%eadnotat; ]> 5270fofa An Inventory of the Fothergill Family Papers, ca.1763-1995 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Papers of the Fothergill and related families of Yorkshire, England, and Wilmington, Delaware. Manuscripts include eighteenth and ninteenth century letters, essays, and genealogical documents as well as 19th century sketches and watercolors. Administrative Information Accession information

Gift of David G. Quinlan Jr.

The bulk of this collection was given by Alexander Poinsett Fothergill ("Uncle Bo") to Winifred Quigley Fothergill-Quinlan in the 1950s, and after her death donated by her husband to Friends Historical Library.

 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 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], RG5/270 Fothergill Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

PA 100/P7/F170. Six cabinet card portraits of Eliza Quigley Fothergill, Acc. 2010.16, gift of Bebe Geisler. Added to Individual Portraits.

A number of printed books were received with the collection. Volumes written by Jesse Fothergill, a distant cousin, and by Bessie Q. Mott (Eliza Quigley Fothergill) have been added to Series 3. The following works were not retained:

A Collection of Short Stories. Ed. L.A. Pittenger. The Macmillan Company: New York. 1927. A Concordance to the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Reverend George Coles. Lane and Tippett: New York. 1847. Abraham Lincoln: His Story. Samuel Scoville Jr. American Sunday School Union: Philadelphia. 1918. Ambition. Sir John Lubbock. H.M. Caldwell Company: New York. An Exposition of the Controverted Doctrines of the Catholic Church. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family. Dodd, Mead, and Company: New York. Daily Help. Reverend Charles H. Spurgeon. Grosset and Dunlap Publishers: New York. Eminent Women of the Age. S.M. Betts and Co: Hartford, Connecticut. 1868. English Grammar. Lindley Murray-H. and E. Phinney. 1825. Essays of Phrenology. George Combe. Philadelphia. 1822. Friendly Lines. Sanford Prep School and Sunny Hills Lower School: Delaware. 1956. Friendship and Love. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Grossett and Dunlap: New York. Gerty and May; or The Sayings and Doing of Little Girls Known to the Writer: A Story for Young Children. Carlton and Porter: New York. Historic Notes on the Scenic Papers of A.L. Diament and Co. History of Ackworth School. Henry Thompson. The Centenary Committee of Ackworth School: London. 1879. Just Among Friends: The Quaker Way of Life. William Wister Comfort. The Blakiston Co.: Philadelphia. 1945. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters. Elbert Hubbard. G.P. Putnam’s Sons: New York. 1899. Love. William Phelps. E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc.: New York. 1928. Narrative of Ackworth Centenary. 1879. New Testament: Army and Navy Edition. American Bible Society: New York. 1917. On Going to Church. Bernard Shaw. Little Leather Library Corporation: New York. Once Upon a Time in Delaware. Katherine Pyle. E.P. Dulton and Co. Prayers of Hope and Gladness. Elinor C. Stewart. Edwin S. Gorham Inc: New York. 1926. Proceedings of the Ackworth Old Scholars’ Association, Part 27. Headley Brothers: London. 1899. Promises of Hope and Gladness. Elinor C. Stewart. 1927. Representative Men. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Salome. Oscar Wilde. Dodge Publishing Company: New York. 1907. The Autobiography of Ben Franklin. American Book Company: New York. 1896. The Devotional Harmonists: A Collection of Sacred Music. Ed. Charles Dingley. T. Carlton and Z. Phillips: New York. 1853. The Greatest Thing in the World. Henry Drummond. Collins Clear-Type Press: London. The Holy Bible. American Bible Society: New York. 1854. The New Testament. American Bible Society: New York. 1864. The Quaker Approach. ed. John Kavanaugh. G.P. Putnam’s Sons: New York. 1953. The Spiritual Combat. Laurence Scupoli. Longmans, Green, and Co: New York. 1909. The Story of My Heart. Richard Jefferies. Longmans Green and Co: London. 1930. The Treble Almanack for the Year 1810. John Watson Stewart: Dublin. 1810. Visits with Laura Alberta. Lela M. Gibbs. The Village Printer: New York. 1967. Biographical and Historical Note

