Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets

Facets: Westtown Boarding School
Haverford

The Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets collection consists of over 800 titles from the collections of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. It includes works from 1657 to the present. Some of the items in the collection are composed of a single, unfolded sheet with printing on only one side. Many others, however, are multiple pages and smaller sizes. Topics of the broadsides include: exhortations by Quakers against the slave trade; testimonials regarding deceased Friends; petitions to government authorities for recognition of various Quaker testimonies, including conscientious objection to war and refusal to take oaths; advice and caution to Quakers regarding their conduct of life; and theological arguments both within the Society of Friends and regarding other religions.

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At a yearly meeting held in Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the eastern parts of Maryland and Virginia, in the ninth and tenth months, 1794
Title:
At a yearly meeting held in Philadelphia, 1794
Description:
Minutes on the establishment of a boarding school, with forms of bequests, devise, etc.
Date:
1794
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Rules for teachers, &c : adopted by the Committee who have charge of Friends' Boarding School at West-town
Title:
Rules for teachers, &c : adopted by the Committee who have charge of Friends' Boarding School at West-town
Description:
Description based on: 1852, etc; Printer varies
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Report of the Westtown Boarding School Committee, at a Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Philadelphia, by adjournments, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first of the Fourth Month, inclusive, 1837
Title:
Report of the Westtown Boarding School Committee, 1837
Description:
Broadsheet, signed by Thomas Kimber, clerk
Date:
1837
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Some observations relating to the establishment of schools, agreed to by the committee, to be laid for consideration before the yearly-meeting
Title:
Some observations relating to the establishment of schools, to be laid for consideration before the yearly-meeting
Date:
1778
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Some observations relating to the establishment of schools: agreed to by the committee, to be laid for consideration before the Yearly-Meeting
Title:
Some observations relating to the establishment of schools: agreed to by the committee, to be laid for consideration before the Yearly-Meeting
Description:
Caption title: "Signed on behalf of the committee by Anthony Benezet, Isaac Zane. 29th 9th month, 1778. The foregoing proposals are earnestly recommended to the attention and care of Friends ... 10th month 2d, 1778. James Pemberton, clerk ofsaid meeting this year."--p. 2; Followed, on p. [3], by: At a Yearly Meeting for Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, &c. held in Philadelphia, by adjournment from the 28th day of the 9th month to the 3d of the 10th month inclusive, 1789. ... Friends are again earnestly desired ... to encourage and promote schools ...as recommended by this Meeting in the year 1778; and the more effectually to revive the subject, five hundred copies of the said minute are directed to be printed and sent down ... Nicholas Waln, clerk to the meeting this year; Signatures: [A]² ([A]2 verso blank); Evans 22151, Smith I 762.
Date:
1789
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
To the members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: The Committee ... in the progress of the erection of the new buildings, find it necessary to appeal again ... for further contributions
Title:
To the members of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting: The Committee ... in the progress of the erection of the new buildings, find it necessary to appeal again ... for further contributions
Description:
Broadsheet, signed by Charles Rhoads and William Evans
Date:
1886
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Extract from the minutes of the yearly meeting on the report of the committee who have under care the boarding school at West-Town
Title:
Extract from the minutes of the yearly meeting on the report of the committee who have under care the boarding school at West-Town
Description:
Apparently a contribution sheet.
Date:
(questionable)1810
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Westtown School: Suggestions for making bequests to the School]
Title:
Westtown School: Suggestions for making bequests to the School]
Description:
Contains extracts from its Annual reports of 1832 and 1833 to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; Broadside
Date:
1834
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
At a stated meeting of the acting committee for West Town boarding school, held in Philadelphia, the 8th of 12th month, 1807
Title:
At a stated meeting of the acting committee for West Town boarding school, 1807
Description:
A request to Friends to aid in discouraging the youth and others from going to the "House of entertainment" on the farm in parties
Date:
1807
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides and Pamphlets, Haverford College
Information for parents, and others, inclining to send children for education to Friends' Boarding School at West-town
Title:
Information for parents, inclining to send children for education to Friends' Boarding School at West-town
Date:
(questionable) 18--
Collection:
Quaker Broadsides Collection