Charles Evans papers, 1681-1860

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Charles Evans papers, 1681-1860

1681-1860

http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/repositories/5/resources/400

This collection contains letters from multiple generations of the Evans family. The primary author and receipient is Jonathan Evans. Letters discuss day-to-day life as well as religious ideas. In addition to the correspondence, the collection includes a few essays and a journal. Essays are primarily religious in nature, while the journal describes traveling in America. Jonathan Evans's papers, ca. 1818-38, shed light on the religious, doctrinal controversies, and differences arising among the members of the Society of Friends related to the preachings of Elias Hicks, Nicholas Brown, and Elisha Bates. There are also letters of the Cope and Evans families relating to the Hicksite Separation.

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Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

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Mifflin, Warner, 1745-1798

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Warner Mifflin (August 21, 1745 – October 16, 1798) was an American abolitionist and an early advocate of reparations for slavery. Born and raised in Virginia, Mifflin established himself as a planter in Delaware in 1769. As a member of the Society of Friends, he was strongly opposed to slavery and became dedicated to assisting slaves who tried to free themselves, to defending free blacks from abuse, as well as encouraging Quakers and others to free their slaves. Early life and family Mifflin ...

Cope, Henry, 1793-1865

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Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861

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Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868

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Evans, Jonathan, 1759-1839

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Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854

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Ladd, Benjamin, ca.1783-1851.

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Evans, Charles, 1802-1879

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Kimber, Thomas, 1787-1864

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These business notes, interleaved in an 1806 almanac, were produced by Thomas Kimber (1787-1864), of the Philadelphia firm, Kimber, Conrad & Company, which published the almanac. This firm was owned by booksellers Emmor Kimber (1775-1850), a prominent Quaker leader and minster, and Solomon White Conrad (1779-1831). Thomas Kimber later owned his own firms, Kimber & Richardson, 1811-1815, and Kimber and Sharpless, 1815-1853. From the description of Business papers, 1806. (Unkno...