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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Object ID: MG0846

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

Society of Friends Westtown Boarding School Search Terms: Business records Correspondence Deeds Diaries Lampeter Twp. Leacock Twp. Letters Mills Philadelphia Quakers Society of Friends Westtown Boarding School �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633

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Collection: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Title: Gibbons Diaries, Family Papers, and Mill Records

Description: This collection contains letters, family papers, deeds, diaries, and mill records from three generations of the Gibbons family. The collection starts with documents focused on James Gibbons, then contains papers central to Daniel Gibbons, and finally end with the third generation papers surrounding Joseph Gibbons. The letters in this collection span from 1783 until 1865. The contents within the letters describe the daily happenings within the family and on their property which was located in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County. The family deeds in the collection detail the exchanging of property to and from the Gibbons family mostly within Lampeter Township and Upper Leacock Township, Lancaster County. The deeds span from 1727 to 1879. Also included are some miscellaneous family papers that span from 1799 to 1871. The content of these family papers ranges from anonymous stories about the Gibbons family, an independent order of Good Templars of Joseph Gibbons, to a land draft of James Gibbons' Land. This collection also contains diaries from various members of the Gibbons family, spanning the three generations. These diaries detail the day to day lives of the Gibbons family and also include historical anniversaries of important events or detail the passing of members within the Gibbons family and the surrounding community. The Mill Records in the collection contain information about [ ]. Overall, the Gibbons Family collection includes the regular happenings over the family's three generations in both business and secular life.

Date Range: 1727 - 1980s

Creator: Gibbons family

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: Bonsall, Daniel; Bonsall, Edward Horne; Bonsall, Rachel; Brinton, William; Brown, Ellen; Brubaker, Marianna Gibbons; Conrad, Abraham; Dunbar, Andrew; Dunbar, Mary; Eaby, Christian; Eaby, Samuel; Earle, Mary Hussey; Evans, Thomas; Evans, Rebecca; Evans, William; Gibbons, Abraham; Gibbons, Caroline; Gibbons, Daniel; Gibbons, Deborah; Gibbons, Joseph; Gibbons, Phebe Hussey Earle; Gibbons, Rachel; Gibbons, Samuel; Gibbons, William; Grigs, Joseph; Hamilton, James; Hertzkey, John; Kendall, John; Kirk, Jeremiah; Lightfoot, Jepthat; Miller, Eliza; Miller, John; Reynolds, Margaret; Stauffer, Christian; Steer, Joseph; Stevens, Thaddeus; Thomas, William B.; Wartnaby, Elizabeth

Subjects: Business records; Deeds; Letters; Mills and mill-work; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Search Terms: Business records; Correspondence; Deeds; Diaries; Finding aids; Lampeter Twp.; Leacock Twp.; Letters; Manuscript groups; Mill Creek; Mills; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Quakers; Society of Friends; Westtown Boarding School

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0846

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copies: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: 2021.008

Other Numbers: MG-846

Other Number: MG-846

Classification: MG0846

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Folders 1-30 processed and finding aid prepared from the donor's notes by MB, 8 July 2021. Added to database 12 July 2021.

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Friends in the Delaware Valley : Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1681-1981

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo110

Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 289.6 F911

Responsibility: edited by John M. Moore.

Place of Publication: Haverford, Pa

Publisher: Friends Historical Association,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - History.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania.; Quakers - Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Moore, John Morrison,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.6 F911

Guide to the manuscript collections of Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3275

Date of Publication: 1982.

Call Number: 016.2896 G946

Place of Publication: Swarthmore, Pa

Publisher: Swarthmore College ,

Date of Publication: 1982.

Physical Description: unp. 23 cm.

Notes: African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society

Subjects: Society of Friends; Quakers

Additional Corporate Author: Friends Historical Library

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 016.2896 G946

Guide to the records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo6484

Corporate Author: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee.

Date of Publication: 1989.

Call Number: 289.6 E19

Responsibility: compiled by Jack Eckert.

Corporate Author: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Records Committee.

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1989.

Physical Description: xix, 288 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "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.

Subjects: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. - Records Committee - Manuscripts - Microform catalogs.; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. - Records Committee - History - Sources - Bibliography - Microform catalogs.; Haverford College. - Quaker Collection - Microform catalogs.; Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College - Microform catalogs.; Manuscripts - Pennsylvania; Manuscripts on microfilm; Catalogs, Union - Pennsylvania.

Additional Author: Eckert, Jack,

Additional Corporate Author: Haverford College. Quaker Collection.; Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.6 E19

A history of the Lancaster Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19104

Author: Whitely, Paul L.

Date of Publication: [1981]

Call Number: 289.6 W594

Responsibility: [by the committee: Henrietta Ober, Henry N. Williams, Paul L. Whitely, Convener].

Author: Whitely, Paul L.

Date of Publication: [1981]

Physical Description: [13] leaves ; 28 cm.

Notes: Photocopy of typescript.

Subjects: Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Quakers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County

Additional Author: Ober, Henrietta.; Williams, Henry N.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.6 W594

Of color, humanitas and statehood: the black experience in Pennsylvania over three centuries 1681-1981

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1734

Corporate Author: Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Date of Publication: 1981.

Call Number: 326 O31

Corporate Author: Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: The Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum,

Date of Publication: 1981.

Physical Description: 142 p. : ill., maps, plates, ports., 22 cm. x 28 cm.

Notes: Contains half-title page.; Includes index.; Selected bibliography: p. 127-138.; African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society.

Subjects: Mott, Lucretia, - 1793-1880.; Benezet, Anthony, - 1713-1784.; African Americans - Pennsylvania; Society of Friends; Pennsylvania - Race relations - History.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 O31

The Quakers : a brief account of their influence on Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19277

Author: Comfort, William Wistar,

Edition: Rev. and reissued with additions /

Date of Publication: 1986.

Call Number: 974.802811 C732f 1986

Responsibility: by William Wistar Comfort ; edited by Frederick B. Tolles.

Author: Comfort, William Wistar,

Edition: Rev. and reissued with additions /

Place of Publication: University Park, Penn

Publisher: Pennsylvania Historical Association,

Date of Publication: 1986.

Physical Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Pennsylvania history studies ; no. 2

Notes: Bibliography: p. 63-64.

Subjects: Quakers - Pennsylvania; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History.

Additional Author: Tolles, Frederick Barnes,; Bronner, Edwin B.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.802811 C732f 1986

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