Call Number:

MC.975.03.017

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.1 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Catherine Haines commonplace book (HC.MC.975.03.017), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1775-1777 (inclusive)

Creator:

Haines, Catherine and Wheatley, Phillis, 1753-1784

Form:

Commonplace books

Abstract:

The commonplace book of Catherine Haines includes extracts on the art of writing, poetry (including three poems by Phillis Wheatley), extracts of speeches, extracts on child rearing and education, Indigenous peoples, a memorandum for Susanna James, extracts from William Hunt's illness, and a memorandum of Hannah Shoemaker.

Catherine Haines (1758-1798) was born in October, 1758, in Frederick County, Virginia. She married John S. Mullen on March 25, 1776, in Burlington, New Jersey. Mullen was not a Quaker, and Haines was disowned for marrying outside of the Society of Friends. The couple had at least one child who survived to adulthood, Isaac Mullen (b. 1777). In 1790, Haines was reinstated by Evesham Monthly Meeting in New Jersey, and she got a certificate of removal to Crooked Creek Monthly Meeting in Virginia. Catherine Haines died on May 25, 1798, in Frederick County, Virginia.

This collection is comprised of the single volume commonplace book of Catherine Haines. The volume includes extracts on the art of writing, poetry, extracts of speeches, extracts on child rearing and education, Indigenous peoples, a memorandum for Susanna James, extracts from William Hunt's illness, and a memorandum of Hannah Shoemaker. It also includes manuscript copies by Catherine of three poems by Phillis Wheatley: "Atheism," "To Mrs. Ellis on her remarkable Deliverance in the hurrican in North Carolina," and "To the Honorable Commadore Hood on his Pardoning a Deserter."