John Fothergill (1712-1780) was an esteemed Quaker physician who was born at Carr-end in Yorkshire, England, the son of John and Margaret (Hough) Fothergill. His brother, Alexander (1710-1788), farmed the family property at Carr-end, and sister, Ann, remained single and lived in her brother John's household at Warrington. Alexander married twice, the second time to Margaret Thistlewaite (1710-1798) of Harborgill, Dent Dale, Yorkshire. Their son, William (b.1748) married Hannah Robinson; William and Hannah had five children: John, Thomas, Alexander, Margaret, and Jane. Their youngest son, Alexander, married twice, Eliza Howarth and Jane Robinson.

Alexander had at least eleven children: Hannah (b.1816), Thomas (b.1817), Sarah (b.1819), Susanna (b.1821), Eliza (b.1824), Alice Haworth (b.1826), Ann (b.1830), Mary (b.1831), Margaret (b.1835), William (b.1835), and Henry (b.1837). In 1843, the couple and their minor children were granted a certificate of removal from Marsden Monthly Meeting in England to Chester Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) in the United States, but Alexander died the same year and was buried in Wilmington, Delaware. Jane died in 1874. Ann Fothergill became a school teacher in Wilmington, Delaware. Her youngest brother, Henry, was disowned by Friends in 1860; he married Rachel Poinsett in Wilmington, in 1868, and eventually moved to Steelton, Pennsylvania.

Henry and Rachel had several children including Henry Robinson Fothergill (1873-1917), Alexander Poinsett Fothergill, and William Greenwood Fothergill. Henry Robinson was wed to Eliza Groves Quigley. After her husband died prematurely in 1917, "Bessie" married Valentine Buford Mott, an actor. Henry and Bessie had three children: Elizabeth Fothergill Graves (1899-1974), Henry Robinson Fothergill Jr. (1903-1984), and Winifred Quigley Fothergill-Quinlan (1915-2006).

 Scope and Content of the Papers

Papers of the Fothergill and related families of Yorkshire, England, and Wilmington, Delaware. Manuscripts include eighteenth and ninteenth century letters, essays, and genealogical documents. Some of the early correspondence, 1673-1842, was once bound together with linen edges. Of particular interest among these is a letter which describes the Duke of Cumberland's battles with Bonnie Prince Charlie (1745) and two anecdotes concering Quaker minister, David Sands (late 18th century). There is also a manuscript recipe book, with entries in at least two hands and dating from the mid 18th to the mid 19th centuries.

A large part of the collection is made up of original sketches and watercolors. They include works by Alexander Fothergill, his daughter, Ann, her siblings and cousins.

 Selected Search Terms

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:

Fothergill, Alexander, 1788-1843 Fothergill, Alexander, 1709-1788 Fothergill, John, 1712-1780 Fothergill, Ann, b.1830 Fothergill, Samuel, 1715-1772 Mott, Bessie Q. (Eliza Quigley), 1876-1957 Sands, David, 1745-1818 Quakers -- England -- Yorkshire Quakers -- Delaware -- Wilmington Fothergill family DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

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

 Ser.1 Correspondence and Writings Correspondence Dear Bro [Thomas Thistlewait at Harbourgill] 1745 October 22 1 folder 1

Detailed description of the Duke of Cumberland's efforts to subdue the Scottish rebels in 1745.

 William Fothergill to [My Dear Sister] John Chorleys House for A. Chorley 1799 April 20 1 folder 1

Relates his trip to attend quarterly meeting and comments on the awful weather.

 Alex Fothergill, Carrend, to My Frd 1762 1mo 21 1 folder 1

Biblical references.

 Sam'l Fothergill to Dear Brother [Alex Fothergill at Carr End] 1768 1mo 16 1 folder 1

Writer is concerned because he has not heard from Alexander Fothergill

 John Fothergill, Yorke, to Alexander Fothergill, Carrend 1814 10mo 6 1 folder 1

Concerning the gift of a comb.

 To [Charles Fothergill] nd 1 folder 1

Draft? of letter written to Charles [Fothergill] by his uncle concerning Alexander [Fothergill] and drawing birds.

