Correspondence, 1780-1816.

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Correspondence, 1780-1816.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70208670

The collection contains correspondence primarily from an independent group of disowned Quakers from Sandwich Monthly Meeting, Mass. It also includes business and personal letters received by Samuel Wetherill. Of interest is a letter from Hannah Barnard in which she laments about the way she was treated by Hudson Monthly Meeting, N.Y., and correspondence from Benjamin Bumpus, Nicholas Davis, Timothy Davis and others, reporting on the state of their meetings in Massachusetts.

1 box ; .5 linear ft.

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Wetherill, Samuel, 1736-1816

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Samuel Wetherill, a Philadelphia manufacturer of cloth, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, was a birthright Quaker. During the American Revolution, he actively supported the military effort and was disowned from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in 1779. In 1781, he was a founder of an independent meeting known as the Society of Free Quakers. He corresponded with a New England group of similarly disowned Quakers, associates of Timothy Davis (1730-1798), a respected minister who published a pamphlet in 1...

Barnard, Hannah, 1754?-1825

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Society of Free Quakers

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Founded in Philadelphia in 1781, the Society of Free Quakers counted Moses Bartram, Clement Biddle, Elizabeth Claypoole (Betsy Ross), Lydia Darragh, Christopher Marshall, Timothy Matlack, Benjamin Say, and Samuel Wethergill, Jr. among its first members. From the guide to the Religious Society of Free Quakers records, 1781-1975, 1781-1975, (American Philosophical Society) The Society of Free Quakers were founded in Philadelphia in 1781. Among its first members were Moses Bart...

Davis, Timothy

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Davis, Nicholas, 1732-

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