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	Creator	Haviland Family
	Title	Papers,
	Dates:	1754-1931
	Abstract:	James S. Haviland, a birthright Quaker, was born in 1849, the son of William F. and Sarah Ann (Carpenter) Haviland of Purchase Monthly Meeting (N.Y.). The collection contains correspondence, financial, and legal papers, and miscellaneous manuscripts of the families of James S. and Elizabeth (Griffen) Haviland. Includes materials of the related Griffen, Field, and Parry families, especially the correspondence of Seneca Ely and Priscilla Stubbs Parry of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 1826-67, and of his sister, Rachel Parry Brosius.
	Extent:	2 boxes; 1 linear ft.
	Identification:	RG 5/059
	Location:	For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

James S. Haviland, a birthright Quaker, was born in 1849, the son of William F. and Sarah Ann (Carpenter) Haviland of Purchase Monthly Meeting (N.Y.). In 1874 the married Elizabeth Griffen, daughter of Henry. They had two daughters, Martha G. and Louise E.; the latter married J. Barnard Walton in 1910.

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SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

The collection contains correspondence, financial, and legal papers, and miscellaneous manuscripts of the families of James S. and Elizabeth (Griffen) Haviland. Includes materials of the related Griffen, Field, and Parry families, especially the correspondence of Seneca Ely and Priscilla Stubbs Parry of Lancaster County, Pa, 1826-67, and of his sister, Rachel Parry Brosius.

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Ser. 1. Bowne Daniel of Flushing, 1772

Box
1		Indenture 1772 2mo 27

Ser. 2. Carpenter, Charles and Phebe Jane (Cromwell), 1813-1846

The Carpenters were the grandparents of James Haviland.

Box
1		Papers 1813-1846

Ser. 3. Cromwell family, 1784-1813

Box
1		Papers 1784-1813

Ser. 4. Field Family, 1763-1823

Box
1		Papers 1763-1823

Ser. 5. Griffen family, 1754-1789

Box
1		Correspondence and papers 1754-1789

Ser. 6. Griffen family, 1841

Box
1		Newspaper account of fire on the Erie 1841 8mo

Ser. 7. Haviland family, 1791-1931, n.d.

Box
1		Paper and correspondence 1791-1931, n.d. Includes letter from Szechwan Yearly Meeting to New York Yearly Meeting.

Minutes of the Young Friends Association of Purchase, New York 1892 11mo 4-1894 4mo 20

Transferred to RG2 Friends Associations on 9-22-1982

Louise E. Haviland, Scrapbook of Verse 1904

Louise E. Haviland, Account Book 1910

Ser. 8. Haydock family, 1785

Box
1		Deed 1785 6mo 26

Ser. 9. Stoutenburgh family, 1785

Box
1		Deed 1785 10mo 10

Ser. 10. Sutton family, 1783

Box
1		Letter from James Sutton to Benjamin Field, 1783 1mo 29

Ser. 11. Reference material kept by the Haviland family, 1822, n.d.

Box
1		2 letters concerning the Separation 1822 11mo 15, n.d.

Ser. 12. Parry family, 1815-1917, n.d.

Box
2		Biographical and genealogical n.d.

Correspondence:

Elizabeth Ely Parry 1815

Ely Parry 1858

Rachel Parry Broius 1852-1855, n.d.

Seneca Parry 1826-1896, n.d.

Priscilla Stubbs Parry 1833-1867, n.d.

Ruthanna Parry 1852-1856

Miscellaneous correspondence 1822-1917, n.d.

Rachel Stubbs, Book of Verse 1849

Ser. 13. Miscellaneous, 1896, n.d.

Box
2		Log book 1896

Sketch book n.d.

Contents

An Inventory of the Haviland Family Papers, 1754-1931

Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff

Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries

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