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Ann Paschall Jackson Family Papers
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Ann Price Gibson Paschall Jackson, a Quaker minister, was born in 1792 to Samuel and Mary Price Gibson of Darby, Pennsylvania. In 1811 she married Thomas Jacob Paschall. He died in 1819, leaving her with two young children, Mary and Stephen. Her children married another set of siblings, Philip and Ann Sharples, children of Nathan and Martha (Price) Sharples of Chester County. In 1831, Ann P. Paschall was recorded as a minister by Darby Monthly Meeting (Hicksite). In 1833 she married Halliday Jackson, prominent Quaker minister and member of New Garden and Darby Monthly Meetings. He died in 1835. In 1849, Ann P. Jackson removed to Birmingham Monthly Meeting where her children were members.
The collection contains manuscript diaries, 1814-1874, of Quaker minister, Ann Price Gibson Paschall Jackson and a manuscript copy of extracts from her journals, 1813-1856, compiled by her daughter in law, Ann P. (Sharples) Paschall. The diaries concern religious and practical matters. The collection also contains daily memo book kept by her father, Samuel Gibson; a brickyard account of Nathan H. Sharples of West Chester, Pa.; a daily farm diary of Nicholas W. Townsend of Birmingham Monthly Meeting, a genealogy of the Blunston and Pearson families, legal papers and a science lecture.
The collection is divided into two series: 1: Journals; 2: Miscellaneous.
The collection was donated by Elizabeth Foulke Sharples Pusey, a descendent of the Sharples and Paschall families. Notes in various manuscript journals indicate it probably descended through the line of Alfred D. Sharples, son of Philip and Mary (Paschall) Sharples and grandson of Ann P. Jackson. Elizabeth Pusey was his granddaughter and the great-great granddaughter of Ann P. Jackson (Ann Price Gibson Paschall Jackson), Quaker minister of Darby Monthly Meeting.
Gift of Elizabeth Sharples Pusey, 1978.
Gift of Caroline Cherry, Acc. 2021.032 .
Four of the Ann Jackson journals, the extracts, Townsend and Gibson journals,and miscellaneous papers were preserved and donated by Elizabeth Foulke Sharples Pusey who was a descendant of Ann Price Gibson Paschall. These papers were partially processed in 1978 and cited as Ann P. Paschall Papers. In November 2000, the collection was recatalogued as Ann Price Gibson Paschall Jackson Family Papers. In 2021 seventeen additional journals were given to FHL. The organization was simplified and a new finding aid created.
People
- Blunston family
- Pearson family
- Sharples, Nathan H., 1779-1838
- Townsend, Nicholas W., 1790-1818
- Paschall family
Subject
- Quakers -- 19th century -- Diaries
- Quakers -- Social life and customs
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Darby
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Delaware County
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County
- Quaker women
- Society of Friends -- Clergy
- Brickmaking -- Pennsylvania
- Agriculture -- Pennsylvania
- Lay ministry -- Society of Friends
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Susanna Morikawa
- Finding Aid Date
- 2000, 2021
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.
Collection Inventory
"Ann P. Jackson's Diary - Vol. 1. Extracted from the original books by my Aunt Ann S. Paschall. A. D. Sharples. 4-13-1900." The preface dated 6th 7th 1838 by Ann P. Jackson is a brief autobiography.
Daily tasks, Quaker meetings, child raising, treating illnesses.
Incomplete: Pages removed from front of small leather bound volume. Largely spiritual notes
Volume begins 4 month 17, but pages attached cover from 2 month. She was closely reading scriptures and mentions many visiting ministers at Meeting.
Ann was drawn to public ministry 6 month 23.
3 larger soft bound volumes. Attending meetings and family concerns, traveling with ministers Priscilla Hunt and Halliday Jackson. Dates: 1824-01-01 to 1826-12-06; 1826-12-06 to 1829-05-28; 1829-06-28 to 1832-01-16.
Ann Paschall married Halliday Jackson on 14 June 1833. She regularly attended Select and other Quaker meetings, was active in ministry.
As a recorded minister, Ann Jackson was active in visiting many meetings and Friends, some times traveling with her husband. Their son Gibson Jackson was born 1834-8-18 and died at age 11 months on 1835-7-25, same year as his father. Ann visited Arch Street Prison, her son Stephen married Ann Sellers. Husband Halliday Jackson died 2 month 9, 1835.
Very active in the ministry. Attended Indian Committee meetings and other committees
Ministry. Granddaughter Ann P. Sharples born 1 month 16, 1846
Ministry, Indian Committee. Ann Jackson visited meetings in Virginia, New Jersey, etc. In Washington she met President James Polk in June 1846. Visited schools including schools for Blacks.
Small paperback volume. Visits to New Jersey, etc.
Traveling in ministry, many visits in Philadelphia. Attended Genesee Yearly Meeting
In 1862, at age 70, Ann Jackson continued active work in the Yearly Meeting
Family concerns, active in meetings
Very active visiting Quaker meetings and families. Support for the schools for the Freedmen in the South, Yearly Meeting and travel.
Busy with family and friends. Final entry is dated 2nd month 9, 1874. She was finishing a bedspread, visited by friends, and died 11 February in her 82nd year of age. Inserted in book is a copy of inventory of the estate of Ann S. Paschall, dated 1883 (widow of Stephen Paschall who extracted her mother-in-law's diaries.)
Inside cover signed by A. S. Sharples [Alfred S. Sharple], grandson of Ann P. Jackson. Nicholas Townsend (1790-1818) was birthright in Gunpowder Monthly Meeting, transferred to Birmingham MM in 1816. Daily entries, farm, visits, meetings. Attended Quaker and Methodist meetings, attended singing school
Father of Ann Price Gibson. Contains brief daily entries, work and meetings. He died 6 month 27, 1836.
The father of Philip Price Sharples. He married Mary A. Paschall, the daughter of Ann P. Jackson in 1839. Nathan Sharples (1779-1838) was a West Chester, Pennsylvania, builder and brickmaker.
Mary Paschall (1815-1855) was the daughter of Ann Gibson Paschall Jackson and Thomas J. Paschall. She married Philip Price Sharples in 1839.
Jonathan Paschall of Darby Monthly Meeting married out of unity to Mary Fisher in 1741. After she died in 1781, Jonathan wrote a new Will, making this one obsolete.
Copy of the Will of Abraham Darlington, Birmingham Township, 1798; Indenture, not completed, between Charles Catherine Noble and Job Kirkbride, Philadelphia, 1832
Son-in-law of Ann P. Jackson prior to his marriage to Mary Paschall. Presented at Old Cabinet
Manuscript volume compiled by John Pearson, born 1740, son of Thomas Pearson and Hannah Blunston Pearson. He was a cousin of Ann P. Jackson's father.
Manuscript. Removed from frame.