Turner Family papers, 1776-1954.

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Turner Family papers, 1776-1954.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50416908

This collection includes material from the family and descendants of Rebecca Sinclair Turner and Joseph Turner, Jr. The Turner Family Papers are significant for the source material they provide on Quaker concerns and family life in Baltimore and the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 19th century. The manuscripts include extensive correspondence concerning the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting and records of goods sent to the Pawnee Agency in Nebraska. Also contains a series of letters (1861-1863) written during the Civil War by Joseph Turner (1831-1865), Rebecca Turner's diaries, and her journal traveling in the ministry with Priscilla Cadwallader in 1850-1851, journals and correspondence of her son, Richard Townsend Turner (1819-1892), and miscellaneous family papers. Among the correspondents are: Deborah Bringhurst, John Comly, Benjamin Ferris, Benjamin Hallowell, Samuel M. Janney, George M. Justice; Mary S. Lippincott, Martha E. Tyson, Deborah J. Wharton, and the families of Sinclairs, Townsends, Underhills and Yardleys.

5 boxes ; 2.5 linear ft.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7625395

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Comly, John, 1773-1850

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A birthright Friend, John Comly was the son of Isaac and Asenath Hampton Comly of Byberry. In 1803, John married Rebecca Budd of Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Over the course of his lifetime, John Comly worked as a farmer, an educator, a surveyor, a conveyancer, and published a number of books, including a grammar, spelling book, primer, and reader. He was also an acknowledged Quaker minister. From the description of Papers, 1830-1884. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 192...

Turner, Joseph, 1790-1850

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Turner, Richard Townsend, 1819-1892

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Turner, Joseph, 1831-1865

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Turner family.

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Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880

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Samuel M. Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affa...

Tyson, Martha Ellicott, 1795-1873

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Friends' Indian Aid Association.

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Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859

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Turner, Rebecca Sinclair, -1877

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Lippincott, Mary S., 1801-1888

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Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877

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College president and educator. From the description of Papers of Benjamin Hallowell, 1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450732 ...

Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867

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Benjamin Ferris was a prominent member of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends in Wilmington, Delaware. He was born a Quaker in 1780, the son of Ziba and Edith (Sharpless) Ferris. Benjamin Ferris married Francis Canby in 1804. Among their ten children were Deborah, born in 1813, Anna M., born in 1815, and David, born in 1821. Fanny Ferris died in 1833 and Benjamin Ferris married his second wife, Hannah Gibbons, in 1835. He died in Wilmington in 1867. From the description of ...

Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844

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Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888

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Turner, Richard Townsend, 1845-1908

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Justice, George M. (George Middleton), 1792-1862

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George M. Justice was an abolitionist and birthright Quaker. He was born in 1792, the son of George and Phebe Justice. In 1816 he married Esther Bunting. He was a merchant in Philadelphia, and an Elder at Green Street Monthly Meeting of Friends until his death in 1862. From the description of Papers, 1818-1853. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31422765 ...