Diary, 1770-1789.

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Diary, 1770-1789.

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The diary of Robert Willis, an itinerant Quaker, a mender of fishing nets, with daily entries giving accounts of his travels in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1770-1774, and in the United States, 1774-1789. There is some account of Friends' meeting places Willis visited, people he met, social conditions, transportation facilities, and religious sentiments.

1 v. in various pagings ; 25 cm.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6780004

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Willis, Robert, approximately 1713-1791

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Robert Willis was a Quaker minister from New Jersey born about 1713. He married young, and after a period of religious searching he joined the Society of Friends in his twenties. Willis began taking steps towards the ministry in 1758, and after his wife's death in 1759 he devoted himself to religious activities. He spent much of the rest of his life as a traveling minister, mostly but not exclusively in the Mid-Atlantic area. In 1770 he set out for the British Islands, and spent the next four ye...