Lightfoot Manuscripts, 1737-1948.

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Lightfoot Manuscripts, 1737-1948.

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Contains the papers of the Lightfoot family including Thomas and Mary Lightfoot concerning their service at the Great Nemaha Indian Agency. Includes correspondence, business and legal documents, such as agreements, reports, and several census. Also a journal of Mary (Bonsall) Lightfoot (1707-1777), a prominent Quaker minister describing her journey to visit Quaker meetings in Concord Quarter in 1757. Three other journals (typescript copies) have been attributed to Thomas Lightfoot (1728-1793). These accounts document visits to Quaker meetings in the mid Atlantic region, New Jersey to Virginia, from 1757 to 1760. Also, a 1781 testimony concerning Susanna (Hatton) Lightfoot, Thomas' wife.

1 box ; 1 linear ft.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7625504

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955). Joint Committee on Indian Affairs (1869-1892)

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After the schism of 1827/28, the Hicksite branch of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends did not appoint an Indian Committee of its own until 1837; this committee was formed primarily to protect the rights of the Senecas in New York in their dispute with the Ogden Land Company. The first Hicksite committee was laid down in 1850, with Representative Committee coordinating Indian concerns until the Yearly Meeting appointed a Joint Committee on Indian Affairs in 1869, after the proclamation of Pr...

Lightfoot, Thomas, 1821-1896

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Lightfoot, Mary B. (Mary Bonner), 1820-1907

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Lightfoot, Susanna, 1720-1781

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Lightfoot, Thomas Montgomery, 1865-

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Lightfoot, Thomas, 1728-1793.

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