Two notebooks on Quaker and family affairs, and local Whitby history, compiled by Joseph Taylor Sewell. ca. 1906-1923.

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Two notebooks on Quaker and family affairs, and local Whitby history, compiled by Joseph Taylor Sewell. ca. 1906-1923.

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Comprises Joseph Taylor Sewell's notes on various Yorkshire Quaker figures, family affairs, and local Whitby history (with a few relevant press cuttings), and miscellaneous other anecdotes largely dating from the period 1906-1923. His grandson, Michael Metford-Sewell, added further notes in 1954-1955.

2 v., manuscript.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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SNAC Resource ID: 7682873

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Sewell, Joseph Taylor, 1857-1925.

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Joseph Taylor Sewell (1857-1925) was a Whitby Quaker From the guide to the Two notebooks on Quaker and family affairs, and local Whitby history, compiled by Joseph Taylor Sewell, ca.1906-1923, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

Society of Friends

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The Society of Friends (or 'Quakers') was formed by George Fox (1624-1691), a shoemaker from Nottingham. In the 1640s Fox travelled throughout England delivering sermons in which he argued that individuals could have direct access to God without the need for churches, priests or other aspects of the established Church. Fox's followers became known as the 'Friends of Truth' and later the 'Society of Friends'. Fox developed rules for the management of meetings, which were printed as 'Friends Fello...