister in 1773 and, after her marriage to Richard Routh in 1776, she devoted herself to Quaker mi...

Allinson, William, 1766-1841

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During the Early Republic, the Society of Friends struggled to preserve its peculiar identity in the midst of a rapidly changing America. Conflict between the Society and the world led many Quakers into reformist activism, and others into introspective withdrawal, and conflict within its own ranks ultimately produced the schisms of the 1820s through 1840s. Confronted with such turmoil, few Quakers remained unaffected. The son of attorney Samuel Allinson (1739-1791), and ...

Matlack family.

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Allinson, James

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Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery), 1871-1932

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Allinson, Caroline, 1859-1949

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Parker family.

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Burlington Company.

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New Jersey Association for Helping the Indians.

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Tatum family.

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Taylor family.

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Allinson, Rebecca, 1807-1829

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New-Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

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Hinchman family.

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Carey family.

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Allinson, Samuel, 1808-1883

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Samuel Allinson, son of Bernice and James Allinson of Philadelphia, was a prominent Orthodox Quaker. He was a farmer at Yardville in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, and was also a philanthropist, particularly concerned with penal justice. From the description of Papers, 1812-1856. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 19114172 ...

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 ...

Cooper family.

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Philadelphia Free Produce Association of Friends

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New Jersey State Temperance Society.

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New Jersey State Reform School (Jamesburg)

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Scattergood family.

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Allinson, Samuel, 1784-1859.

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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....

Allinson, William J., 1810-1874

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Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

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Anthony Benezet, born Antoine Bénézet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784), was a French-American abolitionist and educator who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the early American abolitionists, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (after his death it was revived as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery); the first public school for girls in North America; and t...