Nancy P. (Nancy Peel) Speers Genealogical Papers, 1906-1995 [bulk 1972-1995]
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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081-1399 Phone: (610) 328-8496 FAX: (610) 690-5728
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collection
Genealogical Papers, 1906-1995 [bulk 1972-1995]
Nancy P. (Nancy Peel) Speers (1925-1995)
Biographical History for: Genealogical Papers, 1906-1995 [bulk 1972-1995]
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL 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.
SCOPE AND CONTENT 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.
Quakers -- Biography
Genealogy - Quaker
Peel Family.
Speers Family.
Olmsted Family.
Cox Family.
Kester Family.
Lloyd Family.
Griffith Family.
series
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.
Typescript, "Lineal Descent of Nancy Peel Speers"
Typed transcription, "Diary of Trip to England, 1860" kept by Henry Clarke Peel, Sr.
Lippincott family
Peel family
Lippincott/Peel lines
Speers line documents
Typescript "Lineal Descent of Adam David McKinstry Speers"
Mimeograph mss "Spear Family History"
Peel/Speers research notes
McKinstry family lines
Speers
Speers lineal descent
Speers, with LeFevre, Bevier, Etting, etc. notes
Speir line
Mary Beare's correspondence regarding Speers family
Nathaniel Bernard's correspondence
Adam Speers/Nancy Ellen Speers Bernard correspondence, etc.
Olmstead line documents
Olmstead/Browning lines
Russell/Olmsted
Olmsted family charts
Olmsted family group charts
Olmsted correspondence
Olmsted family association
Olmsted family reunion, notes
Ser. 2 Quaker Genealogy Family Files
The following files on Quaker families are storied in the FHL reading room:
Ashead
Atkinson
Baker
Beales: see Hunt
Beals
Bevan
Birdsall
Bonsall
Borton: see Lippincott
Bowater: see Beals
Brindley: see Lukens
Brown
Burrough: see Lippincott
Burson: see Griffith
Bye: see Brown
Canby
Canby: see Heston
Carver: see Reeves
Chaffin/Chalfant
Clayton
Clendennon
Cloud
Coales: see Truman
Cooper: see Truman
Coppock: also, see Tucker
Cowgill
Cox (2 folders)
Crawford
Crew: see Stanley
Day: see Hussey
Dickinson: see Hallock
Dixon: see Hutton
Doane: see Phillips
Doors: see Lukens
Durham
Elliott
Endicott: see Gaskill
Evans
Fayle
Fisher: also, see Kirk
Foulke: see Lippincott
Franzier: see Coppock
Gaskill
Griffith
Haines: see Lippincott
Hallock
Halloway: see Pharo
Hammer
Hanson
Harvey: see Hollingsworth
Heacock: see John
Hester
Heston
Hibbs
Hill: see Cox and Phillips
Hinshaw
Hoag: see Narramore
Hodson: see Cox
Hollingsworth; also, see Hinshaw
Hooten: see Langstaff
Hunt: also, see Beals, Hinshaw, and Jones
Hussey
Hutton
James
John
Jones
Kester/Kuster
Includes extensive correspondence
Donald Kester
Kirk
Langstaff (NJ)
Lightfoot: see Hutton
Lippincott: also, see Brown
Llewellyn: see Hunt
Lloyd (7 folders)
R.Douglas Lloyd (2 folders)
Lloyd
Lownes: see Heston
Lukens
Lupton
Malone: see Brown
McCarty
Mendenhall: see Griffith
Michener: see Scarborough
Middletown: see Ashead
Moore, Ann
Morlan: see Richardson
Narramore
Neill
Newlin: see Hinshaw
Owen: see Griffith
Parson: see Lukens
Patterson: see Phillips
Paxson: see Roberts
Pearson
Pedrick: see Hunt
Pennington: see Brown
Penrose
Pharo
Phillips
Plumley: see Roberts
Preston: see Scarborough
Price
Price: see Jones
Reeves
Richardson
Roberts
Robeson: see Elliott
Rutter: see Elliott
Sanders: see Woodrow
Sanders: see Wright
Scarborough: also, see Pearson
Scull: see Reeves
Shinn: see Atkinson
Shreve: see Atkinson
Smith
Stanfield: see Tucker
Stanley
Starbuck: see Hester
Taber
Truman
Tucker
Tyson
Underwood: see Kirk
Varney: see John
Wells: see Woodrow
Wells: see Wright
Wierman: see Cox
Woodrow
Woolman: see Lippincott
Woolston: see Heston
Worrall
Wright