 Other Writings Removal for Doctor Wm. Hillary, to Friends of Brighouse Monthly Meeting from Richmond Monthly Meeting at Chantry 1734 7mo 6 1 folder 1

One of the signatories is John Fothergill.

 Genealogical manuscript ca. 1777 1 folder 1

Genealogical manuscript with births, deaths and marriages of the descendants of John Fothergill of Carrend, written at least in part by Tho. Fothergill [Ravenstonedale]

 Samuel Fothergills Dream 1750 9mo 15 1 folder 1 Memorial, Samuel Fothergill, from Hardshaw Monthly Meeting 1773 3mo 16 1 folder 1 A Dissertation between Samuel Fothergill and Admiral Ferris 1813 5mo 6 1 folder 1

Transcribed in 1813; concerns the peace testimony.

 Last Will and Testament of John Fothergill, Harpur Street (Middlesex) nd 1 folder 1 Hints Towards the Natural History of the Toad, by William Fothergill nd 1 folder 1 William Fothergill, Elegy on the Death of a Favorite Robin nd 1 folder 1 Doctor [John} Fothergill, on Sick head Ach and Regiman [Alex Fothergill] nd 1 folder 1

Essay on the causes of headache.

 Botanical Presents to Most Illustrious Madam nd 1 folder 1

Copy of note sent to Empress Josephine; signed with three et.c.

 Verses to John and Alex Fothergill by William Grover 1801 7mo 14 1 folder 1 Poetry: Jubile for Jubile, by Norman Nicholson, Grampian Hills 1809 1 folder 1 Notice of Dr. Chorleys death, father of John Chorley, at Doctor Fothergills house, with service at Gracechurch Street Meeting House in Bunhill Fields 1764 4mo 3 1 folder 1 [Essay] Transmitted from Ireland, to a Friend in the West of England, about David Sands nd 1 folder 1

Report on a Public Meeting (of Friends) called by David Sands which prevented a suicide.

 Inscription of Tomb in Yorkshire 1734 May 10 1 folder 1

Concerning William Steeton who had 247 descendants.

 Earth from Borneo nd 1 folder 1

18th century anecdote about Dr. John Fothergill who asked a sea captain to bring him soil from Bornea after the doctor had nursed him through yellow fever; the captain fufilled his pledge, and Fothergill used it to propagate new flowers.

 Pedigree of Sir George Fotherfill, Knight of Russendale and Ravenstand 1842 July 1 1 folder 1

Copied by A.F.

 During the American War n.d. 1 folder 1

Anecdote about D[avid] Sands whose house was plundered druing the American Revolution; Sands forgave the robbers, at least one of whom joined the Society of Friends.

 Jane Fothergills journal 1835 1 folder 1

Journal accounts, recipes, births of children, and miscellaneous notations. Some references to Wilmington [De.].

 Recipe Book 1712-ca.1843 1 folder 1

First page marked Samuel Fothergill's Book in ye year of Christ 1729, Thomas Fothergill his Book 1723, Ann Fothergill her book 1738. Back page: John Fothergill 1727 and Ann Fothergill Her Book." Includes recipes in at least two different hands. Also contains notations of the births of John and Samuel Fothergill, 1712 and 1715, with following pages removed, and some accounts.

 Ser.2 Watercolors and other Art Works

Alexander Fothergill (1788-1843) was educated in England. His daughter, Ann (b.1830), was a schoolteacher in Wilmington, Delaware. She was educated at least in part at (Dupre) Knight's School for Young Ladies (1850 Census). Many of the images in this series are labelled with her name on the back, but it is apparent that not all are her work. It is possible either that she taught some of the artists, or that the works were given to her by other family members. Ann lived with her mother until the death of the latter in 1874, then spent time in the households of her sisters, Alice Howarth and Margaret, who kept boarding houses in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and her brother, Henry, who was a pattern-maker in Steelton, Pennsylvania.

