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Antislavery movements.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Letter : from Andrew Dickson White

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065267282]
Identifier: 1-2-m.13
Scope and content

Letter in which White thanks Webb for his gift to the Cornell University Library; mentions the gift of Sage College; and discusses White's visit to the Rev. Samuel Joseph May, where they talked of "anti-slavery matters" and May's gift of the Prudence Crandall portrait to Cornell, and May's death.

Dates: 5 July, 1871.

Lyman A. Spalding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 522
Abstract

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, records, and publications related to the career of Lyman A. Spalding, a nineteenth-century Quaker merchant and abolitionist who lived in upstate New York. He was co-editor of the newspaper Plain Truth and established the newspaper Priestcraft Exposed and Primitive Christianity Defended.

Dates: 1811-1864 (bulk)

Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6079
Abstract Records of the Painted Post Circuit quarterly conference meeting (1832-1839) and the Painted Post Church (1832-1833); records of the leader's minutes for the Corning circuit, and quarterly conference meeting minutes for the Methodist Episcopal Church of Corning. Also Class Number One's class leader's records (1839-1844), Trustee's annual meeting minutes (1857-1897) and a register listing the history of, statistics about and a subscription list for the church built in 1861; marriage,...
Dates: 1832-1897.

Methodist Episcopal Church of Naples records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6131
Scope and content

One volume quarterly conference meeting minutes (1866-1896) for the Naples Charge which included also Hunt's Hollow and Garling's House; a subscription list for the church's third meeting house (1849-1851); a subscription list for the church's second meeting hosue (1825-1826); resolutions and deeds from the Board of Trustees; and a membership list (1821-1851, 1851-1950) probably combined in 1950.

Dates: 1821-1950.

Mitchell family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064940780]
Identifier: 2449
Scope and content Marriage certificate (1799) of Benjamin Mitchell and Eunice Barney, signed by members of the Nantucket Quaker Meeting; ten letters (1841-1844) mainly to Eunice from her daughters and other relatives concerning family affairs, a scarlet fever epidemic, a shipwreck off Nantucket, an anti-slavery meeting, and whaling voyage preparations; genealogy; manuscript poetry, and a photograph of Phoebe Clement. Correspondents include George Barney, Jane Barney, Nehemiah and Anna Mitchell Merritt, Oliver...
Dates: 1799-1900.

Second Baptist Church of Walworth records

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1: [Barcode: 31924094432378]
Identifier: 6044
Abstract

Covenant meeting minute book (1832-1865), Wayne Baptist Association minutes for 1840, trustees' record book (1833-1866), church indenture (deed) of June, 1833, account book (1833-1834). Also covers church discipline, financial matters and temperance, slavery and anti-secret society resolutions.

Dates: 1832-1866.

Thatcher family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3355
Scope and content Includes letters (in part, transcripts), genealogies, diaries, account books and receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the related families of Vorhis (van Voorhees), Purdy, Patchen, Thatcher, Barrett, and Williams. Letters (1832-1839) to Steven Vorhis from father Jotham, brother Joseph, and friend David M. Underwood touch on religious problems, abolition, friends, and farming in Spencer, New York; from Stephen Vorhis, who served as minister in Akron, Ohio, as pastor of the...
Dates: 1818-1957.