Church controversies -- Society of Friends
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
Gove-Meader Family Papers
This collection contains letters and miscellaneous papers of members of the Gove and Meader family, New England Wilburite Quakers.
Nicholas Hallock papers
Elias Hicks Manuscript Collection
Joseph Hoag Family Papers
Mary R. Hopkins Papers
Halliday Jackson Manuscripts
Samuel M. Janney Papers
Ann Jones Papers
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.
Jesse Kersey papers
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.