Research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks, c. 1952.

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Research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks, c. 1952.

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This collection contains the research notes made by Alice Ford for her book, Edward Hicks Painter of the Peaceable Kingdom. These notes include genealogical information on the Hicks family and on several of his correspondents. Also included are typescripts of letters of Edward Hicks and his family. Among the correspondents are Emmor Kimber, John Comly, Elias Hicks, Benjamin and Richard Price, Elias Hicks, and Thomas McClintock. Topics include family news, issues of Quaker Spirituality, and the 1827 Hicksite separation in the Society of Friends.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Comly, John, 1773-1850

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A birthright Friend, John Comly was the son of Isaac and Asenath Hampton Comly of Byberry. In 1803, John married Rebecca Budd of Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Over the course of his lifetime, John Comly worked as a farmer, an educator, a surveyor, a conveyancer, and published a number of books, including a grammar, spelling book, primer, and reader. He was also an acknowledged Quaker minister. From the description of Papers, 1830-1884. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 192...

Price, Benjamin, 1793-1872

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Price, Richard, 1723-1791

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Richard Price was an English nonconformist minister and writer on morals, politics, and economics. From the description of Papers, 1767-1790. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122488751 British philologist and antiquary. From the description of Papers, 1753-1791. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36115923 The son of a harsh Calvinist Congregational minister in the Welsh heartland, Richard Price follow...

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...

Kimber, Emmor, 1775-1850

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Ford, Alice, 1906-

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Alice Ford is an authority on American folk art. She wrote a biography of the Quaker artist, Edward Hicks, and published it in 1952. From the description of Research notes for the biography of Edward Hicks, c. 1952. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31403477 Alice Ford was a prominent scholar and biographer of John James Audubon and Edward Hicks. Her books on Audubon include Audubon's Butterflies, Moths, and Other Studies (1952, ed.), John James Audubon:...

McClintock, Thomas, 1792?-1876

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Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849

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Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished religious minister of the Society of Friends (aka "Quakers"). He became a Quaker icon because of his paintings. Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Anglican. Isaac Hicks, his father, was a Loyalist who was left without any money after the British defeat in the Revolutionary War. After young Edward's mothe...

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