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Quakers.

 Subject
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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

An account of a visit to Indian territory : Ft. Scott, Kansas

 Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9003
Scope and content A 10 page letter handwritten by Mrs. Coffin to her children about a 10 day trip she and her husband took visiting various missions in Indian Territory, dated November 5, 1894. Also includes typed copy and envelope. Their journey went through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Letter mentions having dinner with Shawnee chief Charles Blue Jacket. There is discussion of government schools; full-blooded and half-blooded Indians; how intermarriage will eventually cause the Indian race to be...
Dates: 1894 November 5.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / An account of a visit to Indian territory : Ft. Scott, Kansas

Hathaway family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064938750]
Identifier: 190
Scope and content

Hathaway family, Watkins Glen, Schuyler County (N.Y.) papers and correspondence discuss the Friends Society, the Abolitionist movement, life in a poor house, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union; includes photographs.

Dates: 1827-1910.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Hathaway family papers

John Stanton Gould papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064930401]
Identifier: 21-1-2626
Scope and content

Manuscripts for lectures on agriculture, the plow, the axe, hay, and poultry. Also includes comments on temperance, Rhode Island, the skin, and the life of the ancient Greeks.



Dates: 1867-1873.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / John Stanton Gould papers

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)
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Lyman A. Spalding papers

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mitchell family papers

Valentine family papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239273]
Identifier: 105m
Scope and content

Letters and other material of the Valentine family, including Ellwood, Susan, David A., and Charles G. Valentine, discussing family and neighborhood gossip, a whaling voyage, Quaker camp meetings, boat travel, and an ocean voyage to the Bahamas involving piracy and enprisonment.

Dates: 1833-1872.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Valentine family papers

William C. Bouck papers

 Collection — Mapcase item 1
Identifier: 2206
Abstract

Correspondence, appointment papers, official documents, and other papers chiefly relating to Bouck's political career.

Dates: 1727-1866.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William C. Bouck papers

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