%eadnotat; ]> 5204anst Amna C. Stabler Family Papers, 1675-1864 POD Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1999 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, May 2002. ENG Amna C. Stabler Family Papers, 1675-1864 POD Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1999 Descriptive Summary Family Papers, 1675-1864 RG5/204 Amna C. Stabler 1 box; 0.5 linear feet Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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Phone: (610) 328-8496 FAX: (610) 690-5728 For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog The Amna C. Stabler Family Papers are a collection of miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Quakers and the Society of Friends in southeastern New York State. BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL

Amna C. (Amna Cope) Stabler was the wife of Edward Russell Stabler. His father, Edward L. (Edward Lincoln) Stabler of Greenwich, Connecticut, lent at least part of the collection to New York Yearly Meeting (?) in 1957, according to a note found with the materials. Edward L. Stabler was the son of Louisa M. Field Stabler and the grandson of Mary Hartshorne Stabler.

 SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Amna C. Stabler Papers are a collection of miscellaneous manuscripts relating to Quakers and the Society of Friends in southeastern New York State. Of particular interest are several letters addressed to John Bowne (1627-1695) from England, and a commonplace book, probably of Edward S. Willets, with an obituary for Matthew Franklin (1815), The Speech of Sagoua Fla (1811), Address of the Seneca Indians to Dewitt Clinton (1818), An Indian Oration on the Death of Commodore Decater (sic.) (1820), and Circumstance related by Samuel Parsons (1826). Also included are a commonplace-book, belonging to Deborah M. Field, with an opening passage from Scripture inscribed to her and signed by Elias Hicks (silhouette of Elias Hicks inserted in front of book) as well as an inspirational passage from Jesse Kersey, a School Fund Account Book (kept by Isaac T. Hopper), and a collection of financial papers related to the building of the Pearl Street Meeting House in New York City, 1774-75.

 Arrangement

The collection is divided into five series:

1. Bowne family 2. Hunt family 3. Other family papers 4.1 Society of Friends records: Pearl Street Meeting House 4.2 Society of Friends records: Financial Records, Epistles, & Extracts ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Accession information

Donor: New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1997

The collection was given to the New York Yearly Meeting by Amna C. Stabler on 11/22/1983. It was transferred to the Friends Historical Library in 1997.

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/204, Amna C. Stabler Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

 Processing information

Collection was housed in a large manuscripts box when received from NYYM. All manuscripts were housed in either mylar or plastic sleeves. Plastic sleeves were removed, and the collection was sorted, placed in series, foldered, and returned to the original manuscripts box. Two unrelated manuscripts, given to NYYM by Frona Vicksell in 1997, were removed from the box and catalogued separately as Miscellaneous Manuscripts

The following materials were removed from the collection and added to RG2:

RG2/NYy New York Yearly Meeting, Meeting for Sufferings, Minutes, 5th Mo. 1758 through 5th Mo. 26, 1775. (Clerk's Draft). (5N 12/2488) RG2/NY/N452 v.1.15 New York Monthly Meeting, Minutes, Men's, 9th Mo. 6, 1769-8th Mo. 1, 1771 (Clerk's Draft). (2F 13/2489) NYYM Mss. List of the Members of the New York Manumission Society, 1787-1827. MSS2-2495 RG2/NY/N453 v.2.3 New York Monthly Meeting (H), Minutes, Women's, 6th Mo., 1850—4th Mo. 1, 1857, and 7th Mo., 1858-11th Mo. 2, 1859 (Clerk's Draft) (N 11/2490) RG2/NY/N453 v.2.4 New York Monthly Meeting (H), Minutes, Women's, 5th Mo. 6, 1857—4th Mo. 7, 1858 and 5th Mo. 5, 1858 (Clerk's Draft). (N 11/2491) Bibliography Bowne House Historical Society. John Bowne, his story: from the time he left England for America in 1649 until he returned from exile in Holland in 1664. New York: The Society, 1963 Quaker crosscurrents: three hundred years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings / edited by Hugh Barbour... [et al.]; with a foreword by Martin E. Marty [Syracuse, N.Y.]: Syracuse University Press, 1995 Related Material

See also:

New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1957: New York, N.Y.). Records, 1783-1957 Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends: ca. 1671-1828: New York, N.Y.) Records, 1640-1828 Stabler-Brooks Papers, RG5/234 SELECTED SEARCH TERMS

