Gilbert Cope collection

Quakeriana: Falls Monthly Meeting (Fallsington, Bucks County), papers, 1697-1877, include certificates of removal, memoranda of discipline of members and some financial records; contemporary copies, Friend's Discipline, 1719, 1755; notes on the Gurney Crisis in London Yearly Meeting, 1846; Bra...

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Main Author: Cope, Gilbert 1840-1928 (Creator)
Collection:Gilbert Cope Collection
Collection Number:0150
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
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100 1 |a Cope, Gilbert  |d 1840-1928  |e creator 
245 1 |a Gilbert Cope collection  |f 1682-1877 
300 |a 8.0 Linear feet  |f 11 boxes, 9 volumes 
520 |a Quakeriana: Falls Monthly Meeting (Fallsington, Bucks County), papers, 1697-1877, include certificates of removal, memoranda of discipline of members and some financial records; contemporary copies, Friend's Discipline, 1719, 1755; notes on the Gurney Crisis in London Yearly Meeting, 1846; Bradford Monthly Meeting, papers, ca. 1760-1805; Cope's notes on the history of Pennsylvania Meetings of Friends. Pennsylvania legal papers: New Castle County court records, 1731-1834; list of jurors, 1847; Supreme Court, docket book, 1857; Green County, Court of Nisi Prius, docket, 1798-1799. Miscellaneous papers: Cope's transcription of "An Account of the Disturbances in America," by John Ettwein, a Moravian minister; a modern transcription of letters, 1768-1775, to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel from the parish of St. David's, Radnor; professional and business papers of Jesse Conard, 1820-1837; anonymous contemporary manuscript of "Some Account of the Visit of the Friendly Indians to Philadelphia," 1760; depositions and other legal papers in Levett Harris v. William D. Lewis, the Riga consulate case, 1820.  
541 1 |a Purchased. In 1952, the greater part of the materials listed as part of this collection in the 1949 Guide to Manuscripts were transferred to the Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pa.; 1921 acquired 
650 7 |a Fallsington, Bucks County (Pa)--Falls Monthly Meeting--19th century  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Harris, Leavitt  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Legal Documents--19th century.  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Lewis, William Delaware  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Quakers--Philadelphia--18th century  |2 Local sources 
650 7 |a Quakers--Philadelphia--19th century  |2 Local sources 
852 |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania  |b Gilbert Cope Collection  |l 0150