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Quaker women.

 Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Emily Howland papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2681
Abstract Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's...
Dates: 1797-1938.

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.