extracts

Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of the single volume, which includes two extracts of John Gibson. One extract is dated 1666, another dated 1670. The extracts have been bound in a 20th century binding.

Abstract

Records of Salem Quarterly Meeting in southern New Jersey, 1681-2024. Primarily minutes, also includes extracts and vital records primarily related to Salem Monthly Meeting.

Abstract

The commonplace book of Esther Fisher Wistar includes extracts of poetry, as well as an account of the illness and death of Wistar's mother.

Abstract Mary Sutton (Underhill) Wood (1805-1894) was a Quaker author and poet. Her commonplace book includes reflections on Baltimore Yearly Meeting, the history of the Wood family, the opening of Western Yearly Meeting (1858), journal entries, Canada Yearly Meeting (1867), the Gale of 1821, New York Yearly Meeting (1865), New York Representative Meeting (1876), description of Meeting Houses in New York, London Yearly Meeting, letter from Josiah Forster, extracts of letters, hymns, China plate...

Abstract

The collection contains copies of extracts of minutes of meetings within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1732-1799. Topics include church unity and discipline, the growth of Quakerism, slavery, Native Americans, temperance, education, and religious doctrines.