Papers 1737-1940.

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Papers 1737-1940.

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Correspondence, journals and other writings, business and legal papers, and miscellaneous items of the Ferris family of Wilmington, De. Of particular note are the correspondence and writings of Benjamin Ferris concerning the Separation in the Society of Friends and Elias Hicks, as well as the journals and diaries of Anna M. Ferris, David Ferris, Matilda Ferris, Benjamin Ferris, and Henry Ferris. Correspondents include William Lloyd Garrison, William Gibbons, Isaac T. Hopper, Joseph Bringhurst, Mary Gibbons, William Poole, Mary Biddle, Joseph Rakestraw, Halliday Jackson, and John Jackson. This collection includes a great variety of family correspondence that reveals much about the life of a Quaker family in Wilmington, and of the reform activities of members of the Society of Friends, especially in the areas of abolition and peace.

19 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Ferris, Matilda, 1853-1937

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Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852

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Abolitionist and prison reformer. From the description of Receipt and ALS : New York, to John Bailey, 1842. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122626178 Hopper, an abolitionist, wrote for National Anti-Slavery Standard. From the description of ALS, 1842 April 11 : New York to Tho[ma]s McClintock. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 27672880 James Hamlet, a porter in a Water Street store, was arrested on the basis of an aff...

Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830

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Elias Hicks was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. He was a farmer, partner in a tannery, and had a knowledge of surveying. Elias Hicks was born on March 19, 1748, a birthright member of Westbury Monthly Meeting, New York, and the son of John and Martha (Smith) Hicks. At thirteen he went to live with his older brother and was apprenticed to a carpenter. During this time, he became increasingly devoted to religious principles. In 1771, he married Jemima Seaman, th...

Gibbons, Mary, 1795-1876

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Ferris, John, 1775-1802

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Ferris, David, 1821-1908

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Rakestraw, Joseph, 1780?-1860

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Jackson, John, 1809-1855

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John Jackson, son of Halliday and Jane Jackson of Darby, Pa., was a Quaker minister and educator. George Truman (1798-1877), a merchant and dentist, also was a Quaker minister. From the description of Correspondence, 1834-1835. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 57202931 John Jackson (1809-1855), son of Halliday and Jane Jackson of Darby, Pa., married Rachel Tyson (1807?-1883), daughter of Isaac Tyson of Baltimore, Md., in 1832. Together they established the Sharon Fe...

Poole, William, 1764-1829

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William Poole was a Quaker of Wilmington, Delaware. He was born in 1784, the son of William and Elizabeth Shipley Canby Poole. In 1791 he married Sarah Sharpless. He died in 1829. Poole was a distant relative of Benjamin Ferris, also of Wilmington. From the description of Letters to Benjamin Ferris, 1821-1825. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 34015646 ...

Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867

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Benjamin Ferris was a prominent member of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends in Wilmington, Delaware. He was born a Quaker in 1780, the son of Ziba and Edith (Sharpless) Ferris. Benjamin Ferris married Francis Canby in 1804. Among their ten children were Deborah, born in 1813, Anna M., born in 1815, and David, born in 1821. Fanny Ferris died in 1833 and Benjamin Ferris married his second wife, Hannah Gibbons, in 1835. He died in Wilmington in 1867. From the description of ...

Ferris, Henry, 1855-1941

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Biddle, Mary, 1780-1849

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Ferris, Anna M., 1815-1890

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Ferris, Fanny, 1778-1833

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Ferris, Ziba, 1743-1794

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Bringhurst, Joseph

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Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835

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Halliday Jackson was a Pennsylvania Quaker missionary to the Indians. From the description of Journals, 1805-1806. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440339 From the description of Journal, 1814. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173466066 From the description of Some account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people, 1798-1799. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122380084 ...

Gibbons, Mary Canby, 1754-1797

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Ferris Family.

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Quaker family of Wilmington, De. John Ferris (1710-1751), a Quaker tanner, moved to Delaware from Connecticut in 1748 and died of small pox three years later. His second son, Ziba, was born in 1743. The latter was apprenticed as a cabinet maker in Wilmington and married Edith Sharples of Chester Co., Pa., in 1769. Ziba and Edith had seven children, among whom were John, who married Sarah Harlan, and Benjamin, who married Frances Canby. John was a cabinetmaker who died of...