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To “Dear Sister,” from Columbiana, Ohio, where she is caring for a friend dying of consumption, hoping to teach. Includes family news.

Scope and Contents They expressed appreciation for her letter to their "secluded situation" - their only visitors were local Native Americans. Provisions were short, and some of the men had joined the American army. In reply to their daughter's desire that they return home, Robert wrote that their work was not done. Ann was at school at Moore Hall, Harmony Grove, Chester County. The parents asked that the elder daughters look our for the younger. Fragile. Transcript Quaker History, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Spring...

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Shoemaker described exhilaration in Wilmington as people reacted to an American Navy's victory over the British on Lake Erie.

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Elizabeth wrote that her teaching position had been eliminated, and she temporarily was teaching in Bucks County. She planned to return to Philadelphia to teach at a school for African American girls under care of Abolition Society.

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Ann had visited Bradford where there was much illness. She desribed the death of her sister Phebe and the funeral. Quaker History, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Spring 1962).

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Sent "Care of Sarah Janney." "Beloved niece," with words of affection and support. David Grave/Greave married Rachel Battin in 1774. She was the older sister of Elizabeth Battin Clendenon. Both she and her husband were Quaker ministers. After Rachel's death, David Grave married Ruth Cadwallader, also a minister.

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He heard from Rachel Clendenon that a flood on the Brandywine had washed out mills. He reported that many Quakers families from the South had emigrated to Ohio upon advise. Few remained in Georgia and the Carolinas where is was necessary to carry arms in in fear of violence.

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She wrote that she was teaching at a school for African American girls in Philadelphia and reading Paradise Lost. She wondered if John King and sister Hannah were engaged. Ann was teaching school in Hopewell, Virginia. Transcribed in Quaker History

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Ann wondered if she did was not receiving letters from the family because Quakers did not support the war tax on postage. Ann was living in Virginia and lonely; she expected her parents to return to Drumore shortly. She had heard that the situation of the Native Americans had improved. Mentioned Abel Townsend, apparently suffering from a chronic illness (tuberculosis?).

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His family worshipped at Pike Run Meeting (subordinate to Westland). He noted that the Yearly Meeting at which Elias Hicks and other ministers spoke was well attended. News about Pike Run Friends. He had been injured, but his wife continued her ministry.