The book of discipline of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1719, 1820.

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The book of discipline of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1719, 1820.

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This volume includes such items as the church's position on marriage, smoking, Indians, Negroes, and backsliding. This was copied for the American Philosophical Society "from an ancient copy in the possession of Timothy Matlack, Esqre."

1 v. (23 p.) : copy.

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