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Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-044
Abstract
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
William Hobson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-062
Abstract
William Hobson, 1820-1891, was a Quaker minister and farmer from North Carolina, Iowa, and Oregon. The collection contains chiefly diaries (1859-1891) describing rural life in Iowa and ministerial visits to California, Kansas, Missouri, and Oregon; together with autobiographical fragments and notes for sermons.
Dates:
1851-1891
John Jackson correspondence
Collection — othertype: SC-204
Identifier: SFHL-SC-204
Abstract
Contains primarily correspondence from John Jackson to George and Catherine Truman. Letters are largely religious in content, with reflections on education and the death of his father. Also contains a copy of a letter to William B. Irish, an account of Priscilla Hunt's sermon, and extracts of a letter from Elias Hicks.
Dates:
1834-1835
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Abstract
Samuel McPherson Janney was a Virginia Quaker minister, author, educator, and reformer. In 1839 he opened a boarding school for girls in Loudoun County. He traveled widely in the ministry, meeting with other denominations as well as being immersed in the contemporary issues facing the Society of Friends. Among his activities were establishing schools for African Americans and women, creating public schools in Virginia, and the abolition of slavery. In 1869 he was appointed Superintendent of...
Dates:
1815-1880
Jesse Kersey papers
Collection — othertype: SC-199
Identifier: SFHL-SC-199
Abstract
Includes letters, sermons, and manuscript fragments, as well as an 1824 printed epistle from London Yearly Meeting. The papers provide important insight into Kersey's faith and his thoughts on the Separation in the Society of Friends.
Dates:
1824-1841
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- Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867 2
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 2
- Jackson, John, 1809-1855 2
- Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845 2
- McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876 2
- Truman, George 2
- Bennett, William, 1804-1873 1
- Brown, Gould 1
- Cadwallader, Priscilla, 1786-1859 1
- Carmalt, Caleb 1
- Churchman, George, 1730-1814 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Dorsey, William, 1811-1874 1
- Dugdale, Joseph A., 1810-1896 1
- Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834 1
- Foulke, William Dudley, 1848-1935 1
- Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845 1
- Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878 1
- Hallowell, Benjamin, 1799-1877 1
- Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849 1
- Hicks, Jemima, 1750-1829 1
- Hobson, William, 1820-1891 1
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 1
- Hunt, Uriah, 1796?-1967 1
- Irish, William B. 1
- Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 1
- Janney family 1
- Janney, Elizabeth, 1802-1893 1
- Janney, Joseph, 1800-1866 1
- Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880 1
- Jewett, Tacy M. 1
- Johnson, Jane 1
- Jones, Horatio Gates, 1822-1893 1
- Judge, Hugh, 1750?-1834 1
- Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850 1
- Macy, William H., 1805-1887 1
- Mott, James, 1788-1868 1
- Parrish, Dillwyn, 1809-1886 1
- Parrish, Edward, 1822-1872 1
- Poole, William, 1764-1829 1
- Quimby, Daniel 1
- Saunders, John, 1814-1891 1
- Seaman, David, 1791-1844 1
- Seaman, Valentine, 1770-1817 1
- Shoemaker, Nathan, 1788-1868 1
- Thomas, Philip E. (Philip Evan), 1776-1861 1
- Thomas, Philip W. 1
- Truman, Catherine 1
- Wharton, Deborah Fisher, 1795-1888 1
- White, Barclay, 1821-1903 1 + ∧ less
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