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Papers, 1781-1829.

Title: Papers, 1781-1829.

Collection consists of letters, Minutes of Travel, longhand copy of an articles on Anna Braithwaite's interviews at Jericho, longhand copy of the minute of Disownment of Elias Hicks by the Monthly Meeting of Jericho and Westbury dated Fifth Month 20, 1829, printed copy of the disownment in the minutes of the Meeting for Sufferings of New York Yearly Meeting (Orthodox), and "Six Queries proposed to Elias Hicks With his Answers, Eleventh Month 16th, 1829." Individuals named in the correspondence and other documents include Joseph Willets, Samuel Parsons, Gideon Seaman, Isaac Hicks, Rachel Hicks, Jr., William Poole, Samuel Willis, Martha Willis, Rachel Willis, Valentine Hicks, George Churchman, Warner Mifflin, John Willis, and William Rickman.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155547861 View

Parsons, Mary B., 1813-1878. Correspondence, 1843-1878.

Title: Correspondence, 1843-1878.

This collection includes personal correspondence between Mary B. Parsons and members of the Braithwaite family, primarily Anna and Isaac Braithwaite. Letters concern family matters and, occasionally, meeting activities at Flushing and Kendal and news of Joseph Gurney and Elizabeth Fry. Other correspondents include J. Bevan Braithwaite and Martha G. Braithwaite.

ArchivalResource: 8 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30755875 View

Lockwood, John, 1793?-1859. Papers, 1827-1828.

Title: Papers, 1827-1828.

This collection includes the letters of John Lockwood, received primarily from Aaron Leggett in 1827-28. Leggett, a Hicksite, relates business, news, and personal opinions concerning the Hicksite controversy in New York Yearly Meeting. His letters contain heated attacks on Orthodox Quakers, including Samuel Parsons, the Clerk of New York Monthly Meeting, Richard Mott, and Anna Braithwaite. He also gives news of Elias Hicks, and of the progress of the Indiana Epistle.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31524217 View

Tallcot, Joseph, 1768-1853. Family papers, 1724-1857 (bulk 1788-1853).

Title: Family papers, 1724-1857 (bulk 1788-1853).

Correspondence, legal and financial papers, essays, sermons, epistles, articles, notes, marriage certificate, will, memorandum book and minutes. Chiefly correspondence of Joseph Tallcot with family, friends and other prominent Quakers. Topics discussed include education, Friends' schools, Friends' publications (including his "The Friendly Visitant"), Hicksite and Wilburite separations, slavery and the Wilberforce Negro Colony of Ontario, Canada. Correspondents include Samuel Bettle, Anna Braithwaite, Moses Brown, Mahlon Day, George Dillwyn, Thomas Eddy, Sarah Moore Grimkeʹ, Caleb McComber, Richard Mott, John Murray, Samuel Parsons, Samuel Rhoads, Martha Winter Routh, Sarah Hawxhurst Tallcot, Mary Thomas, Isaac Thorne, Thomas Willis and others as well as members of the Collins, Howland, Mott, Smith and Tallcot (Talcott) families; also correspondence (1757-1772) of Gaius Talcott; legal and financial papers (1724-1810) chiefly related to property in New Milford, Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: ca. 601 items (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26283076 View

Collection of Isaac T. Hopper papers, 1833-1902 [bulk 1833-1845]

Title: Collection of Isaac T. Hopper papers, 1833-1902 [bulk 1833-1845]

This collection includes Isaac T. Hopper's original and photocopied letters and his letterbook. Much of the material concerns his bookselling business and the Hicksite separation. He relates news of figures central to the controversy, including Elisha Bates, Elias Hicks, and Anna Braithwaite. Also included is Hopper's copy of the book, The History of the Life of Thomas Elwood.

ArchivalResource: 8 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31323921 View

Griscom, Samuel S., 1802-1878. Journal of a Tour thro N. Jersey, Penna., and N. York : with occasional remarks on the people, Literary Characters, Ladies Institutions etc., 1824.

Title: Journal of a Tour thro N. Jersey, Penna., and N. York : with occasional remarks on the people, Literary Characters, Ladies Institutions etc., 1824.

Bound photocopy of a travel journal of a young man, Samuel S. Griscom, who visited New York City and then travelled up the Hudson to Poughkeepsie in 1824. It includes brief descriptions of the Rose Street meetinghouse, the American Museum (of Natural History), the Penitentiary, the Alms House and its school, the dyeing factory of Jacob Bryan, and other sites of interest. He also mentions Anna Braithwaite, Elias Hicks, DeWitt Clinton, Willett Hicks, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (bound photocopy) ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49997873 View