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2 ALsS. 1851: Question posed in Quarterly Meeting, if a Quaker buys an enslaved person and manumits him, can he indenture the same? 1852 for his advice concerning sale of property in Newport, Delaware

Scope and Contents 2 ALsS. In the first, he asks Ferris to give witness to Byberry Monthly Meeting concerning his character. In the following letter explains the report against him in Byberry Monthly Meeting concerning a lot purchased by subscription of members and non-members for a school and managed by a committee of the Preparative Meeting. Members of the Meeting had moved to sell the property without proper title, and Walton appealed to the Overseers and then took it to Court. He was disowned by Byberry...

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3 ALsS. Mentions review of Discipline, illness of John Jackson, and his years at Cattaraugus.

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3 ALsS: Interesting letter of 9 mo 18, 1844, in which Lucretia and James Mott, together other abolitionists including two African-Americans (Douglas and Raymond (?)) addressed Byberry meeting. In 1846, desired to give up his unsuccessful farm and engage in a large general store in Wilmington

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2 ALsS suggesting where Ferris's sons might be placed and Ferris's desire to buy real estate in that area. 1841 describes a theft

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ALS, willing to deliver Epistle to Virginia Yearly Meeting

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ALS requesting Ferris to testify in the New Jersey case, and Ferris's response of 1830 11 mo 6 with his refusal, suggesting instead Lower.

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ALS expressing sympathy on death of Ferris's wife. Cover letter from Anna Wharton Wood when she gave the letter to Henry Ferris in 1940.

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3 ALS. White was a popular New York Quaker minister with extremely conservative views against Quakers participation reform societies, including women's rights and abolition. Two of the letters include long commentary of published religious tracts.

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7 ALsS and poem by him. 7mo 19, 1851, interesting in his views of review pre-publication by the Meeting for Sufferings, specifically in the case of Journal of John Comly for which the family elected to select their own committee. 1854 hopes for an eventual reunification of the Society.