Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Darlington Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-296
Overview
This collection contains the papers of the Darlington family of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and Woodstown, New Jersey. Quakers with strong ties to Swarthmore College, the family was involved in education, social and peace concerns, and businesses in the Philadelphia area. Charles J. Darlington (1894-1966) served as Clerk of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends during the reunification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings. The collection includes family...
Dates:
1831-2012
Richard Price correspondence with John Watson
Collection — Othertype SC-254
Identifier: SFHL-SC-254
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...
Dates:
1826-1867-1826-1848 (bulk)
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- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County 1
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 1
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- Quakers -- Diaries 1
- Quakers -- Genealogy 1
- Society of Friends -- Correspondence 1
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 1
- Society of Friends -- Reunification 1
- Society of Friends -- Schisms and separations 1
- Society of Friends -- United States 1
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