Edward Hicks selected letters and account book from the Bucks County (Pa.) Historical Society

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Edward Hicks selected letters and account book from the Bucks County (Pa.) Historical Society

1806-1849

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Ten letters from Hicks about religious meetings, preaching, debts owed to him, and his desire to sell some paintings; and a account book, 1806-1846.

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Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849

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Edward Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter and distinguished religious minister of the Society of Friends (aka "Quakers"). He became a Quaker icon because of his paintings. Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Anglican. Isaac Hicks, his father, was a Loyalist who was left without any money after the British defeat in the Revolutionary War. After young Edward's mothe...