Volume 1

Entries in this volume describe visits to Friends at Chester Monthly Meeting and family visits Parrish conducted.

Entries in this volume describe Parrish's attendance at the Yearly Meeting at Newport, R.I., his travels to New York and attendance of the meeting of the Committee on Indian Affairs. He also describes a visit to a woman named Mary Collins concerning her enslavement of a woman.

Entries in this volume describe Parrish's travels throughout the Philadelphia area, including family visits in Haverford, Darby, and Radnor. The last pages of the diary include records of Parrish's removal and admittance to and from the various meetings he visited.

This volume describes Meetings attended while in Darby, PA.

This volume opens with a few pages concerning the "grevious sufferings of the Black people." Entries describe the Baltimore Yearly Meeting, including discussions about education and the building of new Meeting houses.

This volume describes Parrish's travels with Thomas Scattergood, Thomas Wistar, and John Shoemaker from Philadelphia to Washington D.C. to give the U.S. government a report from the Meeting for Sufferings concerning the abolition of slavery.