Call Number:

MC.975.07.112

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.19 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

"The Quakers and the American Revolution" (HC.MC.975.07.112), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

Undated.

Creator:

Mekeel, Arthur J.

Form:

manuscripts (documents)

Abstract:

Arthur Mekeel's manuscript includes the following chapters: The Quakers in America in the eighteenth Century, The Problems of empire, The Quakers Take Alarm, The Breakdown of Non-Importation and the Challenge to Quaker Policy, The Tea Crisis and Its Sequel, The Quakers Cast Their Lot, Conciliation Efforts of the British Quakers, The First Year of War, the Quakers under the New Order, Suspicion of Quaker Treachery and the Virginia Exiles, The Later Years of the War in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, New England, New York, The Quakers in the South, The Free Quakers, Quaker Relief Work, and Post-War Problems and Readjustments.

Arthur J. Mekeel served in the Technical Assistance program at the United States Department of State, and was a T. Wistar Brown Fellow at Haverford College during 1976. He was a Quaker historian, and wrote many papers on the topic, including: Glimpses into Haverford Quakeriana (1936), A Quaker Loyalist and General Washington (1938), New York Quakers in the American Revolution (1940), Friends University: The Growth of an Idea (1948), and Elias Hicks on the Revolution and the Great Seperation of 1827-1828 (1979).

This collection is comprised of the single volume manuscript by Arthur Mekeel. It includes the following chapters: The Quakers in America in the eighteenth Century, The Problems of empire, The Quakers Take Alarm, The Breakdown of Non-Importation and the Challenge to Quaker Policy, The Tea Crisis and Its Sequel, The Quakers Cast Their Lot, Conciliation Efforts of the British Quakers, The First Year of War, the Quakers under the New Order, Suspicion of Quaker Treachery and the Virginia Exiles, The Later Years of the War in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, New England, New York, The Quakers in the South, The Free Quakers, Quaker Relief Work, and Post-War Problems and Readjustments.