Richard Price correspondence with John Watson
Abstract
Richard Price's letters to fellow Hicksite Quaker John Watson provide a rich account of the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation with references and comments on many of the personalities involved: Elias Hicks, William Wharton, Jonathan Evans, as well as visiting Quaker ministers including George Truman, Lucretia Mott, Ann Jones, Mary and Susan Cox, and Martha Smith. Price also wrote a detailed account of the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1848. The collection contains a small number of other correspondents including Benjamin Hanna who described the split in Ohio Yearly Meeting.
Dates
- Creation: 1826-1867-1826-1848 (bulk)
Creator
- Price, Richard, 1794-1865 (Person)
Language of Material
Materials are in English.
Restrictions on Access
This collection is available for research use.
Biographical / Historical
Richard Price (1794-1865) was Philadelphia merchant and served on Philadelphia City Council. An active member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, he was a supporter of Elias Hicks and many Quaker concerns. His friend John Watson (1774-1864) was a land surveyor and businessman and served as an Elder of Buckingham Monthly Meeting in Bucks County. Both closely followed and were involved in the events of the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation in the Society of Friends.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet (.1 linear feet (12 folders.))
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--2015.
Subject
- Price, Richard, 1794-1865 (Person)
- Watson, John, 1774-1864 (Person)
- Hanna, Benjamin, 1779-1853 (Person)
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) (Organization)
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) (Organization)
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library (Organization)
Topical
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Society of Friends -- Correspondence
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite Separation
- Society of Friends -- Schisms and separations
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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