Collection of Lewis-Garrigues family papers, 1753-1840.

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Collection of Lewis-Garrigues family papers, 1753-1840.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31403589

This collection centers on the correspondence and family history of the Garrigues family and the Price family, to whom the former were linked with the marriage of Edward Garrigues and Margaret Price. The correspondence, received by Edward Garrigues, is from many prominent Quaker ministers, including Isaac Hicks as he travelled with his cousin, Elias Hicks. Other correspondents include Rebecca Jones, Sarah Scattergood, Stephen Grellet, Charity Cook, Deborah Darby, and Martha Routh. The letters relate the travels of these ministers to meetings in both Europe and the United States, and their thoughts on spirituality.

11 folders.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7318198

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Garrigues, Edward, 1756-1845

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Edward Garrigues, the son of Samuel and Mary Ralph Garrigues, was born a birthright Quaker in 1756. In 1779 he married Margaret Price, daughter of Philip and Hannah Price. Edward Garrigues became an elder of Darby Monthly Meeting in 1807 and died in 1845. From the description of Collection of Lewis-Garrigues family papers, 1753-1840. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31403589 ...

Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820

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The collection contains primarily the correspondence of Isaac Hicks, including letters from Isaac Hicks to his wife describing religious journeys taken with Elias Hicks; some letters concerning the Separation of 1827-28; and business letters. Correspondents include: John Comly, Elias Hicks, John Murray, Thomas Rotch, William Rotch, and Samuel and Miers Fisher. The letters provide insight into Quaker family life on Long Island, N.Y., and the travels of a Quaker minister. The Comly correspondence ...

Darby, Deborah, 1754-1810

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Deborah Darby (25 August 1754 – 14 February 1810) was a British Quaker minister and traveller based in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. Darby was born in 1754 in Upperthorpe, Sheffield. She was one of the six children of Hannah (born Wilson) and John Barnard who was a tanner. She was brought up with a good education and knowledge of the Christian faith. In 1776 she married Samuel who was the son of Abraham and Abiah Darby of Coalbrookdale. The Darby family are credited with enabling the Industrial...

Routh, Martha Winter, 1743-1817

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Martha Routh or Martha Winter (25 June 1743 – 18 July 1817) was a British Quaker minister and writer. Martha Winter was the last child, born in Stourbridge in 1743, to Henry and Jane Winter. She had nine siblings, although only five survived childhood. By the age of 24, she was the head of a Quaker boarding school in Nottingham after starting to teach there when she was seventeen. She was made a minister in 1773 and, after her marriage to Richard Routh in 1776, she devoted herself to Quaker mi...

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...

Price family.

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Grellet, Stephen, 1773-1855

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Stephen Grellet (28 October 1772 – 16 November 1855) was a prominent French-American Quaker missionary. Grellet was born Étienne de Grellet du Mabillier in Limoges, the son of Antoine Gabriel Grellet, a counsellor of King Louis XVI also director of the first chinaware fabric in Limoges. His family had some interest in iron making. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he was educated at the Military College of Lyons, now the Institut d'études politiques de Lyon, and at the age of 17 he entered the person...

Garrigues family.

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Cook, Charity Wright, 1745-1822

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Charity Wright Cook (1745 - 1822) was an American Quaker minister. Cook was born in Prince George's County, Maryland but moved with her family to the area of Cane Creek, North Carolina at the age of three; they moved again, probably in 1760, to Bush River, Newberry County, South Carolina. There she met Isaac Cook, a Quaker, whom she would go on to marry. In 1760 an accusation of sexual impropriety was levied against her, and as a result she was estranged from the Quaker community for eight y...

Scattergood, Sarah, 1751-1832

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Lewis family.

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Jones, Rebecca, 1739-1817

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Rebecca Jones was a Quaker minister from Philadelphia. She was born in Philadelphia, 7mo. 8 (old style), 1739, of pious parents of the Church of England. Her father, William Jones, was a seaman, and was lost on a voyage when Rebecca was a young child. Kary, Jones's mother, opened a school at No. 8 Drinker's Alley, which proved very successful, and she was able to give a careful education to Rebecca and her older brother Daniel. Rebecca never married. Jones was convinced of ...