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Job Scott letters

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

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Call Number:
SC.067
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (3 folders.))
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Job Scott Letters, 1788-1790.
Date:
1788-1790 (inclusive)
Creator:
Judge, Hugh, 1750?-1834 and Scott, Job, 1751-1793
Abstract:
This collection contains three letters written by Job Scott to fellow Quaker Hugh Judge. Scott wrote the letters while travelling in religious ministry in Oxbridge, Philadelphia, and Charleston, S.C. The letters mostly contain spiritual musings.

Hugh Judge was a Quaker minister. The son of Irish immigrants, Hugh and Margaret Judge, he was born around 1750. He was convinced to Quakerism and in 1776 married Susanna Hatton. He was a travelling minister, and died in 1834.

Letters originally collected by John Comly.

Source of acquisition--Helen Comly White. Method of acquisition--Gift of; Date of acquisition--1921.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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