"Haverford College, Records Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Swarthmore College."
"This guide to the records in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Quaker Collection of Haverford College lists the minutes ... and other types of records"--P. v.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-268) and index.
Summary
Guide to the records of the Society of Friends from the beginings of the Quaker settlement in the Delaware River Valley in 1676 to present held in the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and the Quaker Collection of Haverford College.
Germantown and the Germans : an exhibition of books, manuscripts, prints, and photographs from the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, October 1983 to January 1984
The better kind of men: emigration from England to Pennsylvania, prior centuries // Let there be gryst mills: early colonization by Swedesand English along the Delaware River, their use of water power //Up the noble Darby River: first generation plantations established and mills increased // The ancient mistery of paper making: America's first paper mill, history of paper making and watermarks // They set the spinning wheels: eighteenth century political and social developments, rapid increase in paper making, through the Revolutionary period // Down to the mill: Expansion and conversion of paper mills, schism within the Society of Friends, migration of some paper making descendants. Abandonment of water power-------Supplement:" The Wookey Hole : watching paper being made by hand " - by Margaret Petroskas // " Seventeenth century Swedish grist mills in the Delaware Valley " - by Carl and Alice Lindborg.// " Golden Grain and White Dust : flour making along the Brandywine " - by Ruthellen Pine Davis // " The Levis House : outings to the old homestead in the early 20th Century " - by Elizabeth Shafner Macdugan // " Coates family reminiscences : malaria and early milling " - Henry Schreve
Water powered grist mills of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1750-1825 From the King's Continental, State and County tax and assessment lists at the Lancaster County Historical Society, 1971
