Robert Barclay of Ury family papers and maps, 1685-1835.

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Robert Barclay of Ury family papers and maps, 1685-1835.

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The collection contains two letters from Robert Barclay to William Penn, 8 February 1685/86, on spiritual matters and referring to East Jersey, and 9 December 1687 referring to financial matters; his daughter Christian's receipt book, 1697-1723, with indexes to the first and second of three parts concerning home remedies, cooking recipes, and cloth dying, and containing two pages of marriage and birth records of her children with Alexander Jaffray. Also, a manuscript map, copied by Samuel Woodward, of the Barclay tract in Pennsylvania surveyed and described by Samuel Rhoads, Jr., 1835, showing cultivated areas, mills, and coal seams, with two letters by Samuel Rhoads describing the tract in Bradford County; and a manuscript map of sundry tracts of land situated in Northumberland and Luzerne counties, Pa., ca. 1794. Removed from the collection and cataloged separately are Barclay family copies of the books: two copies of Robert Barclay's An apology for the true christian divinity (Birmingham, 1765); Truth triumphant through the spiritual warfare, christian labours and writings (London, 1692); first French edition of Apologie de la veritable theologie chretienne (London, 1702). Also removed are Walter Thom's Pedestrianism (Aberdeen, 1813); Robert Barclay Allardyce's Agricultural tour of the United States and upper Canada (Edinburgh, 1842); and A genealogical account of the Barclays of Urie (London, 1812) with manuscript annotations and genealogical notes bound in.

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Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690

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Robert Barclay, Quaker theologian, was born in 1648, the son of Colonel David Barclay of Ury, Scotland. He became a Quaker in 1667, shortly after his father joined the Society of Friends. His writings, especially his "Apology for the True Christian Divinity" (Latin, 1676; English, 1678) systemitized the principles of Quakerism. He travelled to Holland and Germany as a lay minister and served as the nonresident govenor of East Jersey. In 1669 he married Christian Molleson, a Quaker, and he died i...

Woodward, Samuel P.

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Jaffray family.

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Barclay, Christian, active 1697-1740

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Penn, William, 1644-1718

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The British colony of Pennsylvania was given to William Penn (1644-1718) in 1681 by Charles II of England in repayment of a debt owed his father, Sir Admiral William Penn (1621-1670). Under Penn's directive, Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers escaping religious torment in England and other European nations. Three generations of Penn descendents held proprietorship of the colony until the American Revolution, when the family was stripped of all but its privately held shares of land...

Rhoads, Samuel E.

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Barclay family.

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Robert Barclay was a Scottish Quaker leader whose Apology for the true christian divinity (1678) became a standard statement of Quaker doctrines. His friendship with James II, then duke of York, helped obtain the patent to settle the province of East Jersey in the New World. Barclay married Christian Millison, February 1669/70. Their daughter, Christian, married Alexander Jaffray, 23 April 1700. From the description of Robert Barclay of Ury family papers and maps, 1685-1835. (Pennsyl...