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Edward Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-016
Overview
This collection is composed of the draft manuscript of the memoirs and journal of Edward Hicks and related miscellaneous papers. Included are his drafts of the first pages of the memoirs, photocopies of letters and sermons of Hicks relating to the Hicksite Separation, abolition, and Quaker spirituality. Also included are a typescript copy of Samuel Johnson's letter to Edward Hicks on slavery, the original of Hicks' responses, and a letter from Isaac Parry to Benjamin Ferris after the death of...
Dates:
1836 - 1952; Majority of material found within 1836 - 1849
Collection of Edward Hicks papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-056
Abstract
This collection is composed of miscellaneous papers concerning Edward Hicks. Included are a draft of the first pages of his memoirs, later published, and contura prints of letters and sermons of Hicks, relating to the Hicksite Separation, abolition, and Quaker spirituality. Also included are a typescript copy of Samuel Johnson's letter to Edward Hicks on slavery, the original of Hicks' responses, and a letter from Isaac Parry to Benjamin Ferris after the death of Edward Hicks, concerning the...
Dates:
1836-1849
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Jennings-Clark-Eldridge Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-076
Overview
Hannah A. Jennings was the daughter of Phebe (Glover) and John Clark of Gloucester, N.J. She married Levi Jennings, a bricklayer, in 1832. The collection contains correspondence (1805-1861), household accounts, and miscellaneous papers of Hannah A. Jennings, her husband, Levi Jennings, and her mother, Phebe (Glover) Clark Eldridge. Includes a manuscript account of a sermon by Priscilla Hunt at Merion in 1823, the renunciation of Maria Emily (Imlay) by Ann Jones in 1826, and letters discussing...
Dates:
1768-1871
Jesse Kersey papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-199
Abstract
Includes letters, sermons, and manuscript fragments, as well as an 1824 printed epistle from London Yearly Meeting. The papers provide important insight into Kersey's faith and his thoughts on the Separation in the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1824-1841
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
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- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 2
- Johnson, Samuel, 1763-1843? 2
- Parry, Isaac, 1774-1857 2
- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Eldridge, Phebe, 1776-1845 1
- Female Association of Philadelphia for Promoting the Manufacture and Use of Free Cotton 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Ford, Alice, 1906- 1
- Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
- Genesee Yearly Meeting of Friends 1
- Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Hopkins, Elizabeth 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Hough, Oliver, 1804-1855 1
- Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
- Imlay, Maria, d. 1829 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 1
- Janney family 1
- Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
- Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 1
- Jennings family 1
- Jennings, Hannah A., 1803-1853 1
- Jennings, Levi, b. 1799 1
- Jewett, Tacy M. 1
- Johnson, Jane 1
- Jones, Ann, 1774-1846 1
- Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
- Mott, John, 1783-1848 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Quimby, Daniel 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
- Thomas, Philip W. 1
- Truman, George 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1
- Yearly Meeting of Congregational Friends (Waterloo, N.Y.) 1 ∧ less
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