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Halliday Jackson Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-182
Overview
Halliday Jackson (1771-1835) was a Quaker minister from New Garden and Darby, Pa.. From 1798 to 1800 he joined the Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians organized by the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Shortly after his return from the mission to the Seneca, Halliday Jackson married Jane Hough and moved to Darby, Pa. Following Jane's death in 1830, Halliday Jackson remarried in 1833 to Ann P. Paschall (1792-1874), also a Quaker minister. These records contain documents relating...
Dates:
1755-1833
Samuel Parsons correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-229
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence received by Samuel Parsons of New York Monthly Meeting. Correspondents include William and Hannah Jackson, ministers of New Garden Monthly Meeting, Pa.; London Friends writing to James Mott, Parsons, and Richard R. Lawrence in response to their report of Friends' activities with native Americans; Samuel Bettle of Philadelphia concerning the Separation, offering advice for New York Yearly Meeting; Daniel Comstock describing the program of study at the...
Dates:
1805-1831
Thomas Willis writings relating to the Separation and Quaker testimonies
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-220
Abstract
These writings, apparently a draft in answer to Evan Lewis's defense of Hicks, elucidate Willis's beliefs and his account of the Separation, including his being part of the committee that presented the complaint against Hicks which culminated in the disownment of Hicks in 1829 by the Orthodox faction. Willis defends the importance of the Bible, the divinity of Jesus, and the authority of the Church. Includes a draft of a letter to Josiah Forster (1848) in which Willis refers to the Wilburite...
Dates:
1807-1848
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- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 2
- Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
- Collins, Micajah, 1764-1827 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 1
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 1
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 1
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 1
- Shipley, Ann 1
- Willis, Thomas, 1770 or 1771-1864 1 ∧ less
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