Society of Friends -- Clergy -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Sarah Cresson diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-015
Abstract
Cresson was a Quaker minister who was born in Philadelphia and later moved to Haddonfield, New Jersey. The majority of her diary entries detail visits from traveling Quaker ministers, funerals of community members, and descriptions of Quaker meetings, including testimonies given. Many entries are composed solely of prayers to God, or exclamations of Sarah’s religious conviction and her devotion to her God and the Quaker faith, while later entries tend to detail more earthly concerns,...
Dates:
1789-1829
Anna S. Palmer Collected Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-304
Abstract
Family and Quaker papers collected by Anna S. Palmer (1881-1973), a member of Falls Monthly Meeting. Included is a manuscript volume containing copies of letters, genealogical information, and memorials concerning John Simpson (1739-1811), Quaker minister; collected postcards of Quaker meeting houses; and other miscellaneous Quaker manuscripts.
Dates:
circa 1840-1910
