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Collection of Buckingham Monthly Meeting papers (copies)
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-141
Abstract
This collection consists of copies of papers relating to Buckingham Monthly Meeting, handed down through the Watson family. Included are accounts of the meeting by John Watson (1740-1817) and by Samuel Preston written to John Watson (1774-1864). Also included are memorials of prominent members of Buckingham Monthly Meeting, the most extensive of which refer to Jacob Holcombe, John Scarbrough, Oliver Paxson, and Phebe Ely.
Dates:
1727-1829
Richard Price correspondence with John Watson
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-254
Abstract
Richard Price's letters to fellow Hicksite Quaker John Watson provide a rich account of the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation with references and comments on many of the personalities involved: Elias Hicks, William Wharton, Jonathan Evans, as well as visiting Quaker ministers including George Truman, Lucretia Mott, Ann Jones, Mary and Susan Cox, and Martha Smith. Price also wrote a detailed account of the Proceedings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1848. The collection contains a small number...
Dates:
1826-1867-1826-1848 (bulk)
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- Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 1
- Ely, Phebe, 1699-1774 1
- Hanna, Benjamin, 1779-1853 1
- Holcombe, Jacob, d. 1748 1
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia 1
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia (Hicksite) 1
- Paxson, Oliver, 1741-1818 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1827-1955) 1
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library 1
- Preston, Samuel, 1756-1834 1
- Price, Richard, 1794-1865 1
- Scarbrough, John, 1667?-1727 1
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