Society of Friends -- Hicksite Separation
Subject
Subject Source: Local Authority: Quaker Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ann Jones Papers
Collection — Othertype SC-251
Identifier: SFHL-SC-251
Abstract
This collection contains letters and other manuscripts relating to visits of English Friends to America in the 1820s and the controversies which led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation. Also included are letters from Elizabeth Rathbone, Liverpool, England, to "My Beloved Uncle;" Joseph Bringhurst, Philadelphia, to "My Esteemed Friend;" also Abel Thomas to Thomas and Mary Wistar (copy) as well as some miscellaneous Quaker papers.
Dates:
1793 - 1831
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Records: Joint Committee on Cooperation between Arch Street and Race Street (1930-1955)
Collection — Othertype SW/Phy/364
Identifier: QM-Phy-364
Abstract
In 5mo 1930, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) appointed a committee "for the development of closer cooperation between Arch Street and Race Street Yearly Meetings, and to consider also whether the time of our Yearly Meeting might be changes so that the sessions of the two Meetings would at least in part overlap." Includes records of this Committee, 1930-1935. Of particular interest are surveys of cooperation between the two Philadelphia Quaker bodies to that point, as well as histories...
Dates:
1930-1935
Mary King Swayne letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1346
Abstract
The collection contains handwritten letters from and to Mary King Swayne, the wife of Joel Swayne, a Quaker missionary to the Onondaga Tribe of Upstate New York. The letters cover family life and discussions on religion, including the Hicksite Schism.
Dates:
1807 - 1864
