Journals and related items, 1672-1899.

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Journals and related items, 1672-1899.

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Photocopy of account book of John Bowne concerning his daily business and containing inventories of household effects, specifications for building houses and barns, alterations of rooms, contracts for labor, on-account expenditures of traveling Quakers, and expenses related to building meetinghouses, ca. 1687-1762. Typescript of John Bowne's journal with daily record of his arrest and banishment to Europe, and his successful appeal for freedom of religion. He also detailed his transatlantic voyage, business accounts, and genealogical records, 1650-1694. Original documents include writing book of Lisa H. Bowne, containing poems she used to practice handwriting and her French exercise book, 1882; account and letter book of Joseph Marsh and E.S. Bloomfield emphasizing land transactions on City Island, Bronx, 1877-1899; scrapbook of news clippings concerning New York City events, 1886; volume from yearly Quaker meetings held at Burlington, N.J., containing sermons or addresses, 1704; account book listing names of various individuals, 1705-1843; and Walter Bowne's commonplace book, 1824-1828. Other items are Mary Jourdan's dying sayings, 1762; notebook of poems and compositions written by Caroline Willets, 1851; transcriptions of an account of Parsons and Yates families, 1791; James Parson's ledger, 1776-1801; school lesson book with explanations of mathematical principles, 1774; and typescript of a journal and letters by J.T. Bowne, 1868-1870.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Parsons, James

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James Parsons emigrated to Geelong with his wife Eliza Baddan on the Epaminondas. From the description of Diary, [not after 2000] [manuscript]. [not after 2000] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 609114333 ...

Bloomfield, E. S.

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Willets, Caroline, 1794-1859

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

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Mount Holly Monthly Meeting was established in 1776 by Burlington Quarterly Meeting out of Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1827, after the Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. The Orthodox Meeting was discontinued in 1828 ; its members were transferred to Burlington Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Mount Holly Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the cu...

Bowne, Lisa H.

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Parsons family.

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Bowne family.

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Bowne, Walter, 1770-1846

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Bowne, J. T. (Jacob Titus), 1847-1925

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Marsh, Joseph, 1762-1841

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Bowne, John, 1627-1695

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Epithet: of Matlock Bank, in Matlock, husbandman, son of William Bowne late of the same British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000615.0x0003b6 John Bowne (1627-1695) of Flushing, Long Island. From the description of John Bowne's journal and related papers, 1649-1676. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58660271 ...

Jourdan, Mary.

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Yates family.

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