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Joseph Joshua Green manuscripts
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Joseph Joshua Green (1854-1921) was a Quaker historian and author. He was born in Stansted, Essex, England, in 1854. He married Elizabeth Poulter in 1884, and the couple had three children: Elizabeth Wilmer, John Wilmer, and Constance Emily. Green was an avid Quaker historian and wrote multiple manuscripts on Quaker history and Quaker families. He published "The History of the Wilmer Family" with his relative, Canon Charles Wilmer Foster. Joseph Joshua Green died in October of 1921, in Hastings, England.
This collection is comprised of two volumes of biographies written by Joseph John Green. One volume, "Samuel Cater, of Littleport, in the Isle of Ely," is the biography of Samuel Cater, an early British Quaker. The other volume, "'Bishop' John Hall," is a biography of "Bishop" John Hall.
"Samuel Cater, of Littleport, in the Isle of Ely" was donated to Special Collections, Haverford College by Norman Penney.
"'Bishop' John Hall" was donated to Special Collections, Haverford College by the Friends' Library, London.
Processed by Kara Flynn; completed September, 2015.
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
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- Kara Flynn
- Finding Aid Date
- September, 2015
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The collection is open for research use.
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Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
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Samuel Cater (1626/7-1711) was born circa 1626/1627, and was the son of William and Katherine Cater. Cater was a carpenter and was originally a Baptist, and served as an elder in the Littleport Baptist church, before becoming a Quaker minister. Under the influence of James Parnell, Cater became a convinced Quaker (i.e. converted to Quakerism). Cater attacked Thomas Hicks' "A Dialogue Between a Christian and a Quaker" (1673). Cater was also in correspondence with James Nayler, another Quaker leader.
This biography describes the life of Samuel Cater, an early British Quaker, from Littleport in the Isle of Ely in Great Britain.
This biography's full title is as follows: ""Bishop' John Hall (1662-1739) of Monk Hesleden, county Durham, an Eminent Quaker Preacher and Prophet; his sister Grace Chamber (1676-1762) of Sedgwick, near Kendal, Quaker Minister. With Some Account of Their Family, Descendants and Friends." The biography was written in 1917 and describes the lives of two Quaker ministers and siblings, John Hall and Grace Chamber, as well as many of the fellow ministers in John and Grace's community. The biography provides a significant amount of genealogical information as well.
John Hall (1637-1739) was born in Monk Hesleden, England in 1637, the son of Mark and Frances Hall. Hall first married Frances Walker in May of 1656. The couple had one child, Elizabeth Hall (b. 1657). Shortly after his marriage, Hall became a convinced Quaker (i.e. converted to Quakerism) and in 1666, was arrested and imprisoned along with other Friends from the area. In 1673, Hall was chosen from his monthly meeting to attend the London Yearly Meeting.
Grace Chamber (ca. 1675-) was a Quaker minister and the half sister of John Hall (1637-1739). She regularly traveled throughout England on religious visits.