Family letters, 1804-1836.

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Family letters, 1804-1836.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31456543

This collection includes the correspondence of Hannah Hurnard and her family, written between Essex, England, and Wilmington, Delaware. The letters document the family's emigration to America, their struggles adapting to life there, and finally their return to England. Letters between Hannah and her sister, Elizabeth Clark, share family and local news. Letters from Mary Thresher relate the activities of Quaker ministers, including Stephen Grellet, Jesse Kersey, and Nathan Hunt. The letters reflect opinions on contemporary events in English politics. Letters from American friends relate the growing division in the Society sparked by the teachings of Elias Hicks. Deborah Bringhurst, a Wilmington Hicksite, gives a detailed account of events surrounding the Separation. Robert Hurnard condemns her position. Letters from George Fennell to his family in England, relate details of his emigration to North Carolina, and his observations on the American south.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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SNAC Resource ID: 7319328

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Clark, Elizabeth Gertrude

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Fennell, George, 1787-

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Hurnard, Robert, b. 1774.

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Kersey, Jesse, 1768-1845

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Jesse Kersey of Downingtown, Pennsylvania, was a prominent minister in the Society of Friends. The son of William and Hannah Kersey, he married Elizabeth Coates and had eleven children. From the description of Letter, 1817 8mo 5, Downingtown [to] Samuel Bettle, Philadelphia. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 20031262 A minister in the Society of Friends. From the description of Letter : to Samuel Bettle, Philadelphia, Pa. Undated. (Bryn Mawr College). Wor...

Hunt, Nathan, 1758-1853

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Nathan Hunt, Quaker leader, itinerant minister, and principal founder of the New Garden Boarding School (now Guilford College), was born in the New Garden community (now within the limits of Greensboro), the son of Sarah Mills and William Hunt, a Friends minister. Nathan Hunt characterized his heritage "as a very ancient British family with some Scotch and some Welsh blood in it." His paternal grandfather and great-grandfather located on Rancocas Creek in New Jersey soon after 1670. His father,...

Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844

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Hurnard, Hannah, 1778?-1835

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Hannah Hurnard was an English Quaker. Born around 1778, she was the daughter of John and Hannah Clark. She was married to Robert Hurnard at Coggeshall Monthly Meeting in 1800. They emigrated to Wilmington, De., with their children, but eventually returned to England. Hannah Hurnard died in Essex, England, in 1835. From the description of Family letters, 1804-1836. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31456543 ...

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...

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...