""Notes during a journey to Edinbro in July & August 1822.""
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Travel diary followed by an account of a journey from London to the West Country and back in 1824 (28 p.) and includes a few recipes at the end (8 p.); describes a meeting with Robert Owen (1771-1858) and the arrival in Edinburgh of George IV, king of Gt.
Manuscript, in the hand of John Abbott, of some of the "accounts of Divine occurrences" written by his wife Ann. Topics include her first religious awakenings, temptations, and conversion; experiences of the Spirit at Quaker meetings; her struggles with the proper division between love of God and love of family and friends; and her occasional fondness for "fine dress." This is followed by a copy of a 1789 letter to a young man containing moral and business advice. Abbott concludes this section of the notebook with a description of the final illness and death, in 1791, of this "affectionate wife [and] tender mother." and The notebook concludes with "A Memorable Instance of Divine Guidance," which tells the story of "James Dickensen and Jane Fearn," who fled a house in fear of being murdered and eaten, only to discover "some years later" that their hosts were indeed murderers.
Description:
Binding: stiff blue wrappers., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Front cover annotated: "Manuscript book No. 182.", and Pasted in on last page: ALS from William Button to his "uncel," February 1855.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--18th century, Conduct of life--18th century, Quakers, Spiritual biography--England, and Women--Religious life--England
Doylestown (Penn.), New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Santa Fe (N.M.)
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William Watts Hart Davis, attorney, editor, military officer, and historian, was born on July 28, 1820 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Mexican War and Civil War and as a government official in the Territory of New Mexico (1853-1857)
Observations on the present state of the island of Jamaica, 1774 May 14
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Manuscript of a detailed description of the geography, population, economy, government, and social organization of Jamaica by John Dalling, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of the colony in 1767. Topics include agriculture, the sugar trade and the me
Description:
Binding: Contemporary marbled wrappers. Title label on front wrapper: ""Observations on Jamaica. Colonel Dalling 1774.""
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica --Social life and customs
Subject (Topic):
Plantation life --Jamaica., Slaveholders --Jamaica, and Slavery--Jamaica.
MS note in ink and pencil, Notebook and first gathering foliated consecutively., One quarto notebook and two sewn folio gatherings of 44 pages each housed in two folders., Some errors in foliation., and Title revised and pasted in inside front cover of notebook.
Subject (Name):
House of Refuge (New York, NY)
Subject (Topic):
African American prisoners--New York (State), Juvenile delinquents --New York (State) --New York, Prison discipline--United States--History--19th century, Prison life--New York (State)--19th century, and Reformatories --New York (State) --New York
Holograph diary. Entries concern preaching engagments during his retirement, impressions of other ministers, interpretation of Scripture, and religious life in New Haven. Also discussed are circumstances of his dismissal from churches in Southington and M
Stuart, of Southville, Connecticut, left Bridgwater for New Haven where he joined the New Haven and California Joint Stock Company. The Company chartered the bark Anna Reynolds, with Capt. John Bottom, and sailed for California. and The journal describes the 1849 voyage around the Horn, by Talcahuano to California and the return voyage in 1850. After a gap, the journal resumes with the company breaking up in San Francisco and Stuart setting off for the mines at Negro Bar on the American River. In March 1850, the journal describes passage on the ship Talma from San Francisco to Realejo, Nicaragua. There is a table of latitude and longitude readings and five pencil sketches of the shoreline of Guatemala and El Salvador.
Description:
Blank pages included in pagination but not scanned.
Subject (Geographic):
Central America --Pictorial works and Diaries --United States
Subject (Name):
Anna Reynolds (bark), New Haven and California Joint Stock Company, and Talma (Ship)