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Box 17

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Contains 48 Results:

Pearsall, Margaretta B. Les Lettres le livre quatrieme, 1792-1793

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Scope and Contents Letter book of Margaret Bowne Pearsall [Haydock]. d. 1799, daughter of Joseph and Hannah Bowne Pearsall. She married Henry Haydock under the care of New York Monthly Meeting on 1793, 12mo 11. Her draft letters are addressed to Debby Ferris, Hannah Hopkins, Mary Bowne and other friends and relatives. She describes the absorption of others in matrimony and notes that she is in no hurry. In late 1793, there is mention of yellow fever in Philadelphia. The ms is damaged and last fragement is...
Dates: 1792-1793

Mifflin, Warner to Drinker, Henry, 1792 6mo 27

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Scope and Contents

Regarding rights of conscience. Purchased from Goodspeed’s Book Shop, 1968.

Dates: 1792 6mo 27

Sharpless, Joseph to his brother, et al., Philadelphia, 1792 9mo 21 1794 5mo 4

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Scope and Contents

One incomplete, records Joseph Sharpless’ spiritual thinking. These letters are bound in one volume and apparently the volume is incomplete.

Dates: 1792 9mo 21 1794 5mo 4

Cresson, Joshua, Meditations [written…during…visitation of sickness and mortality in Philadelphia], 1793

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Attached to the Meditations are comments made by his wife, Mary Cresson, giving some account of the circumstances of his death. Gift of Friends Historical Association

Dates: 1793

Kirk, Ruth, to Baltimore Monthly Meeting, 1793 3mo

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Containing reflections on her relationship with Jesus Christ. Gift of Bliss Forbush, 1964.

Dates: 1793 3mo