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"Some account of a visit that was performed to the Quarterly and Monthly Meetings with the Compass of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting." Detailed accounts of where Joshua Sharpless (1747-1826) visited and in the company of other ministers. Recipe for muffins added in pencil second page from end.

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Ms journal, on religious visit with committee appointed by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Scope and Contents Joshua Sharpless documented his 70-day journey through Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey with John Peirce in his journal titled "Journal into Indian Country." Their first destination was Cornplanter's Tract (Seneca) with ambitions of promoting what they considered to be better forms of agriculture and a more "Civilized Live." Henry Simmons, Joel Swayne, and Halliday Jackson joined the pair on this first leg. Along the way they met General James Wilkinson in Pittsburgh. From here the pair...

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Visits to meetings of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Westtown Boarding School. Description of the life and death of his mother who raised thirteen children.

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4 AlsS between Quaker ministers. Rebecca Jones (1739-1817) was a Philadelphia teacher and Quaker minister.

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1 ALS, describes visits to Friends. Cathral (1736-1807) also was a Quaker minister and assisted in Rebecca Jones's school in Philadelphia.

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1 ALS, "Dear cousin."

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1 ALS from William Savery (1750-1804), Quaker minister, abolitionist and representative to Native American tribes to Joseph Drinker (d.1809}

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1 ALS from Drinker to his sister. Expresses sorrow on death of Job Scott and describes the fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Joseph Drinker wrote an unpublished plea in 1796 for the admission of African Americans into the Society of Friends.

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1 ALS from Drinker (d. 1809) describing his work.