Post family papers
Abstract
Correspondence received by Mary and Joseph Post from 1833 to 1882. Also includes a letter from Elias Hicks to Willet Robbins, a letter received from the English Quaker minister, Martha Routh (1782), and a number of family deeds and other papers. Correspondents of Joseph and Mary Post include Anna Greene, John Ketcham, Amy (Kirby) and Isaac Post, Joseph Dugdale, James and Lucretia Mott, and Cyrus Peirce. Topics include the illness of Priscilla Cadwallader"modern" abolitionism, spiritualism and the "Rochester rappings," freedom seekers in Rochester, the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, Rowland Johnson, the ministry of Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and related topics.
Dates
- Creation: 1742-1908
Creator
- Post, Mary, 1806-1892 (Person)
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 (Contributor, Person)
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) (Contributor, Person)
- Johnson, Rowland, 1816-1886 (Contributor, Person)
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 (Contributor, Person)
- Peirce, Cyrus, d. 1878 (Contributor, Person)
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 (Contributor, Person)
- Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817 (Contributor, Person)
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 (Contributor, Person)
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 (Contributor, Person)
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 (Contributor, Person)
- Post, Isaac, 1798-1872 (Contributor, Person)
- Post, Amy Kirby, 1802- (Contributor, Person)
- Ketcham, John, d. 1865 (Contributor, Person)
- Greene, Anna, b. 1799 (Contributor, Person)
- Post, Joseph, 1803-1888 (Contributor, Person)
Restrictions on Access
This collection is available for research use.
Biographical / Historical
Mary and Joseph Post were members of the Society of Friends and active in a number of 19th century reform movements including abolition, peace, and women's rights. Joseph, the son of Edmund and Catharine (Willits) Post of Westbury, Long Island, married Mary W. Robbins, the daughter of Willet and Esther (Seaman), in 1828. Joseph's brother, Isaac Post, was also involved in reform; he and his wife, Amy Kirby Post, were prominent in the spiritualist movement in upstate New York.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet (.1 linear feet (25 folders.))
Language
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Helen S. Post. Method of acquisition--Gift of; Date of acquisition--1987.
Subject
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2020: Updated outdated, harmful terminology related to enslavement, except where it appears in a title, quotation, or subject heading.
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