Box 19
Contains 74 Results:
Cowgill, Daniel to Fisher, Samuel R., 1811 7mo 2
Receipt for $1,000 to be used by Little Creek P.M. for a school for the "education of the Descendants of the Africans." Also letter, n.d., Fisher to Little Creek P.M. concerning the school. Gift of Mary Cowgill Barnard Richards, 1976. Original in possession of donor in 1976. See also: MISC MSS, 1832 12mo 7, ANONYMOUS to Samuel R. Fisher concerning the school.
Lancaster, Joseph (1778-1838) to Plunkett, Arthur, 8th Earl of Fingall (1759-1836), Dublin, 1811 12mo 19
(Draft) declining to attend a public dinner as "it is possible the plainness and singularity of my manners may interfere with a conviviality not congenial with my personal feelings as a Friend or Quaker." Purchased from Ximenes Rare Books, Inc., 1980.
Chandles, Goldsmith to Zane, Sarah, 1811 12mo 27
Purchased by FHL, 1966
Collection of miscellaneous property survey notes, New York State and Pennsylvania, 1812 and undated
Land broker notes? Mentioned are properties of Caleb Pell, West Chester, Pa.; Abner Howell near Hopewell, N.J.; Martin Nichols in Salsbury, N.Y.; Chester Seymour near Scarsdale, N.Y.; Isaac Lacy in Cambridge; James Grant of Dutchess Co.; and William Cox of Hartford Co., with note concerning Moravian Society near Lancaster, Pa., on reverse. Gift of Christopher Densmore, Acc. 2013.042.
Collins, Comfort. Account of a visit to, circa 1812
Spafford, H[oratio] G. to Van Rensselaer, Stephen. Albany, 1812 4mo 2
Requesting a loan. Spafford was disowned by Hudson Monthly Meeting in 1807 for failing to pay debts. Purchased from James Twelmeyer, 1984.
Desauque, Ann to Elliott, Elizabeth. Philadelphia, 1812 7mo 9- 27
Enclosure: "Lines on the death of a female Friend"
Lancaster, Joseph to the Duke of Kent, 1812 12mo 13
Concerning Craydon Lancasterian School. Purchased from Goodspeed’s Book Shop, 1965.
Weeks, Refine. The Lamentation of Refine Weeks for his endeared Wife Margaret Weeks, who died at Shoreham in Vermont the 21st of 2nd month 1813, 1813
Long poem, bound. Refine and Margaret Weeks were members of Ferrisburgh Monthly Meeting. Gift of New York Yearly Meeting, 1997.
Mott, A[bigail], Hickory Grove, to Field, Phebe, Scipio, 1813 1 mo 24
Abigail Mott (1766-1851), wife Richard Mott (1767-1856) and daughter of Uriah and Mary Field of Purchase, NY. ALS to her cousin which mentions birth of her nephew, Richard M., son of Anna and John Haviland. She writes of family news and Quaker ministers including Thomas Hawxhurst's plan to visit enslaved people in North Carolina. Gift of Thomas Hamm, Acc. 2016.039.
