Cox-Parrish-Wharton Papers, 1600-1900.
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Cox-Parrish-Wharton Papers, 1600-1900.
This collection of papers and correspondence contains information on the religious, humanitarian, social, and economic influence of the Quakers in American life. A large portion of the collection consists of letters, approx. 2,000, 1785-1845, from John and Ann Cox of Burlington, N.J., to Dr. Joseph and Susannah Parrish of Philadelphia. There are also letters of William Penn, Israel Pemberton, James Pemberton, John Pemberton, John Rodman, Benjamin Lightfoot, John Bringhurst, Hannah Lloyd, George Mifflin, William Logan, David Barclay, John Fothergill, Roberts Vaux, Dolley Madison, and numerous others, 1700-1840. There are monthly meeting reports, broadsheets, and papers, 1700-1847, pertaining to religious doctrine, discipline, moral precepts, humane treatment of the Indians, abolition of slavery, and economic affairs. Also copies of William Penn's letter to the Indians, 1681, and of a Quaker Address to King William III, 1703; "An Indian's Answer to a Swedish Missionary," 1704; list of the number of slaves in the United States, 1779; printed list of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa, 1755; Isaac Parrish's receipt book, 1780-1807; his invoice book, 1762-67; Samuel Parrish and Job Bacon, account book, consignment from Calcutta, 1806-7; John Parrish, Friends discipline, 1719, 1 v.; minutes of the Society for the Relief of Negroes, 1775-87, 1 v.; "Divine Odes," by Thomas Wilkinson, 1787, 1 v.; reports of Quaker meetings, 1801-6, 1 v.; genealogical notes of the Parrish family, 1600-1862, 1 v.; records of the Cox, Dillwyn, Mitchel, and other families; letters addressed to Samuel Emlen, 1826, 1 v.; "Expressions of dying sayings," Hannah Hill, 1714, 1 v.; poetry of Susannah Parrish, 1820, 1 v.; moral impressions and observations, 1800, 1 v, ; John Cox, weather reports and memoranda book, 1830-33; schedules of Bills before House of Commons, 1879; portraits and biographical sketches of prominent Quakers.
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