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American Friends' letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-851
Overview
The collection is composed chiefly of letters of members of the Society of Friends in the United States from the 17th to the 20th centuries; there are also documents, clippings, published articles, and miscellaneous manuscripts.
Dates:
1682-1986
Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-044
Overview
Elias Hicks (1748-1830) was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. In the 1820s, a religious controversy within the Society of Friends which focused on Hicks' ministry led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation of 1827-1828. The collection includes correspondence written and received by Elias Hicks, sermons, surveyor's drawings, family correspondence, and other papers. Also includes the original 1748-1822 manuscript journal of Elias Hicks (in three parts) and the 1828 Ohio...
Dates:
1779 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1779 - 1830
Hannah Hurnard family letters
Collection — othertype: SC-062
Identifier: SFHL-SC-062
Abstract
This collection includes the correspondence of Hannah Hurnard and her family, written between Essex, England, and Wilmington, Delaware. The letters document the family's emigration to America, their struggles adapting to life there, and finally their return to England. Letters between Hannah and her sister, Elizabeth Clark, share family and local news. Letters from Mary Thresher relate the activities of Quaker ministers, including Stephen Grellet, Jesse Kersey, and Nathan Hunt. The letters...
Dates:
1804-1836
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- Names
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 2
- Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855 2
- Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 1
- Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
- Coffin, Elijah, 1798-1862 1
- Delaware Indians. Lenape Indians. Lenni Lenape Indians 1
- Fennell, George, b.1787 1
- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 1
- Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 1
- Groth, Mary Coates 1
- Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hicks, Jemima, 1750-1829 1
- Hunt, John, 1711 or 1712-1778 1
- Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853 1
- Hurnard, Hannah, 1778?-1835 1
- Hurnard, Robert, b.1774 1
- Jones, Esther A. Balderston, 1891-1967 1
- Judge, Hugh, 1750?-1834 1
- Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 1
- Ladd, Benjamin 1
- Masters family 1
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 1
- Mendenhall, Joseph 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 1
- Nicholson, William H. (William Hopkins), 1827-1908 1
- Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801 1
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 1
- Rhoads, James E. (James Evans), 1828-1895 1
- Russell, Elbert, 1871-1951 1
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 1
- Seaman, Valentine, 1770-1817 1
- Sharpless family 1
- Shoemaker, Nathan, 1788-1868 1
- Turner, Joseph, 1765-1841 1
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
- Woolman, John, 1720-1772 1 ∧ less
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