Papers, 1792-1835.

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Papers, 1792-1835.

Includes record book of innoculation records, medical recipes, and treatments (1792); poetry and thoughts (1796); diary entries (1834-1835); a history of Buckingham written 1812 to 1814; correspondence (1827-1829) from Samuel Preston regarding the Society of Friends Orthodox/Hicksite split; Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends' memorials of early members (ca. 1800-1818); and brief remarks on historical and philosophical points.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8045807

Bucks County Historical Society

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Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends

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Buckingham Monthly Meeting was established in 1720 by Bucks Quarterly Meeting out of Falls Monthly Meeting. At the time of the Hicksite Separation of 1827, the monthly meeting split into Hicksite and Orthodox branches. Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1897, and its members were attached to Falls Monthly Meeting (Orthodox). Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Hicksite), which reunited with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (Orthodox) in 1955, was the forerunner of the current Buckingha...

Preston, Samuel, 1756-1834

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Samuel Preston was a Buckingham Township, Pa. surveyor and conveyancer, born in Bucks County and died in Stockport, Wayne County. He was a Federalist, the first associate judge of Wayne County and a Quaker. He settled the town of Stockport and built the first mill there. From the description of Diary, 1787-1788. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122633106 ...

Watson, John, 1746-1817

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Physician, of Buckingham and Solebury, Pa. From the description of Papers, 1792-1835. (Bucks County Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70927306 ...