Papers, 1757-1840.

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Papers, 1757-1840.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38237524

Collection contains two volumes. The first volume contains a journal and notebook in which a variety of entries were made, and also several diaries. One was the diary of a father writing about his sons' behavior. Another part of this volume consists of diaries by children. The volume also contains weather records. One son, John, is mentioned and may be John Fowler, inventor of the steam plow. The second volume is a collection of Quaker Correspondence. It has the names Mary Gurney and Robert Fowler in it. She may be Mary Fowler Gurney, second wife of philanthropist and religious writer Joseph John Gurney, and daughter of Robert Fowler, a prominent Quaker resident of Elm Grove, Melksham. This volume contains letters of individuals and also by Quaker meetings. Two are from Samuel Fothergill.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Gurney, Joseph-John, 1788-1847

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Quaker philanthropist, writer, and minister. From the description of Letter : Charleston, to Samuel Bettle, 1840 May 3. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 28886177 An English Quaker reformer and writer, Gurney traveled widely in the U.S., Canada and West Indies. From the description of ALS, 1841 February 1 : Earlham, [Eng.] to Cecilia Baring / J.J. Gurney. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 44996509 ...

Fowler family.

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Quaker family of Wiltshire, England. From the description of Papers, 1757-1840. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38237524 ...

Fothergill, Samuel, 1715-1772

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Samuel Fothergill (1715–1772), was a Quaker minister from Yorkshire, England. He was the sixth son of John Fothergill and his wife Margaret, well-to-do Quakers of considerable means at Carr End, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. He was born in November 1715. He was educated at Briggflats, near Sedbergh, and afterwards at a school at Sutton in Cheshire, kept by his uncle, Thomas Hough. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a Quaker shopkeeper at Stockport. As soon as his apprenticeship was over,...