Repository: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Subject: Lay ministry -- Society of Friends / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1790">1790</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1794">1794</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Start Over Repository Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College Subject Lay ministry -- Society of Friends Year 1790 to 1794

Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (2 folders.))
Abstract:: Contains three letters, 1786-1787, with later manuscript copies, to Quaker minister and diarist, John Hunt, from Darling Conrow. John Hunt added a biographical note concerning Conrow to the final letter. Also contains a letter, 1886, concerning Hunt genealogy.

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Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (1 loose-leaf volume.))
Abstract:: This collection of miscellaneous papers collected by Leon A. Rushmore includes several religious essays or sermons, a copy of Nicholas Waln's 1772 prayer, and an undated address "To the great Sachems and Chief of the [missing] sitting around the Counsill at new york" possibly transcribed from dictation.

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Extent:: 2.75 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Abstract:: Edward F. Stratton (1876-1968) was a Quaker from Salem and Barnesville, Ohio. He served as Curator of the Salem Quarterly Meeting records and was Librarian of the Friends Society, Salem, Ohio. The collection contains historical and biographical information compiled by Edward F. Stratton about the Maule, Stratton, Williams, and related Ohio Quaker families, especially those involved in separations in Ohio Yearly Meeting. Of particular interest are Joshua's Maule's diaries and correspondence concerning the Wilburite-Gurneyite and Maulite separations in the Society of Friends and the Williams family correspondence and diaries written while teaching at schools for freed blacks in Mississippi and Texas (1867-1876).

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