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Narrative of a Second Visit to the Indian Country
Title:
Narrative of a Second Visit to the Indian Country
Description:
Joseph Clark documented his second journey, in 1801, to Oneida and Stockbridge in New York. His accompanied the six Indian girls he had brought back to the Philadelphia area for education four years earlier on their way home, as he had assured their parents of their safety.
Date:
1801
Collection:
Friends Historical Library Books and Periodicals, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Account of a Journey to the Indian Country
Title:
Account of a Journey to the Indian Country
Description:
Joseph Clark documented his 1797 journey to upstate New York. He and his fellow Friend Henry Simmons met with representatives of the Oneida, Stockbridge, and Tuscarora Indians, their purpose being to bring a few Indian girls to live with the Friends for their education.
Date:
1797
Collection:
Friends Historical Library Books and Periodicals, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Jacob Lindley's Account
Title:
Jacob Lindley's Account
Description:
Jacob Lindley documented his journey of four and a half months to attend the treaty negotiations between the United States and the Six Nations, which was to be held at Sandusky, Ohio, in 1793. He kept a daily and detailed account of the journey and the people he met, as well as various thoughts and reflections on contemporary politics and morality.
Date:
1793
Collection:
Friends Historical Library Books and Periodicals, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Isaac T. Hopper to Joseph Dugdale
Title:
Isaac T. Hopper to Joseph Dugdale
Date:
1841-09-03
Collection:
Joseph and Ruth Dugdale Correspondence, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Nine Partners Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Title:
Nine Partners Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Description:
This is a collection of manumissions from Nine Partners Monthly Meeting in New York.
Date:
1769 - 1798
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Westbury Monthly Meeting Manumissions Index
Title:
Westbury Monthly Meeting Manumissions Index
Description:
This is an index of manumissions from Westbury Monthly Meeting of Long Island, New York from 1775-1798. It refers to manumissions included in two original book manuscripts.
Date:
1775 - 1798
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore, Westbury Monthly Meeting Records
Westbury Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Title:
Westbury Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Description:
This is an additional book of manumissions from Westbury Monthly Meeting from 1796-1798. The book is small, containing only 8 pages of manumissions.
Date:
1796 - 1798
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore, Westbury Monthly Meeting Records
Westbury Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Title:
Westbury Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Description:
This is an original book of manumissions by Westbury Monthly Meeting. It contains 78 pages - the bulk of the Westbury's manumissions.
Date:
1776 - 1790
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore, Westbury Monthly Meeting Records
Emily Howland travel account
Title:
Emily Howland travel account
Description:
Account of Howland's travel expenses from her home in New York to Virginia and back.
Date:
1865-1900
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Purchase Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Title:
Purchase Monthly Meeting Manumissions
Description:
This is the manumission of an enslaved man named Platt. His enslaver, Samuel Halsted, belonged to Purchase Monthly Meeting in New York.
Date:
1777
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Manumission of Philener Hunt
Title:
Manumission of Philener Hunt
Description:
This document is a single manumission from Mary Seaman freeing Philener Hunt in 1799 Oysterbay, NY. It is possible that this manumission was a part of Westbury Monthly Meeting. Other members of the Seaman family (notably Gideon Seaman, who is noted as a witness on many manumissions in the Collection of Manumissions, 1776-1832), were involved in abolitionist work in Osterbay as well.
Date:
1799-09-10
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore