Collection of papers of the Society of Friends in Ohio, 1789-19156 (bulk 1851-1869).

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Collection of papers of the Society of Friends in Ohio, 1789-19156 (bulk 1851-1869).

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Collection of papers relating to the Society of Friends in Ohio (Orthodox). Included are communications and epistles received by Ohio Yearly Meeting from the Yearly Meetings in Philadelphia, New York, and Maryland; minutes and other records of the Stillwater, Short Creek, and Redstone Monthly and Quarterly Meetings, marriage announcements, certificates, and other miscellaneous records, including a proposal submitted to the Yearly meeting for establishing labor schools (ca. 1840). The collection also contains some personal letters discussing religious practice, theology, history, child rearing, etc. Also included are: an epistle from Women Friends Meeting in London to Women Friends Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia (1789), two addresses to a "Spiritual Improvement Society", by Edward Hoops (1840), two short memoirs of the underground railroad and Quaker abolitionists, and a copy of: Diamond, August, Levi Coffin, the friend of the slave / published for the Friends' Tract Association (London : Headley Bros.; New York : Friends' Book & Tract Committee, c1915). The collection also contains manuscript "Memoirs of Rachel E. Paterson, 1828-1869." Rachel E. Paterson (b. 1810) was a Quaker preacher, daughter of James Edgerton and Anne Hall, members of Stillwater Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). The manuscript consists of copies of letters that she exchanged with her family.

75 pieces.1 case : also one bound v.

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Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...

Paterson, Rachel E., b. 1810

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Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828-1854)

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In 1808 Redstone, Salem, and Short Creek quarterly meetings of the Society of Friends, originating within the Baltimore Yearly Meeting, requested a new yearly meeting west of the Allegheny Mountains. The Ohio Yearly Meeting "set off" in 1813 included Ohio, Indiana Territory, and adjacent parts of Pennsylvania and Indiana. In 1820, the Ohio Yearly Meeting established the Indiana Yearly Meeting. In 1828 followers of Elias Hicks (Hicksites) separated from the orthodox Friends. From the ...

Diamond, Augustus

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