Box 15
Contains 68 Results:
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Miscellaneous accounts, 1763 - 1789
21 items. Mostly Meeting for Sufferings. Many concerning printing costs.
Waln, Nicholas. Prayer at a meeting in Philadelphia, 1772 2mo 4
Two manuscript copies of Nicholas Waln's prayer as proclaimed in Market Street, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. The incident is described in Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of Friends, Philadelphia, 1870, p. 387.
Franklin, Benjamin, Survey and courses of part of Old York and Bristol Roads, 1786 9mo 1
"True copies" taken from reports of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylanvia, Benjamin Franklin, president. Gift of C. Marshall Taylor, 1944 (?)
Quaker arbitration decision concerning Nathaniel Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby, Dartmouth, Mass., 1786 10mo 16
A decision concerning the apple harvest to be divided amongst members of the Kirby family. Signed by Samuel Smith, Benjm Russell, and Henry Smith. Gift of Christopher Densmore, Acc. 2015.027.
Voght, Casper and Burmester, John George to Alsop and Hicks, New York, 1794 8mo 13
Report of import of American and West Indies goods to Europe. Gift of Thonmas Hamm, 2010-012..
Testimony concerning Margaret Raine, 1797 12 mo 1
Margaret Raine (1711/12-1796), Quaker minister of Marsden Monthly Meeting, England. Born Margaret Birtwistle and in 1745 married Jonathan Raine, also a Quaker minister. Gift of Christopher Densmore, 2011-035
Ferris, David. A vision or Supernatural appearance. . . , [1735?]
His vision of disaster while residing in Philadelphia in 1735, likely written some years later. David Ferris (1707-1779) was a Quaker minister from Oblong, NY, who removed to Wilmington, Del. Also a typed transcript. Gift of Christopher Densmore, 2011-026. See also Ferris Family Papers.
Account of May Drummond, 1735 5mo 19
Ms. copy of a published article of a sermon she delivered, together with poem written in praise of her "by a young lady," and copy of a letter signed W. N., London, to the Governor of Rhode Island in which author describes Drummond's sermon. Drummond (ca. 1710-1772) was born in Scotland, convinced by Thomas Story, and spent many years in England. She was renowned as a speaker, especially in her early years.
Weer, Michel. "A dream in the North of Ireland", 1763
"I beheld the sun rising, and it was exceedingly broad and clear…"
London Yearly Meeting, Meeting for Sufferings. Minute regarding a proposition from the Quarterly Meeting of Warwickshire for reprinting George Fox’s Journal, 1763 7mo 22
A proposition from the Quarterly Meeting of Warwickshire for reprinting George Fox’s Journal. See broadside: Proposals for printing by subscription…a new edition of the Journal…of…George Fox, together with Wm. Penn’s excellent introductory preface.
