Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends records
Collection — othertype: SW/PaPr
Identifier: QM-PaPr
Overview
This collection includes the minutes of the Longwood Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, as
well as records of its Financial Association and its Representative Committee. Also included are
some minutes of Kennett Monthly Meeting, from which the Longwood meeting split off
beginning in the 1840s. There are detailed records of this split, including lists of the members
who were disowned from Kennett Monthly Meeting for associating under the name “Progressive
Friends.” Minutes and letters...
Dates:
1851 - 1941
Post family papers
Collection — othertype: SC-176
Identifier: SFHL-SC-176
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...
Dates:
1742-1908
Milton Friends of Progress Records
Collection — othertype: SW/Z
Identifier: QM-Z-M5
Overview
Records of the Society of Friends of Progress at Milton (known as the Milton Friends of Progress) in Marlborough Township, Ulster County, N.Y. Includes: Minutes, 1854-1927.
Dates:
1854 - 1927
