Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-044
Overview
Elias Hicks (1748-1830) was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. In the 1820s, a religious controversy within the Society of Friends which focused on Hicks' ministry led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation of 1827-1828. The collection includes correspondence written and received by Elias Hicks, sermons, surveyor's drawings, family correspondence, and other papers. Also includes the original 1748-1822 manuscript journal of Elias Hicks (in three parts) and the 1828 Ohio...
Dates:
1779 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1779 - 1830
John Jackson correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-204
Identifier: SFHL-SC-204
Abstract
Contains primarily correspondence from John Jackson to George and Catherine Truman. Letters are largely religious in content, with reflections on education and the death of his father. Also contains a copy of a letter to William B. Irish, an account of Priscilla Hunt's sermon, and extracts of a letter from Elias Hicks.
Dates:
1834-1835
Abraham Pennell commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-049
Overview
The commonplace book of Abraham Pennell contains excerpts from Elias Hicks’s letters and sermons, from George Fox’s sermons and writings, and from the bible.
Dates:
1826-1827
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- Hicksites -- 19th century 2
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Sermons, American 2
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
- Quakers 1
- Quakers -- Education 1
- Quakers -- History 1
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 1
- Sermons 1
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
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