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Scope and Contents Following death of her infant son, Thomas, on 6 mo 1841, and with her surviving children in mind, Patience Jenkins began a journal to record her activities and thoughts. Later that year, she was inspired to speak at meeting. The journal records her life as a committed and active Friend, including attendance at meetings (local and yearly), mention of family and fellow Quakers, and religious concerns, including slavery. In 1848, 6 month, she records a visit to her brother John Hunn to support...

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Entries mostly on the days Patience Jenkins attends meetings and describes her visits in the ministry. Brother John Hunn is widowed with three children and comes to stay with her family. They visit the poor, and she speaks at the graveside at the burial of a neighbor, surprising some who had never heard a woman preach. The volume ends with entry 1855, 3 mo, 12, attending monthly meeting, signed Patience Jenkins, "In Another book is [sic] is continued." Some sections faded.

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Mentions visit of Friends from Philadelphia including Deborah F. Wharton, Susan Parrish. 8 month, monthly meeting brother John asked to visit other meetings

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Describes being sent to Westtown School. Later move to her deceased uncle Joseph Hunn's house in Camden, Delaware.

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Transcription by Patience H. Jenkins of her correspondence and that of her brother, John Hunn others. She notes on the front page that John Hunn was in his 24th year in 1843. The letters are largely religious in nature.

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A.L. to dear Brother, Thomas Jenkins, 1860. Others are fragments, all with religious themes