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Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-046
Overview
Contains the collected correspondence of the Bringhurst family, largely compiled by C. Marshall Taylor. It includes correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman James Bringhurst and his letters received from John Murray of New York City. Bringhurst corresponded with family and prominent friends including John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are descriptions of life in Philadelphia and the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1780 - 1811; 1780 - 1941
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
Rachel Hunt correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-153
Abstract
This collection includes letters received by Rachel Hunt and her husband, John. Among these are letters from other Quaker ministers on the topic of Quaker spirituality. A letter from Rachel Hunt's brother, John Gibbons, discusses the issue of self will in religion. Other correspondents include Thomas Scattergood, Mary S. Lippincott, Edward Hicks, and Jesse Kersey.
Dates:
1793-1840
Jackson-Conard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-217
Overview
The Jackson-Conard Family Papers include correspondence and other manuscripts of the Jackson and Conard families of London Grove Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The primary recipients are William Jackson (1746-1834), a Quaker minister, and his nephew, William Jackson (1789-1864), who served a single term in the Pennsylvania State Senate and was active in the anti-slavery movement.
Dates:
1748-1910
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
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- Names
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 3
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 2
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 2
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 2
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 2
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 2
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 2
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 2
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 2
- Bringhurst, James, 1730-1810 1
- Bringhurst, Joseph, 1733-1811 1
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
- Collins, Micajah, 1764-1827 1
- Cooper, David 1
- Darby, Deborah, 1754-1810 1
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Emlen, Samuel, 1730-1799 1
- Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 1
- Fisher, Thomas, 1741-1810 1
- Foulke, Elizabeth, 1758-1820 1
- Gibbons, John, approximately 1736- 1
- Harlan, Ann, 1739-1804 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Hicks, Jemima, 1750-1829 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Hunt, Rachel, 1760-1845 1
- Jackson, Hannah, 1767-1845 1
- Jackson, Isaac, 1775-1855 1
- Jackson, James, 1736-1817 1
- Jackson, Joel, 1776-1857 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- Jackson-Conard family 1
- Jenkins, Mehetabel, 1731-1815 1
- Judge, Hugh, 1750?-1834 1
- Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 1
- Lindley, Jacob, 1744-1814 1
- Lippincott, Mary S., 1801-1888 1
- Lundy, Benjamin, 1789-1839 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
- Monaghan, Hannah, W.1784-1804 1
- Mott, James, 1742-1823 1
- Murray, John, 1758-1819 1
- Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826 1
- New Garden Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Chester County, Pa.) 1
- New Garden Monthly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : Chester County, Pa.) 1
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 1
- Pemberton, James, 1723-1809 1
- Pemberton, John, 1727-1795 1
- Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate 1
- Pennypacker, E.F.(Elijah Funk), 1804-1888 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee 1
- Preston, Ann, 1813-1872 1
- Rodman, Sarah 1
- Rotch, William, 1759-1850 1
- Rowntree, Rachel, 1770-1825 1
- Sands, David, 1745-1818 1
- Scattergood, Thomas, 1748-1814 1
- Seaman, Valentine, 1770-1817 1
- Shoemaker, Nathan, 1788-1868 1
- Smith, George, 1804-1882 1
- Webb, Benjamin, 1786-1851 1
- Webb, Catherine, 1792-1872 1
- Whitson, Benjamin F., 1867-1957 1
- Willis, Thomas, 1770 or 1771-1864 1
- Willson, Anne 1
- Wistar, Margaret, 1728?-1793 1
- Wood, Samuel, 1760-1844 1 ∧ less
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