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Amy Grace Mekeel papers concerning Conservative Friends, New York Yearly Meeting
Collection — Container: Folder
Identifier: SFHL-SC-286
Overview
The collectionn contains Mekeel's notes and abstracts concerning Quaker meetings in the Scipio and Farmington Quarterly Meetings of New York Yearly Meeting, particularly concerning the various nineteenth century Orthodox separations. There is also a small group of correspondence focused on Quaker meeting records.
Dates:
1946 - 1968
Collection of Isaac T. Hopper papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-058
Abstract
This collection includes Isaac T. Hopper's original and photocopied letters and his letterbook. Much of the material concerns his bookselling business and the Hicksite separation. He relates news of figures central to the controversy, including Elisha Bates, Elias Hicks, and Anna Braithwaite. Also included is Hopper's copy of the book, The History of the Life of Thomas Elwood.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1833-1902 [ 1833-1845]
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
John Lockwood correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-074
Abstract
This collection includes the letters of John Lockwood, received primarily from Aaron Leggett in 1827-28. Leggett, a Hicksite, relates business, news, and personal opinions concerning the Hicksite controversy in New York Yearly Meeting. His letters contain heated attacks on Orthodox Quakers, including Samuel Parsons, the Clerk of New York Monthly Meeting, Richard Mott, and Anna Braithwaite. He also gives news of Elias Hicks and of the progress of the Indiana Epistle.
Dates:
1827-1828
John Mott papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-208
Abstract
Contains transcriptions of John Mott's letters to family and friends and journals, probably compiled to circulate in manuscript form. Also some original letters from John Mott to his family. Mott wrote extensively on his religious views, particularly on Quaker testimony and the issues of the Hicksite separation, as well as the conflicts within Genesee Yearly Meeting which led to the separation of Congregational (Progressive) Friends. Of special interest is a draft of responses to queries dated...
Dates:
1822-1851
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
David Seaman correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-114
Abstract
This collection includes the correspondence of David Seaman, primarily relating to the Hicksite controversy. Correspondents include Edward Hicks, Samuel Mott, Halliday Jackson, and John Comly.
Dates:
1808-1843
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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- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 4
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 2
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends 2
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955) 2
- Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 2
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 2
- Bates, Elisha, 1781-1861 1
- Bettle, Samuel, 1774-1861 1
- Collins, Micajah, 1764-1827 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Leggett, Aaron, 1792-1860 1
- Lockwood, John, 1793?-1859 1
- Mekeel, Amy Grace, 1885-1976 1
- Mott, John, 1783-1848 1
- Mott, Richard, 1767-1856 1
- Mott, Samuel, b. 1766 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Farmington Quarterly Meeting (1828-1955) 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1955). Scipio Quarterly Meeting 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Scipio Quarterly Meeting 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
- Shipley, Ann 1
- Willis, Thomas, 1770 or 1771-1864 1
- Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends (Waterloo, N.Y.) 1 ∧ less
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