Contents
Descriptive Summary
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL
SCOPE AND CONTENT
Arrangement
SELECTED SEARCH TERMS
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS
Ser. 1. Personal Genealogical Papers
Ser. 2 Quaker Genealogy Family Files
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Nancy P. (Nancy Peel) Speers Genealogical Papers, 1906-1995 [bulk 1972-1995]
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1997
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Creator
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Nancy P. (Nancy Peel) Speers (1925-1995) |
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Title
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Genealogical Papers, |
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Dates:
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1906-1995 [bulk 1972-1995] |
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Abstract:
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Nancy Peel Speers (1925-1995) was a leading expert on Quaker genealogy. Married to David Speers (1919-1968), she was a lifelong resident of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. She was employed as an archivist and staff genealogist at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. The Speers' Genealogical Research Papers consist of personal research on the Peel, Speers, and Olmsted families, research on Quaker families, including extensive work done on Cox, Kester, Griffith, and Lloyd families, and miscellaneous Quaker genealogical research.
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Extent:
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8 boxes; 4 linear feet |
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Identification:
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RG 5/ 194 |
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Location:
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For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog |
Nancy Peel Speers (1925-1995) was a leading expert on Quaker genealogy. She was employed by Friends Historical Library as an archivist and staff genealogist, and she also worked as a private genealogist during her employment and after retirement from the Library.
She was the daughter of H. Lindley and Edna L. Peel and raised in the Borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Nancy Speers entered the College of Wooster in Ohio at the end of her junior year at Swarthmore High School, returning to graduate from Swarthmore High School with the class of 1943. She then transferred to Middlebury College in Vermont where she spent her sophomore and junior years. In August 1945 she married David Speers (Adam David McKinstry Speers) of Indianapolis, a Swarthmore College alumnus. They settled in Swarthmore. David Speers (1919-1968) was a partner in the law firm of Duane, Morris, and Heckscher in Philadelphia.
After her husband's death, Nancy Speers began to work at Friends Historical Library as an archivist and staff genealogist. She retired in 1992, and her genealogical papers were donated to the Library after her death by her three children.
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The Speers' Genealogical Research Papers consist of personal research on the Peel, Speers, and Olmsted families, research on Quaker families, including extensive work done on Cox, Kester, Griffith, and Lloyd families, and miscellaneous Quaker genealogical research.
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The collection is divided into two series:
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Ser. 1. Personal Genealogical Papers
Includes research on Speers, Peel, Lippincott, Russell, McKinstry, Olmsted, and other collateral family lines.
Folders have not been entirely sorted and contain rough notes, correspondence, and charts.
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Typescript, "Lineal Descent of Nancy Peel Speers"
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Typed transcription, "Diary of Trip to England, 1860" kept by Henry Clarke Peel, Sr.
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Typescript "Lineal Descent of Adam David McKinstry Speers"
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Mimeograph mss "Spear Family History"
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Peel/Speers research notes
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Speers, with LeFevre, Bevier, Etting, etc. notes
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Box
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Speir line
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Mary Beare's correspondence regarding Speers family
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Nathaniel Bernard's correspondence
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Adam Speers/Nancy Ellen Speers Bernard correspondence, etc.
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Folder
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Olmstead/Browning lines
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Olmsted family group charts
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Olmsted correspondence
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Olmsted family association
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Olmsted family reunion, notes
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Ser. 2 Quaker Genealogy Family Files
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The following files on Quaker families are storied in the FHL reading room:
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Chaffin/Chalfant
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Coppock: also, see Tucker
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Folder
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Cox (2 folders)
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Fisher: also, see Kirk
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Harvey: see Hollingsworth
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Hill: see Cox and Phillips
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Box
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Folder
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Hollingsworth; also, see Hinshaw
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Box
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Folder
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Hunt: also, see Beals, Hinshaw, and Jones
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Kester/Kuster
Includes extensive correspondence
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Box
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Folder
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Langstaff (NJ)
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Box
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Folder
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Lippincott: also, see Brown
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Box
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Folder
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Lloyd (7 folders)
Includes extensive correspondence
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R.Douglas Lloyd (2 folders)
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Michener: see Scarborough
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Box
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Folder
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Moore, Ann
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Box
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Folder
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Narramore
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Folder
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Scarborough: also, see Pearson
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