Collection, 1682-1877.

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Collection, 1682-1877.

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Quakeriana: Falls Monthly Meeting (Fallsington, Bucks County), papers, 1697-1877 (7 v.), include certificates of removal, memoranda of discipline of members and some financial records; contemporary copies, Friend's Discipline, 1719, 1755; notes on the Gurney Crisis in London Yearly Meeting, 1846; Bradford Monthly Meeting, papers, ca. 1760-1805; Cope's notes on the history of Pennsylvania Meetings of Friends. Pennsylvania Legal Papers: Supreme Court bail book, 1760-63; list of jurors, 1847; Supreme Court, docket book, 1857; Philadelphia County, Court of Quarter Sessions, bail book, 1798-99; Green County, Court of Nisi Prius, docket, 1798-99. Miscellaneous papers: Cope's transcription of "An Account of the Disturbances in America," by John Ettwein, a Moravian minister; a modern transcription of letters, 1768-75, to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel from the parish of St. David's, Radnor, PA; professional and business papers of Jesse Conard, 1820-37; anonymous contemporary manuscript of "Some Account of the Visit of the Friendly Indians to Philadelphia," 1760; depositions and other legal papers in Levett Harris v. William D. Lewis, the Riga consulate case, 1820.

ca. 500 items.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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Ettwein, John, 1721-1802

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John Ettwein (1721-1802) was a Moravian missionary in Germany, Holland, and England before coming to the American colonies in 1754 with a group of 50 Moravians. Ettwein was involved in various missions among the Native Americans in the middle colonies, including Georgia. In 1763, he was placed in charge of all Moravian work in North Carolina, and was responsible for the church's property in South Carolina and Georgia. During the Revolutionary War he was pronounced a Loyalist for his refusal to f...

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

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Harris, Levett

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Lewis, William David, 1792-1881

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Businessman. From the description of Letters of William David Lewis, 1813-1850. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015070 William David Lewis arrived in Europe in 1814 at the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. Having obtained passage from New York as a secretary to the United States peace commission, Lewis soon resigned his office to join the employ of his brother John Delaware Lewis, a commission merchant in St. Petersburg, Russia. William spent the follow...

Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928

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Conard, Jesse, 1778-1852

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