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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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Bi-centennial of Brick Meeting-House, Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland : Seventh-day, ninth month, (September) 14

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3464

Date of Publication: 1902.

Call Number: 975.238 F899

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Wickersham Printing Co.,

Date of Publication: 1902.

Physical Description: 111 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., folded map ; 24 cm.

Notes: At head of title: 1701 - 1901.

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718.; Society of Friends.; Mason-Dixon Line

Additional Corporate Author: Society of Friends. Nottingham Monthly Meeting.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 975.238 F899

Gilbert family history : the story of John Gilbert who emigrated in 1682 from Cornwall, England to Bucks County, Pennsylvania and some of his descendants : including the Walton and Rakestraw families, and an account of the Indian captivity of the family of Benjamin Gilbert and Elizabeth Walton

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17449

Author: Lynch, Dennis P.

Date of Publication: 2006].

Call Number: 929 G464

Responsibility: [compiled by Dennis Lynch].

Author: Lynch, Dennis P.

Place of Publication: [Laurel, MD

Publisher: D. P. Lynch,

Date of Publication: 2006].

Physical Description: [74] leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes An account of the captivity of Benjamin Gilbert and his family by the Indians, 1780-1782.; Cover title.; Includes bibliographical references (leaf 74)

Subjects: Gilbert, John, - 1629-1711 - Family.; Gilbert family.; Walton family.; Rakestraw family.; Quakers - Pennsylvania - Bucks County - Genealogy.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Bucks County; Indian captivities.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 G464

The Nottingham Lots : a tercentenary celebration 2001

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20603

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 974.8 N921

Responsibility: East Nottingham Trustees.

ISBN: 1425700446; 9781425700447; 1425700438; 9781425700430

Place of Publication: [United States]

Publisher: Xlibris,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: 104 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary: The Nottingham Lots began in 1701 after William Penn was told by Lord Talbot of Maryland, that Pennsylvania could settle as far as the fall waters of the Susquehanna go down hill. This area is now located in Northern Cecil County, Maryland and Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. This book tells the history of the Nottingham Lots and the genealogy of each of the original sixteen settlers.--Publisher's description.

Subjects: Penn, William, - 1644-1718; Churchman, John, - 1705-1775.; Nottingham Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Oxford, Pa.); Quakers - Pennsylvania - Chester County; Quakers - Maryland - Cecil County; Chester County (Pa.) - History.; Cecil County (Md.) - Genealogy.; Cecil County (Md.) - History.; Chester County (Pa.) - Genealogy.

Additional Corporate Author: East Nottingham Trustees.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8 N921

Print, Photographic

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/46be4401-0a3e-4661-aacb-413255843198

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: HC-79-09-05

Date Range: 1902

1 image

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Mercy Moore Carter Wood, taken on her 80th birthday in 1902, on the Wood farm at a family reunion.

Provenance: Photographs from the collection of the Heritage Center

Date Range: 1902

Creator: Thomas, Clarence Ward

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

People: Wood, Mercy Moore Carter

Subcategory: Documentary Artifact

Search Terms: Quakers; Society of Friends; Women

Object Name: Print, Photographic

Print Size: 6 x 8 inches

Object ID: HC-79-09-05

Other Number: G09.2.1

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Quaker aesthetics : reflections on a Quaker ethic in American design and consumption, 1720-1920

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo18265

Date of Publication: 2002.

Call Number: 289.6749 Q1

Responsibility: edited by Emma Jones Lapsansky and Anne A. Verplanck.

ISBN: 0812236920; 9780812236927

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa. : Wantage

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ; University Presses Marketing,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Society of Friends - Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) - History.; Aesthetics; Aesthetics, American - Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.); Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) - Church history.

Additional Author: Lapsansky, Emma Jones.; Verplancke, Anne A.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.6749 Q1

The Quakers in America

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16844

Author: Hamm, Thomas D.

Date of Publication: 2003.

Call Number: 289.673 H224

Responsibility: Thomas D. Hamm.

ISBN: 0231123620

Author: Hamm, Thomas D.

Place of Publication: New York : Chichester

Publisher: Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication: 2003.

Physical Description: 293 p. : ill.

Series: Columbia contemporary American religion series

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary: "The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion." [from the publisher]

Subjects: Society of Friends. - United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 289.673 H224

Quakers: origins, families and beliefs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17450

Author: Morrison, Ross I.

Date of Publication: 2006.

Call Number: 289.6 Q1

Responsibility: researched and written by Ross I. Morrison, Sr.

Author: Morrison, Ross I.

Place of Publication: Morgantown, Pa

Publisher: Masthof Press ,

Date of Publication: 2006.

Physical Description: v,50 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects: Society of Friends - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 289.6 Q1

Welsh tract of Pennsylvania : the early settlers : extracted from the Welsh settlement of Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14893

Author: Browning, Charles Henry.

Date of Publication: 2000.

Call Number: 974.8 B885

Responsibility: by Charles H. Browning.

Author: Browning, Charles Henry.

Uniform Title: Welsh settlement of Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: Westminster, Md

Publisher: Willow Bend Books,

Date of Publication: 2000.

Physical Description: 296 p. : ill., maps. ; 22 cm.

Notes: "Represents the first 276 pages of 'Welsh settlement of Pennsylvania' ... originally published by William J. Campbell, 1912, Philadelphia"--Verso t.p.; Includes index.

Subjects: Welsh Americans - Pennsylvania; Welsh Americans - Pennsylvania - Genealogy.; Society of Friends - Pennsylvania.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8 B885

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