Pleasants family.
The Pleasants were a prominent Virginia Quaker family with lands on the Upper James River. Robert Pleasants (1723-1801), was Clerk of the Upper Quarterly Meeting and Virginia Yearly Meeting. He was a renowned abolitionist and philanthropist, a founder and president of Virginia Abolition Society.
From the description of Brock Collection: Pleasants family papers, 1745-1898 (bulk 1745-1850). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122644187
Archival Resources
| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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| creatorOf | Pleasants family. Brock Collection: Pleasants family papers, 1745-1898 (bulk 1745-1850). | Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens |
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| associatedWith | Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914 | person |
| correspondedWith | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Pleasants, John Hampden, 1797-1846 | person |
| associatedWith | Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801 | person |
| associatedWith | Pleasants, William Henry, d. ca. 1826 | person |
| associatedWith | Richmond Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Richmond, Va.) | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Virginia | corporateBody |
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| Antislavery movements |
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| Quaker abolitionists |
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Active 1745
Active 1898
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