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Journal, visits to meetings of Philadelphia yearly meeting, 1792-1794

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"Some account of a visit that was performed to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings with the Compass of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting." Detailed accounts of where Joshua Sharpless (1747-1826) visited and in the company of other ministers. Recipe for muffins added in pencil second page from end.

Dates: 1792-1794

Journal of Joshua Sharpless, 1812

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Visits to meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Westtown Boarding School. Description of the life and death of his mother who raised thirteen children.

Dates: 1812

Letters between Edith Sharpless and Rebecca Jones, 1778-1786

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4 AlsS between Quaker ministers. Rebecca Jones (1739-1817) was a Philadelphia teacher and Quaker minister.

Dates: 1778-1786

Edith Sharpless to Hannah Cathral, 1785

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1 ALS, describes visits to Friends. Cathral (1736-1807) also was a Quaker minister and assisted in Rebecca Jones's school in Philadelphia.

Dates: 1785

William Savery to Joseph Drinker, 1794, 7 mo

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1 ALS from William Savery (1750-1804), Quaker minister, abolitionist and representative to Native American tribes to Joseph Drinker (d.1809}

Dates: 1794, 7 mo

Joseph Drinker, Philadelphia, to Elizabeth Drinker, London, 1794 2mo

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1 ALS from Drinker to his sister. Expresses sorrow on death of Job Scott and describes the fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Joseph Drinker wrote an unpublished plea in 1796 for the admission of African Americans into the Society of Friends.

Dates: 1794 2mo

George Dillwyn to Joseph Drinker., 1798 2 mo 27

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1 ALS. George Dillwyn (1738-1820), a Philadelphia Quaker minister visited Great Britain for nine years beginning 1793. His letter from London to fellow minister Joseph Drinker mentions other traveling ministers and the approval of the concern within the Society of Friends to support poor African and Native Americans

Dates: 1798 2 mo 27

Mary Brinton Jones correspondence, 1806-1814

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Includes letters from her father, Samuel Jones, and relatives while she is a student at the Westtown School; Townsend Sharpless, Lydia Jones, Thomas Garrett, Jr. Mary Brinton Jones (1795-1856) married Townsend Sharpless in 1815.

Dates: 1806-1814