Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence, 1780-1811.

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Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence, 1780-1811.

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Collection of Bringhurst family letters in two groups. The first group was collected, transcribed, and indexed by C. Marshall Taylor and contains correspondence, 1780-1806, of Philadelphia Quaker businessman, James Bringhurst. These include letters received by James Bringhurst from John Murray of New York City which reveal the correspondents' concern for education, preventing poverty, prison reform, and improving the condition of Indians. Other correspondents include John Dickinson, Job Scott, Nathan Hunt, James Pemberton, Jesse Kersey, Lindley Murray and Moses Brown. Of particular interest are the descriptions of life in Philadelphia and conditions of free blacks, as well as Quaker religious and social concerns and visits from traveling ministers. The second group contains primarily affectionate letters from Joseph Bringhurst, brother of James, to his niece, Elizabeth Foulke, while she was traveling in the ministry. The letters deal with family concerns and Philadelphia life and customs. Mention is made of prominent Quakers, outbreaks of yellow fever, and concern for the stresses of his niece' life in the ministry.

3 boxes.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

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John Dickinson (November 13, 1732 [O.S. November 2, 1732] – February 14, 1808) was a Founding Father of the United States. A solicitor and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, he was known as the "Penman of the Revolution" for his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, published individually in 1767 and 1768. Born at his family's tobacco plantation in Talbot County, Maryland, Dickinson was educated at home by his parents and by recent immigrants employe...

Taylor, C. Marshall (Caleb Marshall), 1884-1957

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C. Marshall (Caleb Marshall) Taylor (1884-1957) was a Quaker businessman and book collector of Montclair, N.J. His particular interest was the Quaker poet and abolitionist, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier Research Papers, 1831-1957. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 70208559 Quaker businessman and book collector, of Montclair, N.J. From the description of Papers, 1925-1957. (Swarthmore College). WorldCa...

Murray, John, 1758-1819

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Murray, Lindley, 1745-1826

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Lindley Murray was born at Harper Tavern, Pennsylvania, on 7 June 1745. His father, Robert Murray, a member of an old Quaker family, was one of the leading New York merchants. Murray was the eldest of twelve children, all of whom he survived, although he was puny and delicate in childhood. When six years old, he was sent to school in Philadelphia, but soon left to accompany his parents to North Carolina, where they lived until 1753. They then moved to New York, where Murray was sent to a good sc...

Bringhurst, Joseph, 1732/3-1811.

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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,...

Brown, Moses, 1738-1836

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Quaker, abolitionist, founder of Brown University. From the description of Letter : Providence, R.I., to an unidentified correspondent, 1774 Dec. 1. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 29540202 ...

Bringhurst family.

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Foulke, Elizabeth, approximately 1758-1820

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Elizabeth Foulke was a Quaker minister from Philadelphia. She was born around the year 1757 to Judah Foulke and Mary Bringhurst Foulke. Elizabeth never married. She died in 1820 at the age of 63. ...

Bringhurst, James d. 1810

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The Bringhursts of Philadelphia, Pa., were a prominent Quaker family, active in the civic life of the City and in the Society of Friends. James Bringhurst and his brother, Joseph, were merchants, and their niece, Elizabeth Foulke, was a Quaker minister. From the description of Collection of Bringhurst Family Correspondence, 1780-1811. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 56359896 ...

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...

Pemberton, James, 1723-1809

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Quaker merchant, of Philadelphia, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1777-1812. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 27134245 Quaker merchant and philanthropist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to James Phillips, (probably the Quaker bookseller in London), 1788 Nov. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872094 Clerk of the Philadelphia and New Jersey Society of Friends. From the description of Quaker pape...