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Halliday Jackson Manuscripts

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Call Number:
RG5.182
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.42 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Date:
1755-1833 (inclusive)
Creator:
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835, Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867, Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845, Seaman, David, 1791-1844, Collins, Micajah, 1764-1827, Dillwyn, George, 1738-1820, Poole, William, 1764-1829, Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845, and Jackson, John, 1809-1855
Abstract:
Halliday Jackson (1771-1835) was a Quaker minister from New Garden and Darby, Pa.. From 1798 to 1800 he joined the Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians organized by the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Shortly after his return from the mission to the Seneca, Halliday Jackson married Jane Hough and moved to Darby, Pa. Following Jane's death in 1830, Halliday Jackson remarried in 1833 to Ann P. Paschall (1792-1874), also a Quaker minister. These records contain documents relating to the work of Halliday Jackson (1771-1835), Pennsylvania Quaker minister to the Indians. Includes correspondence, journals, copy work in prose and poetry, a history of the Separation of 1828, papers on Indian affairs. One journal concerns a visit to the Quakers in Ohio in 1816. Correspondents include Benjamin Ferris, Edward Garrigues, David Seaman, Micajah Collins, George Dillwyn, William Poole, Jesse Kersey, Halliday Jackson, John Jackson. The correspondence deals extensively with the Separation within the Society of Friends.

Halliday Jackson (1771-1835) was born 8 mo, 31, 1771, the son of Isaac and Phebe (Halliday) Jackson of New Garden Monthly Meeting, Pa. He married Jane Hough (1777-1830) in 1801, and they had twelve children. In 1803, the family transferred to Darby Monthly Meeting, Delaware Co., Pa. After Jane's death, he married Ann P. Paschall (1792-1874), who was the widow of Thomas Paschall of Darby, Pa., and a Quaker minister.

From 1798 to 1800 he joined the Quaker mission to the Seneca Indians organized by the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. The Quaker settlement was located at Geneshunguhta on the Allegheny River in New York State, just north of the Pennsylvania border. In 1806 Jackson visited the mission, which had been relocated to Tunesassa, with John Philips and Isaac Bonsall. In 1816 and 1838, he made religious visits to Ohio. In the Separation of 1828, Jackson affiliated with the Hicksite in the Society of Friends.

Two of Halliday and Jane's children were ministers. Mary Jackson (1803-1874) married first Oliver W. Schofield and second John Child. Their son, John Jackson (1809-1855) was approved minister and with his wife, Rachel T. Jackson, established the Sharon Female Boarding School in Darby, Pa. John Jackson was an active member of the Delaware County Institute for Science and traveled widely in the ministry.

Contains documents relating to the work of Halliday Jackson (1771-1835), Pennsylvania Quaker minister to the Indians. Includes correspondence, journals, copy work in prose and poetry, a history of the Separation of 1828, papers on Indian affairs. One journal concerns a visit to the Quakers in Ohio in 1816. Correspondents include Benjamin Ferris, Edward Garrigues, David Seaman, Micajah Collins, George Dillwyn, William Poole, Jesse Kersey, Halliday Jackson, John Jackson. The correspondence deals extensively with the Separation within the Society of Friends.

Several items related to Jackson's work with Native Americans between 1799 and 1806 have been digitized and are available on our digital collections platform. Click on the individual series and items to see links to the digital surrogates.

Deposit. Donor: S. T. and I. T. Child, 1876; Donor: Martha and Eliza H. Schofield, 1910, 1912; Donor: Herbert W. Jackson and Elizabeth Jackson Shaffner, 1950; Purchase: Letterbook, 1969; Donor: Ruth Porter Powers, 1979; Donor: Warner Jackson; Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Fisher A. Buell, Jr.

Letterbooks purchased from dealer, 1969. Earlier items transferred from Jackson Small Collection were gifts of Martha and Eliza Schofield, Herbert W. Jackson, and Elizabeth Jackson Shaffner. Miscellaneous Manuscripts added to the collection were from a number of sources, mostly descendents of Halliday Jackson. The journal of a visit to Friends in Ohio, 1816, was one of the first manuscript donations in 1876 to Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, then known as the Anson Lapham Repository.

Formerly catalogued as Jackson (Halliday) Manuscripts. The manuscript collection was created from a number of sources, probably circa 1969 when the letterbooks were purchased. It combined items originally catalogued as Miscellaneous Manuscripts with manuscripts in a Jackson Small Collection and the letterbooks.

The “Letterbooks” were received as manuscript letters sewn together as four separate volumes and were fully individually catalogued in the old card catalogue. The Notebook of poems and prose was catalogued briefly under the old system.

In 1987, the collection was transferred to Record Group 5 and renamed the Halliday Jackson Manuscripts. A new finding aid was produced in 2002.

The journal, Some Account of a Visit... to the Friends at Tunesassa & Indians liveing on Allegany and Ca[tta]raugus Rivers (folder 4) was edited by George S. Snyderman and published as, "Halliday Jackson's Journal of a Visit to the Indians of New York (1806)" in Proceedings of The American Philosophical Society, Volume 101, Number 6 (December 1957).

