Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Peirce, Jacob, 1761-1801
• Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, donor

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978886611303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1341474494
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3sb3xj40

Publisher

Origin

Date

1797-1800

Place

East Marlborough Township, Pennsylvania

Summary

Sewn gathering from a diary of brief entries recording farm work with crops, livestock, and fence and building maintenance; physical ailments; medical assistance to neighbors such as bloodletting and drawing teeth; weather; visits with family and friends; and attendance at various local Quaker meetings (Kennett, Bradford, New Garden) and participation in the organization of a Quaker school. The diary also records occasional travels to Philadelphia, Wilmington, Lancaster County, southern New Jersey, and Baltimore. Leaves with text are probably missing before and after the extant gathering.

Notes

• Ms. gathering.
   
• Another diary of Jacob Peirce with entries from 1789 to 1796, location unknown, is described by Walter Peirce, "A farmer of the early Republic," Bulletin of Friends Historical Association 19.1 (Spring 1930), p. 7-15.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Layout

Script

Provenance

• Sold by Walkabout Books (Curtis, Washington) to the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Agriculture, 2022.
   
• Gift of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting Agriculture, 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Farmers--Pennsylvania--Chester County--Diaries
• Quakers--Pennsylvania--Chester County--Diaries
• East Marlborough (Pa. : Township)--History--18th century--Sources

Genres

• Diaries
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, American--18th century
• codices (bound manuscripts)

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• United States

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