Box 4

Largely concerning the Wilburite controversy. Some are likely drafts. Included is a transcript of Samuel Cope's support of John Wilbur.

Mary Brinton included news of the family, as their infant son David Brinton was in cradle nearby. Also her account of her going from Dartmouth to Newport to attend New England Yearly Meeting. She traveled with Jesse and Mary Tucker Ann Tucker. She added a note that she had met them in the fall of 1848 when she despaired that she might be homeless with no resources, and they offered her a home as a teacher their children.

Faded and difficult to read.

Brinton wrote that he would provide any specific information upon request, but that he was unwilling to send the record books of the Yearly Meeting which he had taken with him to Pennsylvania.

Apparently in reaction to her rejection of his family's home and faith. According to the donor, Lydia had been homeschooling his children.

Words of encouragement to follow Quaker tradition

Transcribed from diary of Joseph Brinton, typed transcript and published in Friends Journal, May 15, 1965, with illustrations by Eileen Waring.

Pocket sized account books, Newport. Joseph Brinton, son of William and Gulielma Brinton, lived in Newport, Rhode Island, from 1851-1863, working in the mill of Thomas B. Gould.

Identified by grandson William F. Brinton as possibly Joseph Brinton's or belonging to son Charles.

"Memories of Three Spring Farms" includes two sketches by Susanna Brinton of the farm in Lancaster County where she grew up. Yoder wrote that she was a plain Quaker her entire long life and supported suffrage and education. She gave a building as a residence for teachers at Cheyney University and a building at Women's Medical College in Philadelphia.