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Scope and Contents This file contains includes lists of people who were disowned from Kennett Monthly Meeting "for associating, under the name of Progressive Friends, in order, the more freely, to work for the Abolition of Human Slavery." Contains: Trustees, 1857-1892; Disownments from Kennett M.M, c.1851-c.1858 (2 lists); Excerpts from Minutes of Kennett M.M., c. 1851-c.1874 (2 notebooks); Longwood Record, including details of disowned members being invited back to Kennett M.M. and of which members did or did...

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Yarnall, Howard E., Jr. "Longwood Meeting". Bulletin of Friends' Historical Association Volume 17, No. 2 (Autumn, 1928) pp. 49-54.

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Missing pages 5-8. Includes information about the founding of the meeting, sermons made by Theodore Parker, the reasons for the split with Kennett MM, the sentiments of Kennett MM towards both slavery and "mingling with the world," regret for the disownments, and Pennock's health at the time that the letter was written.

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According to this document, Theodore Parker visited the meeting twice, in 1855 and in 1858. This account details his visits, his sermons, and his demeanor.

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A history of the YM. Includes information about the location, the purpose of the yearly meeting, its openness to all who wished to attend, how the Progressive Friends were different from the Hicksite Friends, details on the disagreement over working methods that caused the split between the Progressive Friends and Kennett MM (the dispute was not over slavery itself), a "party" or partisan spirit that existed within the meeting, and other aspects of the meeting's history.

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Biographical information about Chandler and Hannah (Monaghan) Darlington, as well as references to Hannah's father, James Monaghan, and to Lea Pusey, Emalea Pusey Warner, Hannah Jackson (mother of Hannah Monaghan Darlington), Anna Jackson Monaghan, and a reference to a visit from Lucretia Mott.

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Provides hstory of Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends at Longwood. Arranged for the final sessions of Longwood Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, Sept. 7 and 8, 1940.

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An account dictated by Josephine Pennock describes attending the meeting as a small child, her encounters with some of the speakers who came to the meeting, and the emphasis placed on temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage.

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Signed "E.P.W.," this is a history of the founding of the meeting, written in verse form.

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Includes biographical information about Caleb Sharples Jackson and Mary Ann Gause Jackson, as well as he author's request that they be put on the record among the founders and earliest members of the meeting.