Ann Jones Papers
Scope and Contents
This collection contains letters and other manuscripts relating to visits of English Friends to America in the 1820s and the controversies which led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation. Also included are letters from Elizabeth Rathbone, Liverpool, England, to "My Beloved Uncle;" Joseph Bringhurst, Philadelphia, to "My Esteemed Friend;" also Abel Thomas to Thomas and Mary Wistar (copy) as well as some miscellaneous Quaker papers.
Dates
- Creation: 1793 - 1831
Creator
- Jones, Ann, 1774-1846 (Person)
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Access: open for research without restrictions.
Copyright and Rights Information
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Biographical / Historical
Ann Jones was an English Quaker minister, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Burgess. In 1815, she married George Jones (1765-1841), who also was a minister. From 1826 to 1830, they made an extensive religious visit to Friends in the United States. Their staunch evangelical ministry added to the tensions already brewing in the Society of Friends and resulting in the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation of 1827-1828.
Extent
6 folders
Language
English
Overview
This collection contains letters and other manuscripts relating to visits of English Friends to America in the 1820s and the controversies which led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation. Also included are letters from Elizabeth Rathbone, Liverpool, England, to "My Beloved Uncle;" Joseph Bringhurst, Philadelphia, to "My Esteemed Friend;" also Abel Thomas to Thomas and Mary Wistar (copy) as well as some miscellaneous Quaker papers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchase, Acc. 2013.002
Subject
- Jones, Ann, 1774-1846 (Person)
Topical
- Church controversies -- Society of Friends
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends
- Quaker women -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Quakers -- Great Britain
- Quakers -- United States
- Society of Friends -- Hicksite Separation
- Society of Friends -- Schisms and separations
- Society of Friends -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Title
- Ann Jones papers
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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