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Society of Friends--New York (State) Hunt family Bowne family Parsons, Samuel, 1774-1841 Quaker church building--New York (State)--New York Seneca Indians --New York (State) New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1955) New York Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite: 1828-1957: New York, N.Y.) Monthly Meeting of New York (Society of Friends: ca. 1671-1828: New York, N.Y.) Bowne, John, 1627-1695 Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Ser. 1 Bowne Family, 1679-1717 Letter, Jone Brocksopp to John Bowne, London 1679 1 Letter, John Burnyeat to John Bowne, Little Nonmanton (sic.) 1680 1 Certificate of removal, Harmanus King from Flushing to Chesterfield, N.J 1699 1

signed by Samuel Bowne

 Marriage certificate, Richard Lawrence and Hannah Bowne, Flushing 1717 1 copy from copper plate Ser. 2. Hunt Family, 1774-1799 Deed, Benjamin Ferris to Joshua Hunt 1774 1

164 acres in Harrison's Purchase, Westchester County, N.Y.

 Apprenticeship agreement 1790 1

William Thorn of Flushing to Joshua Hunt, "tayler"

 Financial agreement, Jordan Seaman of Jericho and widow Mary Hunt of Jerusalem, Hempstead 1799 1

"whereas a marriage is shortly intended to be had and solemnised between the said Jordan Seaman and the said Mary Hunt"

 Ser. 3 Other Family Papers, 1680-1856 Condemnation, Christopher Holder c. 1680 1 Release of debt, Barbary Briggs 1691 1

release of debt owed to her husband, Nathaniel Briggs, by George Langly of New Shorum (sic)

 Condemnation Martha Smith, Herricks 1707 1

for marrying out

 Indenture, John and Catharine Marsh to Thomas Brown, Woodbridge, N.J. 1781 1 Manumission certificate, Philener Hunt 1799 1

signed by Mary Seaman, Jericho, confirmed by her husband, Jordan Seaman

 Receipt book, John Merritt 1804-23 1 Federal Republican and Commercial Gazette 1812 1

Georgetown, Vol.VI, No.852

 Commonplace book, probably of Edward S. Willets 1820-1821 1

with obituary for Matthew Franklin (1815), The Speech of Sagoua Fla (1811), Address of the Seneca Indians to Dewitt Clinton (1818), An Indian Oration on the Death of Commodore Decater (sic.) (1820), and Circumstance related by Samuel Parsons (1826)

 Directions "To draw a Tooth without pain" 1825 1

[n.d., notes on verso dated 1824 and 1825].

 "Circumstances related by Samuel Parsons as he had it from Stephen Greelett [sic]..." c.1825 1 Commonplace-book, Deborah M. Field 1829-1841 1

opening passage from Scripture inscribed to her and signed by Elias Hicks (Silhouette of Elias Hicks inserted in front of book), passage from Jesse Kersey, etc.

 The Friend, 1832 1

Vol. 1, no. 4

 Household Account Book, [Long Island?] 1841-1853 1 Poetic "Address" by Cynthia Bullock 1847 1

in embossed print for the use of blind persons

 Letter with "A Poem on the death of Abraham Hicks," by Mary Thorne 1856 1

to Rachel Hooks, Sen., Westbury

 "Counsel to Friends' Children" et.al. n.d. 1

pp. 51-56 (book unidentified)

 Ser. 4.1 Society of Friends records: Pearl Street Meeting House, 1774-1775 Financial papers 1774-1775 1

8 documents relating to the building of the "New Meeting House" (Pearl Street), New York City

 Ser. 4.2 Society of Friends records, 1675-1865

Financial Records, Epistles, & Extracts

 "A Testimony given Forth by Friends against a People who stilled themselves New or Young Friends," Flushing 1675 1 Subscription list, Gough's History of the People Called Quakers 1788 1 School Fund Account Book 1832-1836 1

kept by Isaac T. Hopper

 Epistle, Meeting for Sufferings, New York Yearly Meeting (Clerk's Draft) to Meeting for Sufferings, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 1774 1 Epistle, Meeting for Sufferings, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to Meeting for Sufferings, New York Yearly Meeting 1774 1 2 pages, 3rd apparently missing Extracts, New-York Yearly Meeting 1808 1 Epistle, London Yearly Meeting to subordinate meetings 1811 1 Extracts, New York Yearly Meeting 1812 1 Epistle, London Yearly Meeting to subordinate meetings 1816 1 Epistle, Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, New York Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) to subordinate meetings 1833 1 Epistle, New York Yearly Meeting (Hicksite) to subordinate meetings 1834 1 Epistle, London Yearly Meeting to subordinate meetings 1864 1

printed by Providence, Knowles, Anthony, & Co., Printers, 1865