Progressive Quakers
Subject
Subject Source: Local Authority: Quaker Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Christopher Densmore Research Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-326
Overview
Christopher Densmore served as Curator of Friends Historical Library, retiring in 2018. This collection includes his raw research materials as well as completed papers.
Dates:
1980-2017
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-183
Overview
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
Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends records
Collection — Othertype SW/PaPr
Identifier: QM-PaPr
Overview
This collection includes the minutes of the Longwood Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, as
well as records of its Financial Association and its Representative Committee. Also included are
some minutes of Kennett Monthly Meeting, from which the Longwood meeting split off
beginning in the 1840s. There are detailed records of this split, including lists of the members
who were disowned from Kennett Monthly Meeting for associating under the name “Progressive
Friends.” Minutes and letters...
Dates:
1851 - 1941
Post family papers
Collection — Othertype SC-176
Identifier: SFHL-SC-176
Abstract
Correspondence received by Mary and Joseph Post from 1833 to 1882. Also includes a letter from Elias Hicks to Willet Robbins, a letter received from the English Quaker minister, Martha Routh (1782), and a number of family deeds and other papers. Correspondents of Joseph and Mary Post include Anna Greene, John Ketcham, Amy (Kirby) and Isaac Post, Joseph Dugdale, James and Lucretia Mott, and Cyrus Peirce. Topics include the illness of Priscilla Cadwallader"modern" abolitionism, spiritualism...
Dates:
1742-1908
Milton Friends of Progress Records
Collection — Othertype SW/Z
Identifier: QM-Z-M5
Overview
Records of the Society of Friends of Progress at Milton (known as the Milton Friends of Progress) in Marlborough Township, Ulster County, N.Y. Includes: Minutes, 1854-1927.
Dates:
1854 - 1927