Collection of Pressed Flowers, Fredrick Dickinson 1888 1 folder 1 Collection of Pressed Sea Mosses nd 1 folder 1 Manuscript book of Drawings and Poems with Moral Lessons nd 1 folder 1 Bird Watercolors and Sketches 1803-1854 and n.d. 1 folder 2

Finished and unfinished watercolors of birds, a few with dates and some labelled Ann Fothergill. According to the donor, most of the unlabeled bird watercolors were done by Alexander Fothergill (1788-1843). Many of the works are numbered.

 Samuel Fothergill Watercolors and Sketches 1852-1893 and n.d. 1 folder 2

Samuel Fothergill was a cousin of Ann Fothergill Most if not all of the work is of English scenes.

 Ann Fothergill (b.1830) Watercolors and Sketches late 19th century 1 folder 2

These works are either signed by the artist or have been attributed to her on the basis of style.

 Other Watercolors and Sketches late 19th century 1 folder 2

Includes work by Samuel Robinson, Margaret Fothergill, Alice Haworth Fothergill, W. Greenwood, and unattributed works.

 Album with Watercolors 1881-1899 1 volume 2

Album with watercolors of plants. Initialled "AF" [Ann Fothergill], many named in latin with location and date.

Sketchbook 1887-1901 1 volume 2

Includes drawings of the Jersey shore, unsigned but in the style of Ann Fothergill

 Album of Drawings and Watercolors 1852-1893 1 volume 2

Original pencil drawings and watercolors, many dated and initialled "AF" [Ann Fothergill]

 Ser.3 Miscellanenous Biographical and Genealogical

This subseries contains copies or later biographical materials. Some additional biographical and genealogical manuscripts may be found in Series 1.

 Marriage Certificate, Alexander Fothergill and Ann Langston 1673 4mo 2 [copy] 1 folder 1 Marriage Certificate, A. Poinsett Fothergill and Anna Kinch 1904 1 folder 1 Program for Memorial Service, Winifred Quigley Fothergill Quinlan 2006 1 folder 1

Photocopy of program entitled A Celebration of the Wonderful World of Winifred Quigley Fothergill Quinlan, held on March 16 at the Calvary Baptist Church in Washington D.C. Contains much biographical material.

 Genealogical Chart and other secondary materials 2009 1 folder 1

Includes genealogical chart and photocopies made in the process of cataloguing the collection by FHL staff.

 Ephemera Cards [printed] with Descriptions of British kings and queens ca.1780 1 folder 1 Card Game: Characteristics: An Original Game by a Lady 1843 1 folder 1

Enclosed instruction sheet: Characteristics of Distinguished Persons, Male and Female; An Orignal and Amusing Game. By a Lady, Author of the Young Lady's Home etc etc. Published by W. & S.B. Ives, Salem, Mass [1843].

 Photographs Portraits of Henry and wife, Ann, Margaret, William, Sophie, and Alex[ander] 1878-1880 and n.d. 1 folder 1 Case Photographs of Margaret, Ann, Alice, Ann and Mary. 1878-1880 and n.d. 1 folder PA Published Works

Jessie Fothergill, a female Victorian novelist, was born in Manchester, England in 1851, and died in Switzerland in 1891. She was the daughter of textile merchant, Thomas Fothergill of Carr End, and his wife, Ann Coultate. Bessie Mott was Winifred Quigley Fothergill Quinlan's mother.

 A March in the Ranks. Jessie Fothergill. Henry Holt and Co.: New York 1890 1 volume 3 From Moor Isles, Vol. I-III. Jessie Fothergill. Richard Bentley and Son: London 1888 3 volumes 3 Kith and Kin. Jessie Fothergill. F.M. Lupton Publishing Co.: New York n.d. 1 volume 3 Kith and Kin. Jessie Fothergill. Henry Holt and Co.: New York 1881 1 volume 3 The First Violin. Jessie Fothergill. Brentano’s: New York 1909 1 volume 3 The Wellfields, Vol. I-III. Jessie Fothergill. Richard Bentley and Son: London 1880 3 volumes 3 An American Woman and her Bank. Bessie Mott. Doubleday, Doran, and Co. Inc.: New York 1929 1 volume 3