George & Ann Jones notebook

This collection is comprised of a single volume manuscript notebook, with notes related to a disturbance at the Mulberry Street House, when George and Ann Jones held an evening meeting, in 1826. According to the first entry, at a meeting of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, a committee was created for “ascertaining the facts, and enquiring into the cause of the disturbance which occurred in the vicinity of our meeting house a few weeks since.” The notebook records the meetings of the committee, the investigation of the “disturbance, ” and the testimonies from various witnesses.

The "disturbance" recounted and investiagted in this volume reflects the tensions between the groups of quakers who would become Hicksite and Orthodox, in the months leading up to the seperation of 1827-1828. According to the testimonies recorded in this volume, on an evening in December, 1826, George and Ann Jones held what was presumably considered an Orthodox meeting in their home. At the time of this meeting, a group of “boys and young persons” of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting broke down the gate to the house, and were “acting in a disorderly manner” in the yard in front of the house, and “hurraing for Elias Hicks.” Testimonies indicated that the intention of the group was to “break up” the meeting being held at the Jones house.