Seaman, David, 1791-1844
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-044
Abstract
Elias Hicks (1748-1830) was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. In the 1820s, a religious controversy within the Society of Friends which focused on Hicks' ministry led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation of 1827-1828. The collection includes correspondence written and received by Elias Hicks, sermons, surveyor's drawings, family correspondence, and other papers. Also includes the original 1748-1822 manuscript journal of Elias Hicks (in three parts) and the 1828 Ohio...
Dates:
1779 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1779 - 1830
Halliday Jackson Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-182
Abstract
Halliday Jackson (1771-1835) was a Quaker minister from New Garden and Darby, Pa.. From 1798 to 1800 he joined the Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians organized by the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Shortly after his return from the mission to the Seneca, Halliday Jackson married Jane Hough and moved to Darby, Pa. Following Jane's death in 1830, Halliday Jackson remarried in 1833 to Ann P. Paschall (1792-1874), also a Quaker minister. These records contain documents...
Dates:
1755-1833
David Seaman correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-114
Identifier: SFHL-SC-114
Abstract
This collection includes the correspondence of David Seaman, primarily relating to the Hicksite controversy. Correspondents include Edward Hicks, Samuel Mott, Halliday Jackson, and John Comly.
Dates:
1808-1843
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends 2
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
- Quakers -- New York (State) 2
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania 2
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation 2
- Hicksites 1
- Hicksites -- 19th century 1
- Indians of North America -- New York (State) 1
- Quakers -- Ohio 1
- Quakers -- Relations with Indians 1
- Quakers -- Social life and customs 1
- Seneca Indians 1
- Sermons, American 1
- Society of Friends -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century 1
- Society of Friends -- Indian affairs 1
- Society of Friends -- New York (State) 1
- Society of Friends -- Ohio 1
- Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania 1 + ∧ less
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