The Lawrie-Tatum-Stanley Family Papers consist of diaries, correspondence, commonplace books, financial records, genealogical materials, and other documents of several generations of Quaker families in Scotland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. They are especially rich in materials on Orthodox Friends in the period of the Hicksite Separation of 1827-1828 and its immediate aftermath. Of particular interest, however, is one of the earliest documents in the collection, a proposal, probably ca. 1760, for the formation of the New Jersey Association for Helping the Indians. Most of these materials focus on the family of George Tatum (1785-1852), an Orthodox Friend and farmer of Woodbury, New Jersey, and his second wife Lydia (Lawrie) Tatum (1789-1856). The earliest items in the collection pertain to the Lawrie family, including copies of a 1674 marriage contract and a 1683 certificate of membership.