The Journal of John Philips (1806) also describes the same visit. The Philips Journal is at the Quaker Collection, Haverford College Library, and it was edited by Merle H. Deardorff and George S. Snyderman and published as "A Nineteenth-Century Journal of a Visit to the Indians of New York" in Proceedings of The American Philosophical Society, Volume 100, Number 6 (December 1956).

See also RG 2/Ph Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee.

See also Burr Manuscripts and Southard Manuscripts for material documenting the Hicksite position in the Separation of 1827/28.

Halliday Jackson published Civilization of the Indian Natives (Philadelphia: Marcus T.C. Gould, 1830), a history of Quaker work with the Indians from 1795, stressing the work of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting with the Senecas.

Chester County Historical Society, Chester County, Pa., has a collection of Halliday Jackson manuscripts. An inventory is included in RG 5/182 Administrative folder.

"Halliday Jackson's Journal to the Seneca Indians, 1798-1800," edited by Anthony F. C. Wallace, reprinted from Pennsylvania History, Vol. XIX (April and July, 1952). This Journal is located at the Chester County Historical Society.

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Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Commonplace book (manuscript verse and prose), 1793-1799.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Commonplace book, includes an account of David Sands’ suffering during the American Revolution and a memorial to Susanna Parrish by Joseph Parrish.

Physical Description

1 volume

Correspondence, [1798-1800].
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between the Committee on Indian Affairs at Philadelphia [Philadelphia Yearly Meeting] and the Friends residing amongst the Seneca Nation of Indians settled on the Allegheny River . (Copies of the correspondence kept in a notebook.

Physical Description

1 folder

Memorial and Petition to Virginia Legislature, 1810-11.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

The Memorial and Petition of the Religious Society of Friends Commonly Called Quakers, to the Legislature of Virginia, 11mo 17, 1810 (copied from a newspaper, 1mo1811).

Physical Description

1 item

Catalogue of books, 2mo 15, 1824.
Box 2
Scope and Contents

Catalogue of books belonging to H[alliday] J[ackson].

Physical Description

1 volume

Some account of my residence among the Indians, [1800?].
Box 3
Existence and Location of Copies

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Ms journal., 1806.
    Box 4
    Related Materials

    Available in published form in Proceedings of The American Philosophical Society, Volume 101, Number 6 (December 1957).

    Physical Description

    1 volume

    Typescript of Halliday Jackson's journal., n.d.
    Box 4
    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Memorandums kept on a visit to the Meetings of Friends in the State of Ohio, [6mo 12, 1816 - 10mo 21, 1816].
    Box 5
    Scope and Contents

    Memorandums kept on a visit to the Meetings of Friends in the State of Ohio some parts of Pennsylvania & Virginia Performed by Leatitia [sic] Ware accompanied by Martha Rose and Halliday Jackson . [Manuscript appears to be in Halliday Jackson's handwriting and a slightly edited version of journal in folder 6.]

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Memorandums of a visit to friends in the State of Ohio in company with Letitia Ware and Martha Rose, 1816.
    Box 6
    Scope and Contents

    Memorandums of a visit to friends in the State of Ohio in company with Letitia Ware and Martha Rose . [Gift of a descendent of Halliday Jackson and seems to be the original travel journal from which a copy in Folder 5 was made, possibly in same hand.]

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Darby Asses[s]ment, 1831.
    Box 7
    Scope and Contents

    Darby Asses[s]ment, 1831. Halliday Jackson, assessor. A return of the taxable property with the valuation thereof, and tax on taxable persons in Darby [PA] Township, taken for the trien[n]iel asses[s]ment for the year 1831.

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Manuscript, ca.1832.
    Box 8
    Scope and Contents

    “A History of the separation that has taken place in the society of Friends, shewing the primary causes that have operated to produce it, the means by which it was effected, and the subsequent conduct of the two parties in relation to it.” [by Halliday Jackson, 1832?]. Deposited for Safe keeping in the George Burr Box, at the Fire Proof Race Street Meeting House, by the Heirs of the Author. Philadelphia 4th month 1875.

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Letterbook no. 1, 1797-1833.
    Box 9
    Scope and Contents

    45 letters, 1797-1833, stitched together. Authors include Halliday Jackson, Noah Haines, Benjamin Ferris, Edward Garrigues, David Seaman, Micajah Collins, George Dillwyn.

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Letterbook no. 2, 1819-1828.
    Box 10
    Scope and Contents

    51 letters, 1819-1828, stitched together. Recipients are Halliday Jackson and Edward Garrigues. Authors include Noah Haines, Benjamin Ferris, David Seaman, William Poole, Jesse Kersey, Valentine Hicks

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Letterbook no. 3, 1827-1829.
    Box 11
    Scope and Contents

    44 letters, 1827-1829, stitched together. Recipients are Halliday and Jane Jackson, Jesse Kersey, William Poole. Authors include Halliday Jackson, Lydia Lundy, Noah Haines.

    Physical Description

    1 folder

    Letterbook no. 4, 1829-1830, 1829-1830.
    Box 12
    Scope and Contents

    15 letters, 1829-1830, stitched together. Recipients are Halliday and Jane Jackson. Authors include Lydia Lundy, Noah Haines, and other Ohio Quakers.

    Physical Description

    1 folder

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