Box 2

Scope and Contents A letter written 8 mo 1800 to John Dickinson mentions the yellow fever in Newport, R.I., where inhabitants had thought they were safe from the disease. 11 mo 1800 describes the Hannah Barnard controversy in London. Bringhurst thought she had become too dependent on her own human wisdom, and he compares the troubles in the Society of Friends to the days of the George Keith controversy. Hannah Rotch Fisher becoming adept in the ministry. Thomas Scattergood inspired a meeting of a group at the...

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Transcript of the letters in James Bringhurst letter book, transcribed and indexed by C. Marshall Taylor, 1799-1805

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Typed transcripts of letters from James Bringhurst, transcribed and indexed by C. Marshall Taylor, 1803-1806

Scope and Contents Includes two loose letters to Bringhurst from Martha Routh. Also letters dated before 1803 (1797 about yellow fever.) and letter to Hannah Barnard and Elizabeth Coggeshill 1 mo 1800. Letters to Moses Brown, Emmor Kimber, John Dickinson, Charles Gilbert, David Sands, and others. 1804 mentions that Nathan Hunt traveling in the ministry on Martha's Vineyard where he visited the Wampanoag. Sorrow that William Crotch was "laid so low," in 12 mo 1806 letter to Stephen Gould, but glad that a new...