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Mehitabel Jenkins (1731-1815, born in Maine and recognized as a minister about 1751. A "plain" Quaker, she traveled to England and Ireland as well as the Mid-Atlantic and New England.

Deliverance Purinton (1752-1785) was the aunt of Charlotte Breed, wife of Gamaliel Oliver. The note to her friend gave a health update with a postscript that the certificate she sent was accepted.

Pope wrote that he had not yet been able to flee from Boston, asked for pair of shoes for his wife if possible. Ebenezer Pope was a member of Lynn Monthly Meeting and in 1801 gave $1,000 to establish a fund for needy Friends in the Boston area. James Purinton (1723-1801) was a cordwainer (shoemaker) and grandfather of Charlotte Breed who married Gamaliel Oliver, also a shoe manufacturer in Lynn.

Letter from parents Gamaliel and Charlotte Oliver to son James Purinton Oliver in Providence. Also, letter from James to Benjamin with a description of Yearly Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, and a visit by the President of the U.S.

Family news

Concerning bills not paid. The sons of Gamaliel continued the family shoe manufacturing in Lynn, but suffered financial losses during the U.S. Civil War.

With thanks for the letter that Oliver sent concerning his mother. Garrison remarked how he had apprenticed in the shoe shop of Oliver's father (Gamaliel Oliver) in Lynn, Massachusetts. Fragile, split at fold lines

Note to "Dear Friend," in which he wrote that Oak Knolls was only his part-time residence

Cover letter from cousin R. W. Woodward enclosing faded autograph on birch wood.